The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-08


day dead bodies were washed ashore
here and there and occasionally a dis
membered limb would float to the
banks.
The States staff correspondent, after
an all day trip, covering by foot.
wagon, boat and horseback the scenes
at Pacolet. Glendale and Clifton, re-
ports tonight from Spartanburg the
following list of dead:
A List of the Dead.
Four children of John Owens.
Sam Swanigin and wife.
Miss Fleeta Gossa.
Miss Maggie Kirby.
Mr. Hall and eight children.
Mr. Eldren and wife.
Robert Finley and family and five
boarders, names unknown.
Augustus Calvert, wife and two chill
dren.
Garland Long and wife.
Mrs B. w. Finley.
Marie Sims.
Mrs S. B. Johnson and four chill
drsn.
Three children of Mrs. Williams.
Mrs. Henderson.
Four Bodies Recovered.
Four bodies have been recovered; one
identified as Lucy, one as Maggie Kir-
by and one as Roy Owens. S. 3.
Johnson, reported yesterday as drown
ed after clinging to a housetop from
Clifton down to Pacolet, last seen as
he was going over the dam at Pacolet,
escaped by catching hold of tree, and
returned to-day to find his wife and
four children drowned
This is said to be only partial list.
At Converse thirteen dead are report
ed, and forty-one at Clifton No.
alone. At Clifton No. 2 twenty-six
homes were destroyed, thirteen at Cliff
ton No. 1 and twenty at Clifton No. 8.
Losses of the Mills.
The loss at Clifton's three mills will
approximate 100000. At Pacolet the
loss is near $1,OOO.OOO. At Glendale it
is $4,000.
The greatest want among the sur
vivors is at Clifton, where 500 people
are destitute.
At Converse mills, the newest of
Clifton's cluster. the walls were wash
ed away and the looms left standing.
The engine bricks were carried three
miles down stream, demolishing the
operatives houses on the way.
Reports from the Seneca river. near
the Georgia line. are better tonight.
The Blue Ridge road, between Seneca
and Anderson, is intact. and the Newry
running tomorrow.
Railroads Are in Trouble.
The railroad situation has given
much uneasiness here and throughout
the state to-day.
The Southern annulled trains be-
tween Columbia and Spartanburg this
morning, 200 feet of the trestle at Shell
ton, below Union, having been washed
away Trains between Columbia and
Greenville are coming into the city
over the Coast Line between Prosper
ity and Columbia.
The Seaboard Air Lines trains be-
tween Hamlet and Atlanta have been
coming by Columbia and using the
Coast Lines bridge and track beyond
TO Clinton.
The Southerns trains between Char
lotte and Atlanta are being operated
via Columbia and Augusta. supt. p. I.
Welles reports that only one bridge has
been lost-the one over Lawson's Fork
near Pacolet. but there are several
trestles down.
Communication Cut on.
The Columbia. Newberry and Lau-
rens Cor Coast Line trestle. two miles
west 81 the city. affords the only exit
from Columbia 10 the Piedmont coun-
Try and Il is apparently a fran struc-
ture D mile and q half IN length. with
wooden benches upon an island IN mid
stream. This bridge was firm a. mid
night, ana the water is rising more
slowly. The breaks On the trestles viii
De repaired within forty eight hours u