The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1870-10-11
VIRGINIA.
The Great Flood Reaches Richmond
Over Three Hundred Stores In
Seven Feet of Water--Great De-
structiOn of fPrOperty--DepOts.
Wharves. ETC., Subnlerged.-LOsS
OF Lille by Drowning.

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RIcHMoNE, Va, October 1.-The riy-
er here rose twenty-five feet last night,
and this morning it is within foot of
the Danville railroad bridge and the
Mayo passenger bridge. The streets
for four or five blocks, in the vicinity OF
New Market, the lowest point in the
city, are submerged in four feet of wa
ter. Thousands of persons are ON the
river banks waiting to see the bridges
go.
The lower portion of Libby PRISON
took fire This morning from quantity
of lime being wet by the food The
fire was stopped before muck damage
was DONE .ps.ssi e{
LATER-The water is still rising. AT
l 80 p. NJ, between three and four huh
dred stores were in seven feet Of water.
Between Fifteenth and Eighteenth streets,
street cars piled until noon,s when the
water coming in at the windows, the
cars were stopped, and the ferry now
runs On all the main streets between Eff
teenth and Eighteenth. AT noon the
Manchester end of Mayo street bridge
gave way, and half of the bridge foated
down the stream. All the wharyes are
deep under water, and the York River
railroad depot is completely submerged.
Several small manufacturing establish
m'ents along the river bank have been
swept off. All day the rlyer has been
dotted with small houses and wrecks Of
houses, fencing, dead cattle, &c., drift
ing down stream. The gas works are
submerged. k'sef g
The Legislature meets tomorrow; but
will have no quorum in consequence of
a number being detained by the food.
Rio Mills, ON the Rio Ann river, were.
among those washed away The JAMES
river here is still rising rapidly.
THE WATER STILL ADVANCING ON RIcH-.
MoND-Loss OF LIFE.
RICHMOND, October AT midnight
last night the river was still rising and
invading still further the lower part of
the city Hundreds Of persohs were
busy carrying off the furniture from
houses about to be swept away. In front
OF the St. Charles Hotel abont the cen
ter of the city, is anchored a schooner.
The Richmond and Petersburg rail-
road has put on their road four times
the usual number of cars, so as to ae-
commodate Southern travel,
Tlehood on the Revanna river is the
highest since 1907.
The families Of Mr.. Jennings and Mr..
Miller, whose homes we're near the riy-
ef, were washed away, In all five per-
sons,
On the Manassas railroad the bridges
across the Northern and Southern Shen-
andoah rivers are gone.
No information has been received
from beyond Strasburg: Many lives
are known to have been lost. The Bal.
timore and Ohio railroad about Harper's
Ferry has been swept away.
PEcuNIARY Loss. Isel
A dispatch from Eynchburg this
morning estimates the loss there by the
flood at 100000 The loss to the
Orange and Alexandria railroad is $780,
600, the loss to the canal is $950,000,
and to the South Side road S500,000.
TWELVE PERSONS DROWNED: ~
On Thursday. while the water was rls-
ing, Bates Ramisom, daughter and ser
want girl, Robert Whitelow, wife and
three children ard "a colored woman
with her three childfen, were standing
on the abutment of the canal bridge
waiting for a boat TO take them off,when
a dredging machine broke loose above,
and, drifting against the abutment, car
ried it:away with all on it, and all were
drowned. .0