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The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
re only comparatively dry. At the Planters' Hotel the water was from three to five feet deep, and that popular caravansary was for the day approachable only by navigators. The Globe, Southern States and Augusta Hotels escaped with cellars full of water. The water, when at its height, was up to the track on the bridge, and the greatest depth reached was thirty-five feet. We have been unable to ascertain that any lives were lost. It was reported several parties had been drowned in Hamburg, but we could trace the rumor to no reliable source. A one-story brick building, on the corner of Green and Cumming streets, belonging to a Mr. McKnight, was entirely demolished by the force of the water, as also was a number of small frame tenements and out-houses in the neighborhood of the Waynesboro' depot and the southwestern section of the city. The tracks of all the railroads are more or less damaged, and under water to such an extent as to prevent travel into the city for a