Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-10-05

Great Flood in Virginia.
Last Friday the Potomac and James
Rivers were marked by the highest
freshet ever known at Lynchburg,
Richmond, Baltimore, Washington,
&c. The flood reached Richmond at
midnight, on the 30th ult., in a wave
five feet high, and in twenty minutes
the river rose six feet. There was
great excitement in the lower part Of
the city in removing goods from
places accessible TO water. The Or
ange & Alexandria Railroad bridges,
at Lynchburg, were swept away this
morning.
The bridge over the river and
Moores' creek, on the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad, are gone. Burling's
ana Wells mills are both going down
the river Anna with 400 barrels of
flour aflOat around them. A dwelling
house, completely furnished, went by
this afternoon. The river Anna is
filled with the debris of barns, furni-
ture, agricultural implements, crops,
&c. All the crops on the low lands
are a total loss.
The flood is Is great in the southern
as in the northern part Of Virginia.
The Roanoke and Stanton rivers have
risen Is feet, doing great damage.
Mrs. and MisE Ruskin were drowned
in the flood at Lynehburg.
Richmond, Oct. 200 families
driven by the flood from the lower
part Of the cityare encamped tonight
on the surrounding hills. The river
rose here twenty-five feet last night
and this morning it is within one foot
OF the Danville railroad bridge and
the Mayo street passenger bridge.
The streets for four or five blocks in
the vicinity Of Newmarket, the low
est point Of the city, are submerged
in four feet OF water. The lower pOr-
ton of Libby prison took fire this
morning from a quantity of lime be-
ing wet by the flood. The fire stopped
before very much damage was done.
The water is still raising, 1:S0 P. N.
Between three and four hundredstOres
are in seven feet Of water. Between
Fifteenth and Eighteenth street the
car were piled until noon, when the
water, coming in the windows, the
cars were stopped and a ferry now
runs on all the main streets from Fiji
tenth 10 Eighteenth. All day the
river has been dotted withsmalI hOus-
es and wrecks Of houses including
fencing, dead cattle, etc, drifting
down the stream.
The flood in the Fluvana river is
the highest since 1907. The families
of Mr.. Jennings and Mr.. Williams,
whose houses were near the river,
were washed away, in all five persons.
Jennings is supposed to be drowned.
His wife and two children are known
to have persisted. a young lady of
the family chung to a tree fOrty-eight
hours, but was washed away and
drowned. Her death was witnessed
by a crowd on the other bank Of the
river, but nc boat was near by which
she might have been rescued. The
Manassas Railroad bridge across the
Northern and Southern Shenandoah
rivers are gone. No information is
received from beyond S~trasburg.
Many lives are known to have been
lost. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road above Harper's Ferry has been
swept away. Seotsville, in Albemarle
county, has been inundated, and the
destruction of property is very great.
Eighteen lives were lost. The trains
are running regularly between Alex
andria and Richmond.
Harper's Ferry, October about
~forty-seven lives have been lost and
thirty dwellings washed away by the
flood. Benjamin and James Bateman
and their families, Mrs. Shipes and
family, Mrs. Carroll and Jerry Harris
(cOlOred), wife and two daughters are
known to be drowned. All the build
ings on the south side of the Shenan-
dOah are injured and nine entirely
washed away. Only = few buildings
remained on the island, and it was
there that the greatest destruction of
life occurred. ,
Baltimore, October "A private
dispatch from Harper's Ferry states
that the number of lives lost at hat
place by the flood is forty-seven. m
mense damage was done in the Valley
of the Shenandoah. The Winchester .
railroad between Harper's Ferry and
Ralltown is badly damaged. Above I
HarpeT's Ferry the rise and flood is
confined to the Shenandoah. The
Baltimore and Ohio railroad track is
injured. The rain recommended at ]
One o'clock this afternoon and eontin-
ues. steadily at the present hour. /
A dispatch from Lynchburg this
morning estimates the loss there by J
the flood at $1,000 OO. The loss to the
Orange & Alexandria railroad is $780,
600; the loss TO the canal is S250,O00 l
and to the South Side railroad $500, 900.
On Thursday while the water was
Bates Ransom, daughter and
servant girl, Robert Whitelaw, wife
and three children, and a cOlOred L
woman with her three children, were
standing on an abutment Of the canal
waiting for the boat to take F
them of, when a dredging machine
broke loose above and drifting against F
the abutment carried it away with all 4
on it. All were drowned. y
The school moneys haYe just been dis =,
.ributed in New York city, and the Ro-
man Catholic schools receive some $780,
the Protestant schools $4,000, and Ii
he Hebrew societies about 5000.
Three Catholic schools receive an aggre- Il
gate Of S32,5OO, or nearly as much as all
he Protestant schools together. This
money is raised by public tax, and if I,
here was needed any comment on the
wrong Of giving the public funds to de- =
lominationaI purposes, it was afforded
IN Sunday last at Jersey City, New Jer-
'ey. Bishop Barley was confirming two Is
hundred children in the Catholic faith, b
md his discourse upon this occasion is Is
as a de~nuneiation of the public
school system, and an earnest appeal to
he congregation to keep away from
hese schools, as they would shun their
enemies. He remarked, the Is
ldmonitions he gave so often before
-gainst the great perils that must befaIl Is
catholics who so far forget themselves
IS to attend these schools. g
Latest from Europe.
Ths PEnssians are steadily in around Is
Paris. The feeling in Paris is reported