The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-04-05
Many Lives Lost by Floods.

KNoxvrILE, Tenn, March 90 Eastern
and Middle Tennessee and the adjoining sec
tions OF Kentucky, West Virginia and other
States were visited by the heaviest rainfall
known in years, amounting in many places to
almost a cloudburst. Immense damage to
property, estimated at 81, 900, 600, has resulted
The rain has been falling in some sections al
most necessarily for three days and nights.
John Cole and his family, who resided on
Riehland creek, near Pulaski. Tenn, were
driven to the roof of their home to escape the
rising water. The foundations of the structure
gave way, and the family were thrown into the
food. Mrs. Cole and her two younger chill
dren were drowned. The remainder OF the
family succeeded in escaping
Tom and Will Warren we're drowned near
Newburn, KY, in the food which swept down
the Powell River Valley. Warren's house
was wrecked and he escaped with his wife by
swimming.
At McMinnviIle, Tenn, FIVE factory EN-
ployes, whose names could not be learned,
were drowned in the flood. The Annis Cot
ton Mill and the Tennessee Wooden Mill were
greatly damaged. The Falcon Rolling Mill
was partially destroyed. Practically all the
cottages and small buildings in the town we're
washed away The power-house of the electric
light plant was disabled and the town is with
ont lights.
The damage was heavyaat Hartman, which
was swept by the flood and its communications
cut. J. c. Cooper, a mail carrier, who has
arrived at Kingston from Hartman, says that
there was an unprecedented rise in the Emory
river which almost destroyed the manufactur-
ing plants located along the riverin Hartman.
He states that from 800 to 400 people who re-
side in the river section of Hartman are
without homes, being run out of their houses
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and Hartman were destroyed, being swept
down stream.
Although the Clear Fork river is one mile
from Jellico, backwater from the river covers
half the town. People were driven from their
homes during the night. Many houses were
partially submerged and the electric light
plant is under water. A packing company's
storehouse has four feet of water on the first
floor, on which was stored carload of lard,
$4,000 pounds of bacon and large amount of
canned goods.
Al landslide and washout near Elk Valley
has delayed trains.
The damage at Murfreesboro and other por-
lions of Rutherford county, Tennessee, is es-
timated to be half million dollars.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad has been
considerably damaged by washouts between
Chattanooga and Oakdale. Four hundred
feet of track at Graysville, Tenn, has been
washed away by the overflow from Walden's
Ridge.
Heavy washouts occurred in the main line
of the Knoxville and Ohio branch of the
Southern Railway, between Jellico and Coal
Creek, delaying all traffic between Louisville
and Knoxville.
The loss by the floods in Middle Tennessee
is estimated at more than $1,000,0 600 Cum
berland, Elk and Duck rivers and their tribu-
taries rose so rapidly that in many places resi-
dents we're obliged to seek safety in the second
stories Of their houses until the food had re-
coded. Traffic on the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis and Louisville and Nashville
railroads has been stopped, at some points
the tracks being submerged.
Several hundred people at Mount Pleasant
were driven from their homes by the food and
were forced to take refuge in the courthouse.
The Middlesboro Valley, in Kentucky, was
inundated and every store in Middlesboro ex-
cepting three had from eight to fifteen inches
of water on their floors.
The Cumberland river has submerged Pine
vile, KY. The reservoir near Middlesboro,
KY, is reported to have broken and this may
put Pineville under 10 feet of water.
Nearly 5000 feet of track in the vicinity of
Lafayette, Ga, on the Chattanooga, Rome
and Southern railway, washed away.
Heavy damage to the town of Marfreesboro,
Tenn, by cyclone is reported.
DECATUR, ALA, March ga severe wind
and rain storm, accompanied by heavy fall
of hail, did heavy damage here this afternoon.
Haywood Roberts, a white man. and tom
Evans, colored, were killed by live electric
wires, which were blown down.
RussELLyILLE, Ala, March ga cyclone
passed through Darlington, four miles south
of RussellvilIe, yesterday afternoon, com
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list churches, wrecking the depot and damaging
a number of other buildings. F. w. Bolon
and o. p. Salter were badly bruised in the
falling depot. The course of the storm was
south to northwest, blowing down many negro
cabins in its path.
Ina portion of Mississippi If inches Of rain
fell in less than two days.