Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-08


Lynchburn. Va, Submerged-Two
Fine Drldges washed away-The
0sswerks under Water and the Ctsy
In Fetal Darkness - Richsnond
TAfeatened.
RICHMOND, Sept. SO.-The highest
freshet ever known at Lyncfburg
prevails there now. The passenger
bridge across the James river one
fourth Of q mile long was washed away
last night. The depots Of the Orange
and Alexandria railroad are submerU-
ed and the boats are drifting about on
the tow path and through the lower
skirts Of the city. The water wash
ed up the main gas pipe last night,
and Lynchburg suddenly envelOpcd
In total darkness. Large numbers Of
employees on the South Side railroad
are cut off on an Island below the
city. The freshet will reach Rich
mond about2P. NJ. to-day. The river
here has already risen q foot. In the
lower portion of the city the mer-
chants are busy removing goods to
places of safety. The telegraph lines
are down III all directions. No build
ings ut Lynchburg have been swept
away, The gas and water-works are
both submerged. Houses from the
country above have been floating by
all night and this morning. The
new iron bridge of the South Side
railroad was carried away this morn
ing. 4 +.
the North Anna river is flooding all
the surrounding country. Horses,
cattle and barrels Of flour have been
hnating down the stream all the
morning. ". III t.l5
The Fleed Reaches Richinend-A He
tel iswept Away ~ H.ynchburw.
RICHMOND, Sept. 30.-still later
A dispatch from Gordonsville says the
accounts of the flood represent the
disaster as exceeding the first reports.
The Alexandria and Orange Railroad
bridge over Rock fish river is reported
swept away. The bridges over the
river and MOore's creek, ON the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Railroad, are also
gone. Buriing's aud Wells mills are
going down the river Anna, with the
lumber afioat around them. The
Welling House, completely furnish
ed, went down this evening. The
river Anna is filled with the debris ol
barns, furniture, agricultural imple-
ments, crops, etc. All the crops OH
lowlands are total loss. The teIe-
graph lines to Lynchburg and the
West are badly damaged.
/ Vice President Wyckham, Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, IL
still between Greenwood and
Waynesbor0, with two trains, unable
to advance or recede. Superinten
dent Vandegriff, OF the Orange and
Alexandrla Railroad, went to the
break 1t MODre's creek with train
this evening.
The water here has risen ten feet
since noon. This water Is from the
river Anna. That from Lynchbura
will strike here about midnight. The
water at Lynchburg Is twenty-five
feet higher than ever known before,
RIcHxoxD, Oct. 2.--At midnight
last might the river was still rising,
land fnvaziing still further the
lower part OF the city. Hundreds
of persons were busy carrying
off furniture from houses about to bt
swept away. In front Of the St
Charles Hotel, aboutthe center Of the
city, anchored q schooner. Her crew
put off In boats as regularly as II a1
sea.
ANXIETY FOR FRIENDs.
Last night the Western Union Tel
egraph office was crowded with anxi
, Gus people trying to astertain TIL,
whereabouts of friends who lef
In late trains, and for whose fate til,
announcement that the river. q
I.ynchburg was rising again created
much concern.
, In the lower part of the city tn,
only object of attention was O singl,
gas lamp that still burned though
within few inches of being sub
merged.
The Richmond and Petersburg rail
road has put on their road four time
the usual number Of cars to accom-
mOdate Southern travel.
!. LOSS OF LIFE.
The flood on the river Anna Is tn
highest since 1907. The families O
Mr. Jennings and Mr.. Miller, who's
: homes were washed away-in all fiv
, persons. Mr.. Jennings is supposc'
to be drowned. His wife and tw,
children are known to have perished
A young lady Of the family clung I,
, tree forty-eight hours, but wa
washed away and drowned. He
death was witnessed by the crowd ol
the other bank of the river, but
no boat was near by which she nigh
hava haan raaauad
The Manassas railroad bridge
, across the Northern and Southern
Shenandoah rivers are gone. No In
formation has been received from be
yond Strasburg. Many lives ar
, known to have been lost. The Bal
timore aud Ohio railroad above Har
per's Ferry has been swept away.
A WHOLE TOWN UNDER WATER.
Scottsville, In Albemarle county
Is inundated, and the destruction o
property Is very great. Fighter
: lives We're lost. Trains are running
; regularly between Alexandria an
Richmond.