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Show Floods in Virginia. Richmond, V.t 24. On the Chesapeake Ches-apeake and Ohio road the trains will be running as usual on Monday. The Danville road is considerably damaged by the Roanoke river. The South Side and Atlanta and Mississippi and Ohio roada are badly washed. The Dan river at Danville is very high and tbe houBes along its banks are being washed out. The James river at this point, at 6 p.m., is eight feot abovo high water mark, and ib still rising at the rate of a foot per hour. The wharves at the lower part of the city are submerged, and arriving steamers are unable to discharge their cargoec. Merobants along tbe river are moving their merchandise to high points, in anticipation of a great increase in the flood when the waters trom above Lynchburg reach Richmond, which will be to morrow morning, A tug boat was sunk by being dashed against a pierhead. One hundred and fifty cars and extra locomotives are busy at the wharves of the Chesapeake Chesa-peake and Ohio railroad removing treigbl. |