Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-22
session, and on account of the number
Of murder cases to be tried the atten-
dance is larger than usual.

session, and on account of the number
Of murder cases to be tried the atten-
dance is larger than usual.
LANCASTER.
Ledger, June 19: 1t will take about
5000 to repair the damage done at the
new cotton mill by the heavy rains
Saturday afternoon and Sunday night
The grounds were flooded and the
weight of wet earth and water against
the brick wall of the passage for con-
ducting hot air through the building,
caused about fifty feet of the wall to
fall About the same amount of the
wall separating the air passage for
the electric wires also fell. About
forty feet Of the wall Of the dust room
also gave way. The main walls of
the building were not injured. -.
Bear creek was higher Sunday night
than ever before known. At Welsh's
mill the water rose over four feet
above the mill house floor 1t has
never been known to get over three
inches deep on the floor before. Some
time during the night the rock dam
gave way and was washed out from
one bank to the other. 1t will take at
least $500 to rebuild it. The bridge on
the Coyle road, a few hundred yards
below the dam. was so badly wrecked
that it fell in the next day. On the
Landsford road, near the cotton mill,
the bridge was entirely swept away.
The creeks scarcely get into their
banks before another big rain comes
along and puts them over the bottoms
again. The heavy rains last Friday
did considerable damage in the vicin1-
ty of Lindsay. Saturday afternoons
rains extended nearly over the entire
county and on Sunday night the heav-
lest rain of the protracted wet spell
fell. Aside from the injury to lands
By washing, the damage to crops Is In
calculable. Grass has taken all the
farms and it is doubtful If half the
cotton planted can ever be hoed out.
June Is half gone and many Of the
farmers have not hoed out half their
cotton crops. Thousands Of acres will
have to be abandoned. The corn crop
promises to be even more of failure
than the cotton crop. Oats and wheat
where they have been cut and not
hauled out of the field are ruined.
We don't remember ever to have seen
our farmers look so discouraged and
talk so disparagingly Of making a
crop. .... Major j. M. Riddle, Major
B. F. Miller and Mr.. L. G. Lazenby
have been appointed committee to
arrange for the entertainment or the
Rock Hill district conference, which
meets in the Methodist church, at this
place. July 11th-14th. They will call
on the citizens at an early date.......
While inspecting the damage done in
his fathers bottoms by the recent big
freshets in the Catawba river, on We'd
nesday nf last week, Mr.. VIM. M.
Gooch observed, in washed out place,
the points of the teeth Of man stick
ing up. He began digging with his
pocket knife and soon dug out the
skull bones. Under the skeleton head
was a large, very smooth Indian tom
ahawk. In digging up the rest Of the
skeleton, he found number Of beads,
from one-eighth Of an inch to an inch
long, apparently made of bones of
some kind. He also found arrow
heads, some Indian pots, etc. The
workmanship on the tomahawk was
excellent-superior to any we have
ever seen. Mr.. Gooch says that that
portion Of his fathers bottoms has
long been known to be an old Indian
burying ground.