The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-03

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After making ditch about three feet deep
the entire width Of the path, the water came
rushing and tlimbling through with such
impetuosity and force rs in few minutes
to form an immense chasm 100 feet wide and
about 40 feet deep, which gave free vent to
the pente,lp power, and entirely emptled
the city side Of the canal, thereby saving
from almost certain destruction the Water
Works, the Tredcgar Works, Gai'ego Mills,
and other manufacturing estabushments
along the water line. But for this wise and
| timely action, almost incalculabie damage
would have been inflicted, throwing hum
dreds of working men for q long time out OF
employment, flooding the whole city on the
south of Main street from the head OF the
| basin to Rockets, and causing untold dis
| tress and danger from scarcity of water
for the purposes of eXtinguishing fires and
for household purposes.
The damage to the Water Works, as far as
could be ascerLained, will not exceed s., 900.
The filling of the canal bank above that point
will he done at the expense of the Tredegar
Company.
| " BELLE ISLE.
The works on this island were stopped by
the rising waters on Friday night. Many
of the employees reside. on the main land /,
and those from this side go and come in
boats from point above The Tredegar'
| Works, while those from the Manchester
side Use the bridge connecting the island
with the Richmond and Danville railroad.
| Only one man went over from this side tG
work on Friday night.
| Beyond the carrying off the rickety
i treStle-work at the Chesterfield end of the
bridge and the encroachment of the flood
1 upon one or two houses, the damage was
almost nominal.
/ HEADQUARTERS or THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
| At 6o'clock on Saturday evening the Chief
| of Police left his headquarters at the Old
Market, and established his office at the de-
/ pot Of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad,
leaving two men on duty at the first station
house to strike The hours and give the fire.
alarm if necessary.
| Notwithstanding The almost Cimmerian
darkness III which the whole city was in
volved during Saturday night, the thieves
do not seem to have taken advantage of it
and we have not up TO this writing g p. III.
sunday heard Of a single case OF burglary.
any preceding Saturday night and Sunday
| Cor weeks past.
| SCENES AND INCIDE NTs.
| BY order of the Acting Mayor, (alr. Eng
Eiish,) forty-two members of the chain-gang
L
get the tobacco out of Mayo's warehouse.
lThey worked with all their might. One
IiellOW, Dick Griffin, succeeded i'll making
| his escape.
i The Danyille train, which left here on
Saturday morning, went only two miles
from the city, finding the track four feet
iunder water. ~ .-....
About 80 feet Of the massive stone wall
I!betwecn Mayo,s and the Uanville railroad
Iibridges were undermined and carried away
on Saturday night.
| A new wharf, The name of which we
Were unable 20 learn, gave way and went
down the river, carrying with 1t schooner.
l. The Danyille Railroad Company has
kindly allowed pedestrians to pass over
their bridge from Richmond to Manchester
and return, and will continue to do so until
other arrangements can be made.
Il About one O'Clock Yesterday afternoon q
boat ferrving on Main street between Ham,
ilton's hat store aud McPhaiPs drug store,
and containing five colorcd persons, two OF
whom were females, was upset, aud its
contents were spilled i'll water four feet
deep. Nobody was drowned.
We had to do without ice yesterday, the
ice-houses being submerged on Saturday
1t was a great privation to others besides
Sons of Temperance.
All the floor of the York River freight
shed was raised by water. The track was
covered to n depth Of 4 foot or more i'll the
tunnel near Pine and Main streets, and d
couple Of engines and some cars were not
gotten out OF town in time tOayoid being
| flooded.
On Saturday evening our streets in the Vi.
cinity of the food and Libby's and CANDLES
Hill were thronged with sight-seers. 1t
was Il sight worth seeing, and few who saw
it will ever forget it. .~g, "
At 1 O'Clock yesterday afternoon the
water had fallen from around the York
River depot, so as to allow them to clean
up, and we suppose the trains will leave to.
| day ls usual. The water at that time was
still all along the dock OH some cross streets
nearly up to Cary street. The water hay
ing fallen rapidly. great many persons
commenced fixing up last night and put
ting their goods back in place. At the fer
tilizing mills of Down, Ward Co. and
Smyth & MCGOWAN the loss is heavy.
The safety Of the Old Dominion Steam.
ship Company's fine new shed is owing en-
tirely to the foresight cf the agent Of the
company, Mr.. Wyatt. A cargo was landed
late on Friday afternoon, and by O'Clock
ut night he had it slowed away out OF dan
ger. lie also lashed schooner to the front
| of the shed to break the strength of the
waves, and kept tug in motion picking up
the drift-wood in the neighborhood.
The City Pointers say that all they saw OF
1 the fresh was little brushwood floating
down the river.
| A reporter of this paper, navigating on
Cary street yesterday afternoon, was inyi-
ted into Squire Aliens house TO take 2
drink. The water was ten feet deep. He
| didn't like so much water to so little whis-
! key, and declined.
| THE TIDE REcEDEs.
The water was at its height at 10 O'Clock
on Saturday night. There was no per.
ceptible rise after that hour, and at about
midnight there were many evidences OF Q
| fall It continued to decline during the
night, and at 10 o'clock in the morning had
fallen four feet. AT noon the water was
q abont as high rs il was at the same time. OH
Saturday. Thereafter the fall was very RI
i MD, and last night vehicles could pass with.
/ out any difficulty, and pedestrians could
wade anywhere on the parts Of Main and
/ Franklin streets that had been flooded. The
i river was not entirely confined to its limits,
and was indeed higher than 1t is In all ordi'
nary fresh.
/ THE LOSSES.
AS the tide receded our reporters were
enabled to obtain more details as to the loss
/ sustained by business houses, but even the
losers were not prepared to give any rela
Bile estimates Of their damages.
T. az ON MAIN STREET.
/ The highest point reached on Main street
west was in front Of the St. Charles Hotel
at the corner OF Fifteenth street, the water
flooding the floors of the st. Charles bar
room one side and the clothing store OF 2
Levy & Sons on the other. Leaving this
point on the north side, the stores Of Allan