The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-08
DEATH LIST IS ESTIMATED
 AT FROM 90 ID 30 PERSONS
Bodies Are Being Washed Ashore Here and There and Dlsmem-
 bered Limbs Float to the Ranks-Llst of Dead.

great flood of water is passing into the ocean laden with debris of every kind, and the swollen sterms are subsiding in the piedmont, the losses of life and prop erty are increasing, and a conservative estimate tonight places the property loss at not less than s3,5OO00O. The death list Is estimated from fifty to eighty At Clifton alone one hundred operatives are missing from the village. During today dead bodies were washed ashore here and there. and occasionally dismemoereo limb would float to the banks
 The States staff correspondent after an all day trip covering by foot wagon boat and horseback the scenes at Paco- let Glendale and Clifton, reports tonight from spantanburg the following list or dead:
 The Dead.
 Four children of John Owens.
 Sam Swanigan and wife.
 Miss Fleeta Gossa-
 Miss Maggie Kirby.
 Mir. Hall and eight children
 MT. Eldren and wife
 Robert Finley and family and their i've boarders, names unknown.
 Augustus Calvert, wife and two chill dren.
 Garland Long and wife
 Mrs B. Finley.
 Marie Sims.
 Mrs. S. B. Johnson and four children. Three children of Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Henderson
 Four bodies have been recovered. s. E.
 rla4 after clinging to house top from Clifton down to Pacolet and last seen as he was going over the dam at Pacolet, escaped by catching hold of a tree, and returned to- day to find his wife and four children drowned.
 Only Partial List.
 The above is said to be only partial list.
 At converse thirteen dead are reported and forty-one at Clifton No. ?.
 At Clifton No. ? twenty-six homes were destroyed, thirteen at Clifton uo. l and twenty at Clifton No. 3.
 The loss at Cliftons three mills will ap- proximate 8. 900, 900. At Paeolet the loss Is near SlOOO.00O At Glendale it is s4oOoO. The greatest want among the survivors Is at Clifton where 800 are destitute. Reports from the Seneca river near the Georgia line are better tonight.
 The Blue Ridge road between Seneca and Anderson Is intact and the Newry mill Is. not badly damaged and will be running tomorrow
 Railroad Situation.
 The railroad situation has given much uneasiness here and throughout the state today. The Southern annulled trains be- tween Columbia and Spartanburg this morning, 200 feet of the trestle at Shel- ton, below Union, having been washed away Trains between Columbia and Greenyille are coming into the city over the Coast Line between Prosperity and Columbia The Seaboard's trains between Hamlet and Atlanta have been coming by the way of Columbia and using the Coast Lines bridge and track beyond to Cliff ton. The Southerns train between Char lotte and Atlanta are being operated via Columbia and Augusta. Superintendent Wells reports that only one bridge has been lost, the one over Lawsons Fork. near Pacolet. there are several trestles down.
 irestle Only Exit.
 The Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Cor Coast Line) trestle. TWO miles west of the city afforded the only exit from Columbus to the Piedmont country, and it is a frail structure a mile and half in length with wooden benches upon an island in mid-stream. This bridge was firm at midnight. The Congaree river at midnight was at 275 feet, which Is 121a feet above danger line. It is rising at the rate of 2.5 inches per hour.
 Thousands of people thronged the banks of the Congaree here all day, and even to- night watching the swollen stream, which receives all the waters of the Pacolet, the Tiger, the Broad, all the Saluda. Bales of cotton were rescued as they hoated down, men going out in boats and dragging them in. All the tolls on the bridge between Columbia and New Brookland were given to the flood suf- ferers