THE LATE STORM ON THE SOUTH PACIFIC RAILWAY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1200, 3 June 1872, Page 3

THE LATE STORM ON THE SOUTH PACIFIC RAILWAY.

[CINCNNATTI GAZEITE, APBII. 9.] The storm has interrupted communications crossing the line of its greatest severity. But tbe indications are that its extreme severity, prostrating the telegraph w'res and rendering the operation of those standing almost impossible, have rendered the transmission of full intelligence of its damage out of the question. We have, however, means of gathering facts that indicate ; n a measure its theatre and mischief. From the Kentucky Central, the Louisville Short Line, the Marietta and Cincinratti, the Little Miami, and the Oincinnatti and Zanesville roads, the omnibuses neither brought passengers to nor took them from the hotels yesterday afternoon and late last night. The latest Eastern train on any (f tbe above-named, roads was that of the Cincrnnatti and Zanesville, at 4.45 p.m. Express messengers did not arrive last night on any of the routes except on the one last named, nor did any trains arrive or depart on these lines from their respective depots during last evening and night. On most, if not on all of these lines, the local telegraph worked so badly, or were so broken down, as to render them quite useless for the transmission of intelligence. Through other lines private despatches conveyed the intelligence to parties in ihe city interested in theso roads that much damage had been done by freshets washing away bridges. Word came that on the Cincinnati and Zanesville road two bridges had gone, between the towns of Morrow and Clarka- 1 burg. On the Little Miami road a bridge had gone, a short distance above the town of Morrow. The Marietta and Cin- 1 cinnatti railroad seems to have been an extensive sufferer. The report is that four or five bridges have gone in the vicinity of Greenfield. These must be over Walnut creek, Buckskin creek, and perhaps over the north fork of Paint creek, none of which are very large atreamg. On the Louisville Short Line a land ■slide of considerable magnitude is reported ; also, that the ten-mile trestle had been washed away on that road. From the Kentucky Central the news is not so definite. The Ohio Bnd Mississippi, the Indiana- ! pnlis and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton roads have been running to and from the city at the usual hours. Telegraph communication south was almost out of the question. The probabilities are that tbe lines in the path of the storm are veiy generally prostrated. Accounts of the great rain point out its starting place as south-west of Memphis, and its path as thence north-east, pouring its heaviest torrents in eastern Tennessee, central Kentucky, and south central and eastern Ohio. It appears to have come with f nil strength upon Pittsburgh, and thence to have passed into western New York. Hoping that reports andindica" tions are worse than the reality, we"* may nevertheless look for a considerable interruption of communications, and expect to hear of no little damage by the freshets which its torrents of water have caused.