NP, AC 1/15/1865

From the Augusta Constitutionalist
 
January 15, 1865
 
The Flood Elsewhere
Great Damage to the Railroads
 
   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.

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