Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-19
DANGER IN THE GORGE
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAdE)
THE WATER IN THE STREETS.
The First Market ADMINISTRATORS
In Grent Demand.

The water was on Main street between
| Fifteenth and Eighteenth until past noon
yesterday. Almost exactly at IL O'Clock
it was observed TO be rcceding, ana AT
o'clock IL was gone from the car-traoAs'
but still stood on either side
Nearly all cellars In the district pou'u-
ed by the river and Fifteenth eighteenth
and Franklin streets were filled with from
| two to seven feet Of water. In many
| houses on Main street the water reached
| a depth OF one and one-half and two feet
| on the first floors. Baldwin ~ Brown
! at No 1857 east Main, had considerable
| quantity OF nails OF every character SUP
merged The result is beneficial 10 buy-
| ers Stocks Of several merchants In that
/ immediate locality were more or less uaih-
| aged. Many merchants and warehouse
proprietors between Main street ana the
| river are utterly unable to reach tneir
nlaces Of business except in boats. This
means was quite frequently used yester-
dav. ~
The First Market Is almost completely
deserted. In the western side there was
water to the depth of foot or more, ana
I'm ,Aankln street at that point 1t was
two vcet in depth at least.
The market was transferred lor the
daN TO ElEntttIlH Sn''A tNNN'N'+
and Franklin. There were more carts IN
from the country than on any day this
week.
THE SITUATION IN ROCKETS.
Main street Rocketts,. from rev steps
below the Virginia Navigation company
wbarves for a distance of a quarter or
a ,nilo is under water. number OF
heats were running yesterday conveying
passengers to and from Fulton. twenty
five cents was the fare asked, but a dime
would carry one across,
THE LOSS TO sHIP-oWNERs.
The loss sustained by the shipping IN
terests is very grea,. The wharVes OF the
Virginia Navigation Company seem to be
gone. The offices are wrecked. Inc
Ciyde-Line wharves have suffered gredlly'
and are probably torn out. the oihces
of this company and Of the Ola poiiliiUH
are also wrecked Whether they can De
repaired should the water not carry theni
away cannot be said.
fThe number of craft carried away Is
ouita large. The Pocahoptas is entirely
safe and so are several city craft moored
in Tho slim with her. The Pocahontas
is expected TO sail tomorrow morning on
her regular trip. The Ariel, OF the same
line is opposite Curtis Neck, steamed up,
ready to move any moment.
All the floating craft OF the National
Government here is gone. The barge OF
the Allison & Addison Chemical Company |
has been carried away. 1t was thought |
her captain and his family were on her |
when she went down the river, but they |
had left her only a short time before. |
Ahout 100 tons Of fertilizer were carried |
of
The three Cedar-Works barges wer- /
not carried away as thought, but one OF
them was thrown up on the chesapeake
and Ohio dock The dummy engine and
other machinery is gone.
The property OF the Chesapeake and
Ohio here has not suffered 10 any great
extent. The water is over the tracks at
the dock connections, but no extensive
damage Is thought to have been caused
A large number of craft DESTROYED were
small, but the aggregate OF their Value
will be great
THE CITY TUG IS ALL RIGHT.
Being fearful that harm had befallen
the city tug, which had not been heard
from for nearly twenty-four hours, Cap
tain w. II. Curtis, chairman or the Com
mittee on James-River Improvement,
drove down the river in quest Of Captain
yesterday afternoon, but
ere he had gone far he was overtaken by
the following telegram, and returned 10
the city;
City Point, Va
w. II. Curtis Chairman James-River
Improvement Committee:
Have broken from Curtis Neck 10 city
Point. Coaled here. VIII leave imme-
diately to break above TO Richmond also
all gorges.
THOMAS c. CUNNINGHAM.
This telegram was filed at $40 =. NJ.
yesterday. and its receipt was a great
relief 70 the friends Of those on the tug,
for rumor had been current on the
streets that the tug was lost. The Dis
patch received a similar special from its
at City Point