The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-04-25
FRIGHTFUL FLOODS.
Several Mississippi and Alabama
Towers Cut Entirely Off.
THE RlVERssRlsE FAsT.a
Three Fatalities are Reported. the
Victims Being Negroes Who
Lest Their Lives Trying
4o Save Cattle.
TO Save Cattle.

20 Save Cattle.
The rains that visited this State last
week seems to have been general over
the South and Southwest. a great
deal of damage was done. A dispatch
from Birmingham, Ala, says North,
ern Alabama has experienced a 4ooo 1
exceeding any ever knowR before. rive
miles Of the Southern's track oess
York is under water, sno two nlIes ~
the Alabama Great Southern roao ~ ~
the same yicinityis washed away: Al
t-sins Baye been abandoned. The Il.
IN Is un6er water near Bangor, north
Of here. The K. G., NJ. & B. suffered
considerable damage. Nearly all trains
coming into Birmingham are delsyed
and many trains have been annulleo.
The mines are flooded and at some
work cannot be resumed for a week.
4 number of industries will be Grip
pied" -. ,,.
SAYS: The food situation has reached
frightful proportions. This ciVy IS cut
Of from the outside world except oy
three telegraph communications on the
Western Union wires. Ali trains are
marked annulled for an indefinite
Dor1od. The Atlanta & Vicksburg pas
senger, due here at y o'clock Weones-
day has been water bound twelve miles
frcm the city twenty-four hours. The
MESSENGERS are without food, the train
being unable to come forward or 60
hsnS. The damage to the Atlanta and
yicksburg, Alabana Great Southern,
Mobile and Ohio and New Orleans &
North Eastern railroads reach SoO,V0O
in tracks and trestles swept away by
the food. twenty-five per cent Of sll
fertilizer on farming lands throughout
the State is total loss and the truck
plantations in radius Of ten miles are
submerged. Three fatalities are re-
ported, the victims being Negroes who
lost their lives trying to save cattle.
Their bodies have not been recovered.
The rain has ceased and the waters are
receding."
a dispatch from Memphis, Tenn,
saws: ''Reports from Northern and
Central Mississippi are meagre. Tele-
graphic and telephone communication
are seriously interrupted. The heaviest
rains those sections have known ID
years fell on Monday and Tuesday OF
last week. Travel and trahc are sus-
pended. Reports from jackson state
no trains have passed through there
since the southbound passenger train
on the uliuois Central Tuesday morn
ing Of last week. Washouts sre re-
NOTED in all directions. The Little
J." road and Illinois Central tracks are
under water at several points. Ne
porss from Crystal Springs and Msdl-
son say the cranberry and strawberry
Beds are under water and the early
crop entirely lost. Both cotton ana
corn crops will have to be replanted IN
many places.
A dispatch from New Orleans, La,
saws: ':The rain storms here are al
most unprecedented and railroad traf-
60 is seriously affected. Much damage
has been done to property. Elgnt
inches OF rain fell at Amite City. Iowa,
ia twenty four hours and over nine at
V;cksburg. The Illinois Central road
is unable to move along the main line.
Much damage has been done to the
crops. Heavy winds accompanied the
rain storm and telegraph and telephone
wires are down all over the state;
while bridges are washed out ana
mails delayed. In New Orleans the
streets in many places were Hooded SIX
inches deep.
sll trains on the Mobile and Ohio rail
read between that place and Meridian,
Miss, are abandoned and no train
there for three days.
GROWS MORE SERIOUS.
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss,
dated April 20, says the situation is
rapidly growing worse, and a good size
section Of the southern portion OF the
eityis submerged with the backwater
from Pearl river. Surrounded on three
sides by water and with the numerous
small streams swollen beyond their
banks, the city is at the same time cou'
fronted with the danger Of water fam
inc, as the overflow of the river has put
out the fres in the pump house OF the
wsterworks company and compelled the
plant to close down. No lives nave
been lost. Many people have been
driven from their homes by the mum
dation and are searching for lodging:
Il is reported that 81 miles Of track OF
the new Gulf and Ship Island road be-
tween Jackson and Hattiesburg has
been washed away, that Leaf river has
broken from its banks and is spreading
out over the surrounding country,
sweeping away fences and houses, IN
undating crops and drowning much
live stock and poultry. Viewed from
the wagon bridge at this point, Pearl
river is now one vast lake stretching
six or eight miles to the east and south.
The Alabama and Vicksburg railroad
bridge is tottering on its foundations
and will doubtless be swept away be-
fore morning.
TERRIBLE CONDITION.
A dispatch from New Orleans, dated
Apal20, says:
The food which commenced the
early part Of the week had slresdy
caused, at q conservative estimate, fully
81, 600, 900 loss in central and southern
Mississippi, to say nothing Of the dam.
ages by the railroads. The extent OF
the losses have not yet been fully
realized and it may be some days yet
before an accurate total can be reached
for mail communication has been to-
tally cut of between these localities
which have suffered most and the out
siSe world and telegraph lines suffered
restly so that the news is just now be-