Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-01
;tdily nsnnerss Journal
WORK OF THE FLOOD.
Every Hour Brings Reports Of Great
Damage and Loss.

| Little Garrison bridge and several
miles of track We're washed away. Nc
trains have arrived from Nashville
! since o'clock, Friday afternoon. II
will be several days before trains car
get through to McMinnvilIe and Spara-
| tn on the McMinnville branch.
| 1t is reported that two lives were lost
and several cabins washed away neal
| McMinnville.
| At Manchester the stone Touring
mill down on Duck river was carried
two miles down stream and is mass
of debris. Six miles west of Tullahoma
| a store was carried 20 feet and turned
completely around. In South Tullaho-
ma many cabins We're flooded and the
| women and children were rescued by
men carrying them out on their shoul-
ders The damage to property cam
not be estimated.
| Isbcl. Ala, March 31.-F'riday after
noon about O'Clock, a hurricane struck
| Isbel. blowing down houses, churches,
fences and everything in its path and
causing several thousand dollars worth
OF damage.
The Methodist and BAPTIST churches
| were totally wrecked. y dwelling was
| demolished and several houses damaS-
| ed by the storm of wind. A cedar tree
about II inches in diameter, which
stooW within two feet of a feed ware
house, was twisted off some five feet
above the ground and blown through
the house, landing on the opposite side
of the street. The North Alabama
railroad depot was blown off its foun
dation which was about five feet high.
tearing the freight room to pieces.
Pittsburg, Pa. March 31.-The dam
age by yesterdays storm will probably
reach several hundreds of thousands of
dollars. The effects of the wind can
be seen on all sides, today, houses,
churches and many large plants un
rooted, bridges partly diSmantled,
fences and trees down and trolley. tel
egraph, telephone and fire alarm wires
Frustrated.
A remarkable number of churches
were injured. In Pittsburg and AL
leghney and the immediate vicinity.
/ houses of worship We're more or less
wrecked, but in only one of them, the
Knoxville Presbyterian church, did
any casualties occur. At that church
the chimney fell through the roof and
probably 80 persons were injured.
The casualties as far as have been
reported, will not number over 60 per-
sons injured. OF these five or six are
likely to die.
Athens, Ohio, March 31.-The most
destructive wind storm in years visited
Athens, yesterday. Great quantities of
hail fell. Half the roof of a hotel was
torn off. The office of the Athens Jour-
nal was demolished.
Crown Point, Ind, March 31.-A bolt
of lightning during a snow storm. yes
terday, struck the farm house of Chris
| TOPPER Larson near this city and set
| fire TO the structure. Mrs. Larson and
her 1O-year-old daughter We're found
| in the ruins burned to a crisp.
Iron city, Tenn, March 31.-As the
result of Fridays storm, railroad
! bridges. trestles and tracks have been
washed away and there have been no
| trains since the passenger from the
| North, Friday. Farms are badly dam
| lgcd. Shoal Creek is 10 feet higher
| than ever known.
! I'uI;iSKl, tlT., March OH III tIlci
| DEVELOPMENTS show additional damages
were caused by the storm. In Giles
| ounty the Chambers mill at Vinto and
a store of Chambers Bros. and Drew
| Chambers dwelling We're destroyed.
! Many stores in the country are report
ed greatly damaged. The station at
| Wales is wrecked.
out of 80 iron bridges in the country
| only five remain. The only covered
| bridge was at Kelley's ford, on Rich
mond creek. This was loosened at
both ends and balanced on the middle
pier up and down stream, where it yet
| stands There is no trace left of the
store or stock of Short Bros. at Wales.
The Louisville & Nashville has been
| working from Decatur and has reached
| Aspen Hill, six miles south of Pulaski.
| Working from Nashville the repair
rain reached Riversburg, five miles
north of Pulaski. yesterday. The
| washed out trestles are nearly filled.
| Western Union connection was re-
stored. last evening, but there are no
telephone connections south or here.
The bodies of all persons drowned have
been recovered.
| PetrOS, Tenn, March 3l.-Tesla mines
are closed until the damage done by the
food can be repaired. The Petros
bridge of the Hartman e Northeastern
Railroad and another bridge below here
were lost. The Crooked Fork Mining
Co. has suspended operations for the
present. The flood did about 100000
| damage in Morgan county.
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Hood in the river has subsidized and six
If the II industries resumed operations.
today. The aggregate damage is now
placed at $4,000. All the homeless FAM
lilies have been provided with homes
ami necessaries of life. The water was
at its highest at noon Saturday, when
it reached 60 feet above low watet
mark.
The Hartman & Northeastern Rail-
road lost its bridge and is negotiating
with the Southern Railroad to come
into the city over the Southern tracks.
Heavy damage was done at Oakdale,
the yards of the Cincinnati Southern
being submerged and the tracks more
or less washed. The flood penetrated
the first floor of the Babahatchee Inn
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