The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-06-12

Money ant! Supplies to ne Rushed
and Other Mills to Employ Idle
Labor.

Columbia :. c., June S.-The interest
toda~ : the food situation has CEN
tered in the work of relief. Around
Clifton and Pacolet, the devastated
mill towns. ten thousand people are out
of work and many of them homeless.
The surrounding farms are also devas-
tated and there IS no subsistence avail
able for such i large number
Yesterday and today nearly ten
thousand dollars have been raised in
Columbia. Spartanburg and other
South Carolina towns as q relief fund,
but the difficulty is to get supplies to
the scene of need quickly, as railroad
communicate" : entirely cut off Or
ganizatiOn will be perfected tomorrow,
however. and the work carried on sys-
tematicallv. Last night manv slept in
the open air at Clifton. Today the
heat W. ng.
Other South Carolina cotton mills are
offering "laceS to the operatives thrown
out of work. Several mills will run
double time to afford them work and
others viii run shorter shifts thus en-
ploying larger number. This is done
despite the unfavOrable conditions of
the cotton goods market
Owners OF the destroyed mills cannot
yet announce definite plans 1t is the
relief that the properties will be rebuilt
as Soor rs possible. The damaged
mills will resume as soon as repairs
can be made.
Reports today add $4,000 or more
to the losses. This is the damage done
to some small mills not heretofore
heard from. $4,000 has been lost IN
damage to roller mills, saw mills and
to gins in Spartanburg county alone.
Public bridges all over upper South
Carolina have been destroyed.
RAILROADS ARE HELPLESS.
The railroads through upper South
Carolina are helpless so far as through
traffic is concerned. The last link be-
tween Columbia and the northern part
of the state was sevened last night
when the Columbia. NewLerry and
Laurens trestle near Columbia broke
The Southern, the Coast Line and the
SeabOard Air Line all had teen using
this treStle since the flood inundated
the other tracks Sunday. 1t is a stretch
of a thousand feet across Broad river
and the river bed. and midway the sup
ports rested on the land which washed
away by the flood Trains can now
come on the Columbia. Newberry and
LaurenS as far as IrmO. ten miles
above Columbia and some eager trav-
elers went TO Irmo today over muddy,
rough roads to take the only train for
the up country. The Southern's track
80 '''o' 'iii0 @itS nave ooeil oi
der water and at two places are washed
away for a mile of so. Neither the
Southern nor Coast Line will likely get
| a train through to Greenville from here
before Wednesday evening.
This condition has forced all traffic
| between Atlanta and Charlotte to be
| sent by Augusta through Columbia TO
Charlotte, owing to the breaks between
Greenville and Charlotte on the South
| ernS main line. In consequence the
/ line from Columbia to Charlotte is over
| crowded, carving the business of two
| other branches besides its own.
| The Seaboard tonight abandoned its
| Hamlet and Atlanta branch.
| Spartanburg is cOmpletel-- isolated
! Every road out of that town is cut of
| somewhere
| The railroads in this state have lOSt
| heavily in business and property by
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