Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-10-05

.., From oil informstion q band by mail and
Of the Shenandoah and the James, and upon
those sections Of the Orange, Alexandris. and
Manassas, Chesapeake and Ohio, Southside and
Danville railroads, crossed by those rivers And
py various mountain streams. The losses in the
city OF RichmUnd TO merchants and property
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad company lose
heayily-the whole OF the trestling. and all the
bridges from Harper's Ferry to- Shenandoah
Cny, peing swept away. Ii Is suppesed that IL
VIII take at least month to repair the tAmages
and resume the running Of trains ON the WIN
chester branch to Harper's Ferry. Mr.. Barbour,
the president OF the orange and Alexandria
road, telegraphs to Baltimore to say that the
damage done the line viii not exceed 1000.
repairs Will probably be completed in ten days.
Ihe Petersburg and Ly nehburg road loses three
bridges, besides considerable damage TO the
track amounting in value to about $500 600,
PROBABLY over that estimate. The James River
and hanawha canal is said to have been dam
aged To the extent Of 900. The total losses TO
Inmates, is stated at from $500 900 to 600 600.
Inc damage to private property, however, must
nave been fmmense-embracing miiiions-in-
cluding crops, buildings, and other valuable
properly along the lines OF the deluged water
courses.
THE DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFK AT HARPER's
FERRY.
The principal damage by the deluge in the
Shenandoah, at Harper's Ferry, may be summed
up as follows Houses entirely ruined-belong
Ing to Mrs. Mary Nunamaker, Mrs. Martin, (oc-
Stipes, (hne dwelling,) Mr.. Charles l.. Hop
woods store, two small houses, zone occupied
by DR.. Hartgrove, y house belonging to Mr.. Ralph
Cleveland, Michael D0ran's grocery, besides
several smaller dwellings and other houses.
Houses badly damaged belonging to Mr.. Daniel
Ames, occupied by Mrs. Furtney, who was res
cued by Mr.. Ames after the water had risen to
the second story; Mr.. Thomas Matthews, Mrs.
Matthews and two children rescued just in time
to escape drowning; large brick house, owned
and occupied by Mr.. Fitzpatrick, superintendent
of constru ction of the Shenandoah Valley road
the family escaping from windows by rope
bridges; the house OF James Wiggington; Mrs
Graham's millinery store; house belonging to
the estate of Col. f.. Lucas, and occupied by
ing to Mr.. Mich1 Quinn; Mr.. Bernard McCabe's
large brick dwelling, and also that of Mr.. Is. f.
Leisering; Joseph Manuers blacksmith shop
destroyed and residence badly injured; the
large planning mill of Wernway K Cannon, at
Shenandoah City, and large brick dwelling ad-
jacent, in which five families (22 persons5 had
taken refuge, were swept away, and every soul
persisted; the Touring mill of Childs, McReight
& Co., large machine shop and twenty dwell
liDgs owned by the same firm, were damaged to
the extent of $3.50, 600.
ThiIty-,hree persons living between shenan-
doah City and the mouth of the river are known
to have persisted, as follows:-Benjamin Bate
man, his wife and five children; James
Bateman, wife and four children; Adam Bate
man; Heaton Myers, wife and three children;
John Brady; Beckie Harris, colored; (all of
these bad gathered into the large brick house
before alluded to- Mrs. Overton, daughter and
grandchild Jerry Harris, colored, wife, dsugh-
ter and grandchild; Mrs. Stipes; Samuel Huff
and Mrs. Eliza Carroll a daughter of Harry
Rusk, coloied, and her child; Mr.. Lewis, flour
merchant, residing six miles above, whose body
has been found: also, an unknown colored wo-
man, whose bouy was found in the roots of a
sycamore tree. Mr.. James Stipes, who lived on
Heirs Island, was with his wife cut off from
escape, and as enc building would go down he
would swim with her to another, until finally
she was drowned, and he reached the shore on
Sunday morning entirely naked. In nearly all
instances the furniture in the houses DESTROYED
or damaged was almost wholly ruined. The
district schoOl-house and PRESBYTERIAN church
at Harper's Ferry were badly injured.
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