The age-herald., 1902-03-31

-A Cumf erlanQ rlVer ana lIoSl wal 1T < ings for Texas, Louisiana, Missis- ' A sippi Alabama, northwestern Geor- % -% gia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
 
 Nashville Tenn. March 30.-Reports from the flooded districts of Tennessee emphasize the gravity of the situation. The damage resulting it is believed, Will reach $400O,OOO while twenty-two lives are known to be lost. Several counties certain to have suffered heavily, are yet cut off from communication and the/loss in property and life may go higher than these figures. The Louisville and Nash vile Railroad is running few trains from here to Louisville eighteen miles south of Columbia. while the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis has only suc- ceeded in getting through to Murfrees- boro It will be Tuesday before either line can resume regular traffic.
 The section visited by the flood ern- braces one of the richest portions of the state and damage to farm lands IS ser' 0is item. It includes counties lying Let"5cn the mountains on the east and the Tennessee river on the west and be- tween the Cumberland river and the Ala bama line Stone fences that have stood the storms of forty years were washed away in many of the famed riverside farms of Lincoln County, and crops de- stroyed.
 Thousands of logs are reported adrift fin the upper Cumberland, which stream at Carthage at o'clock this afternoon was rising at the rate of six inches per hour.
 S1oo,ooo Bridge Gone.
 The bridge of the Nashville and Knox vile railroad at Lancaster, a 300 foot span, said to have cost in the neighbor- hood of S100000 went Saturday night.
 It was predicted at Carthage that the Cumberland would go beyond the flood tide of 1882. In this case great destruc- tion is not yet over. There is no com munication with Linden in Perry county er with Lynchburg in Moore but both sections are believed to be seriously dam aged From figures available the follow jag fatalities are given:
 PuIaski-QD; Houston Connor, Sarah Phillips, John Cole, wife and three chill dren, Slick White, wife and two chill Gren, all colored and negro bapy
 Lewisburg-(0 Anna Robinson, two children of Joe Mcclellan, all colored. Murfreesboro-Willia a negro girl. McMinnville-(5) Mrs. Blevn and three children, Henry Madewell
 Harriman-(O unknown.
 After perilous night in the top of tree in The Hermitage district, three men were rescued from drowning at an early hour this morning.
 CYCLONE HITS lSBELL, ALA,
 DOING GREAT DAMAGE.
 Isbell, March -(Special.)-Friday evening about o'clock a hurricane struck Isbel blowing down houses, churches, fences, trees and everything in its path and doing several thousand dol lars damage as follows:
 Methodist church total wreck. Baptist church total wrek. One half of the roof of the baptist church was blown off in sheet landing nearly 100 yards away in a vacant lot.
 dwelling owned by J. F. Marshal Cherokee, was blown off it's foundation and is a total wreck. Dr. J. K. Clarke's office was moved several feet and part of the roof is gone. S. J. Little's fences and outhouses blown to pieces. The roof was blown off one side of a two-story frame store house belonging to J. Gaisser & Co., and stock of goods damaged by rain. Residence belonging to J. Gaisser badly damaged.
 cedar tree about 12 inches fin diameter which stood within two feet of feed warehouse was twisted off about five feet above the ground and blown over The house landing on opposite side.
 The North Alabama Railway depot was blown off its foundation which was about Ave feet high tearing the freight room to pieces.
 FEARFUL LOSS IN
 GILES COUNTY, TENN.
 Pulaski. Tenn March 30.-Further de- yelopments show that the recent nood damages in Giles county have been un- derestimated. The Cham bers mills at Vinta and the store of Chambers Brothers & Dew. and Chambers dwelling are all cone Hagan & Howells store on Sugar Crock is gone The dam of Peach roller mills is gone. Hall and Kelton's store at Peach is filled with mud, as in every other country store. Wade Brothers store at Wales and J. s. Harts at River burg are filled with mud. The station at Wales is wrecked.
 Out of 35 iron bridges in the country thirty are gone. The only covered bridge was at Kelly's Ford on Richland Creek. This was loosed at both ends and bal anced on the middle pier up and down stream, where it yet stands. Wade Brothers and Yancey lost large num- Der of bales of cotton. Some of Mrs. Wade's clothing and furniture was found in the creek at Pulaski today. There is no trace yet of the store or stock of Short Brothers at Wales. They carried a stock worth s10,000.
 D. R. Wade rescued family of neigh bors Friday night by swimming a saddle horse into the backwater to their dwell- ing and bringing them off one at a time
 Repairing Railroad.
 The Louisville and Nashville railroad has been working north from Decatur and has reached Aspen Hill, six miles