The Portland daily press., 1870-10-03

RICHMOND, Oct 1.-The scene in the lowel
part Of the city known as Rockets, beggars de
scription. Several small stores have been
swept off with all the contents. Families who
remained in their houses, hoping the Hood
would subside had to be brought off in boats,
while all the furniture was lost. Two hundred
houseless families are tonight camping out on
the .neighboring hills The Mayo passenger
| bridge, quarter of mile long, has been en-
| tirely swept away. The water entered Mayo
tobacco warehouse, thirty five feet above low
water mark. All trains are impressed to cave
the tobacco, much OF which belongs to the
French and German goyernments.. All put
| IoO hhds. was saved. The Immense BODY OF
water rushing down the canal ENDANGERED the
| upper part of the city. The loss in Richmond
| will reach $500, 900, much of which would have
Deen saved had kilograms from LynchDurg
been needed The aggregate loss in the state
is "a 100000. The Richmond and Danvllle
bridge still stands
Ldter-9 p. M-But as the river is still rls-
ing it will probably soon give away. The water
bu uup tire floors of Morriss large sugarrefin-
cry, dropping all the machinery into thel base
ment. All the cotton, iron and flour mills,
employing four thousand hands, have been
compelled to stop running, being so badly dam
aged that they cannot be repaired for two
weeks. All the ice-houses in the city are
twenty feet nnder water. The water is seven
feet higher than ever was known before. "A
despatch from Lynchburg says the rivel is ris-
ing again. -
RICHMOND, Oct. AT midnight last night
the river was still rising and invading still
further the lower part of the city. Hundreds
Of persons are busy carrying off the furniture
from the houses about to be swept amay. In
front OF the St. Charles hotel, about in the cen
tire of the city, is anchored schooner. Her
crew pull off in boats as regularly as if at sea.
In the lower part of the city the only object
of attention was single gas lamp still burn
ing though within fewiinches Of being sup
merged Lli l4e
The flood on the Bioanna river is the highest
since 1907. The families Of Mr.. Jennings and
Mr.. Miller, whose houses were washed away,
numbered in all persons. A young lady of
the Jennings family chung to a tree 4S hours
but was swept away and was drowned. Her
death was witnessed by crowd on the other
bank of the river, but there was no boats near
with which she might have been rescued.
On the Manassas railroad the bridge across
the North and South Shenandoah river are
gone. No information has been received from
beyond Sharpsburg. Many lives are known to
have been lost. The Baltimore and Ohio rail-
swept away. Scottsvile. in Aibermdrle CO.,
has been inundated and the destruction OF
property is very great. Eighteen lives were
lost Trains are running regularly between
Alexandria aud Richmor d.
"A despatch from Lyncbburg estimates the
loss there by flcod at 100000; loss to Alexan-
dria and Orange railroad $50O00O
A TERRIBLE INCIDENT
Thursday while James Rawson, daughter and
servant, aud Robert Whitley, wife and three
children and a colored woman with three chill
dren were standing on the abutment of the
canal bridge at Lynchburg, waiting for boat
to take them off when dredging machine
broke loose above and drifting against the abut-
ment and carried it away with all on it. They
were all drowned.
b. THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
BALTIMORE, Oct 2.-Despatch from Har-
per's Ferry this afternoon states that the num-
Der OF lives lost at that place by the flood was
AZ. Immense damage has been done by the
iI,t AL ho ha.