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Show I By W. D. Telesraph HEAVY FRESHET. Washington, 9. The following dis-. dis-. patch has been received from Harper's Ferry, dated Sth : The freshet is very I high here. All the temporary bridges ' on the Winchester & Potomac branch i of the Baltimore & Ohio 11. K. are weighed down with cars loaded with coal, to keep them from washing away. The water is receding slowly, and by night we will be able to see the amount I of datnaee done. Trains are stopped Jon the Winchester i; Potomac branch. A iro body of water is passing down through the IIli's Island property, on the Shenandoah, and liars are entertained enter-tained that it will do serious damage. The rain storm which has continued here since last midnight, renews ap- prehensions of a serious freshet, l'es-- l'es-- terday morning the temporary supports under the railroad bridge across the Potomac were knocked away by the dnlt ot wood floating in the stroneg current of the river. Travel across the bridges is suspended. The work of pumping out the iron steamer Hercules, Her-cules, at Georgetown, is suspended until un-til the freshet subsides. The river is very hiirh. Fish N harf being entirely entire-ly submerged by the Bood. Heavy rains on Friday night undermined the 'track of tie Orange, Alexander Manassas R. K., one and a half miles south of Glasgow station, but it being apparently ail right, the southern bound freight train on Saturday morning morn-ing was running over it at the usual speed, when suddenly the embankment i gave way precipitating the engiDe and two cars down the bank, damagine them seriously and badly injuring 0. Magragh, the engineer, and Paul A. Goolsby, the fireman. |
