Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-21

Aid 90 the suHereFs-The River on a
Stand-But One Railway Connection
with MempEafs-Another Rise Ex-
PecGed.
Contrary 70 the anxious expectations of a
large number of our citizens who thouglIt
that the high waters would commence to
fall rapidly yesterday, the river rose about
three inches. From Saturday afternoon
until Sunday afternoon it was about on a
stand. From o'clock Sunday after noon
until p. NJ. yesterday it rose two inches
and after that time until dark il rose aROth-
er inch and ceased either to rise or fall. 1t
was reported by steambo2tmen yesterday
that it rained during the whole
of Sunday in the upper counties
and that anrother rise of q
few inches may be expected here to-day.
From the present indications it does not
seem as If the homeless sufferers viii have
the pleasure of occupying their we'll
drenched domiciles for sometime TO come.
Their appeals for assistance have not been
made in vain. Judge Ferris has helped
them considerably. He gave them money
TO move with, and assisted them materially
in different ways. s
Yesterday the County Court adopted a
resolution sppropriating $1,000 for their
benefit. This money viii be given TO
those who are really in distress, and all
they viii have to do viii be to apply TO
some magistrate for a recommendation and
a certain apportionment of this amount
will be paid them.
The Sanitary Department viii have its
hands full when the water does disappear.
In order to prevent pestilenee from spread
ing through the city, they should go TO
work as soon as the water subsidies and
clear away all the rubbish that will be col
lected together in the low and bottom lands
around and about tine city.
There is scarcely district in the whole
county that has not been more or less
damaged by the flood. Farmers have been
deprived of almost their entire lines of
fencing, and the ground that they had fur
rowed preparatory TO planting their corn
crops, has all been washed into a solid mass
of earth. They will be necessarily thrown
far behind in their cultivation of crops
owing to the high stage Of water that has
submerged their farms.
1t was stated in the County Court yes
terday that drivers and owners of express
wagons would charge these poor unfOrtu-
nate people two and three dollars load for
moving them from their inundated homes.
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several families who had been compelled to
lie out in the damp weather for the want Of
places TO sleep.
This is indeed most distrcssful state of
affairs. and person who has not visited
these desolated places can have no idea Of
the suffering that exists in their midst.
This magnanimOus act on the part of the
County Court is highly creditable to its
members.
1t is probable that measure looking to
the relief of the suffering people will be
introduced at the meeting Of the Board Of
Aldermen tonight.
Stoner's creek has cleared its banks and
has been very destructive to property. The
Tennessee river has fallen five feet at Chat
tanooga, about two feet at Bridgeport, and
has risen about four feet at JOhnSOnYille,
and from the last accounts was still rising
at that place at the rate OF an inch an hour.
The water has covered the Nashville and
Northwestern Railroad track a depth of
two feet and extends mile in length from
Johnsonville. The management of that
road, fearing that there would be great
risk run in allowing trains to pass over the
trestle Just beyond the town, have issued
orders that no trains shall 20 over the said
trestle for the present. The water is so
high at that point that even
transfers cannot be made, and hence
all connection with Memphis from
this place has been cut of, except by the
way of the Nashville and Decatur and
Memphis and Charleston Railroads. The
trains run as far as JohnSOnville, bHt no
farther. The other roads leading to Nash
vile are all, we believe, in passable con-
dition. Most of the turnpikes leading into
Nashville are inundated, and persons COM
ing here yesterday had TO take circUitons
route. This has caused business to be eN-
tremely dull with many of the merchants,
and has also caused the prices of the most
useful commodities to advance at high
rate. If it rained as much in the noun
tainOus counties as did here on Sunday,
there will undoubtedly be an additional
rise in the Cumberland al this point.