The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1875-03-06

toe Aoorof his Muse), and from d to
sefset deep ifsmany of the. houses
All TIE fdhcsshlonS the river, from
fthe mouth of Pigeon to the noun.
taiHs, was swept away,
TIE FLOOD 20 OTTER PLscEs.
The rain was gonaal. The Hols-
ton, Watauga aud No,achucky kere
unusually high, and the smaller
streams were swollen out of their
banks. A great damage was done to
fencing. Johnson City was almost
entirely submerged, aud horses had
to be removed from a good many
stables to save them from drowning,
The French Broad, the Powell and
Clinch rivers, and other large streams
in East Tennessee, were higher than
ever known. The swollen Tennessee,
rising above its low banks and
spreading over the wide bottom lands
looked like an inland sea.
CHATTANOOGA.
From Knoxvilla. PycSS and Herald,
81 inst:
CMTTAXoodA, March Tho river
has been at o stand since morning,
covering Market street from Tic river
10 Ninth street, submcrging the
Union Depot, Commercial, Van Horn,
and Read hotels, very nearly all the
business houses on Market and Ninth
streets, South Chattanooga, complete-
y, and q great fmany houses (in the
main part Of the city which are not
so fortunate rs to be situated on
high ground.
One min who was intoxicated was
drowned en- SATURDAY., and two last
night, one of whom Mas colored; the
other was chief engineer of the Chat
tanooga Iron Companys Works,
named Jones. =
We have to use boat to get to and
from the telegraph Office, and from
one side of town to the other. The
railroads are cut off in every direc-
4ion, consequently there has been no
mails to or from the city for several
days past, until now, a steamer has
gone down the river with mails and
passengers to Bridgeport, where it
will meet the train for Nashville.
Only one.wire remains up, and we
fear its loss momentarily.
Special to Knoxville Press and.IIcrald]
CHATTANOOGA, March 1, rs.
The water was at stand from S
O'Clock, this morning, until s o'clock
tonight. It has fallen two inches.
The total rise was 51b feet. The
rise of 1867 was IS feet. The water
is two feet deep in the post Office,
and four feet deep on parts Of Market
street. A strong current is running
through the Read House hotel.
There is four feet of water in the
rolling mill. The embankment of
the East Tenn, Va. g. Ga r. r, is
washing away. y The United States
troops held the barracks till the last
moment, and then such small boats
as they had could not stand the cur
rent. The soldiers were so far off,
they could not make their situation
known, and they fired several volleys
of musketry which brought the steam
ferry boat to their relief One soldier
was seriously injured. Flat boats
are running in Market street.
The Chicamauga Valley was vast
lake, extending 80 miles southwark.
The destruction of property in that
direction, as well as in the Tennessee
Valley, was immense.
The Lookout FIGURING Mills caught
Gre last Saturday night and was
entirely destroyed. The A. g. G. r.
r. Depot caught from the burning
mills and was barely saved after being
damaged $1,000. a
A CORPSE FOUND.
The following letter in regard to
the freshef. to the Knoxville Chronicle,
dated cambridge, Feb. 25tb, says;
The river is higher than j. was ever
known. A large quantity of corn
and other valuable property, was
washed away. Several boats and
canoes We're caught, and among other
articles, box was seen floating down
the stream, which, when caught .aia
brought to the bank, was found to
contain coffin, and in it corpse
of mulatto woman. The corpse
had evidently never been buried.
Where it came from is unknown.
DAMAGE no TIE RAILROADS. II q
| The Little River bridge was not
washed away by the water. A large
tree struck the pier, knocking it
down, the bridge falling into the
water and was swept in two pieces
down the river--the first and largest
portion lodging just above Mr..
Kirbys saw mill site, about one mile
below the abutments, and the smaller
part lodging about half mile below
Mr.. McBath's, in his bottom. It Is
Thought that only onefourth of the