Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-01-01 | Page 65 | Richmond under Water

c RICHMOND UNDER WATER Virginias Capital City Is Portly Inv In-v undated by a Freshet inV in-V 1 the James River L J I Richmond Va Dec 31Flood fire and general excitement prevailed In Richmond Rich-mond today Tho water In James river rosj twentythree and onehalf feet within with-in four feet of tho level of the great freshet of 1S77 Lower Main street and a greater part of Fulton the extreme eastern east-ern section of the city wore Hooded Whcn tho fro het was near Its height fire caused by the waters coming In contact con-tact with lime broke out in the plant of Warner Moore Oa millers and feed I supply men The property la I situated on tho creeks of the Hooded district and atone at-one time It seemed Inevitable that It would bo I destroyed but a change of wind and tho splendid work of tho fire department averted thnt The hose was carried over a line of partly submerged coal cars and buoyed on rafts made of small boats Tho firemen fought the flames Vstandlnpr up to their waists In water a Tho fro wris conflied to tho building In which It started The loss Is I only about 10000 fully covered by Insurance In-surance I Is estimated that the occupants of 2Q small houses on this and Manchester side of the river had to vacate temporarily tempo-rarily The gas works aro partially under un-der water and the gus sUpply cut off This condition seriously crippled tho newspapers as the metal for their llnco typ machines Is heated by gas All uro working by lamps tonight The Incoming Southern trains had to run through several feet of water Tho bridges are reported gone In various I sections of the State and traffic greatly Interrupted The water began to fall aboutprn l C