Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-05
DRIFT FROlf THE FLOODS.
RumOr Of Another Big RIseat London
High Stage az the Tennessee AZ
roads Around fq,aftaroo,-.

RumOr Of Another Big RIseat I.ouao,
High Stage or the Tennessee a,
JOhnsOnViIle-IlRmag 10 the FgaII.
e roads Around ChatfanOOEa.
In sections whert the late floods were this
most destructive, the waters are beoinnino
4 to reeede rapidly, and the people are look.
7 ing forward to the future with Confidence
The damages 70 some of the railroads have
g already been repaired, but portions of he
. tracks are still under water.
The Western and Atlantic road is cov-
cred with water four feet deep near Chic
amauga. There is one foot of water over
: the track on the crossing of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia AID Georgia road near
Chattanooga. 1t is believed through trains
will be running on the Western and A.
; lantie roads by GIT. 1t was thought
by last night the East Tennessee. Vir-
glnia and Georgia road would be all
right between Knoxville and Charleston.
ana they are now prepared TO make trans
Iers at the latter pace. There are two
breaks on this road between Chattanoo0a
and Cleveland. At Citico creek. $50 Yards
OF the track has been washed away. One
hundred feet Of the trestle at Chickamauoa
Is gone. There viii be no through trains
on this road before Monday.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and s..
Louis road is clear from ChsttauOoqa To
Chattanooga Creek bridge. The water
was on stand at CHATTANOOGA at dusk last
evening.
A telegram received last night states a
reported rise Of twenty-five feet at LoudoD,
but the river was on 3 stand at Knoxville.
On the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis road transfers are made between Ste |
venson and Bass Station without difficulty.
and a train leaves this city on that road at
IL o'clock every night. The river fell
about tWenty-nine inches at Bridgeport
yesterday. If ii continues to recede, trains
will be running through by tomorrow or
| Sunday.
The river was rising at the rate of one
inch per hour at Jacksonville Yesterday.
and lacks five feet auC a half of being as
high as it was last spring. At Decatur, the
river was rising slowly.
Mr.. Lon Jones, of Chattanooga, Mail !
Agent on the Nashville, Chattanooga and
81. Louis RAILROAD, WHO arrived in this CITY
night before last, informed reporter of the |
UNION AND AMERICAN Of several interest |
ing incidents at Chattanooga. He left the |
city Of floods and fires MONDAY night, while |
the raging waters were at their highest. |
The water in the passenger depot was 4
about six inches deep in the passenger cars.
The current which ran through Railroad /
and Ninth streets past the depot was
sWltter than that of the Cumber-
land at any time during the late
rise. Ex-Alderman Daily and
few friends had built a boat and were
sailing through the current, when the party
got scared, upset the boat, and had to pad
de for their lives.' ST.. 7. G. Montague,
CASHIER Of the First National Bank,
and his brother, l.. n. Montague,
bOOk-keeper at Abbott & GOldman's
friedrich manufactOrL were crossing
the raging stream on Ninth street, on their
way to the Read House to get their diurnal
hash, and were also caISized. The cashier
took TO the water at on,e, and held on TO
the boat. His brother climbed the tele-
graph pole against which the boat had col
lided, but no help coming, he was forced to
subside into the water.
As soon as the food became an establish
ed TACT, every man, WHO could command
the services Of a carpenter, had some sort Of
a craft built, and it could more truly be
said OF Chattanooga than OF any city in the |
eouRtry-tbat every man padded his own
canoe.
Every saw-mill in the city except that Of
Levi & Redwood, Which is above high /
water mark, was swept away. So was the |
Southern Pump and Pipe Factory. Nearly
half Of the immense stock of seasoned lum-
Der Of the WasOn Car and Foundry Co..
was washed away. They had in their yard
over a million feet Of the finest quality of
zine lumber.
Mr.. Jones said that b. rode, with others.
from Bridgeport to Stevenson in flat cars
through three feet Of water. The cylinders,
pistOns and connecting rods Of the engine Z
were all under water. The engineer piled /
up wood in the bottom Of the fire box Of ]
the locomotive and built a coal fire on TOP ;
by means Of which he was enabled to keep | ,
up steam enough to get through the water,
but they had to stop at the foot Of the as !
cendlng grade and kiDdle bigger fire to Z
go up with.
From Stevenson to Bass station they !
passed in Tat boats through water from :
three to thirty feet deep. In some places =
the telegraph wires were on a level with n
their shoulders as they sat in the boat.
Here the Tennessee must have been TWEEN \
-y-tiye miles wide. +
Special to the Union and American.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 4-nine a
0'clOck.-The water reached the height Of ?
ifty-one and half feet, was nine and a /.
half feet above the ri-e Of lS4T, and four C
eet below that of 1861 The water was P
II a stand at > A. N. on Monday, and to 8 :;
P. N. to-day fell nine feet five inches. a
Most ofthe Fifth Ward is still under water. il
One body was recovered and buried to- d
lay by the Knights of P,ythias. Ali of the :,
business part Of the city has been reoccu- on
lied and business actively resumed. The ii
Mutual Gas Company's gas is burning we'll =
o-night. The water-WWks will be all | n
ight tomorrow. No mails nor railroad
yet, except by the Alabama
nd Chattanooga. The Western and At VI
intic will probably open tomorrow night. NJ
iails for East Tennessee left here BY the en-
-eamer Cocker to-day. Mails for the be
'orth, South and West were sent BY the =
Gamer Wilder to Bridgeport. Everything
! the city lost or damaged will be replaced III
once on a larger scale. The largest g.
lriage factory in the South is just opening. 80
The blast furnace was damaged in its tn,
which will lie replaced or the ed
hole rebuilt larger and better. Loss and Tic
lmage in the city is not SC great as anticipa- NJ
d. No particulars. Streets and buildings do
the city to 10 raised to high water level.
he Sequatchie, Chickanlauga and other tai "a,
reams far off as the Etowah, in Georgia, Ia,
e several feet higher than ever.
ills and factories have been carried away Da
Georgia. A building in Harrison, in t 1al
is county, filled with people, during the If
cd, took fire, but was extinguished with gu,
t loss Of life. baC
a train fell through a bridge on the East ~ ~
9nnessee road to-day. The engineer, ate
illOway, was killed. SNYDER. eve
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