The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-10-03
THE VIRGINIA. FREsHEI.,.
Property to the Amount OF -Four MIL
lions Of Dollars Destroyed Crops,
Houses, Mills, Railroad and Toll
Bridges Swept Away Portions Of
Richmond and Lynchburg Sub
merged.

Richmond and Lynchburg Sub
merged.
WHEELING, October l.
Harper's Ferry advices Of the great flood In
the Shenandoah River says that the lower part
Of the city is flooded; many substantial build
ings have fallen, and others are crumbling;
fifty lives have been lost, and many are inperil
beyond aid.
RICHMOND, October /.
The water here is still rising at 1:3O o'clock,
and nearly four hundred stores IRE in seven
feet Of water between Fifteenth and Eighteenth
streets. The street cars piled till noon, when,
the water coming in at the windows, the line
was stopped, and ferry is now run on all the
main streets from Fifteenth to Eighteenth.
Just at noon the Manchester end of Mayo's
Bridge gave way and half of the bridge floated
down the stream. All the wharves are far un-
der water, and the York River Railroad depot
is completely submerged.
Several small manufacturing establishments
along the river bank are swept of. All day
the river, bas been dotted over with small
houses and wrecks Of houses, fencing, dead
cattle, &c. drifting down. The gas works are
submerged. 4e....l-
The first waves from the Lynchburg freshet
struck here at o'clock this morning, and the
river commenced rising with much greater ra-
pidity than before, when 1t was only swollen
by Il e overflow. In three hours the lower end
OF Gne city, known as Rockets, was under
water, and the scene there beggars descrip-
ton two or three small stores we're swept of,
with all their contents.
Families who had remained In their houses,
hoping that the hood would subside, COM
menced crying from the upper windows for
help, when boats were brought and they were
saved, but the larger portion of the furniture
was lost. Two hundred families ir that por-
tion of the city are houseless tonight, and are
camping out on the neighboring hills. About,
noon, the street cars on Main street, which
had been running through the food with
water up to the seats, gave 1t up, and connec.
ton between uptown and downtown was
kept up by ferries.
l AT IllS Iluc VI hayOG phssCuRCI
bridge, built by the United States military
after the evacuation, was swept Oh, and was
soon followed by the whole structure. The
bridge was three-quarters ofa mile long. The
water then entered Mayo's tobacco warehouse,
thirty-Ave feet above low water mark. All
teams in the city were impressed to save the
tobacco, much of which is for the French and
German Governments. With the exception of
about one hundred and eighty hoggheads, the
tobacco was saved.
Just here 1t was found that all OF the upper
portion of the city was in danger from the
overflow Of the canal, down which an i'm
mense body of water was rushing end spread
Ing above the banks. The canal was cut two
miles above the city, and the danger abated.
In the lower portion of the city the street
lamps are under water, and the streets are in
darkness tonight. The gasworks are being
submerged. The loss by merchants is greater
than 1t would have been If the kilograms from
Lynchburg announcing the food had been
needed. 1t Is probably 100000.
Persons well acquainted with the section Of
the State flooded say that, including railroad
losses, the loss in the State is four millions Of
dollars. Tonight the bridge Of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad still stands, but as the
river is now (nine o'clock) still rising, it Ia
hardly believed 1t can stand much longer. At
Morris's large sugar refinery the water burst
up the floors, dropping all the machinery into
the basement.
| All the large cotton, iron and -four mills,
employing two thousand hands, have been
forced BY the flood to stop operations The
city waterworks have also been stopped, being
so damaged that they cannot be repaired In
two weeks. The reservoir only contains Eve
days. supply for the city. All the Ice houses In
the city are on the river bank and are twenty
feet under water. The water Is seven feet
higher Than ever knowp before.
A dispatch from Lynchburg says that the
river there Is rising again.
RICHMOND, October 2.
LArER.-The food on the Rivanna River is
the highest experienced since 1907.
The families of Mr.. Jennings and of another
miller On 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 clung to
tree torty-eight hours, and was wash
ed off and at last drowned. Her death
was witnessed by crowd on the other
bank of the river, but there were no boats near,
by which she might have been rescued.
On the Manassas Railroad the bridges across
the North and South Shenandoah Rivers are
gone. There Is no information from beyond
strasburg. Many lives, says telegram to the
Dispatch containing these particulars, are
known to have been lost.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad above
Harper's Ferry has been swept away. Scots
vile, in Albermarle County, has been inun-
dated, and the destruction of property was
very great. Eighteen lives were lost. Trains
are running regularly between Alexandra ana
| Richmond.
A dispatch from Lynchbnrg this morning
estimates the loss there by the food at $780,
600: loss to the Orange and Alexandria Rail-
road s5oo.OoO; loss to canal s25O,OoQ, and loss
to South Side Road $780, 200.
On Thursday, while the water was rising in
the James River, Mr.. Ransom, his daughter