NP, TD 2/8/1861

From the New Orleans True Delta
 
February 8, 1861
 
The Freshets
The Roads
   The rains on Friday and Saturday north of this were very heavy. The floods caused a suspension of regular trips on the Memphis & Charleston, New Orleans, Jackson {New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern} and Mississippi Central and Mobile & Ohio railroads. We are happy to learn from the chief engineer of the Mobile & Ohio railroad, Col. Fleming, this morning, that his road is in working order, trains having passed through yesterday, and no doubt of their going through today. The waters of the Chickasawhay are very high at Enterprise, the flood cutting off communication between the old and new town. A few miles above there yesterday the water was up to the rails.
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