Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-17


ed, was where the greatest destruction
had occurred. There were NUMBER OF
houses in the low fiat place. The wa
ter had lifted them up. and they float
ed back up the stream and around IN
the flood with people clinging to their
roofs. eThen they got into the mann
current and went on over the daii
down the river Some struck up
against the mill building and others
f1oated out into the bottoms. In sever
al cases houses floated under the
trees and the people climbed OF into
the overhanging branches. In one case
q man, a woman and several children
were lodged in the same tree. The OLD
fellow told also of one man VINO went
down the stream for six or seven miles,
part Of the time on the surface ana
part of the time thirty feet under. he
would lust hold his breath while ne
was under and get fresh air when ne
came up.' My friend wanted TO take
me to this fellow to have talk with
him but I did not have time.
THE dam at Mill No. was WaSne9
away; but those at Nos. and z heid
Arm and suffered no damage what
ever. Mill No. Jared almost the
same as No. l, losing a large section
out of the end fronting the river. so
far as is known, there was NOBODY
missing from Mills Nos. / and 3. The
loss of life was confined to Mill NO. z
and to Pacolet Nos. l and 2.
During the afternoon there were
large number of visitors from Spar
tanburg. They came on the electric
tie l,o hQ6 hPQn hadlV
torn up by the flood and through COM
munication had not been re-establish-
ed until Friday. The communication
was not exactly complete even Satur-
day. The bridge across Lawsons
Fork at Glendale had not yet been re-
built. and it was necessary to trans
fer there, the passengers having TO
walk the creek on an improV1sed
bridge Of narrow plank. The cars
which will carry thirty or forty peo-
ple, came down loaded about every
half hour, and many citizens OF spar.
tanburg, who had already been down
TO the wreck, were looking 1t over
again.
"On the car, talked with a loom
fixer, who had been employed at mill
No. 8, and who saw the hood. ne
stated that while the machinery OF the
mills was, Of course, badly damaged
It was not entirely worthless. He knew
that most of it could be. repaired.
Many of the looms, especially OF CHI
ton Nos 1 and 2, he said, however,
were not only antiquated; but worn
out, and had the flood not come on
they would have soon been replaced
with new and better machines.
Prom Clifton I took the trolley Tor
Spartanburg, passing Glendale on the
way. Glendale Is not injured to any
thing like the extent that was indf-
Gated by first reports. The most SER
ious loss probably was the washing
away Of the dam. 1t has already been
decided to put in temporary dam OF
wood, and it is thought that the mill
will be in full operation within week
or two more at most.
AT both Clifton and Spartanburg l
saw people who had just arrived from
the Pacolet mills-Trough and Grin
dale shoals. They said that almost
every team and wagon in the country
around about was engaged In hauling
cotton and cloth out Of the river. The
people were working for the Pacolet
Manufacturing company, which was
paying literally for all salvage. The
cotton and cloth Is to be taken to
Lockhart and shipped thence to Au-
gusta, where the cotton Is to be sold
bleached and made marketable. Quite
a quantity of cloth has been collected
by people living along the river, and
much Of it has been stolen. Two bales
of sixteen bolts each were found IN
the house of one man, and smaller
quantities have been found In other
houses. One old skin flint in Union
county forbade the salvage gangs TO
come on his lands; but it is not
thought that a great deal of attention
will be paid to any such dishonest
notice.
THE stockholders of the Clifton
mills held meeting on Friday and
instructed the directors to go ahead
and repair and rebuild mills Nos.
and 2 as rapidly as possible. The Pac-
olet mills which, upon the whole have
not suffered anything like as severely
as have the Clifton mills, will also be
rehabilitated without delay. 1t Is
thought that the wheels will be turn
ing there again within very few
months"