The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-09

million dollars, summarized as follows:
Mills No. l and No. demolished. Is
900 spndles. a wreck; $500 bales of cot
ton; TWO hundred thousand dollars
worth of cloth goods in the COmpany'S
store damaged; grist mill, cotton gin,
postoffice. shoe shop, blacksmith shop.
dental office livery stable and PreSby-
terian church all washed away.
At Clifton. the Converse mill with
$1,000 spindles. is entirely gone. The
Clifton mill with 1000 spindleS is half
washed away. The Dexter mill with
80, 600 spindles is probably half ruined.
All these mills belong to the Clifton
manufacturing Company.
More than 500 peope are homeless and
1000 are out of employment.
There was no wind and no damage
by lightning: only by water. This fell
in veritable torrents. converting the
surface of the arth into a sheer lake of
raging water
The rivers overflOwed their banks to
heights never before known; creeks be-
| came rivers and small rivuletS roaring
torrents. wiping out everything in their
| course. Railroad bridges We're torn from
stone and iron piers, cotton mills were
| crushed like straw before the flood and
| grist mills and innumerable smaller in
duStrieS and cottages We're washed
| away by the angry waters.
At a late hour tonight scores of people
were Clinging to the branches Of trees
at Clifton and could not be reached.
| Unless help comes to them soon it is
| feared that many will fall into the wa
| ter and drown
| LATER.
| Augusta, Ga, June 6-The Herald's
| staff correspondent at Spartanburg
| gives the losses in the flood district as
| follows:
Arkwright. 2o,256 spindles, slightly
| damaged not over So 900.
| Beaumont, 3,SSS SpindleS, slight
Clifton Nos. l. . and 3, 101, ,232 spin
| dies, most serious damage of all,
| amounting to $4,000
| Pacolet Nos. 1. 2 and 3, 1882 spindles,
capitalized at $1,000 900. damage $3.50.
900. Whitney, 10000 spindles, $780, 900.
| Thirty-fve lives are reported lost to-
| night. The bodies of these with two
! exception. were caught floating IN the
| river at Clifton, ten miles from Spar
| tanburg.
Only mills Nos. l and We're COM
pletely destroyed at Pacolet but No. 8
| was seriously damaged. All that now
| remains on the scene of the former
| numbers is a mass of broken and twist
| ed iron and stone in dIsheVeled heaps.
| Most of the drowned people were opera
| tiveS of PacOlet river mills. So sud
| denly did the water rise that they were
| unable to escape from their homes and
| went down in the torrent with their
! houses.
HIGH WATER AT GREENVILLE.
Greenville. S. c., June 6.-The flood
| conditions here are assuming serious
| proportions The damage to crops in
| this section has been very heavy. Two
| houses We're washed away here on the
| banks of the Reedy river. No lives are
| reported lost yet. Reports from the
country are coming in slowly. Tele-
| graphic and telephone wires are down.
| There is a we'll defined rumOr that Lake
| TOXaway has broken and that the Wa
| ter is running down into Seneca river.
| The railroad people expect the full
| force of the flood to reach Seneca by
| midni2h- II is feared that the treStle
of the Southern raialWay will be totally
| DESTROYED.
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DAMAGE AT CALHOUN.
| Augusta Ga. June "A special to
The Herald from Calhoun Falls, says
Conditions in upper Carolina are be-
coming distressing. The Seneca river is
now higher than ever known before. At
Calhoun Falls the flood conditions is
| very alarming. The water is now in the
| second story of the NeWry cotton mills.
It's warehouses have been washed
| away with all their stock of cotton and
products. kilograms received say the
| big dams on the kOeWee river at TOX-
away, n. c., have broken.
FLOOD AT ASHEVILLE.
| Raleigh, \. c June GA special
from Asheville, n. c. says:
There have been heavy rains here fol
three days and railroad traffic IS much
hampered 1t is reported that twenty
miles of the roadbed between Tryor
5 and Spartanburg have been washed
away. The SOuthbOund train which lef
5 Asheville at 1:3O this morning. could
| get no further than Tryon. Wires art
= down north and messages from tha
: | quarter now come by way of Atlanta.
q FLOOD AT COLUMBIA.
Columbia. S. c.. June THE Con
garee river is rising here and is ex
pected to reach 25 feet. Railroad of
ficials are apprehens1ve that Wreckag
y will damage the bridges, which at thi
: point cross the river.
II A special to The Observer this after
e noon giving later details Of the losses
q says:
e Pacolet mills No. 1 and 2, and part o
= No. 5 are gone The loss is $3.50, ,O0C
q Twenty-Five lives are lost.
G The big Clifton mills. at Converse
y ! We're completely Obliterated.
g Charlotte. \. c.. June 6.-A specia
: to The Observer from Columbia, S. c
y says:
e startling renort has just reache
?, Columbia that Lake Sapphire, in west
IS ern North Carolina. is said to hav
e broken through It's retaining walls an
&c to have descended upon the plains be
: low with great fury. This may affec
o. the cotton mill industries on the Senec
e river in Pickens and Anderson cour
3 ties.
X Baseball Yesterday.