The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-10-02
are A0oded THE tedg Bridge ys7under

ayoid delaying mails Or passengers. The
weather to-day is clear but very hot The
Chain Bridge was washed away. Loss to
the Orange and Alexandria Railroad
ls roughly estimated at $500, 900.
A span OF the Chain Bridge is now lodged
against the Long Bridge. Experts say
both will go. The only present commu-
nlcatlon between here and Alexandria is
by boat.
WHEEL1Na. Va, October 1.-Adyioes
from Harpcr's Ferry represent great
food in. the Shenandoah River. Many
substantial buildings have been destroy
ed. Fifty persons have lost their lives,
and many are in peril beyond the aid Of
their friends.
RICHMOND, Va, October 1.-The
river hererose twenty-five feet last night,
aud this morning is within foot of the
Danville Railroad bridge and Mayo's
passenger bridge. The streets for four
or five blocks, in the vicinity of the old
market, the lowest point in the city, are
submerged in four feet water. Thou
sands of persons are on the river banks
waiting for the bridges to go.
The lower portion of Libby Prison
took fire at IL O'Clock from quantity of
lime being overaowed by the food. The
fire was stopped before much damage
was done. Citizens are volunteering to
remove tobacco from the ware houses on
the RIVER bank. Furniture, trunks and
barrels of -four, and whiskey, are floating
down the river. The river ut Lynch
burg has fallen eight feet. Several
bridges on Virginia and Tennessee Rail
road were washed away. The persons
drowned, at Lynchburg, were Mrs. Ran
som and her daughter, three children of
MIR. Whitlow. and colored woman.
RICHMOND, October 1.-The water here
is still rising. At 1:30 o'clock between
300 and 400 stores were in seven feet
water, between 18th and 18th streets.
The street cars piled till noon when the
water coming III at the windows the line
was stopped, aud ferry is now run on
all the line streets from 18th to 18th.
just at noon the Manchester end or
Mayo's Bridge gave way, and half mile
OF the bridge hoated down the stream.
All the wharves are under water, and the
York River Railroad Depot is complete
~ submerged. Several small manufac.
turing establishments along the river
have been swept of. All day the river
has been dotted over with small houses
and wrecks of houses, fencing, dead cat
tie, &c., drifting down.
The gas works are submerged. The
first wave from the Lynohburg freshet
struck here at 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 end of the city
known as Rockets was under water, and
the scene there beggars description.
Two or three small stores were swep
OH, with all their &C ntents. The fami-
lies who had remained in their houses,
hoping the food would subside, COM
menced crying from the upper windows
for help. Boats were brought and they
were saved, but the larger portion Of
their furniture was lost. Two hundred
families in that portion of the city are
houseless tonight, camping out on the
neighboring hills.
Tonight the bridge of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad still stands, but
the river is still rising, and it is hardly
believed it can stand much longer. All
the large cotton, iron and -four mills,
employing 1000 hands, havo been forced
by the food to stop operations. The
city water works have also been stopped,
being 80 damaged that they cannot be
repaired in two weeks. The reservoir
only contains f1ve days supply for the
city. All the ice houses in the city are
on the river bank, and are twenty feet
under water. The water is seven feet
higher than ever known before. A de-
spatch from Lynchburg says the river
there is rising again.
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