Wichita eagle., 1889-06-02

above and below Fredericksburg, Alex
andria and Washington. Trains ar
running regularly through between Por
Runyon and the long bridge. The track;
are submerged. On the Washington
Ohio road many culverts are washed ou
and the roadbed in many places is dam,
aged. Goes creek bridge is unsafe. Or
the Midland road the track near Cameron
run is washed and the approaches to the
bridge are unsafe. Washouts are reported
at Edsall's banks and other places be
tween Grange and Charlottesville. The
damaged in different places from Port
Royal to Strasburg.
NO WESTERN TRAINS.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., June mo trains
are arriving from south of Washington
and Harrisburg is the nearest point from
which trains are coming. The last west
train arrived yesterday morning.
DAMAGE AND DANGER AT WASHING
TON.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The latest re-
port from Harper's Ferry says the
Potomac and Shenandoah rivers are rising
one foot per hour. Canal boats and other
drift are running thick.
The river is very high here and is rising.
The water has reached R street and has
put out the fire in the engine house OF
the Washington monument and stopped
the elevator. Cellars on the south side OF
Pennsylvania avenue are flooded.
The Potomac is booming here and the
gravest fears are entertained by property
owners along the river front and IN the
after a fall Of rain almost equivalent
to a cloud burst, the check gate
on the end of the Chesapeake
g. Ohio canal was carried away by the
rushing water and washed several canal
boats into Rock creek, where they were
destroyed. Since then the river has been
rising rapidly and the flood waters from
Harper's Ferry and its upper tributaries
are swelling it momentarily. All along b
street north in the neighborhood Of the
Center market the country produce vend-
ers were driven off carly in the day and
the street was turned into lake, floating
chicken coops, market truck and all kinds
of odds and ends. Enterprising barelegged
urchins rugged up temporary bridges and
exacted toll from people who were obliged
to pass between South Washington
and that part of the city. Gel
lars were flooded and much dam
age to property resulted among the
houses. Up in Georgetown
the.scene along the river front was ex-
citing, the docks were under water and
provisions and all kind of property had
been carried away. Hundreds of men
were actively at work trying to save mer-
by removing it from the mills
and warehouses to higher ground. Swarms
Of riYermen f1oated about in water crafts
and carried off the treasures of the flood.
has so far escaped serious dam
age but the situation is full of danger.
AT the long bridge the water at sunset
was almost level with the bridge floor.
Several barges have already struck and
sunk here and the railroad men are making
every effort to prevent the accumulation
IF drift against the bridges. The water is
creeping up, however, and the bridge is in
a precarious condition. If it is carried
away tonight, which is by no means i'm
the result will be a serious and
ong interruption of railroad traffic be-
5ween the north and south.
The cofferdam at the long bridge has
been greatly injured. and much of the
work which has been done upon the Poto-
nae fats at an expense Of millions of dol
airs will be undone. 1t is not yet possible
% estimate the loss suffered by merchants
md warehouse men, but one individual
las lost $50, coo worth of coal at one dock.