The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-03-03

anxious to know OF the progress of
the water.
At 2 o'clock the railroad company
received the following from itsagent
there:
''Tte river lacks about eight feet
of being as high as in the 1857 food.
It is rising about an inch and a half
an hour. The water is in our section
of the fireman's house near me. All
the N. & c.. NJ. & c.. A. & C.. and
w. & A. loaded cars and coaches
are in our yard on the high track. /
do not think the water will rise more
than foot more. The water is
coming into Market street"
At five o'clock, Superintendent
Somerville, of the Gas Light Com
pany, received the following from
the Secretary of the Chattanooga
Gas Light Company:
"The river is still rising. The
water is in Our retorts.''
At nine o'clock last night. We re-
ceived the following specialdispatch
from oar correspondent at Chatta-
nooga. It's vivid words tell their
own sad, sad story:
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 81. 9 p. N.
The water has risen FIVE feet in the
last twenty-four hours, and eleven
feet in the last forty-eight hours.
The water is now seven feet be-
low the food of 1867. The river is
rising Row OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
inches hourly.
The food of 1847 was ~ feet
above low water. The food of1867
was So feet above low water. At
present, the food is AZ feet above.
All the southern portion of the
city is now flooded. The water is
over Market street at the corner of
Eighth, and in the post office, de-
pots and around the hotels.
The merchants on Market street
have moved. or else removed their
goods to higher place.
Several buildings and manufactor-
les have been already carried away
by the food.
The steam ferry and small boats
are removing the people from isolat-
ed points,
No loss of life is as yet reported.
A relief committee has been or
ganized. All business is suspended
and everywhere is commoGon in
describable.
A strong current divides the city
in halves.
Both the two Gas Works, andals
the Water Works, are submerged.
People are being removed from
the upper stories. Probably half the
population have been driven from
their homes.
The water reached the iron manu-
factories this forenoon.
The Lookout Flour Mills run,
furnishing -four to the needy without
charge, until the rising water stop
ped the engine,
The Chickamauga valley is a vast
sea for thirty miles south of here.
There is great destruction in that
direction as well as up and down the
Tennessee valley.
The storm near Dalton was a tor
nado, destroying and blowing away
houses, and killing several people.
The FIRE bells are ringing. l have
no time to say more,
CHATTANOOGA, Feb, %, 10 p. m.
The Lookout Flour Mills are on
fire, and will be destroyed, with |
several hundred barrels of -four and
a large quantity of grain.
The Alabama and Chattanooga
depot has caught from the |
mill, and it is feared it cannot be !
saved.
Both buildings are surrounded by |
water.
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. p, II p. m.
The Lookout Mile are entirely
burned. The loss is $4,000, insured
Tor $4,000.
The depot is saved, with damage
IF about 900,
The firemen made connection with
heir hose three feet under water and
)ut out the fire in the depot.
The water is rising one and one
quarter inches hourly.
THE WIRES.
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