Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-19
Tie EqNIflOctIal Storm

CINCINNATI, September lI.--Advices from
points in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsyl
vania indicate that the storm of the past two
days was tho most severe experienced for
ycnrs. On the line Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad serious damage inflicted. A
fireman, brakeman and engineer wero killed
by washouts. bridge on tho Panhandle
route was washed away, and freight train
plunged into the stream. The engineer and
fireman have not been seen since. No trims
have passed Stubcnvillc on tho Panhandle,
Pittsburg. Wheeling and Kentucky, or Clevc
land and Pittsbrrg roads
The Ohio, at Stubenvillc, rose sixteen feet
| in twenty'four hours, and eight inchcs of rain
| fell at the snme timo. and at Youngstown,
| Ohi2, scvcn inches. at 3 o'clock yesterday
morning, tho residents on tho streets in the
from their dwellings in boats. On Mnhoning q
Avenue the water was eight feet deep.
Several small dwellings were swert away
like driftwood. The county commissioners
| state that the loss to the county in ruined
bridges will reach 100000. The following
| have been almost totally destroyed; Brown,
! Bonnel & Co.'S rolling mill; Mcrsc bridge
| works; Dingle &c Co.'S lumber mill Ilimrod' $
furnace and Andrews furnace.
AT Mechanicsvillc,, near Painesvllc, Ohio,
dam gave way and number of houses were
| inundated. At Salem q bridge fell with an
| engine and two cars upon it. Tho engineer
| and brakeman were severely injured. Near
Alliance, Richard Teetcrs, engineer of coal
train, had both legs broken. and his fireman
was severely wounded by running into a
chasm left by bridge being swept away.
The Kanawha River is higher than in the
| food of 1861, and is still rising. oyerAowing
q portion of Charlestown, West Virginia, ana
tho Kanawha Valley. sweeping With Il The
now steamer IdUance and numboress lumber
RATS, &c.
WASHINGTON, September l4.-Dispatches
| from various points in Virginia. West Vir-
| ginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and rs far North as
| Canada, give accounts of destructive gales
accompanied by hcayy rains causing cxten-
siye damage to railroads, canals and other
property, and in somo instances loss of life.
Much anxiety is fclt in Richmond, Virginin,
owing to tho reports from Lynchburg that
water in tho James River is rising rapidly.
number of merchants doing business in
| tho lower part Of tho former city near tho
river, arc removing their goods in anticipation
Of q swamping freshet Staunton River
bridge on tho Midland Railroad, between
Lynohburg and Danvilo, two bridges over
the Roanoke River between Salem and Big
Spring. and one at Dry Hollow on tho At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, havo
been washed away.
dispatch from Covington, on the Ohio
and Chesapeake Railroad, says that the jacks
son River is higher than at any time before,
except November last.
The THIEF CARDozo.-A Washington
despatch says that ex-State Treasurer Car
dozo, of South Carolina, one of tho notori--
Gus members of the carpet.baggor ring OF
that State, and man accused by legis-
lativo investigating committee of bribery,
has been appointed to frst-olass clcrk-
ship 10 the money order division of the
Sixth Auditors Office in tho Treasury
Department at Washington. If this e
true tho country will have right to know
at whose suggestion the appointment was
madc, opd what government officer saf,o-
toned it,-- Ae,o PORK lEs'peaiag l'ost. 81