| From the Nashville Union and American |
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| February 5, 1861 |
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| 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. |