Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-01

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and Alleghsnv did not leave at all. and the
natl and passenger train over the same line
/ due here about Z. VI. did not come In nor
| did any one know where II was. All OF the
| telograph-wircs being down the running Of
trains hsd 10 be abandoned, and even n tEey
had been ran they could not cross or trans
fer at the washout 81 Dover. Abont the
same condition. Of affairs existed on the
| Chesapeake and Ohio.
No trains were run on the Fredericksburg
road last night Msior Myers was not fully
/ advised as 10 the condition of the road,
! and not wishing 10 run any risk be d.
rected thst no train should be allowed to
run until daylight The irall and express
from the South. due here at 6:05 by the At
lAntic- Cosst Line. arrived on time. but went
no further North. The msil was sent via
the chesapeake aud Ohio TO Gordonsyille.
and from there Il will goto Washington over
the Virgins Midland.
The train over the Richmond and Danvlle
road due here at $3.50 Z. VI. was an hour late.
This was also due to high water.
RISING RAPIDLY.
james river was never seen TO rise more
rapidly here than II was doing yesterday
afternoon and last night. Despite the rain
quite a number of persons went down TO the
river edge 10 see how rapidly the water was
climbing up. The progress was so rapid as
TO be almost discernabIc.
At O'Clock the water was nearly up to
the floors OF both the Old Dominion and
Virginia Steamboat Csmpany's sheds, and II
WAS then rising q foot an hour. AT 10 II.
VI. II had nearly reached Mxin or Rockets
street. in Rockets, and IL was then rising at
a! losSt foot an hour.
Messrs. Davenport & Morris received a
4 telegram from Charlottesville yesterday
afternoon saying that IL the rise in the James
was equal 10 that in the RiYanna the result
would be the biggest treshet ever known.
The strcet-C1rs ia Rockets had TO stop
running before 10 o'clock on account OF water
being over the street at the Gillle's-creek
crossing.
WATER on FRANKLIN STREET.
Soon after II o'clock the local rains caused
the waters I'm Shockoe creek 10 come out into
Franklin street at the Old market and to
cover consid rabc ground. As the ram
ceased about miduiEh this surplus water was
soon carried oil.
MOVING OUT.
The steamship companies early yesterday
afternoon began to remove goods from their
sheds and soon had them IN more secure
quarters.
Messrs. Davenport & Morris, the large
grocers and importers, whose storehouse is ut
the corner Of Seventeenth and Dock streets
and Immediately on Shockoe creek. moved
everything ont OF their basement and from
the first AOOr OF the building. All OF the
other merchants. the Easements OF whose
stores are liable 10 inundation, had forces at
work sll night moving into safer ana dryer
apartments.
DrSY SCENE.
The merchants in the vicinity OF the Old
market began moving their goods at
O'Clock in the afternoon, and by midnight
nearly every store on Msin between Fiji
teenth and Seventeenth, on seventeenth
from Main to Franklin. and on Franklin
from Sixteenth to seventeenth had either
moved their goods to the upper stories
or piled them upon the top shelves
or upon goods boxes placed upon
the counters on the first floors. That
section Of the city presented live appear
ance OF night. Men, women, and children
were rushing to and fro, and sll were hard
al work.
The wholesale merchants on Fourteenth
street south Of Cary bad, with few excep-
tiOns. moved everything from the first floors
Of their establishments by midnight.
FORMER FLOODS.
In September. 1870 the rise OF the water
at Rockets was - 2-100 feet; at Columbia
(fity.six miles from RichmOnd), 36 60-l00;
at Lynchburg 1l7 miles from Richmond),
IA 4l.l00.
In November, 1877, the rise at Rockets
was y 62-lO0; at Columbia. Sc 1o-100; at
LynchburS, II S0,l00.
In April, 1856, the rise at Rockets was
"a 30.lO0; At Columbia, % S0-l00; at Lynch
Durg, 10 S0.l00.
The above measurements at Lynchburg
were "abOye DAM
At another point at Lynchburg in 1870
the rise was 26 feet, and in 1877 % feet.
The latter seems the usual point OF mea-
surement.
A SENSATIONAL RuMOR.
The sensational rumor that a terrible
wreck, accompanied by great loss Of life, had
occurred on the YOrk-Riyer road near White
House was being circulated last night. but
IL was denied st the Danvile offices. The
telegraph operator said they were advised OF
no accident whatever; their wires had gotten
down in the afternoon. and all trsins had
consequently been stopped. The two West
Point passenger trains left here on time IN
the afternoon, and the one leaving latest
was last heard from when twelve miles be-
yond White House, and all was then we'll.
Mr.. Decatur Axtell, for several years re-
ceiyer OF the Richmond and Allegheny rail.
road, said last night that he thought the
result OF the freshet would not prove 80 dis
sstrOus ss many might expect
No DANyILLE TRAIN.
No esrly train left here on the Danylle
road this morning. The wires on this route,
like almost all Others, are down, and Il is
not considered safe to attempt to carry
passengers. At several places along the
line there is water over the track, but 80
far as known there has been no damage.