The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-10-06

fencing, dead cattle, &c., drifting down.
The first wave from Lynchburg struck
here at 5 o'clock this morning, and the
river commenced rising with much greater
rapidity than before when it was only
swollen by the overflow. In three hours
the lower eLd of the city, known as Rock
etts, was under water, and the scene there
beggars description.
Two or three small stores we're swept off
with all their contents, and a family, who
had remained in their house, hoping the
food would subside, commenced crying
from the upper windows for help. Boats
we're brought and they were saved, but a
larger portion of their furniture was lost.
Two hundred families in that portion of
the city are houseless tonight, camping on
thu n~eighboring hills.
About noon the street cars on Main
street, which had been running through
the food with water up to the seats, gave
up and connections between uptown and
downtown was made by ferries.
At this time, a portion of Mayo's pas
senger bridge, built by the United States
military after the evacuation, was swept
off, and was soon followed by the whole
structure of the bridge, which was three
quarters of a mile long. The water then
entered Mayo's tobacco warehouse, which
is thirty-fve feet above low water mark,
All the teams in the city were impressed
to save the tobacco, much of which was
for the French and German Governments.
With the exception of one hundred and
eighty hogsheads, the tobacco was saved.
Just here it was found hat the upper
portion of the city was in danger from the
overlooking of the canal, down which came
rushing an immense body of water, spread
ing over the lands above the city. The
banks of the canal were cut two miles
above the city and the danger abated.
In the lower portion of the city, the
street lamps are under water, and the city
is in darkness. Tonight the gas works
are being submerged.
Persons acquainted with the different
sections of the State, other than including
the railroad losses, estimate the loss at
$4,00O,000.
All the large cotton, iron and -four mills
employing 1900 hands have been forced
by the food to stop operations.
RICHMOND, Oct. 3.-The food has gone
down, and the merchants are calculating
their losses. 1t is thought this morning
that half a million will cover the loss il
this city, but not in the towns above here
ALTON, Va, near Greenwood, Oct. g.
Accounts are coming in from this county
(Albemarle,) represent the destruction o
property as immense, and many lives arr
lost. The food in some instances sweep
away entire families. The number of live
lost in Albemarle county, as far as hearC
from, are fourteen. The amount of de.
struction of grain, tobacco, barns, fences
cattle, hogs, houses and mills is incalcula
, BILE. The number of mills and dams de
) stroyed within the range of the flood il
about so.
, The freshet was confined within the ra
dius of the upper Valley of Virginia. Thu
food was so great that it carried COWS an,
pigs berore it like so many chips of wood
1t was particularly severe along the Ches
apeake and Ohio Railroad. At ShadwelI
J about a mile ofthe track was washed away
I Some dozen land slides occurred betwee
Conham and Milboro, and s or 10 bridge
were swept away. The road is damage
! to the extent of $lO0,0
At the Mountain Top House, on tn
summit of Blue Ridge mountains, tn
: kitchen was flooded with water.
Greenwood, Va, Oct. st raine
very hard again all day yesterday and las
night, and an augmentation of the foo
below may be looked for. Owing to tn
, destruction of mills and interruption {
u railroad transportation, much s%ufferin
exists among the poor of tho deluged di'
t trict. 1t is repeated that breadstufs hav
k advanced.
= WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.-Forty-seven live
were lost by the food at Harper's Ferry