The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-03
.FRESHE Over {:
RIVER IN BANKS
Evidences Of The Big Flood are Fast
Disappearing.
LOSS WILL Sc QUITE HEAVY
Will. There Was No Great Damage !, Any
One Place Here, the Aggregate VIII
Be Considerable Gas on
Azaiu-eieaning Up.
.oss WILL Sc QUITE HEAVY e:

Richmond is herself again. The river
has gone back to its banks. The gas
is again in the pipes. Business in every
section of the city has been resumed.
transportation ty railroad and steam-
| boat, where interfered with, has been
resumed or will be to-day.
The great freshet OF the last day OF
1901 is now thing OF memory-not all
together that. for IL one will walk down
| town in the neighborhood OF the Old
Market he will find his shoes covered
with as dirty a collections of mud as any
one might desire. Mud, the sediment OF
the receding waters, is everywhere now
that the water was a. few&days ago.
But the river has gone back where It
! belongs and every one is glad OF It. The
section around the Old Market looks
very much as It did before the flood
The stalls were occupied yesterday
morning. But let one walk down Seven-
| tenth towards the entrance Of the Trtga
| shipyards- He will see all the reminders
| Of the murky James that he, cares to.
A SERIOUS AFFAIR.
/ But the freshet was serious affair.
Nothing too great has been said OF tbs
loss it entailed. 1t will be enormous.
But it can't be put in dollars and cents.
AT least no one can be found who is
willing to make the attempt, or give even
a guess. It will require thousands OF
dollars to put the buildings and plant
yards in the inundated section in the
condition of cleanliness they We're In be-
! fore the water came-this. to say Moth
| ing OF the actual damage done by the
| water to merchandise. workmen's tools.
etc, etc. To all this mist be added tho
loss eccasioned the plants and the stores
while they were off on an enforced holt
day. The sums which the many tndi-
| vicauals will have to pay to recover from
the flood will foot up far into the thou-
| sands.
Thousands were glad to have gaslight
once more. The city had Teen without
! it but two nights. yet even that short
period was sufficient TO convince all
what gloomy. ghostly place even home
i was without the gaslight. Candies DID
| the best they could and many OF them
/ got burnt up for it. but they only gave
enough light to make good shadows.
THE DAMAGE REPAIRED.
! From the time the water began to gea
away from the gas works force OF rucn
| was up to work to prepare for the re-
| sumption of the manufacture OF gas.
| The water got out OF the way early yes
| terday morning, break in one OF the
| mains was repaired, and the big furnaces
| were put in operation. By noon those
who had the curiosity to try, or those
ness, found that the flow had resumed.
| BY night everything at both upper and
| lower gas works was in good trim and
gaslight was kindied in many homes.
/ They were the brighter and happier for it.
/ The James River Division of the Chesar
| peake and Ohio. which was the most sert-
| ousiy affected by the freshet is again
| open The first trains from Richmond
| through to Clifton Forge since last Sun
| day will be run to-day. Yesterday a
| train came down from Clifton Forge as
| far as Columbia By tomorrow certainly
| the trains will be running OF this branch
of the Chesapeake and Ohio, as II the
! high water was a myth.
| WORK BEING RESUMED.
| Work was resumed at the Trigg yards
| Yesterday All day large company OK
! men were kept in the yards cleaning up
! the mud. Captain Mayer. agent OF thu
/ Old Dominion Line, and Mr.. w eisiger,
president of the Virginia Navigation
| Company. also had a number OF men get
| ting the mud from their wharves and tbs
! freight houses.
| The street cars, since early yesterday
| morning however. The Pocahontas,
Fulton, on muddy tracks. part OF ths
/ morning !. however. The sPocahontds.
! which has since Monday been forced to
/ tie up at city Point. came to her WHARF
| last night She will leave this morning
as usual on her regular trip to Norfolk
| All the boats are now running as usua.
The tugs are plying the river, pulling
| the vessels and barges with their old
| time noise and persistency.
wATER-WORKS ALL RIGHT.
| Superintendent Boiling. OF the Water
| Department. said last night that the dam
age sustained by his department was not
near as great as that in 1856. when the
water was eighteen inches lower. AT that
| time 1t took 5000 or more to repair dam
| ages. This year it will take not over
/ 81 LOCO There Is not a break between this
| nine mile locks and the punnphouse. II
/ will be some days. however. before the
! repairs can be made.
The Superintendent suggests that those
| who are using the plugs to clear away
the mud, caused by the freshet, to do so
! with care and discretion, so that ths
| pressure at the factories may not DO un-
necessarily interfered with There -
| plenty OF water in the reservoirs. If dis
| cretion is used the streets and buildings
can be cleaned without interference with
| the pressure
And so the high water at the close OF
1901 is as a story that is told.
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