The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-07
MdnyDead Bodies Seen Float
ing Down the Torrent
PROPERTY LOSS WILL
REACH 100000
Storm Gathered Over Spartanburg and
Vicinity. and When Proportions Of
Great Storm We're Reached.
the Cloud Burst elephone
and Telegraph Lines
Down-Aid Needed.
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Especial to Tho Times D1Epahrh-S
sPARTANBURG, 8. c.. June e--ManY
lives lost and property destroyed to thd
extent OF millions OF dollars is tho re-
suit OF the oloudburst in this vicinity
last night.
1t Is thought by many tho dad villa
reach more than fifty. Many bodies
have been seen floating down tho mad
dened torrent. Owing to the absolute de.
structon Of all means Of communication
by telegraph and telephone. it Ia inpos-
slble to obtain accurate information.
The greatest destruction OF life and
property occurred at tho Pacolet and
clifton and Glendale Cotton Mills. Wirez
are down and reports conflicting. but 1t
seems certain that twenty-five or thirty
people were drowned, mostly mill opera
uves.
The following Is a partial list OF thoso
who lost their lives by the inundatlon
at Clfton,
AUGUST CALVERT AND WIFE
MISS LIZZIE CALVERT.
NJ. FELIX. 5
MRS. w. B. T1NSLEY.
MORLAY SIMS.
MRS. B. j. JOHNSON AND -FOUR
CHILDREN.
MRS. MAGGIE KIRBY. -$ia.
MRS. JOHN OWENS. &
ROY OWENS. 8 sI433 a
GARLAND LONG. 55
MRS. LONG.
MISS E'LETIAE COSTA. ss5 n y II
ROBERT FINLEY.
The Ill fated Pacolet Cotton Mills were
the heaviest property losers, President
Victor Montgomery estimating the dams
age to the plant at $l.o5O. 900. About ], 21J
operatives in these mills are thrown
out OF work, and within a few days VIII
be in need OF daily bread s II ~
THE OPERATIVES WARMED.
At G o'clock this morning It was no.
ticed that the water was rising rapidly
In the Pacolet River. but no special lm-5
portance was attached to 1t BY the mill
operatives. who began to form In line
to enter the mills AT Mills Nos. and
the water pressure soon became dam
Eerous. the boiler rooms were submerged
and the workmen were ordered back.
little later the fury OF tho raging river.
struck MIL No. !, sweeping the plant en-
trely away. The strong current then
swept against No. 2 mill. demolishlng
II, and leaving only the cloth rooms
standing.
Tho big bridge over the Paeolet River,
steel structure, was then carried away
by the furious water, which had burst
through the dams; the ware-room. with
nearly four thousand bales OF cotton and
four thousand bales Of domestic cloth.
followed, all tho cotton being carried
down stream.
At Pacolet Mil No 8 the picker room
and five stores on the left side Of the long
building were washed away. The main
building. supported by thick brick wall:
is still standing but Is very shaky. and
may collapse at any time. The boiler
room IL gone. but the smoke-stack is Yet
standing. The dam at No. Is intact.
All the machinery in this mill is ruined,
LOSS AT GLENDALE.
Al Glendale four warehouses filed WITH
cotton and cotton products were swept
away, along with the dam across Law
sons Fork and the trestle of the City
Electric RAILWAY, The mill 1T Glendale
was not materially damaged.
AT Converse the main building OF the
Clifton factory collapsed, and the water
rcae III, the second nnor of the mill was
four feet deep-forty or Atty feet above
The ordinary water mark. The Converse
mill Is utterly demolished. nothing stand
Ing except the picker room buildlns'
which is badly wrecked,
The Clifton Mill No. 3 also lost Its
boiler-room machine shop, engine-room
and smok e-S stack
President Twitchel could not estimate
the loss tonight, as he has not been able
yet to Visit the ruins Of the plants, 10
The whitney Mills. on Lnwson's Fork
we're damaged by the heavy rise OF tn
water and some houses and the stetS5
bridge at that point were swept away
AT the Tucapau NILS the water rose
the second floor of the building and cot
siderably damaged the machinery
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