The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-03
THE FLOOD.
Bridges and Mills Washed Away
James River Rose 25 Feet on Fri.
day Night-The Lower Portion OF
Richmoud Submerged and Inn.
mense Damage Done to Property.

day NtEht-The Lower Portion oi
Riehmoud Submerged and Inn.
mense Damage Done to Property.
RICHMOND, September 30.-The LIE.
gislature meets to-day but will have nc
quorum in consequence Of the members
being detained by the food.
The Rio Mills on the South Anne
were among those washed away. The
James river is still low but still rising
rapidly.
WASHINGTON, October 1.-The chain
bridge above Georgetown has been wash
ed away by the flood and travel by rail
between Washington and Alexandria
entirely suspended. Several bridges
on the Alexandria. Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad and Southside Consoli-
dated railroad are seriously injured.
RICHMOND, October 1.-The river
here rose 25 feet last night, and this
morning it is within q foot of the Dan
vile railroad bridge and the Mayo
street passenger bridge. The streets,
for four or five blocks from the river, are
submerged in four feet of water.
Thousands Of persons are on the
river banks, waiting to see the bridges.g go.
The lower portion of Libby prison
took fire this morning, from a quantity
of lime being wet by the flood. The
fire stopped before any damage was
done.
Water still rising at l:30 2. NJ. Be-
tween three and four hundred stores
are in seven feet of water. Between
18th and 18th streets the street cars
piled until noon, when the water com
ing in at the windows the cars were
stopped and ferry boat now runs on
old Main street from 18th to 18th streets.
After noon the Manchester end of
Mayo street bridge gave way and half
of the bridge fioated down stream. All
the wharves are deep under water and
the York river railroad depot is com
pletely submerged Several small man.
ufacturing establishments along the
river bank were swept off All day the
river has been dotted with small houses
and wrecks Of houses, fencing, dead
cattle, &c, drifting down stream. The
gas works are submerged.
Later-LOss Nearly One Million and
HaIf-Lives Lost at Lynchburg
The Destruction at Richmond
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Washed Away at Harper's Ferry.
RICHMOND, October "a dispatch
from Lynchburg this morning estimates
the loss there by the flood at 100000;
loss to the Orange and Alexandria rail
road is $500,000 loss to the canal is
$3.50, 900, and to the Southside railroad
100000. On Thursday, while the
water was rising, Bates Ransom, his
daughter and servant girl, Robert
Whitelaw and three children, and a
colored woman with her three children
were standing on the abutment of the
canal bridge, waiting for boat to take
them, when the dredging machine broke
loose above, and drifting against the
abutment carried 1t away with all on it,
and all were drowned.
RICHMOND, OCtoDer -.-Al HilunlSll
last night the river was still rising and
invading still further the lower part of
the city. Hundreds of persons were
busy carrying off furniture from houses
about to be swept away. In front of
the st. Charles Hotel, about the centre
Of the city, is anchored schooner.
The Richmond and Petersburg rail
road has put on their road four times
the usual number of cars so as to ac-
Southern travel.
The flood on the Rivanna river is the !
highest since 1907. The families Of
Mr.. Jennings and Mr.. Miller, whose
houses were near the river, were washed
away. In all five persons perished.
On the Manassas railroad the bridges
across the Northern and Southern She
nandoah rivers are gone. No informa-
ton received from beyond Strasburg.
Many lives are known to have been
lost. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
above Harper's Ferry has been swept
away