Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-11-26
Intense Excitement in Richmond, yir.
ginia.
FEARS ENTERTAINED THAT THE
STREETS WILL BE FLOODED.

RICHMOND, November "a. Incessant rains the
past forty eight hours have resulted in heavy
Hood in the western portion of the State All
trains have stopped on the western division of the
Chesapeake & Ohio. Jackson and Kanawha riy.
ers are higher than since 1870.
hundred and fifty feet trestle on the Kapawhs
railroad bridge was swept away this forenoon and
the water is up to the bottom chord of the iron
bridge. Several washes are reported. South riy.
er is very high. The telegraph line is badly
washed in several places and Communication i.
interrupted
The James river has risen over the canal q,
Lynchburg. Telegraph lines are washed away
and no communication IS 10 be had. Trains are
all stopped.
On the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio rivers il
IS feared the flood will reach dimensions of that
OF 1870, when so many lives were lost and mil
lions OF property destroyed.
CHAMBERsBURG, November %. There was a
destructive Hood al this place last night, Conoco-
cheague creek rising fifteen feet above the ordi-
nary level and doing damage at least to the
amount of $4,000 during the night.
AT four O'Clock this afternoon, five spans of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge, over the Po-
tomac river near Whamsport, Nd, were swept
away Six heavily laden coal cars were on the
bridge aud went down with 1t. The loss will be
about $4,000
The signal service observer at Barper's Ferry
reports al 5.l5 this morning, as follows: Both
i'cis aie NOW ~ lect ABOVE low water mark.
ohenandoah street is one sheet of water. Every
dwelling house is flooded and both rivers are rls-
ing rapidly.
BALTIMORE, November Is. Western trains on
the Baltimore IL Ohio road due here last night
and this morning, are detained at Cumberland on
account of high water in the Potomac, the track
road at Sir Johns RIM, in Morgan Co., W. Va.
being submerged.
A despatch from Cumberland at one O'Clock,
says that the water is falling aud the trains would
leave Cumberland in an hour or two.
WASHINGTON. November 25. The signal OBJ
server at 2 O'Clock this afternoon, reports as fol-
lows
Great Falls river continues to rise and spread.
and considerable damage has been done to the
Canal Company's property. The river stands Is
feet above low water mrrk aud is rising slowly.
The Aqueduct river is also rising slowly, and is
feet above the wharf level"
HARPERs FERRY, November PSI P. NJ. The
Potomac river Is now % feet above the low water
mark, and is feet higher than 10 1870. All the
property on Shenandoah street has been des-
troyed. Both rivers are rising abeut inches per
hour. No lives have been lost so far.
DANvILLE, Va, November 24-Evening. The
Dan rver has risen TO nearly the highest point
ever known here. The damage in ana about the
city amounts to over one hundred thousand dol
lars. Everything bordering the Dan river and
Big and Little Sandy rivers, has been swept
away.
Inc Virginia Midland Railroad has sustained
much damage at this point. The iron bridge over
the Stanton river, on that road, is gone. Three
other minor bridges the same road have been
swept away, and the road-bed Is washed in many
places.
Dauvle tonight is in darkness as the gas
works are submerged. A number of houses have
been swept away. and the destructiveness of the
freshet is incaculable. The river still rising at
Charlottesville. All the streams,n the neighbor-
hood are swollen, ard adjacent farms are suffer
ing.
The Rivanna river is as high as in 1870, but is
now falling. A portion of the iron bridge is gone
and the balance is seriously damaged. The tele-
graph lines are down and the G. i o. X. X. is
badly washed, and the trains are all stopped.
The damage cannot be estimated, but it will be
very great in this vicinity.
RICHMOND, Va, November 24-Midnight. The
excitement IN the lower part OF the city is most
tense The people residing and merchants doing
business below the st. Charles Hotel on Main ST.,
the point reached by the water during the gre at
flood OF 1870, are moving goods from the stores
and other places of business. The streets are
alive with vehicles of every kind, and the people
are engaged in the work of removal.
The water from the region OF Lynchburg is
showing effect on the river here, which is now
rising Is inches to feet per hour. If this con-
tinues till morning, which is now probable, the
water will be higher than the food of 1870.
The extreme lower portion of the city is now
submerged, and the water now running into the
dock along the south side of the city, has also
reached 18th street, and is within Jew feet of
the first market on Main street.
despatch from Lynchburg dated 10 P. NJ,
says the river at that point is as high as in 1870,
and is still rising steadily. All the bridges are
gone. and the damage to all sorts of property is
immense. James river aud Kenawha canal, be-
tween Lynchburg and Richmond, will probably
sustain the most serious damages by the overflow
of the river and the consequent breaking of its
banks The food of 1870 caused loss to the ca
nal company of several hundred thou sand dollars,
aud the suspension of traffic for months, and this
disaster is likely to be repeated.