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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
THE CLIFTON MILLS.

The Clifton Mills are situated on
the Pacolet river, located about seven
or eight miles north of Pacolet. The
Clifton Manufacturing Company was
organized by the late Dexter 3. Con
verse, in 1880 and capitalized at $780,
600. The erection Of the mill was
completed in 1881 and started opera
tion with 1000 spindles and IA looms:
InsJanuary, the same year, the capital
stock was increased to S500,00 and
the equipment increased to 1900
spindles and 464 looms. Again in 1884 the
spindles were increased to 21, 600 and
later to 3,072 spindles and 797 looms.
The status of the mill when it was
washed away.
In 1889 Clifton Mill No. ?, was
built, starting operation with 2l,5l2
spindles and 72o looms. Several years
ago it was increased to 81, 776 spindles
and S61 looms. This mill was built
at a cost of 100000. There is con-
siderable Charleston money invested
in the Clifton Mills as well as in the
mills at Pacolet.-Spartanburg Spe-
cial June g.
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FLOOD LOSSES IN KANSAS.
Estimated at SIP, 800, 600, to This
Must be Added $5,000,000 for
Loss to Crops,

Kansas City, June kansas has
suffered as a result Of the recent floods
more than any other State. No exact
figures of the loss sustained can be
given, but those who have an intimate
knowledge of the sections submerged
and the extent and force of the foods
have been making estimates and theil
conclusions may be considered fairly
reliable. The damage done in the
principal cities and towns is estimated
as follows:
North Topeka, $3.50, 900: Lawrence,
$50, 900; Saline, 5000, 600; Manhattan,
$3.50, 600; Wamego, sl5, GOO; St. Mary's,
$40, 600: Blue Rapids, $4,000: Clay
Centre, $50, Enterprise, $50, 900
Concordia, $500; junction City,
500, 600: Solomon, $50, 600; Abilene,
$3.50. 900; Ellsworth, s25, COO; Linds-
borg, 500, 600; Hutchinson, 500, GOO
Minneapolis, sl00,000; Emporia, S65,
900 Florence, $50, 600; Lincoon Centre,
$50, 600; Atchison, $3.50, 600; Bnrling-
ton, $50, coo; Beloit, $500, 900: Argen,
tine, 81, 2,0C0' 600; Kansas City, Kan,
and suburbs, $4,000, 900. Total, s12,
800, 600.
No account has been taken of the
smaller towns, although nearly two
hundred of these were affected by
the floods.
The very lowest estimate Of the loss
done to crops is s., 600, 900.
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Floods in Greenyille County.

Greenyille, June As result Of
the heavy rains Greenville County
has been damaged to the amount of
S15, 900 in the destruction of bridges.
Every bridge on Middle Saluda,
Brushy Creek and Enoree River has
been destroyed. With the exception
of two, all bridges on North Saluda
have been wrecked. The Southern
Railway trestle over Enoree River has
been washed way. The trestle over
North Tiger is in such condition that
trains cannot pass over it. Passenger
train No. SO has been detained at
Greer's, between the two trestles men
toned, since early yesterday morning.
Trains coming south have reached
Greenville from Charlotte over the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad via Columbia. Because Of
the unsafe condition Of the Seneca
trestle, trains from Atlanta have
reached Greenville today over the Blue
Ridge Road via Belton. Train Dis
patcher Mooday said this afternoon
that he hoped to have all trains run
ming from Greenville to Atlanta on
schedule time by tomorrow morning.
Northbound trains will continue to go
via Columbia for several days.
The estimated damage to property
and machinery at Arlington Cotton
Mill is $1,000. The new Appalachee
Mills and dam nearby escaped injury.
No DANCE was done the several mills
in Greenville. The high water of
Reedy River covered the ware room Of
the Huguenot Mill No. 1, but the
quick work of the operatives prevent
ed serious damage.
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New York, June 5.-Unless rain
comes soon to replenish the reservoirs
which supply New York city With
water, there will be grave danger OF q
water famine. Since the beginning Of
May the storage reservoir has been
drawn on ata tremendous rate and now
Col. Monroe, commissioner of water,
gas and electricity, has issued warn
ing in the form of a request that
citizens be as sparing as possible in
their use of the fluid until the drought
shall have been broken.
Paul Smith, N. Y, June 5.-In the
last twenty-four hours forest fires are
reported to have crossed Setgis noun
tain, in the direction of the camps
on upper Stegis lake, and to have
eaten their way through the private
park of William Rockefeller. Rccke-
feller has sent out calls for men, and
fifty fire fighters where secured in
Malone to reinforce those who have
been fighting the flames in the park for
cayaral DAYS
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RUSSIA EXPLAINS MAssAeREs.
Official Report of Kishineff Massa-
cres Receiyed---Reference to
Lynching 0utrages.

New York, June 5.-The Christian
Herald, in response to cablegram
sent to the Gar, asking for an official
report Of the occurrences at Kishinef,
has received a reply from the director
of the Russian police department.
The reply says:
"The strained relations existing be-
tween the Russians and Jews of Bes-
sarabia we're made worse by the fact
of finding in an outlying village
murdered Christian boy. The murder
was attributed by the population to
the Jewish ritual habits Official
denials Of the ritual murder were rot
given credit by the peasants, who at
tributed other murders of Christians
in the town of Kieff and Kishinef.
likewise to the Jews.
"On Easter Day, in the market
place of Kishinef, the workers, while
holiday-making saw the Jewish
proprietor Of carousing machine
strike a Christian woman, who fell
to the ground, letting go her infant
baby. This incident was the immedi-
ate cause of an outburst. The workers
began breaking windows and pulling
down Jewish stores as sign of pro
test. The police, who always leave
much to be desired in provincial
towns, failed to make eficacious in
tervention, many thousands of the
mass of onlookers and holiday-makers,
approving the riot and hindering the
policemen s actions.
After demonstrators came plunder-
ers, the outbreak lasting from 5 in
the afternoon to 10 in the evening,
and leaving nine Jewish bodies on
the place. Night brought the distur-
Dances to an end.
On the next day there were further
encounters and the Christian was
killed. "This," says the report,
"called forth the popular passion in
all its abiect force; the Russian peas
ants were driven to frenzy and excited
by race and religious hatred, and IN
der the influence of alcohol, being
worse than the Americans who lynch
negroes. :"
The report concludes by saying that
in consequence of the official investi-
CATION, "the Governor, the chief of
police and some other officials were dis
missed outright, many hundreds of
rioters are in prison and hard work in
the Siberian mines awaiting them.
The minister of the interior has issued
circular to Governors all over Rus
sia, authorizing them to make imme-
diate use of firearms in cases of Anti
Jewish disturbances. The Russian
Government is the first to disapproye
of such horrid acts of violence, but it
cannot, in compliance with the re-
quests of radical and revolutionary
press, give the Jews new rights Of
citizenship, as this would be sure to
drive the Russian population to new
excesses against the Jews, who are
hated by the peasants with such ez-
traordinary force.
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The iohnstown Flood.

In view of the recent floods in Kan
sas and this State, the following facts
in regard to the Johnstown, Pa, dis
aster, taken from Appleton's American
Encyclopaedia, will be of interest:
Amount of property swept way more
than 100000 900.
AFTER the most thorough possible
official sitting the loss Of life i'll the
Conemough Valley is set down as 2,2S0.
Probably exact figures will never be
reached, as many reported drowned
are supposed to have left Johnstown
Immediately after the food, without
any after report of their condition or
whereabouts. 1t is claimed that not
far from 5000 bodies were actually re-
covered and buried"
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d GREAT MILL PROPERTY.
Pacolet One of the Biggest and
Most Successful Plants in the
South.

The Pacolet mills make up one of
the largest cotton manufacturing plants
in South Carolina and the South.
There are four mills, altogether, in
the property, three at Pacolet in Spar
tanburg county, and one at New Hol-
land, Ca, which was very seriously
wrecked in the tornado that swept over
Gainesville and the surrounding coun-
try on Monday. The capital stock OF
the company is nearly s1,0o0,0 600 and
the enterprise has been uniformly
successful since its establishment,
twenty years ago.
The three mills in South Carolina
are upon the Pacolet river, which
furnishes the power for their opera
tion, and has been the source of the
destruction wrought last night by the
swollen torrent poured through the
broken dam. The total equipment OF
the three mills was 81, 200 spindles and
2, 2O2 looms, and they consumed 30,
600 bales of cotton annually, manufac-
turing brown sheetings and drills.
The three mills in South Carolina
are: Mill No. /, was built III 1882,
with -, 600, spindles and 3S2 looms.
In 1888, Pacolet N. 2, was built, and,
in 1894, Pacolet No. 3 was added.
Apparently, it was the dam at the lat.
est built mill which burst, and lei
loose the flood upon the other mills.
The mills were built, under the
direction of the late John r. Mont
gomery, who was regarded as one Of
the ablest mill men in the United
States. Mr.. Montgomery was killed
by falling from construction work al
Pacolet No. 4 at New Holland, about 6
year ago, and was succeeded in the presi.
dency of the mills by his son, Victor
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Break of Big Mississipp! Leyee.

Louisiana, Mo, June 5.-The sny
levee broke just below this city today
and the Mississippi is now falling at
the rate of six inches per hour on ac-
count of the break. The Sny is the
most important levee on the north
end of the river and is seventy miles
long. In some places it is twenty
eight feet high and eighty feet across
at the base. It encloses fertile farm
ing section from three to seven miles
wide, containing more than 100000
acres.
There are several towns within the
district, the population of which is
probably 10000. Many of them re-
main and loss of life is certain. The
district has not been overhowed since
1888 and the damage will run into the
millions. The break occurred at a
point used by the railroad as road
bed. it was unexpected until just be-
fore the break occurred. When seen a
rush was made to repair it, but forty
yards went out and torrent poured
through.
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The Loss in Piekens County.

Easily, June 7.-Pickens Countysis
suffering from the most disastrous
flood in the history Of the county. The
rich bottom lands along the banks of
Twelve Mile, Esatatoe and Keowee
rivers are now almost wastes of sand
and mud. Though some portions can
be replanted, the crater part must be
abandoned, for this year at least. A
conservative estimate puts the damage
to these lands at about one hundred
thousand dollars. To replace the
bridges which have been destroyed will
cost the county nearly ten thousand
dollars. The steel bridge, which spans
the Keowee at Old Pickens, is COM
plete wreck. Two spans, measuring
l20 feet, have been torn from their
support and. deposited hundred yards
below.
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low Pacolet, for whose safety fears
had been expressed, is but slightly
damaged. At s o'clock this morning
200-foot section of the Southern
Railway bridge over Broad River, be-
tween Spartanburg and Columbia,
gave way stopping traffic between
those points. The Sonthern's bridges
at Lawson's Fork, Middle Tiger and
Enoree River are gone, and several
bridges that still stand are unsafe.
Following is a summary of the damage
to cotton mills:
Pacolet No. 1 and Pacolet No. 2,
totally destroyed Pacolet No. 3, bad
ly damaged. These mills operated
50, 900 spindles and 2,2o0 looms. Cliff
ton, No 8 Mill, at Converse, $1,000
spindles, totally destroyed Dexter
Mills, 80, 500 spindles, half destroyed.
Clifton Mills, 27, 900 spindles, half
destroyed.
Glendale Mills, badly damaged.
Pacolet warehouse, totally destroy
ed; $500 bales of cotton and 1000
bales of yarn swept down stream. At
Pacolet Presbyterian Church, hotel
and number of mill cottages were
entirely effaced. The pre- perty dam
age is in the neighborhood OF half a
million dollars.
The mayor of Charoltte today issued
an official call for relief, and the ex-
ecutive board of the American Cotton
Spinners' Association will meet to-
morrow to raise funds. About $500
has already been raised here by pri-
vate subscription.
The food was due to mighty
cloudburst along the headwaters of the
Pacolet River, in Polk County, this
State. The crest of the flood, when
it reached Pacolet, was sixty feet high.
The mills were located along the banks
Of the stream in deep valley, high
hills rising on either side, and caught
the full force Of the flood. Mill men
conversant with the situation say
that the destroyed properties will be
rebuilt or the former sites, and will
probably be in partial or complete op-
Grafton again within twelve months.
The Glendale Mill probably will be in
shape to resume work within sixty
DAYS
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UP COUNTRY Gut OFF.
The C. N. G. [. r. r. Bridge Across
Congaree at Columbia Swept Away

Spartanburg and in fact large part
of the upper section of South Carolina
is utterly cut off from communication
by rail with the rest Of the country.
The Southern Railway bridges be-
tween Spartanburg and Charlotte,
between Spartanburg and Columbia
and between Spartanburg and Atlanta
are either swept away or Sc badly dam
aged as to be impossible. A section of
track near Tryon, between Spartan
burg and Asheville has been washed
away and there are numerous wash
outs on all the roads leading to Spar
tanburg. The only line of commune
alton open to the up country from Co
lumbia yesterday was the Columbia,
Newberry and Laurens, r. R., operat-
ed by the Atlantic Coast Line. The
Southern, the Seaboard and the At
lantic Coast Line trains to the up
country we're all using that road,
which, as it follows a high ridge was
not seriously damaged by the high
waters.
But the G. L. & N, had one wreck
link-the big bridge across the river at
Columbia. All of Sunday there were
fears that the bridge would be swept
away when the crest of the food
struck it. The worst fears were
realized at 6 o'clock this morning when
the food struck the bridge with full
force. Three spans of the big bridge
were swept away and down into the
river with roar and crash. Thus
the last link connecting the flood de-
wasted Piedmont was broken and it
may be days before rail communication
can be restored.
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FAMINE IN CHINA.

Hong Kong. June 5.-The estimate
of Governor Wong, of Kwangsi Pro-
vince that over one million natives are
starving in the territory in his juris-
diction is pronounced here to be ap-
proximately correct. The distress in
certain districts is most acute. Chill
dren and women are freely offered for
sale. The rice harvest promises we'll,
but it will not be available for from
four to six weeks. Extensive relief
operations will be difficult without
foreign supervision, which will be
hard to obtain in Kwangsi. Assistance
has been sent to that province from
Hong and Canton, but the funds
available are becoming exhausted. The
Hong Kong committee will welcome
subscriptions. The newly appointed
viceroy of Canton, Tsui Chauh Suen, is
fastening his journey to his post. be-
cause of the serious conditions in
Kwangsi.
The population of Kwangsi is large
ly agricultural.
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STORY is TOLD IN CHARLOTTE.

Charlotte, N. c., June 7.-Today's
Developments in the devastated mill
settlements at Pacolet and Clifton, on
the Pacolet River, in South Carolina,
do not lessen the horrors of the situa-
ton there, although it is believed
that the loss of life will not exceed
fifty people. The destruction of prop
erty by the food was far reaching,
and even yet number of mill points,
where it is feared damage has been
done, cannot be heard from On &C
count of the prostration of telephone
and telegraph wires. The town of
Union, S. c., is today totally isolat-
ed. The Lockhart Mills, located be-
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10

The paper which Editor Watson, of
the Greenwood Index is to read at the
next meeting OF theState Press Associa-
tion, on "The Daily Paper in Small
City will doubtless be mighty inter
esting. We would like to know how
much worry and vexation it cost hin,
in order to place himelf in position
to read such paper.-Anderson Mail.
The Editor of The Index will answer
this by recalling an answer we'll made
by Col. James T. Bacon, of Edgefeld.
He was travelling as a delegate to the
National Editorial Association during
the Buffalo exposition, and when ask
ed by his sister, as ne emerged from
his berth, how he passed the night, be
answered, Nobody but God will ever
know what night I spent. '-Green-
wood Index.
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Brunswick, Ga, June 6.-News has
been received in this city of an election
held in New York by the directors Of
the Brunswick and Birmingham rail
road, in which Banker Fairbairn of
New York was elected president and
E. Fl. Mason of this city, vice presl-
dent. Frank A. Umsted, the steel
plant man, who recently acquired con-
siderable stock in the road, it is un-
derstood, is no longer connected with
the road in any way.
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Mr.. John c. Wieters, head of the
well-known wholesale grocery estab-
lishment at Nos. It's, $50 and lS2 East
Bay street, and one of the Oldest and
most prominent business men in the
city, died suddenly at St. Francis
Nayier's Infr1nary yesterday afternoon
at O'Clock. Post, 5th.
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A Good Excuse.

lowing to a lack of funds Mr.. King
has postponed his marriage until after
pay day. We hope to see him happily
married real soon as he seems very
anxious to have it pulled off. "-Lum-
ber correspondent of Darlington News.
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Marseilles, June IA terrible ship
ping disaster occurred little distance
from this port at noon today, when
two passenger steamers, the lnsulalre
and the Liban, both belonging to the
Fraissenet Steamship Company, Of
Marseilles, collided. The Liban sank
and over one hundred of her pas
sengers and crew perished.
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Wanted.

Men and ladies to work for reliable
house. Steady employment. Good pay.
Enclose stamp. Call or address, Southern
Manager, Is Warren street, Sumter, S. c.
May 20-4t.
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The Newry Mill Safe.

Seneca, June This mill will be
running in three days. All reports
as to damage are exaggerated. The
buildings and dam are intact.
Campbell Courtenay, Vice President
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TIE DAMGAE OF RAILROADS.

The amount of damage done to rail-
road, telephone and telegraph COM
Danies is enormous. All along the
railroads bridges, trestles and tracks
have been swept away by the fury OF
the foods. Spartanburg is entirely
shut off from the outside world. No
trains have left or arrived here today.
The bridge just outside of Spartan
burg, on the Charlotte division OF the
Southern, has been destroyed. and al
Shelton's the east end of the iron and
brick structure has been torn away
bv the floating debris Of the mills
above. The loss of the Southern Rail
way cannot be estimated. In addition
TO The heavy losses of bridges, TRUSTEES
and other equipment, the destruction
Of the cotton. mills in this county
means at least two millions to the rail
rpsd company. Traffic has been block.
ed in every direction, and the railroads
are doing ali that is possible to put
their in lines running order. Earl
Yesterday morning wrecking trains
were sent cut from Charlotte and Co,
lambda. Hundreds of men have beer
rushed to the scenes Of the wrecks ano
have been working hard on these
fines. From Clinton TO Pacolet, along
Lawson, Fork and Pacolet River, the
Effects of the food can be seen On ev
cry side. Roads are covered Witt
Eater, trees, telegraph poles and the
Wreckage of railroad tracks etc.
THE WRECK AT CLIFTON MILLS.
The wreck at Clinton Mills is the
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