Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-13
TIE FLOoD.

on the Louisville Railroad swept
AWay-The latest from the Chatta-
nOOsR RORd-The Situation Around
] Nashville.
The latest disaster by the food which
we have to report, is the washing away Of
the bridge oyer Bacon creek on the Louis
Vile railroad. Fortunately the structure
was a very small one, not being over twenty
five or thirty feet in length. 1t wasSWept
away yesterday morning early, before the
time the regular Nashville pound passen-
ger-train came up Consequently no train
arrived last evening 1t is thought the
bridge will be replaced in day or two.
In the meantime, arrangements will be
made 70 transfer passengers across the
break The regular train for Louisville
leaves to-day, and train from thence may
be expected here this evening at the usual
hour.
Owing tothe fact that Geographic commu-
nication is at presnet completely suspended
beyond Anderson on the Chattanooga rail-
road, our advices from along that line are
quitelimited Wehave nothing new to report
in regard to the situation at Chattanooga,
not having received word from there
since our last published report. Judging
from the fact, however, that the Tennessee
river is still rising at every point to be
heard from, it may reasonably be concluded
that matters have not improved any at
Chattanooga. Indeed, with communica-
ton cut off on all Sides the city almost
entirely submerged, Struggling per cent
age of the population at the best of times
not far removed from starvation, it is very
easy to imagine that no small proportion
of the inhabitants must be reduced to the
most desperate straits. The story Of
Bragg's seige Of the place, and the hard
ships and depredatioHs of the besieged are
still fresh in memory. Before the present
watery siege is withdrawn, materials for
tale still more replete with suffering may
unfortunately suggest themselves.
During nearly the whole of yesterday,
there was no telegraphic communication
morning, Col. lines received the last dis
patch from that point, after which c0mmu-
nication was suspended The following is
the dispatch:
Water rising very slow. All the piers
are under water. The FIVE spans are o. K. |
yet The water is over bridges seat on all
of them.
A dispatch from Decatur dated yester-
day morning, stated that the four spans of |
the Bridgeport bridge which had been |
swept away the morning previous, had just |
passed through the bridge at the former |
place. An effort was made to try and |
secure them, but the boat which made |
the attemp come near being sWamped |
Nothing had been heard from the poor |
fellow who was swept into the river semnl-
taneously with the missing spans He was
a Waterman on the bridge, and AS the
water was getting high, was repeatedly /
urged TO leave the structure TO its fate a.
it vas bound to go with the madly rushing
current. But no, he wonld not desert his
post. He kept persistenily on clearing
away the drift and debris, and leaving
nothing undOne which could be made
available in saving the bridge. While
thus heroically employed, the four spans, on
one of which he was standing, suddenly
gave way, and with them the daring Kirk
patrick THAT was his name) was plunged
and swept along the foaming
food.
Here at Nashville the Cumberland was
still rising slowly mp TO last evening. On
sAN ASfSC hNaA A1tbul TIC WdtVl -
up TO the stores, preventing the |
passage of foot passengers. 1t still lacks
about four feet of being as high as the food
Of lS47. That portion Of North Nashville
Immediately north of the railroad trestle-
work, is completely submerged, presenting
A vast sheet Of water just now, while being |
suggestive Of the havoc among
our citizens should cholera visit us the
coming spring or summer. Numbers of
he frail females living in the neighbor-
hood are TO be seen at all hours enjoying
'kif rides, and disporting themselves as Il
J special providence had caused the deluge
Tor the purpose of adding a lake tc the at
fractions Of Smoky Row
1t threatened rain nearly all day yester-
lay, but about nightfall turned quite cool,
tispelling the idea Of any more heavy
showers for a little time at least 1t is
hardly probable that the river here will
continue to rise after to-day.