The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-10-06
The Great Floods.

RICHMOND. Va. Oct. 2-At midnight last
night the river was still rising and invaded
still further the lower part of :he city
Hundreds of persons were busy carrying off
the furniture from the houses about to be
swept away. In front of the ST. Charles
Hotel. about the centre of the city. is anchor
ed a schooner. Her crew pull off in the boats
as regularly as if at sea. Last night the
Western Union Telegraph Office was crowd
ed with anxious people trying to ascertain
the whereabouts of their friends who left in
the late trains, aud for whose fate the an-
nouucement that the river at Lynchburg
was rising again created much excitement.
10 the lower part of the city the only object
of attention single gas-lamp that still
burned, though within few inches OF being
submerged. The Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad has put on their road four times
the usual number of cars so as to accommo-
date the Southern travel. The food on the
Rivanna River is the highest since 1907
The families of Mr.. Jennings and Mr.. Miller.
whose homes were near the river, were
washed away-in all, five persons. Mr..
Jennings is supposed to have been drowned.
His wife and two children are known to
have perished. A young lady of the family
clurg to tree forty-eight hours. but was
washed away and drowned. Her death was
the river, but there was no boat near by
which she might have been rescued. On
the Manassas Railroad the bridges across
the North and South Shenandoah Rivers are
gone. No information has been received
from beyond Strasburg. Many lives are
known to have been lost. The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad above Hsrper's Ferry has
been swept away. Scottsville, in Alber
marie county, has been inundated. and the
destruction of property is very great. Eigh-
teen lives were lost. Trains are running
regularly between Alexandria and Rich
mond.
A FAMILY DROWNED.
On Thursday. while the water was rising.
James Ramson, daughter and servant girl;
Robert Whitley, wife and three children
and a colored woman with her three chill
dren, were standing on an abutment of the
canal bridge at Lynchburg, waiting for a
boat to take them off, when a dredging ma
chine broke loose above. and. drifting against
the abutment, carried it away, with all On
it. All were drowned.
FoRrY-SKVEN LIVES LOST AT HAMPERS FERBY
BALTIMORE, Oct. "A private despatch
from Harper's Ferry, from a reliable source,
this afternoon, states the number of lives
lost at that place by the food at forty-seven
Immense damage has been done in the Val
ley of the Shenandoah. The Winchester
Railroad between Harper's Ferry and Hall
town is badly damaged. All is quiet on the
Potomac above Harper's Ferry. the rise and
food above that point being confined to the
Shenandoah. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road track is uninjured. The rain recon-
menced falling here at 1o'clock this afternoon.
and continues steadily at the present hour
III P. n.
BALTIMORE Oct 3-Desnatches from
Harper's Ferry to-day. say the loss of life by
the food al that place will not exceed thirty.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal below Har-
per's Ferry. is badly damaged. The Presi-
dent of the canal telegraphs that he has
hopes that navigation will be resumed in
thirty days
KcHMoND. Oct. S,-The flood has gone
down and the merchants are calculating
their losses. 1t is thought this morning that
half million will cover the loss in this city,
but not in the towns about here.