Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-10-03

NIGHT this we're kept up
L,rcc quantities OF lumber, drIitwood, ami |
household furniture continue to float down the
river, A piano lies on the bank near the Long
Bridge, landed there by the action OF The wa
ter. Several bureaus and other articles OF lur-
niuro wcrc hauled in at that point:
The damage { C to property through the
CITY is considcrah ;, the aggregate OF which 1t
is difficult to cs maIr. The range CT stores
from Ninth to Tenth streets on the south side
Of Pennsylvania avenue we're all Hooded IN the
cellars. aud much valuable goods damaged.
MessIs. Shepherd 4 Bros. alone wlll lose seVe.
rai ,honsa1d dollars. The St. James Hotel
was flooded again yesterday in the basement,
The water being there as high as five feet IN
consequence of the bursting OF Il sewer The
rumor current that u couple Ut colorcd mcn
had been drowned has proved unsoandcd.
THE FLOOD IN THE JAMES.
RICHMOND, Oct. l:%0 p. MI The first
wave of the Lynchburg ticshet struck here at
| s O'Clock this morning, and the river conmeh-
ccd rising with much greater rapI1lty than bc
| fore, when il Was only swollen by tie o"ctnoW.
In three hours the lower cid OF The city, known
| q. Rockctts. was under water, and the scene
there beggars description Two or three small
stores were swept off with al their contents.
Thc families who had removed in the houses.
hopinr the flood would subslde, commenced
CRYING from the upper windows Tor help.
! Boats were brought and they Were saved, but
| the larger portion cf their furniture WAS lost.
| Two hundred families in that portion Ut the
| CITY arc bousccSs tonight, and arc calnilng
out on the ncishborlng hills. -,
About noon the street cars, on Main street,
when had been running through the Hood with
water up to the; scats gave it up and connections
between up town AMI down town were made by
ferries.
A portion Of MayvS passenger bridge, re
built by tho u. S. military alter the cVacua-
ton, was struck off, and Was soon followed by
the whole structure. The bridge was three
quarters OF q mile IUns. Tho water then en-
| tered Nlayo's tobacco warehouse, thirty i've
feet above low water mark. All the teams ~
the city were imprcs Sod to save the tobacco,
much OF which, is for tic Frcnh and German
Government. With the exception OF one hun
drcd and eighty hogshcads Tic tobacco WIS
| saved.
Just here it was found that the upper pcr.
ton Of the city was in dagger from the over
flow of the canal down Which an immense
BODY OF water was rushing and sprcatlng over
! the banks. The canal was cut two miles above
the city anu the danger abat2d.
In the lower portion of the city the street
lamps arc under water Tho city is in dark
ness to night, the gas works being submerged.
The loss by the INGREDIENTS, though net great,
IS greater than it would have been if the tee
grams from Lynchburg announcing the flood
had been needed II Is probably 5000, 900.
Persons well acquainted with the section e.
the State flooded, that, inc!udiug the liroad
losses and the loss in the States estimate II at
81, 900, 900.
| IL IL ., P;nb,n ,rl
Danville Railroad still stands, Tut a. the river
is now @ o'cIock) still rising, it is hardly hc!icv,
cd it can stand much longer.
at Morris large sugar refinery the water
burst up the floors dropping AL the machinery
into the basement
All tho large cotton lron ADD Il Iur mills, EN-
poying 1000 hands, have been forced 10y the
flood to stop operations. The city water works
have also STOPPED, being so damaged that they
can not be repaired in two weeks The rcscr
voir only contains five days supply for ihc city
Ali the ice house in the city are on the livrr
bank ADD are under water.
The water is seven feet higher than Z vrr
| known before.
RICHMOND, Oct. Ito night at midnight
the river is still rising and invading still further
the lower part OF the city. Along the edge OF
the flood may be seen hundreds OF persons car
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drawing off the furniture Of the houses about
to be swept away. In front OF tn, s.. Charles
Hotel about the centre OF the city. is anchor
cd schooner, with her rcd light IaziIy rising
and falling with the waves. Her crew pull off
in boats as regularly as If at sea. On the hills
around the city the camp.tircs Of the l:ou>:I, SIS
| lipht the horizon. The utter darkness hat
relgns is only relieved by the occaSIOnlI :,'cauI
| Of pOlicemans shield.
In the lower part of the city there seems
now TO be- only one object of attention, and
| that is single gas lamp, that by accident still
| burns, though within few inches of being
submerged, and barely raising its light in the
vast expanse of water. Colonel Thomas H.
Wynnc, the Superintendent OF the Richmond
and Petersburg Railroad has put Oh four lines
| the usual number OF cars, so a.; to accommodate
the Southern travc'.
! TIE FLOOD IN TIE RIvANNA
RICHMOND, October 1.-The flood on the
| Rivanna river is the highest experienced since
1907. The families OF Mr. Jennings, and Of
another miller on the river, were washed away,
in all five persons. Nlr. Jennings is supposed
to have Ecen drowned; his wife and two child
rem are known to have persisted. A young
| lady Of the family chung to a tree f0rtyclght
| hours and was washed Oil, and at last drOwHCd.
| Her death was witnessed by Il crowd on the
| other bank CT the river, but there WAS no boat
| near by which she might have been rescued.
Sco,tsville, in Alhcmaric county, has been IN
| undated, and the destruction OF property was
| very great. Eighteen lives were lost. Trains
arc rum ng regularly between Alexandria and
| Richmond.
AT LYNCl iURG.
RICHMOND, October IA dispatch from
Lynchburg this morning estimates the loss
there bv the flood at 100000. On Thursday
while the water was raising, James Ransom,
daugh and servant girl, Robert Whitney,
wife and thrt children and coored woman,
with her three children, were standing on the
abutmcnt of tho canal bridge at LTuchburg
waiting for boat to take them of, when a
dredging machine broke ooss above and drift
ing against the abutmcnt, carried it away with
ali on it All were drowned.
The toll b. dye, which was erected forty five
vcar7 ago, md the new iron Southslde bridge