The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-10-03


and Alexandria has been suspended, ow'
ing to the insecurity Of the bridge over
the Potomac, several piers having beer
displaced. The Orange and Alexandria
Chesapeake and Ohio and South Side
consolidated railroads, have been seriously
injured, nearly alI the bridges have beer
carried away. Large quantities Of flour ID
barrels and other products have been re'
covered floating in the Potomac.
WASHINGTON, October g
A heavy rain tonight creates Gpprc'
tensions Of additional damage from floods
The Flood on the James:
ss RrcuMoND, October1
The river 1t LynchJurg has fallen eight
feet. Several bridges on the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad were washed away
The.persons drowned pt, Lynchburg were
MrS., Ransom and her daughter, and three
children Of Mr.. Wilton, and q col0red
woman.
ftr,a; RIollMoND, October /.
The river here rose twenty-five feet last
night, and this morning is within a foot o.
the Danvillc Railroad bridge and Mayo's
passenger bridge. The streets, for four OF
i've blocks in the vicinity OF the old mar.
ket-the lowest p0intin the ctty-are sub:
merged in four feet wRter. Thousands oi
persons arc on the river banks, waiting
iOr the bridge 10 go. The lower portion
Of Libby prison took fire at II o'clock,
from quantity Of lime being overtlOwed
by the flood. The fire was stopped before
much damage was done. CitiZenssar
volunteering ltoN remove the tohaceo from
lthewareh6 6lsesi 6Itheriver bank, and the
scenes are tulI Of excitement. Furniture,
trunks, and barrels Of flour and whisky
are floating down the river,
nj [sEcpND DlsPATcn.l ;IflN.. q
RICHMOND, October1.
The water here is still risingtat 1880 P. ny
Three or four hundred stores are in seven
feet Of water, between Fifteenth and
Eighteenth streets. The street cars piled
till noon, when, the water coming in at
the windows, they stopped running, and
ferries are now run on all the main streets
between FiG(eenth0 nd Eighteenth.
Just ut noon the Manchester end OF
NLayo's bridge gave way, and half a mile
Of the bridge tloated down the stream.
All the wharvcs are lar under water,
and the York river railroal is completely
submerged. Several small manufacturing
establishments along the river banks were
swept off. All day the river has been
dotted over with small houses and wrecks
Of houses, fencing, dead cattle, &c, DRIFT
ing down. The gus works are submerged.
.s ~ RICHMOND, 0ct.2.
Tho Legislature meets here tomorrow,
but will have no quorum, in consequence
OF agreAt number being detained by the
flood. "f..,.- .T
The Rio mills, on the Sionna river,
were among those that were washed
away. The James River hero Is now
still rising rapidly.
RICHMOND, Oct.9.
At midnight last night the river was
still rising, and invading still further the
lower parts Of the city. Hundreds Of
persons arc busily engaged in carrying Oft
furniture IRON houses about TO be carried
away. In front of the st. Charles Hotel,
about the center Of the city, Is schooner
anchored. The Richmond and Petersburg
RailrOaa 1lGs put on their road four times
tho usial number otcars so rs to acc0no-
date the Southern travel. The flood on
the Rivauve river Is the highest since
1907. The families Of NIrlJennings nnd
Bir. Miller, Whose homes, were ,neaE the
river, were washed away. Five persons
perishel i'll all, On the Manassas Rail.
road, the bridges across the Northern and
Southern Shenandoah Rivers arc gone.
No information has been received beyond
Strasburg Many lives are, known to
been have lost. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad above HIrpcrls Ferry has been
swept .asways!tE RbG1,,,I, RG1tnvovp d6c,obor .
p. 4 dispatch from Lynchhurg thus morn
Ing estimates tue loss there by the flood at
$1,000 loss 10 the Orange and Alexanr
.dria Rail Road is 100000; loss to. the
Canal 250,00O;; md to the South Side
Road $500 600. . tsl& - +,
On Thursday, while the water was ris-
Ing, Bates Ransom, daughter and ser.
want girl, Robert rWhitClaw and three
children, and a colorcd woman, with her
three children, were standing on The abut-
ment of,the, canal bridge, waiting Tor q
boat to take them of, when the dredging
machine broke loose above and drifting
against the abutment, carried itaway with
all on it, md all were drowned. i'u.