Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-04-30
THE GREAT STORM.
The Selma and Meridian, Mo-
bile and Ohio, New Orleans,
jackson and Great
Northern, Alabama
and Chattanooga,
and Other
Roads. -
From the Chattanooga Times, Ap,il >,

from sne Onattanooea Times, April 70.
The great storm of Wednesday and
Thursday night has been of vast injury
to the railroads of the South. From
every quarter come reports of trestles
washed away, embankmenls destroyed,
track thrown out of line, trains off the
track, and general destruction of rail
road business. ~
Among the roads which have suffered
the most severely, we mention the Selma
and Meridian, the Mobile and Ohio, New
Orleans, jackson and Great Northern,
ana the Alabama and Chattanooga Rail-
roads, all of which have been materially
damaged, and some Of which are under
water for miles.
This community is more particularly
interested in the A. and G. r. R., upon
which the damage is probably greater
than most of the other roads. Reports
received yesterday at the General Super
intendent's Office indicate the damage
more severe than was at first estimated.
About ten trestles have been injured or
washed away. The embankment for
long distances has been washed away,
but the most serious injury is the delay
which is caused in the completion of the
road. Before the storm occurred, the
grading was all completed, and the only
work remaining was the few trestles, so
that the rails could have been connected,
as we stated, within four working
days, but nov, with the increased amount
OF work caused by the storm, and
the additional time that must be allowed
for the water to subside so that the tres
tlescsn be built properly, it is probable
that the completion of the road will be
postponed from two to four weeks with
continuance of good weather, and should
such storms recur, it will be longer. That
such a misfortune should happen Just
upon The eve of the completion of this
great work, when its officers by almost
superhuman exertions had overcome all
former obstacles, would be discouraging
TO almost any one, but Mr.. Stanton is not
yet discouraged. Time and labor will
overcome this as it has all former obstacles.
AL he asks is little more forbear::
ance upon the part of the friends
of the read, and that they will
not press their claims for a few
weeks longer. As soon as the road
is completed it will be only necessary to
go to New York and make statement of
its condition, bring capitalists down TO
look at it for themselves, perhaps, and all
the money that is needed to secure its
floating debt will be readily forthcoming.
1t is the best road in the South, and one
of the best in the country, as all will say
who have seen it. But for the Indictment
weather of this spring it would have been
finished before this, and its completion
insures the payment of all its liabilities as
well as a rich return to its projectors for
| their arduous laboTs of the past two
years.
We can appreciate the chagrin of the
officers of the road in being thus COM
PEELED to disappoint the expectations of
their friends, but it is not their fault.
They have done all that men could do,
and are compelled like every one to sub
NIT with resignation to the dispeusations
of Providence