Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-07
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The Great DeIuge--slaiIroad Comma
Etieation- Running Water RrestIe-
Work On fhe Chattanooga Railroad tn
Part Swept AWay-Oiher Bridges
Meet the Same Faie-.NOFth NRshN lille
Partially Submerg ed--Ths Cunlber.
land san On the Rise.
As We write the Cumberland, swelled
and angry with the surging foods, rolls
past the city in resistless grandeur. car
rying on its surface the debris Of forest and
field, each minute increasing in volume
and momentum, and steadily making in
roads through The Northern part Of the
city. The danger resulting from the pre-
sent freshet or deluge, both here and
further South, will be by no means
inconsiderable. Already we have to report
very serious havoc on the Chattanooga
railroad. The immense treslle work over
Running Water, near Whitesides, was yes
terday forenoon partially swept away It
IL stated that at least one hundred feet of
the structure was carried off by the freshet,
and that the rapidly increasing floods would
be very likely TO demolish the greater part
Of what remained. When it is borne in
mind the vast length. and depth Of this
treslle-work- is abOnt one hundred feet
high, and ten times that length-it may be
ina gned the time it will take to replace
what has been swept away. We have heard
1t minated that communication with
Chattanooga cannot he established inside
Of two weeks,
Beside the Running Water trestle work
two other bridges, one at the foot of Look
ont Mountain, and the other somewhere in
the same neighborhood, have been washed
away. Col lnnes, Superintendent Of the
road, has already sent every available man |
at his command TO prosecute the work of /
repairs. As may naturally be supposed, |
a great deal Of inconvenience to merchants |
will be experienced by the break in rail- |
way communication but the greatest suf- |
ferers will be the destitute poor of the |
South. Corn has been pouring into Nash
vile in vast quantities Of late, for ship |
ment further South. Our citylmust now /
become a regular store-house for this /
now much-needed commodity, while the
destitute poor in Alabama and Georgia /
will have TO suffer still greater privations
than they have been enduring. As the
water bridge Is the other side /
Of Stevenson, the break equally affects the
Memphis and Charleston railroad as it
does the Nashville and Chattanooga road.
Both roads join at Stevenson, and that
point must remain a terminus for each for
some little time to come.
A considerable portion Of North Nash
vile is submerged. The low ground,
several acres in extent Immediately North
Of the railroad trestle-work is completely
A number Of struggling, one
story houses, very recently occupied, could
barely exhibit their roofs yesterday even
ing, all else being under water As the
river was rising last night at the rate Of
an inch and half an hour, and the rain
still continued to pour down, there is no
telling the desolation and damage which
may yet result from the flood
On the Nashville and Decatur railroad,
we heard of three bridges being washed
away. The regular passenger train did
not leave yesterday evening. It is quite
probable that travel will be resumed on
The road at a very early day.