The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-09
RELIEF is CUT OFF
DTFFICULT TO AID SOUTH CARO-
LIMA SUFFERERS.
NO ROADS TO REACH THEM.
THOUGH PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY,
THEY GET NO SUPPLIES.

railroads Are InOperative-TOwns
Have No Communication Open.
College Students Cannot Reach
Their HOmes-NumerOus Small
Losses Add to Those of the Great
MiIIs-HOw the Latter Are Borne.
Popular Relief subscriptions
$4,000.
Columbia, s. c., June S.-Great eff
forts are making to organize proper
relief for the people in the flood dis
tricts.
The isolation of these people, the in
terruption of all railroad traffic and
the impa ssable dirt roads, make relief
difficult. This difficulty is added
to by inability of the people to help
themselves. Instead of 5000 to care
for, there are 1900. Many of these
were hungry to-day and called for
supplies, but gave the relief commit
tees no assistance in solving the diff
ficulty of helping them.
Spartanburg's five railroads are still
imperative, and no mail has reached
that town in two days. A feature of the
hundreds of students in colleges just
closed at Clemson, Greenville, Due
West and Newberry are waterbound.
Gov. Aycock reached here from
North Carolina to-day, having an en-
gagement to deliver an address at Due
West College, but he was forced to re-
turn to Raleigh
Traffic Is ParaIyzed.
This morning eight spans of the Co
lumbia, Newberry and Laurens rail-
road bridge over the Congaree at Co.
lumbia, gave way. This paralyzed
travel, as, because of their broken
lines, the Southern and Set board sys-
TENS were using this road to reach At
lanta-
This break cut off Columbia's last
communica ton with up the State
The collision of the Southern's fast
mail with a freight train between here
and Charlotte, this evening, blocked
the last open line that system had to
reach Columbia from the north.
Many additional losses are being re-
ported by small factories, roller mills,
grist mills, etc The aggregate for
these will probably exceed 100000.
South of Columbia the Congaree
river now carrying the water that
wrecked the mill towns, is playing
havoc with river planters. Within
nfteen miles Of this city the loss is
$4,000
Chief Owners of the Mills.
Tomorrow the boards of directors
of the Clifton and Pacolet mills will
probably decide what to do as to re-
building. The chief owners of the
Pacolet Mills are Seth NJ. Milliken of
New York, the estate of ]. H. Mont
gomery, w. S. Montgomery, Victor
Montgomery of Spartanburg F. J.
Pelzer and Frank E. Taylor of Spar
tanburg. The stock has been quoted
as high as $50, but lately 1876.
The Clifton Mills are owned chiefly
by the estate of d. E. Converse, A. H.
Twitchen and Converse College, all of
Spartanburg.
1t is feared the disaster will, for a
time, seriously affect Converse a COL
lege for women. founded by the
wealthy mill-owner of that name.
A horseman brought to Pickens this
morning word that the ToXaway dam,
holding Lake Sapphire, was intact.
The flood in the rivers in the North
western section, supposed to have
been caused by that dam breaking,
and so reported from the mountains,
was caused by the cloudburst which
extended over an area of seventy
miles
Popular subscriptions tonight
amount to $4,000.
Mills at Union, Lancaster and Co
lumbia will attempt to make room for
100 operatives.
With Organized Relief.
Organization will be perfected to-
morrow, and the relief work carried on
Systematically. Last night many slept
in the open air at Clifton. To-day the
neat was trying.
The owners of the destroyed mills
cannot yet announce definite plans. it
is the belief that the properties VIII be
rebuilt as soon as possible, but this is
not authoritative. All the damaged
mills will get to work as soon as re-
pairs can be made.
Trains can now come on the Column
bia, Newberry and Laurens railroad as
far as Irmo ten miles above Columbia,
and some eager travellers went to Irmo
to-day over muddy, rough roads to
take the only train for the up-country.
The Southern's tracks ten miles above
this city have been under water, and
at two places are washed away for a
mile or so. Neither the Southern nor
Atlantic Coast Line will likely get
train through to Greenville from here
before Wednesday evening.
The Seaboard Air Line to-day aban-
doned it's Hamlet and Atlanta branch.
a trestle at Carlisle being down sent
trains yesterday from Chester to Co
lumbia over the Southern's tracks and
thence to Clinton over the Columbia.
Newberry and Laurens, but the lat
ter's trestle breaking here has closed
this route to the Seaboard also. Of
ficials say the bridge at Carlisle will be
passable tomorrow.
The railroads in this state have lost
heavily in business and property by
the floods.