Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-03-20
Latest TelegraphIc AdVlces from the
Upper COuntry-TOwns, Railroads,
aud Bridges Inundated.
Fearful Results, at Port Deposit, Md.
Peoria, Ill. Harrisburg, Pa. Mari.
eta, Pa, and Other Points.
Additional Particulars OF the Storms In
Middle Tennessee =" Back. k.Waters
ALI Over the Country ry'-Etc.

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PEORIA, ILL, March 16.-Railroads il
3 this section are nearly all in a terribly
: bad condition. The bridge at Mscki
; nav, on the Indianapolis, bloomington
and We eJtern railway, was washed away
yesterday, and last night all trains ex.
cept mail trains were withdrawn. The
Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville, and To
, ledO, Peoria and Warsaw, have both had
serious accidents in the last forty-eight
! hours, while all other routes are more OF
less hehindhsnd from broken rails and
poor condition generally of the tracks.
The weather changed suddenly last
night, and to-day it is extremely cold,
with strong north winds and occasional
FLASHES Of snow.
PORT DEPOSIT, Nd, March 19.-The
flood here is fearful. The water is from
five to fifteen feet deep in the streets.
Nothing like it was ever seen before.
Nearly the whole town is flooded, and
there is great destruction of property.
No lives have been lost so far. The rail-
road depot is full of water, as well as the
telegraph office, which was abandoned
last night In boat. The river has fallen
three feet since morning. The water
now is four feet deep over the depot track
and Main street.
The ice hes gorged about five miles
below the town of Havre de Grace. The
wharves are flooded, and whole piles of
lumber have been swept from them. A
large number OF men are engaged in
saving 1t. The street next to the river,
above the bridge, is completely blocked
with ice, wood and lumber. The water
is about ten inches deep in the street,
but is falling slowly. The canal tow
path, at the upper end of the town, is
covered with ice.
HARRISBURG, Pa, March I9-The
flood in the Susguehanna did consider
able damage between Middletown and
Columbia. At Bainbridge the railroad
depot was forced across the track, the
Telegraph office completely demolished,
and canal boats and a frame house fore
ed on the track. Six or seven houses
were badly injured. The track from
COIlins's station to Chickies's is covered
with lfOm eight to twelve feet of ice, at
many points for the distance of 8 mile,
and telegraph lines are destroyed for
eight or ten miles. A family on an
island above Bsinbridge was forced to
the roof Of the house; the water rose
to the second story; they remained on
the roof until the water receded, and
look to a barn for safety, fearing the
house would move. The barn was
forced one hundred yards or more. The
family was rescued. 1t is reported that
a man attempted TO go to the rescue of
the latter family but was carried down
he river by the ice, and has not been
heard from since. The whole front
street of Marietta, mile and quarter
long, is reported filed with Ice to the
hight Of thirty and thirty-five feet.
Many houses are damaged.
The damage to the lines Of the Penn
sylvania railroad by ice was very much
exaggerated. There was no damage
which could delay trains. The rivers
between Columbia and Middletown
were run around by the short cut, Via
Mount Joy.
From the Nashville Banner, l8th1
JoHNsONvILLE, March 16.-One of
the heaviest rain storms this region has
ever experienced was the one Sunday
night. All day Sunday it was very
threatening, and about midnight the
f1oOdgates Of the heavens were opened
and the rain came down in torrents, the
wind blew a perfect gale, all the rivu-
lets were soon transformed into raging
streams, and until daylight Monday
morning the wind and rain continued
to spread alarm and devastation over
the whole country. By actual measure
ment over four inches of rain fell during
the storm. The Tennessee has risen |
very fast since the storm, and is now |
three and half inches over the highest |
mark of 1867. A four and half inch |
rise in the river here last night, has |
brought the waters up to the timbers of |
the bridge, and the wind blows so hard |
that there is some fear of the bridge |
being damaged.
Some drift is still coming down and |
the waves are washing away the |
dump Men are at work placing |
large logs against the side to prevent |
the waves doing so much damage, but |
it is hardly possible for it to stand the |
strain if the wind Keeps at its present |
hight. Water is few inches over the !
track quarter Of mile above here to. |
ward Nashville, but not enough to in |
terfere with the trains. Passengers, as |
soon as they cross the bridge, are trans
ferred a distance of nine miles, the |
water being over the track two-thirds Of |
the way.
Duck river rose faster Monday than |
ever before. Over five hundred bushels |
of wheat in the bottoms between John |
sonville and Duck river are completely |
lost.
The backwaters extend all over the |
country, and a great deal OF trouble is |
experienced in getting over the roads.
A large number of fences were washed |
down, and some few houses here are |
floating up the creeks.
The river at Johnsonville rose one inch |
Tuesday night, but fell three inches last |
night. It is now thought that it will |
Iecede very rapidly, and that trains will |
be running through over the Northwest |
ern road by Saturday. The sudden rise |
produced by local rains will in all prOba- |
bility run down to-day. 1t is predicted |
that the river will therefore fall from |
enc to two feet.
The track of the Memphis, Clarks- |
vile and Louisville road has been |
washed away at the Tennessee river
bridge for distance OF six hundred feet. |
There is now every reason to believe
that we will soon be rid of the floods |
which have created so much delay and |
done so much injury to the railroads.
1t is estimated that the actual damage |
and consequential losses combined sus-
tanned by the railroads in Tennessee
will reach the high figure Of three hun
dred thousand dollars.