Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-08
Ali RIGHT AGAIN.
The Damage by tie Flood on the
Central Eaiiroad repaired.

Central Raiiroad repaired.
The night passenger trains on the Cen
ral railroad resumed their regular sched-
ule to Macon and Atlanta last night, af-
ter weeks suspension. The day
passenger trains began running
through on Tuesday. Never IN the
history II the railroad, except wnen It's
| tracks were DESTROYED by sherman on his
"march To the sea-" has there been such
an interruption OF travel over this line,
and those who did not know the extent OF
the damage done by the floods were i'm
patient at the delay in getting the road
In order.
Travellers. however, who have passed
over the line since the washout, are sur
/ prised at the repairs having been made in
SO short time.
The extent OF the damage can only be
fully appreciated by those who have seen
! the road since it has been repaired and re-
| built. 1t cannot be described. In tact, only
those officials who footed the track, swan
| creeks, rivers and swamps Just after the
! great food could do the subject full JUS
! tice. For distance of forty miles, from
! Dayisb0ro to Mcintyre, the people were
! for several days cut oil from the rest
of the world. 1t was impossible
| to go even hundred feet anywhere be-
Z
! two days, the entire country in the vein
! ity of the railroad having been under
water.
! 1t appears that after the almost con-
! tinuOus rains which prevailed throughout
the southeast for the previous twenty
days, an immense amount Of water fell
on Wednesday, June 30, filling every
dUch, creek, stream and swamp until
they overlooked the adjacent highlands
] n h of
places the rOad-bed was washed
away by the deluge, which
was like cataract, sometimes
pouring over one side and then over the
other eide of the track. The mad waters
appeared 10 be holding high carnival with
the crossties and steel rails, tossing them
unceremOu0usly aside as though 10 show
how weak is mans work when it i0 called
upon to resist the fury OF the elements.
OhOOpee river or creek, which
crosses the CentraPs track several times
in the neighborhOOd OF the l3S-mile post,
appears to have done the greatest dam
aye. The railroad track, which is in
q bend OF that stream, runs
through 40-fOot cut, known as
wet cut" and it proved to be remark
ably wet on this occasion. The stream rose
to the level of the bottom of the cut, and
then, the torrent finding a straight chan
is about IA mile in length, washing away
the track and undermining the hlllsldes
! until the roadway was double Its usual
| width. The last train which passed
through "Wet cut" on that memorable
night reported the water up 10 the second
steps OF the cars. The flood, however, at
that time had just begun, and doubtless
soon after the train made it's narrow es-
cape there was IA torrent 5 TO 10 feet deep
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other Niagara.
From this point eastward tresties and
abutments were washed out, aud the
track displaced in many places. Al VIII
lIams0n's swamp the water inundated the
tracks and swept away abutments ard
trestles. The Ogeechee, which here begins
to show itself as a river OF tOrtuOus pro-
clivities, runs IN and out under the road
way, and is spauned by mauY trestles and
culVerts. Probably never since it was "a
river has 1t had so much water in it. 1t
ran over the track in many places, and
the mud marks on the trees and bushes
show that it lacked but little OF covering
the roadhed from one end of the swamp
TO the other.
The damage done and the work which
1t required TO put the railroad in order
again must have for a moment appalled,
the officers OF the company, but the result
SHOWS that no precious moments were
wasted In useless reLrets, but every
one went to work with Will TO place the
Central railroad in that good condition
which has gained for it the reputa.
ton OF being one OF the
safest railways in the country.
Supt. Rogers and his assistants were
at the break during the entire week, and
too much praise cannot be awarded to
the management for the energy displayed
IN restoring communication between the
seabOarQ and the mountains