Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-03
THE FLOOD ABATED.
MAIN STREET ONCE MORE FREE FROM
THE WATERS or TIE JAMES.
Resumption of Labor at the Gas-works-
Ntondition of the Raiiroads-Inci-
dents of tho Trcshet.


- FIRST. and for several hours in fact, the
subsidcncc was very deliberate and grad
ual bat after 2 p. NJ the rough and rolling
stream commenced 90 60 down much more
rapidly
The water rose steadily but slowly all
through Thursday night. and when il was
sd as maximum height 10 came within
about th-cc and % half feet of the greatest
hoieht attained by the flood of June lst.
At ITS HIGHEST.
The water covered very nearly the same
territory tGat it did ia the carly part Of
June.
On Main street IL reached. going west.
tho store of =. r.. Rose d Go. on the north
ard 90 that ol French 4 Crane on the south
s'do. Gong eastward 10 extended beyond
Seventeenth street. Officers bad 10 enter
the lir~t pohco-station from Main street.
Franklin street was submerged from
Union street 90 short distance beyond
Seventeenth. Tho electric cars stopped
on carh side Il the water and transfers had
t0 hc made bv boats at the cost Of the pas
errrcrs. Business was suspended in the
market. alln- the dock. at the steamship
companies wharvcs and al all Of the work
shops and wholesale houses ~ the mum
dotted district both in TINS section Of the
c.is and in heGIlic's-creck n0ghborhood,
Rockets.
Ou Franklin. Main. Gary. Dock. and tho
connecting streets IN the ShockOc-crcck
valley the only mode of conveyance was 10y
way of r0w-hOafs. and their owners not
only reapcd rich harvest, bat enjoyed the
sport.
The merchants and their clerks, or most
of them. were at thciTpoets. but they could
have uo cu TONERS. and about oil that couid
hr d0Lc was 20 work Oh their books and
get their papers straight. or watch tho
many ludicrous occurrences which came
under their observation.
Rtr,SSG THROUGH WATER.
Early yesterday morning the cars on the
City Railway line began TO run through
the water on Main street. and ~ came very
near reaching their floors. Superintendent
81. Armand yer, properly thought n would
be better 10 Iut up with driving through
the cNtcWpOrZcd creek than 10 subject
the patrons To the expense and ANNOYANCE
of being hoatrd over Besides. this saved
the cars from tine injury which they ncces-
sHrilv would have received IN being lifted
and showed around from one track to the
other where there is no turn-tablc. THIS
feature of the service was very satlsiac-
tory.
The electric cars. owing 20 the delicate
mechanism of their machinery, could not
b. run through until late IA the afternoon,
whom tlc water was nearly out OF Franklin
street.
THY ARE MONTHLY
This is the third time within little over
sixty days that persons doing business ln
the Shucboc-creok vicinity have been sub
i,cfed 90 oycrhows of water and cOnsc-
gueut incouycuicuces and losses.
The first one came Saturday, June lst !
The water continued up nearly all day
SUNDAY. and rccodcd during the night.
Monday. June 81. found the merchants
and others IN the wet localities clearing up
aud getting ready % resume business.
The second overflow occurred Tuesday,
July 2d. when ShOckoe creek, without
warning and with but little proyocatlon,
gave the residents within lts reach an un-
lookcd-for washing out This ram being
purely local the creek was back IN ITS banks
within few hours, and July 3d WAS Oh
served as another cleaning day about the
Old market and the region round about.
Tho present ireshet started the lst OF
August. and the 3d today viii again be
used as q cleaning day preparatory to the |
resumption of business.
This is quite singular coincidence, and |
one which our merchants VIII not care 10 |
See repeated.
The Shochoc-creek food was 10y far the
most disastrous one of the three, III that
thoe, liable 10 DE affected hy its sudden
Gamers had no chance whatever to prepare
for its coming, there being no note OF
warning.
Every preparation possible had been
made for the present food, and the losses
will. therefore, not be very great Nume- |
rous merchants viii of course suffer TO the |
antont of several hundred dollars, and |
several perhaps will reach the thousand |
dollar mark.
10 RICHMOND AND ALLTGHANY TRAINS.
While nearly all Of the railroads centring |
here have suffered 10y reason of the pres |
ont floods i'm the water-cOurscs of the State |
their losses viii hc insignificant a. COM |
pared with what they were two months |
ago. The damage 10 one line was then |
greater than the aggregated losses oi al me |
lines will be now. BY Monday, perhaps, |
an of the trains viii be reaching and leaN- |
H. Richmond rs per schedule.
NO effort has yet been made 10 run trains |
out Of Richmond on the Richmond and |
Auechanv road. nor was the Dispatch able ]
90 learn last night when the first one Will |
leave here. One may leave TINS morning
then again IL may not, and the latter seems |
moro probable just as soon as the water |
has fallen sufficiently hands Will be put TO |
work on tho wash between here and the |
hme-Milo lock, which damage, 1t IS |
thought. can lac repaired IN few hours; |
The railroad telegraph lines are sull |
L.dlv broken. and thus state of things rem
der- the officials here unable TO tell the |
rel extent Of the damage Trains sre now !
running west of Gladstone without any |
hitch or interruption whatsoever, and 1t Is !
believed that they wall be running through |
hv tonight IT not tins morning. Mr.. De- |
cafur AXtell, who WAS at Balcony Fails |
Thursday night. Saws there was not the |
slightest trouble on that portion OF the |
road.
RC>NING THE SCHEDULES.
The Chesapeake and Ohio road has suf- |
frred no interruption at all. but 10y reason |
of the fact that II has had TO handle the
bulk Of the northern business tor several
DAYS IT'S trains are nearly ali delay yea. some
of them for four hours or more. There - |
mo- trouble. however, and the schedule Is
being run.
The Peninsula division of the Chesa-
rcgke and Ohio system has not been at all /
incommoded 80 far as its passenger busl-
ness Is concerned. Neither has the York
River line. except that its Dock-street |
track has been under water, making 1t |
necessary 10 receive and land passengers, |
baggage. and goods at Twenty eighth |
street instead Of az its Nlrglnia-strect de |
Dot. No freight is being hauled on the |
Nork-Riyor and comparatively little on the |
Newport News branch.
rRoH THE SOUTH.
The southern connections Of the Atlantic
Coast line are intact. but the Richmond |
and DauVillc can only run as far as Messing i
Ford or Randolphs. The latter Is not |
quite ninety miles from Richmond, and |
only few hundred Yards this side of
the stanton river. which Is exceedingly !
hieh. The iron bridge which the railroad
company built over thiSstream not long ago
Is MOI in danger. hut the long embankment
extending from the bridge TO the station
is several inches unuer water and II is
feared that the filling will be washed away.
The trans left here yesterday according 10
schedule. hut only went 10 Randolph's.
Likewise those coming In had Their south
erp Terminus al this point. The only south
err connection is uia the Richmond and
Meckleuburg road. 10y which route passen-
gers NAV come from Greensboro and Vi
einitv. Captain West and Superintendent
RYDER will have the line open at the earh-
cst moment possible.
FOR TiIE NORTH.
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