| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| January 15, 1865 |
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| The Flood Elsewhere |
| Great Damage to the Railroads |
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| The freshet of the past week
which visited this city and vicinity with such destructive force,
seems to have extended its violence over a very wide spread scope of
territory. To the north and east it was particularly damaging, and we
hear of heavy losses in Edgefield and Barnwell Districts. But the
greatest injury, and that which will be felt most severely by the
county has been sustained by the different railroad lines. |
| Between this city and Columbia
the long trestle work on the South Carolina Railroad at Kingsville,
has been washed away. |
| At Columbia there was a
"great upheaval of the waters," and the Congaree River was
higher than it has been since 1852, causing great destruction to
mills, plantations, etc. |
| At Chester, on the Columbia
and Charlotte Railroad {Charlotte & South
Carolina RR}, heavy losses were sustained and the track greatly
damaged. |
| On the North Carolina
Railroad, between Charlotte and Greensboro, two bridges are gone. |
| The Piedmont Railroad, from
Greensboro to Danville, Va., suffered extensively, and we hear of the
destruction of two bridges and an extensive trestle work. |
| These are all very serious
losses, and will occasion great delay in the transportation of
supplies, as well as the derangement of travel. By proper exertions on
the part of the railroad authorities, however, the damages can be
repaired within three weeks time. |
| Necessarily the mails from the
east are behind times, and we have had nothing from Richmond since
Tuesday. Yesterday a small batch of Charleston and Wilmington papers
came to hand, but nothing from beyond these points. |