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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Losses is the Tennessee Valley. (search)
ations of most of the factories on it, and washing away quantities of wood and lumber but lately deported. In Rocketts the lower wharves are submerged, and in the vacant lots near the steamboat is landing the water is quite deep. Gillie's creek, south of the gas works, is backed up to the arch of the street, and cast of it the water resembles a lake. In the bottom south of the gas works stands a two story frame building, occupied by negroes, which is completely surrounded by water.--The family in this structure have moved to the second story, and appear to be as well content as if they could pace to and fro. We notice that the rise in the river has also backed up Shockoe Creek, near 17th street, so that all the cellars on Main street, opposite the market, are filled with water. If the rains have been as heavy and continuous in the mountains as here, we greatly fear that much of the bottom land crops along the river has been seriously injured, if not entirely destroyed.