The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-07-03
SIXTY LIVES LOST
Exaggerated Reports Caused by Dead
Bodies Being Washed Up.


A dispatch from Roanoke, Va, says
telegram from Blaeh I'D Wednesday
afternoon says there are no important
developments there. Repsir work is
going ahead with rush and 7igor
Blueield is the great shipping point
for the Pocahontas Coal company COM
ing east. Il is said there that coal
fields will not be able to ship out any
coal for the next 80 days. It's thought
at Blu,f Id that the loss Of life will
reach in the neighborbood of6O The
coal fields viii suffer almost inoslcul-
sble loss as result of the Wsshed.out
tracks and damage to their machinery.
A gentleman. arriving from the
stricken section gives an explanation
for the report first circulated that great
masses Of human bodies we're to be seen
floating around in the water. 1t seems
that III are is graveyard between Nor
folk Junction and Keystone, which
towns are about 8 mile apart, ard at
which point the storm was very severe.
his graveyard is near the bark Of the
river which caused the great destluc
tion. When tee food came the graves
gave up their cesd snd added greatly to
the bodies seen.
Mr. j. B Frances, Roanoke man
Who is in Keystone installing wstsr
plant, and who was first reported dead,
has written his wife telling her he is
safe and sousd. He has the following
10 say about tie disaster: "A big food
visited the town last Friday night
Eve ybody had to 60 up on the noun.
tains. Men, women, and children we're
drowned in the streets and houses went
fosting doan with people in them. All
cur crowd are safe. We are entirely
cut of from tie outside world aud
provisions are getting very short. There
is now no water in the town." Another
letter Wednesday from Keystone says
between 10 and 15people we're drowned
and 20 houses washed away at that
place.
Tazewell, Va, also suffered from the
cloud burst. The house of Paris Van
D Ike, four miles west OF TazsRell, in
a gorge Of the mountains, was washed
away. Van Dyke heard the roar Of
water and started home from the field.
When short distance from the house
he saw the water rushing down the
mountains and tearing up and twisting
off giant trees as if shrubs, the water
leaping 40 feet high aud travelling with
frightful speed. Van Dyke rushed for
the house toward his family, but the
water overlook him and swept the
house and all its inmates away. Two
children, and 7 years old. we're in
staptly killed, their brains being dashed
ou. against the rocks and timbers. The
bodies we're washed to low lands. A
little girl, II years old, holding 8 young
sister in her arms, was carried 200
yards. The sisters tossed on the waters
and when rescued were unconscious.
Another menb,r Of the fsmily died
Wednesday afternoon and Mrs. Van
Dyke is still unconscious and cannot
live.
At Cedar Bluff, 16 miles west Of Tsze-
we'll, II dwellings ware swept away,
but no lives are lost. At Pounding
Mill, four lives were lost. Knobe, a
amall town sevsn miles west, WAS al
most completely destroyed. Ravens,
two miles west, was badly damaged:
and many business houses were de-
stroyei. The damage to county roads
will not be less than $50, 900.