Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1902-04-11
FLOODS DO DAMAGE.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE AND PROP.
ERTY REPORTED.
Hundreds of Tennesseansw Without Shell.
ter and Industries Arc Crippled
Churches Crushed by Wind In and
Near Observation-Disclosures Killed

The most severe foods known in the
'ast twenty years have been raging in
eastern and middle Tennessee. A num-
Der OF lives have been lost and property
estimated at over $1,000,O0O in value has
' been destroyed. Railroad traffic has
been seriously interfered with an,l in
many towns people are homeless and in-
A dustries are suspended.
The most serious damage is ut Harri-
man, which town has been practically
destroyed. The heavy rains caused an
unprecedented rise i'll the Emory River,
| which swept nearly everything in the
town before it. From 800 to 400 people
who lived in the river section are with
out homes, having fled from submerged
houses. In Hartman alone the loss is
estimated at $25O,OOO.
Five factory employees of McMinnville
we're drowned. The Annis cotton mill,
the Tennessee woolen mill and the Fal-
con rolling mill were greatly damaged.
Practically all the small houses in the
town We're destroyed.
Three lives were lost in Giles County.
John Cole and his family, who lived on
Richland creek, near Pulaski, were
driven to the roof of their house to es-
:ape the rising water. The foundations
Of the structure gave way and the ref
agees We're thrown into the flood Mrs.
Cole and her two younger children were
drowned.
Driven from Homes.
The damage at Murfreesboro and other
parts Of Rutherford County is estimated
70 be half million dollars. The streams
between Murfrecsboro and Bell Buckle
rose SO fast that occupants of many
homes were forced to seek safety in the
second stories of their houses.
Traffic on the Nashville Chattanooga
and st. Louis and Louisville and Nash
vile railroads at some points has been
stopped owing to the tracks being sub.
merged.
Much property at Mount Pleasant and
Shelbyville was. damaged. Several hun
dred persons at the former place were
driven from their homes by the flood and
were forced to take refuge in the court
house.
Coal Greek and Jcllico in the mining
district are partly submerged and fam
!hes living in the lowlands have been
cared for by their more fortunate neigh.
bors. AT Gadsdcn and Columbus. Ca,
manufacturing plants have been forced to
suspend, and parts of the towns are I'm.
der from two to four feet of water. The
damage to crops will be heavy.
Killed at Worship.
One of the fercest windstorms ever
known in that section struck Pittsburg,
Pa, just before noon on Easter Sunday.
1t came up the Ohio valley and passed
n octy or1
dead and wounded and doing great dam.
age to property throughout it's course.
by singular fatality the principal cas-
ualties were in churches, against which
the storm seemed to have special
grudge. The gale burst just at the hour
When the Easter services were in pro-
gress and the churches were filled with
worshipers.
At Knoxville the big chimney q tAe
Presbyterian church was blown down
and fell through the roof, injuring some
forty members of the congregation. At
Robinson Run the spire of the United
Presbyterian church was struck by light
ning and pierced the roof, wounding six
persons among the worshipers. The
gable end of the Franklin Methodist
church was blown in and two members
Of the congregation were killed and many
Injured. Two of the victims of church
wrecks We're pastors.
A number of other church buildings at
various points in the storms path were
more OF less damaged, but in these cases
the members of the congregations for
tunately escaped without harm. The
damage to other property was heavy,
houses being unroofed and blown down,
mill stacks toppled over and telegraph
and telephone wires generally disabled.
BuLGARlANs GUST DICKINSON.
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