The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-03-30
Disastrous Flood and Storm.

New York. March 2S.-The most dis
astrous Hood on record is raging in In
diana, Michigan and part of New York
State. Fra ;tiCaiiy nalf the entire State
is under wafer. Eight lives are known
to have been lost and others are be-
lieved to have been.
Railroad traffic in all three States
has been interfered with and part of
the Michigan railroads have been
abandoned regular schedules. Street
railway traffic has been paralyzed in
many cities and several cities are in
darkness.
Thousands of persons have been
made homeless and there is much suf-
ferlng from hunger and exposure.
Millions of dollars worth of property
have been destroyed. The loss to
farmers in Indiana and Michigan is be-
yond estimate.
st. Paul, March 2s.-All incoming
trains from the West and Northwest
are from twenty to thirty; six hours
morrow. In Montana five passenger
trains are buried in snow. In Manitoba
and Northwest Territory all traffic ia
abandoned. Men and live stock are
reported frozen, but details are not
obtainable.
Bismarck, N. D., March ss.-Reports
sheep 'ns and ranges ese snow IN hse a ossss of
Thursday. Trains on the Northern
Pacific west Of Missouri are showed in,
and rotary plOws are trying to clear
the way for passenger trains on the
Great Northern. Many trains have
heen abandoned.
Little Rock, Ark, March 2s.-Last
week was week OF storms in Arkan-
sas. Wires are down in the northwest
ern part of the State and the extent of
the damage to property and the num-
Der OF lives lost has not yet been as
certained. The casualties thus far re-
ported are:
j. B. Curtis. prominent farmer of
night. Six persons we're killed in and
near Gainesville, as follows: T. l..
Williams, Mrs. F. Al. Dalton, Frank
Ellines, Lena Byrnes, child of Whit
Crouch, child of Mitchell Wyatt.
Many people were injured and fifty
houses were destroyed at this place.
Two negro children were killed Friday
q negro girl, was killed in the wreck of
the school house at Fourche Dam, Pu-
laskl County, In the storm of Tuesday.
From the meagre reports thus far re-
ceived the damage to property will
amount to thousands of dollars.
The death list. it is thought, will be
largely Increased when all reports are
Louisville, KY, March 28.-Eight
persons were injured and extensive
damage was done to city and suburban
property by storm which swept over
Louisville. The entire city was for
time flooded. Third avenue, near the
Confederate monument, being three
feet deep In water. Street car service
was suspended for several hours and
one or two lines remain at astandstill.
he roof of the main building at the
industrial school of reform was blown
completely off, falling clear of the
building on the ground and q panic en-
sued among the one hundred boys
eleeplng in that section of the JchoOl.
The boys, when they heard the roar Of
the wind, the crash Of the falling roof,
one being injured. The building was @
ffooded. Two hundred and forty FIVE
inmates Of the Masonic Widows and
Orphans Home were marched into the
center OF the building after the etOrm
had torn away part of the roof. 1t
was feared the building would col
lapse. Reports from various parts of
the CITY indicate that about one hun
dred AID hfty houses were more or less
damaged.
Cincinnati, O., Aarch 26.-The heavi-
est rain storms In years prevailed
throughoue Ohio last night and floods
are causing damage along all the tribu-
taries Of the Ohio. At Hamilton, Big
NiaIRi rose fifteen feet in four hours,
rendering over 200 families homeless.
The ievee north of Hamilton broke,
flooding paper mills and tring up rail-
way and trf ction lines.