Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-06-12
OVER FlFTYlL LIVES WERE LOST
Property Loss BY the Destructive
Flood Is Now Estimated at S3,-
100000 Loss in Clifton District
Is Appalling.

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dale cotton mills.
So many wires are down and COM
munication Of all sort is SO thorough
ly demoralized that it is impossible
to form any definite calculation of the,
loss of life in yesterdays cloud burst
and the resultant floods. The mortal
ity list may go to $50, but the more
conservative estimates place it some
where around forty or fifty. The to-
tai property loss in the entire section
laid waste by the storm is likely TO
aggregate $2,OO0.00O. The loss at
Pacolet is placed at $f,OO0,O00, sum-
married. as follows:
Mills number and are demol-
ished, $4,000 spindles are wrecked
$500 bales Of cotton, 100000 wort5
of cloth goods in the company's store
damaged, grist mill, cotton gin, post
Office, shoe shop, blacksmith shop,
dental Office, livery stable and PresDy-
terrain church all washed away. More
than 500 people are homeless and
1000 ont of employment.
There was no wind and no damage
by lightning, only by water. This fell
in veritable torrents, 7 converting the
surface of the earth into lake of
raging wateI. Rivers overlooked their
banks to heights never before known:
creeks became rivers and small r1vu-
lets roaring torrents, wiping out ev-
erything in their course Railroad
bridges We're torn from stone ard IRON
piers, cotton mills were crushed Ike
straw before the flood, ana grist mills
and innumerable smaller industries
and cottages were washed away by
the angry waters. # 10,
At late hour tonight scores Of
people were clinging to the branches
If trees at Clifton and could not be
reached Unless help comes to then,
soon it is feared that many Will fall
into the water and drown.
COlumia S. d.. June S.-Though
he great flood Of water is passing on
to the to the ocean laden with debris
Of every description and the swollen
streams are subsiding in the Pied
mont region, the losses Of life and
property are increasing, and conser-
vative estimate tonight places the
property loss at not less than $3,5OO,-
300 The most conservative estimate
of the dead is 80. At Clifton alone,
100 operatives are missing from the
village and all are believed to have.
been lost. During yesterday dead
bodies were washed ashore here and
there occasionally dismembered
limb would float to the banks. If
At Converse, Is dead are reported
and Al at Clifton No. 2. At Clifton
No 2, twenty-six houses are destroy
ed; IL at Clifton No. 1 and 20 at Cliff
ton No. 3. s53
At Converse mills, the newest of
Cliftons cluster, the walls were wash
ed away and the looms left standing.
The engine room 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
mill is not badly damaged and will be
running tomorrow.
Charlotte, N. c., June 8.--Yester
lays developments in the devastated
mill settlements at Pacolet and Cliff
ton, on the Pacolet river in South Car
Dina, do not lessen the horrors Of
the situation there, although it is be-
lieved that the loss of life will not ex-
coed fifty people. The destruction of
property by the flood was far-reaching
and even yet a number of mill points,
where it is feared damage has been
count of the prostration OF telephone \
and telegraph wires. The town of
Union, s. c., is totally isolated. The
r LIT f
for whose safety fears have been ex-
pressed, are but slightly damaged. &
Following is summary OF the dam 4
age to the cotton mills:
Pacolet, Nos. and 2 totally de- !.
stroyed; Pacolet, No. 5, badly dam
aged. These mills operated sixty
Thousand spindles and 1900 looms
II Clifton mill No. 3, at Converse, 81
900 spind1es, totally destroyed.
81 Dexter mills, $4,000 spindles. half
destroyed. S' gs
Clifton mills, 27,5oo spindles, half
destroyed. s.
" Glendale mills. badly damaged.
Pacolet warehouse totally destroy
ed $500 bales Of cotton and 1000
bales of yarn swept down stream.
At Pacolet a Presbyterian church /
hotel and a number of mill cottages
were entirely demolished. The prop
arty damage is in the neighborhood
Of half million dollars s.5
Many spinster Is sorry she learn
ed to say no.
"A woman never puts ANYTHING in
her pocket that she can hold in her
mouth.
No doubt many a wife wishes she
had her old job back again.
AS girls grow older they think less
Of dolls and more Of dollars.
Platonic friendship is better than
love of the honorable-lnentiQn brand.
Don't sit on another mans point
IF view.
A little lie generally travels faster
than a great truth II 345 II
ii Any man who boasts OF his wisdom
wouldn't do II " he had more.
When men mix religion With nCl;
tics too often tho religion gets lost ir
the shuttle.
n If a man tt,asr.'t know yh'n he s
we'll off some Of his fool friends vii
tell him.
Y The will of the people disinherits 9
good many candidates,
Ewes fondness for apples was a
good thing for tailors and dress
makers, III. AT q
q The silver lining to q cloud is not
visible to- the naked eye.
NJ When q family has black sheep
the fact is generally kept dark
4 IA charitable man Is one who finds
good excuses Tor people he doesn't
llii. 4; II