NP, NUA 2/5/1861

From the Nashville Union and American
 
February 5, 1861
 
River News
Reported by H. H. Harrison, Steamboat, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Agent
  
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   The Memphis & Charleston road will meet with the same impediments as does the Chattanooga road in their trans shipment of freights, from the causes assigned below on the Western Atlantic, through Georgia. So we advise shippers, as they may understand that a change of route from this point to Memphis will avail them nothing.
   Freights for New Orleans, St. Louis and the Ohio river but little of none suffering; for the N. & C. R. R. Co. it still continues without abatement to pour in in large quantities.
   We learn that some five or six very bad breaches occurred on Friday last, on the Western Atlantic Railroad between Chattanooga and Atlanta, caused by the extraordinary rains which fell about that time, entirely stopping all trains.
   The damages are understood to be mostly in bridge and embankments -- some of which are displaced, but others entirely swept away -- consequently it will be several days before freights can pass beyond Chattanooga, and as there is no storage room at that place, shipments for Georgia and Alabama cannot be made from Nashville until the W. & A. R. R. is again open for business.
   A temporary track has been laid around the heavy slide which occurred at the same time on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, and the trains have been passing regularly since Sunday morning, and but for the misfortune on the Western & Atlantic Railroad freight could now go forward with great rapidity, the Nashville company having discontinued one of its passenger trains in order to give greater efficacy in the movement of freight.

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