The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-29
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Mlite"s Of Dollars In Property Knew
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The geographical position of France |
although IN many respects highly fad
vo5eb j69Idh5 IS e Tehts4i n, iaFza
districts Of the ceuntEy a liability 10 be
suddenly .deluged rbF the IokeFf46rs ~ ]
hoodedi. rivers At POuf6uss 's11Sb Il. 4
undations have occurred every fHantv
years-@Urs 1t feast, in 1915 1885 and
lS5o-although never before TO the
same extent as at present, or with fbes
calamitous consequences to life and
property which we are now called upon
&c record. In 1856 the whole valley of
the Rhone was visited in a similar man
ner. The streets Of Lyons were for
many days traversed by boats, and not
only trees and cattle, but bridges.
churcheS, hppses, sYen whole EilIages!t
were FYt4pt affyay 4Itdss stefA mud S Us ar
people were either drowned or buried
amid fallen ruins. But when
compared with the, inundation which
has now, We hope, subsided, all Others
sink TITO comparative insignifcauce,
A .YeebagoSto-dAv. 'btfr corresp6ndenf
tells MS the river Garonne, at TouIose,
was unusually higyhp,, hut NO ,seriOus
pAnger was unprecedented, and no pre-
cautlonary measures were taken. On,
WedBeSdaY fhe waters rose rapidly
and by ten o'clock in the morning they
had reached the level OF the flood of
1855. At two O'clock two arches of a
bridge and twenty houses were swepts
away, and the oR4inGss EiEnuzine sbafi4s
and 49, were tAri fe0arsa heffEE
moot1nRs and hurried down the torrent.
At five the water overlooked the para
pet which protects the populous -nuar-
ter OF St-CuHfn<kt 8 Il Wsas-9ssn feet
deep N 4be>stI5se t. -anC a. before-f4ipflt
this quarter was cut OF from the rest of
the town, the three bridges ofrcommu-
nication being d6stroye4cO Am night
the crash Of falling houses and the
cries and sbriekR-sof. Sufferers 5ygeEe
heartS On IhufsdAyaAe HIoetE Fkgab
to FbtteS Sndaths w4tefshad fSheh SIX
feet by the evening. In the town of
Toulouse alone, it is Fgid, nine hundred
persons have persisted and 10000 are
left destitutd .Nearly ,tA1eev fhaisaBd
hoJHe ltttelfk II dbl AID ithi dkArbdtibn
OF property is roughly estimated at
from El2, 900, 900, to Els, 600 900, ( ster-
ling. The whole valley of the Gafonhe
II said TO resemble a vast lake, covered
with fragments of the gahA3 on the
town, rs well as with wreck brougbt
down from higher districts. and dotted
with corpses, some a5f them Wearing the
costume of places twenty leagues awav.
Although itAsAhpeh, this partienIsr
district that the calamity has fallen
within VIA gEaasest force, yet the neigh
boring departments have also been ter
rlble sufferers. In Audi tile Sr6bs ljig.yS(e
been extensively destroyed. At Bag
nieres de Bigorge, the BdovF ,hds,s car
RED away bridkes Ina cottages AZ
Nerdun (Ariege) more than fifty houses
have fallerS IdaAd mi byi nelson's have
been drowned. In Tarn-et- Garonne
cropN have, peEishe5,AaId at EerenopiI-
let, A. tiilhBs SIX Kilometres from Ton
louise, only three houIses out of four
hundred are left standing, The railyaT
betweeIE1 3ot1dD o. Eands 'f6uA 8uhss5 il cgt
IN dozen places, and the whole conn.
try IS Jsubnergsa.a The PoweE 6fHth6
surrq4Rdin8 districts to- assist " Ehe
greatest sufferers is crippled by their
own losses, and the. Communication
with disthht parts of the cpunfrv is
greatly lmPeded IF isfaOabtful Eheth-
er the description Of what has actuaIIv
happened will include even the nrsafel
part ~ tlie erAahit5.s AS the Eafers
receee surface saturated with mois.
ture Will be exposed, and this suvface
viii be strewn with the corpses of men
and animals in every stage of decon.
POSITIONS Exposed 80 tbs saxI1sIs kT551,Tiis
heucehEiAipBEPl19fe viii be large nor.
ulation reduced to absolute wantLde.
pendent upon charity for 81 the ueces
sarles Of life, destitute alike of clothes
OF food, OF shelter and Of employment
10 communities thus situated disease
comes with fn0tsteps that are peifkei
tardy nor uncertain, and it is ONLY by
She most prompt, ,apd energetic,
from external s0HtoeS that fbe. inbab
itants of Toulouse can be saved from
even greater ills, of such be, .pBssible
than those which Have already befaIler
hem
jug cAtbs op5TsHsas ti.,rzr Z az
In order TO form an idea of the ca1se,
of the inundation IT liz only laaAesssSyI, 4,
glance at the physical geography of m,
departpeUtS Up VhiGh itfHAa oodufreEl
1hey lie on the northern slopes of tn,
PyrepeH9< Iand are inteiseeted by nu
mer0us and rapid rivers, of which a
least four unite to form the Garonn,
before. 1t reaches Toulouse. There hal
been heavy and continuous rains owe
the whQIeof the mountain range. and ,
fall of SNOW az Luz. where it wouId al
rectly sSYelA khe ald2l NuateF6- 81 the, Ga
rome. It is said-tha4 at-Ieast a con
tnoutory oauSf giP dPFNy bed Shy th,
great destructfoqA of timber In tie dis
triot during tke last, century, Tree,
not only absorb water largely from th,
son, Sut they also prevent the surfac,
from beng bGk 81 and hardened by th,
sun, sast-lthey check the rapidly anC
abruptness With which nam '-YsoulC
otherElSe reach the ground. When i
falls ShippFoaedsDpon AffY md b,,5rJSSa1
hillsidsasit Nz5ll4Ftii offCuY tlIs5$TS SiT;6l
as freely as froRl the siqnipfyl roofs o
housesy,PFFt4 s7tANf hours will carry n,
water 81 slIe tAAaatai1il Storms. - ; w I
the Volume Of the nearest. river. n /.
ca Y g. be wise otter the event Int n
distract SO situSted there is great room
Tor measures Of prevention. and th,
riparian authorities. whoever they NAV
oe' should be intEusted with powers
commensurate TO the magnitude of the
recurring evils, which, by wise precau.
pons, they might 10 niuch 10 mitignte
or svertS Even the, Tiny floods which
sometimes occur in this country are
OFTEN greatly aggravated by local neg
lect, byysOme sitting up of the channel
OF stream or by some nl.placed
bridge, which forms an. obstacle To the
passage'ot an nppsnal body of water
In rivers in which are liable TO b,
swollen by mountain torrents the chan,
nels should be made the objects d
unceasing soHcitude, and the span anG
construction of bridges should be de
termined BY other than purely loca
oonsideTqtiohs. uLl la&Hi" -
queen VicfprlA ana the, War. Be
--tWeen the States. ..---',.',s-s,s--
The New Y7gk iTlIbgnes publishes
letter from Thurlow Weed, in which ht
atiirms, on Trustworthy. information
that on three occasionsy during the first
year of thu rebellion, SQ0een Victoris