The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-10-07

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STUDENT.
The Flood in the Page Valley.
A private letter from Luray, Va, re-
ceired in Baltimore. gives the following in
tercSting details OF the disasters by the flood
along the shenandoah III what is known as
the Page Valley:
at commenced raining here (Lurav,
Page county, on Wednesday evening last
moderately, and by Thursday morning the
rain fell i'll torrents. Early Friday morn
ing news reached us that the Shcnan-
doah river, which run along the base
of the MasSanuttin mountains, from
three to five or six miles west of Luray,
was out Of its banks, and had swept
away everything i'll its course. | went to
the White House about noon, and found
the bridge game, Modisett's stOre-house,
Mauck's dwelling, ~Broubaker's barns and
stables, all gone. Going up the river, |
found the Shenandoah iron Works, includ-
ing store-housc, workshops, and forges,
swept entirely away-not n building in the
Hat left standing, nor one stone lett upon
another. Several fine dwellings in Slate
town. and at Newport, with the mill ut the
latter place, containing a large quantity of
grain and flour, are gone.
'.-thout midnight the flood came down
upon Columbia mills, and did not leave a
yestigc Of house Or mill or wall, carrying
houses, furniture, men, women, and chill
dYcn with it. Some few ofthe unfortunates
who were thus carried down have since
been rescued from the trees alongthe river.
| Noah Kite and all his family. except two
| little boys, are lost. Nathan Turner's
| house at the t~ull-gatc is gone, but he and
his family were saved. Longs mill, the
| only one III the county on the Shenandoah,
| withstood the deluge. though the water
| reached the caves and ruined its contents.
The water reached half way up the second
| story OF II. {. Strickler's stone building, n
| MasSanuttin. half q mile from the usual bed
| of the river.
| went Off with all in it. The old man re-
manned in it until it gave way, and then
| swan ont and climbed upa large elm nthc
| yard. where he remained until taken OIL i'll
| Il huIt on Friday, having been up the tree
| fifteen hours. Further down the river the
| current swept away Mauck's null and saw
mill. With seventy.tive barrels OF flour and
| fifteen hundred bushels Of wheat. Then it
rushed over the river farm of Mr.. c. Fl,
Finn, carrying away buildings and every
thing, and there is no sign now that houses
| and barns were ever there. Still further
down it carried off n. Flemming's house and
barn and everything in them, he and hi,
family barely escaping, BiXley's ferry. be.
| low, WAS submerged. and one dwelling
swept away, but no lives were lost. Tho
! following are the other principal losses
| along the course of the flood: HEM
Mauck'S house, below the ferry Slower:
mill, with Il quantity Of wheat and flour
| Garland & Menetee's barn, horses. and
grain ; Peter keyser's barn and stables
| James W. Goodies mill, with all its valu'
| able contents of wheat and flour n Ne
hemiah -Atwood'S house. with al he had in
it, he md family barely escaping. were car
| ried away.
"Tlle loss in Page county is estimated nj
$3.50, 900, and it may be more. The number
| OF lives lost cannot 0 be ascertained
| Several dead bodies have been picked up
but not vet recognized. Great want ant
restitution exist among persons who but
Il few days ago were IN utftuent clTrum
| Stances
SHOOTING ArrAlR.-At Mountain Gap
about i've miles from Leesburg, on Sunda,
last, 4 youth OF about fifteen years, son q
| Jesse Itice, who lives at the Gap, had been
out hunting. When he returned, his do
and Il dog belonging to some negroes clos,
by got into Il fight, and In endeavoring t
separate them young Rice cut the negro
dog with Il knife. The bloody dog wen
home, just across the road, and the sight @
him so enraged the negroes that they sc
out on Il raid for the perpetrator of the VIC
lcncc. Young Rice retired, and his tathe
succeeded in quoting the negroes ant
inducing them to go away. shorty al
ter, when young Rice's father hat
left, the negroes returned, offering threat
ening demonstrations against the son
whom they found still armed with an OLE
musket loaded with shot: de warnedthen
! off, but not needing his admonitlon, h,
fired, and seren OF them fell at the first ant
only shot, some Of them slightly, other
more severely, but none OF them, we be
iieye, seriously hurt. The shot wasa random
one, and Il little child was among those Wh'
felt its effect slightly. DR.. Fauntleroy WA
called to the wounded, and q Warran
issued for Rice, who immediately LETT TO
parts unknown and so the matter rests 10
the present.-LeeS6ur9 Mirror.
Confession OF KIT HuBBARD.-Kit Hub
bard, now under sentence OF death t0r I'll
murder of Mr.. Anderson, on Saturday las
made u voluntary and somewhat detailed
confession. His counsel and the %attornc.
for the Commonwealth, and MIR. James +
Patton, Were present. The confession i'm
p~licates, besides John Jackson {colorcd)
two white men Of highly respectable chs
racter : but notwithstanding its being mad
lin view OF death, we are not prepared I
give it our credence, and therefore refrall
for the present from giving full details. !
il be true rs given, the condemned man
though equally guilty with the Wnlte men
did nUar Undue his hands in the blood OF tn
victim. the actual blows having been gwen
as Kit says, by the white men. If deene'
proper, the confession, in full, Will be pun
| fished in our next iss"c.-Chdthdm III
bune.
THE ORANGE RAILRoAD.-Colonel Van
dergrift, Superintendent Of the Orang
road, arrived in the city yesterday, n w
learn from him that he expects to have Tn
road open to the north side OF the river D.
the middle, or certainly by the last, OF In
coming week. By that time the br1dg
on the Chesapeake and Ohio road, between
| Charlottesville and Gordonsville, will hav
been finished. aud the line will be open T.
| Alexandria. He has determined to bulld
temporary ~trestle- bridge across the Jane
river, and hopes to have it so the cars ca
pass within five or six weeks ut the latest
Lynch6Wyy Ners.
THE ORANGE RAILROAD BRIDGE.-Som
of the officials of the Orange railroad wen
down the river yesterday TO look after IN
bridge which washed away on Thursda
night. One span was found on the South
| side Island, one at Siy-mile Bridge, and on
on an island opposite. The timbers, how
| eL.. .t. a.. In.I-nr RI ~ta,ny thSf fnnC ar