Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-14

'uttS" "a saAe CAt8 Citizens 10PtieFin
On Starvation Twenty -iye Dea,
BodiessfrOm the Place Seen FIOatin,
Pasa BridgepOrf-R Reports frens On,
RisilrORds-The Tennessee ReeesIInt
Si@WIy-The Cumberland al "a stand
sim.
We are indebted to Col Times, Superin
tendent Of the Chattanooga railroad for tn,
very latest information received from Chat
ianooga. 1t will be seen from the appended
dispatches that the situation there is of In,
most deplorable character. The resident
agent of the road at Chattanooga sent this
account evening before last, by boat and
skill and every available conveyance 70
bridgeport, and from thence it was tele-
graphed to Col lnnes Yesterday forenoon
The dispatch is confined mainly 90 affairs
connected with the railroad property at
Chattano0gs, but enough can be CLEANED
from it to determine roughly the general
situation there. Here il is in full
To tell you all would be an immense
undertaking. will ouly just give you
lev dots, Commencing at my Office, the
wafer is now up TO the edge of the roof of
the porch, and neck deep on the floor of
the brick warehouse. The contents Of both
buildings are ahoat. In front Of the Cruich-
field House there is not less than twelve
feet OF water. Ia the passenger depot all
the floors have risen, and are floating 10
! twelve feet gater. Sitting rooms, ticket
Office aud baggage room are ready to top
over. They are now leaning at about forty
five degrees. The baggage was all taken
out of the water and put in the Westernand
Atlentic depot, but during the night the
water rose over il again, and it is Heating
now. hired boat and got men to 90 in
after IT, | saw Webster at a distance. one
day, bat haVn't yet spoken with him. All
our cars are under water, some OF them
floating, and, fear, some of the empty
boxes have left the trucks and floatad off.
The contents of the loaded cars are. of
course, entirely ruined, except as to The
bacon and lard We NAV be able to handle
and save it,"
The Mayor Wltll posse cane and made
rad on lot OF bacon. protested strong
ly, but he insisted the city must have II
and he guaranteed il should be paid for |
As regards that taken by the authorities
have no fear, but the soldiers trouble me
no little, breaking open cars ard every- |
thing else. The men have all done well |
In watching and helping everything. / |
couid speak particularly Of some. but will |
not now discriminate. The Western and |
Atlantic people got train or two on the |
track Of the East Tennessee and Georgia |
road, but have twenty-five or thirty cars !
under water, and some equally as bad az |
ours. The water commenced falling this |
morning, but rams down slowly. As soon
as | can, | will have force and set them |
70 work getting the freight out and work. |
ing with 1t. 1 can also set gang on the
track, but have no tools to repair with
No effort shall be lacking if | can only
keep well enough TO do it, win post you
as | can by early messenger / think there
Is fully sixty car eoads of freight damaged
The Webster referred to in the dispatch
is the baggage master at Chattanooga, and
ths fact that the agent could not aet TO
speak TO him for days Che saw him at a dis
lance once) shows that communication
through the city is among the impossibili-
ties. The people who have been fortunate
enough TO be residents of two or three
story houses are supposed to have been
driven up to the garnet, while the number
driven from low houses and shantees. or
drowned before getting out, may be com.
puted on pretty extensive scale. An adj.
ditiOnal dispatch to Col Innss states thai
so suddenly did the food make encroach. |
ments on the town that, about > O'clock |
Friday night, general CONSERVATION had
taken place, and people walked up from
their slumbers to fad the waters several
feet deep in their houses, and eeress com .
pletely cnt of. We have as vet no definite ,,
as TO the number of liyes Iost
bat ii the reports current are true. the loss +;
by drowning must have been fearful. An
officer Of the Chattanooga road was in.
ormed yesterday morning by farmer liy-
ing near Bridgeport, and said TO be
4 reliable and Trustworthy man, that on the /
lay previous he had counted TWENTY-FIVE b
lead bodies floating past that place. II Is t
rue that this story comes in sort of q
way, bat it is credited az being
4 reliable statement
Judging from certain statements in the | a
dispatch we have Just given, it must natu. o
rally be inferred that some of the people | ii
n Chattanooga are on the borders of starya- Il
ion. On receipt of the news, Col. Times, Y
With generous foresight, promptly tele. b
yraphed back to Bridgeport, the dispatch to b
o be forwarded as fast as possible from Il
hence to Chattanooga, to the road agent il
here, to let the Mayor have all the pro- 8
'isions there was in the depot, for the cue.
or of the destitute and famishing. Gen.
jarlin is also taking measures to send a
'Oat load of supplies Immediately. most of
which is for the benefit of the sufferers at
]hattanooga. The boat will probably start p
rom Bridgeport. p
With all the bad and dlscouraging news. y
Is cheering to be able to report that at 81
asst the Tennessee river has commenced TO :
ecede. In regard TO the condition of u
fairs beyond Chattanooga, the following :,
ispatch from Bridgeport, brought there =
rom Chattanooga, throws some light "
Western and Atlantic road is reported
nder water for fifteen miles Six Chicka- st
lauga bridges are gone East Tennessee b,
nd Georgia road has also lost bridge ST
N the Virginia and Tennessee road Straw
cry Plains bridge is gone"
All the other railroads running out of n
Nashville except the Chattanooga road E
re now running on schedule time. No ! oil
sars are entertained as to the safety of the ig
ridges across the Tennessee at Johnson m
lille and Decatur. The five spans left at ct
bridgeport are still all right. Il is now II
eported that three men were lost when the
Their four spans were swept away.
The Cumberland here at Nashville was
stand yesterday afternoon. and will 81,
aubtless be receding to-day. .... q