Excerpts from Interior Journal, Pulaski Column, 19 Apr 1872 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Submitted by Ron Holt, Email Registry ID# Date: 15 Apr 2002 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************* Interior Journal April 19, 1872 >From Somerset The heavy rains of Monday morning and Monday night of last week was almost unprecedented in the amount of water that fell. Our small streams were converted into rivers and our rivers overflowing the bottom lands sweeping away fences and everything else that could be reached in their mad fury. The following is a partial list of the losses: The Graham Mill, two plank boats laden, one raft and a number of valuable saw logs, off Rockcastle River, loss estimated at $8,000 Woodcock's Mill, on Buck Creek, six coal boats, four of which were laden, rafts, logs & c, $10,000 Allen Jones & Co. two coal boats & c, $2,000 Other coal boats belong to different parties, $5,000 Mayfield's Mill on Buck Creek, $1,000 Cowan's Mill on Sinking near Somerset, $2,000 Parker's M., V. Cundiff's, F. Cundiff's and other mills greatly damaged. A great number of rafts, ready for shipping, lying on the Cumberland and South Fork were lost. $100,000 will not cover the loss in our county, including fencing and other property, and from the fact that it falls mostly upon the poor and laboring class, it will be more keenly felt, some of whom losing all they possessed. The damage to mills, rafts, etc, in counties below this is also great. Twenty odd coal boats, etc., a few rafts were saved form the angry flood and shipped to Nashville; but many notes must continue to bear ten percent, that would have been paid off had not this great disaster befallen our hard working mountain men. Bank Stock Twenty five shares of stock in The National Bank of Somerset were sold a few days since, belonging to the estate of V.P. Moore, deceased, at 5 ½ percent premium. Candidate for Congress Many of the leading Democrats here are urging the claims of Col. W.A. Hoskins, whose noble and manly conduct, and protection given to the citizens of Pulaski during the war, can never be forgotten, much less repaid. Married J. M. and Sarah J. Gossett, divorced some three years since, were reunited in the holy bonds of wedlock, by Rev. Mr. Emerson, at the residence of Wm. Frazure, on Wednesday evening the 10th inst. May their future prove an agreeable and happy one.