The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-06-21
SWEPT BY FLOODS.
lower Parts of South Carolina
and Georgia Suffer
AUGUSTA MILLS SUSPEND WORK
Augusta Section of Georgia and Low
or South Carolina Suffer Cloud
bursts.

Augusta, Ga, Special-Reports
from all outlying districts which IN
tinue to come in, indicate severe dam
age throughout the entire territory
contiguous to Augusta from the heavy
rainfall of the past three days. Prac-
tically every railroad entering Au-
gusta, steam and electric, has suffer-
ed more or less, and all traffic is
either considerably delayed or suffer-
ing Inconvenience.
All streams are greatly swollen
and country as we'll as railroad
bridges have been affected, several of
the former having been washed away.
The rainfall Sunday morning
amounted practically to a cloudburst,
causing an overflow of the canal.
which runs through the city in three
leYels, at one point washing away
a considerable portion of the bank.
On the inter-urban trolley line be-
tween Augusta and Aiken there has
been considerable damage from wash
outs, and delay to the regular sched-
ules.
Two railway wrecks have occurred,
one on the Georgia Railroad, eleven
and a half miles from the city where
the engine and two cars of a through
freight train ran into a wash-out,
the third car-being Gerailed. The en-
gineer and fireman escaped by jump
ing into water on the roadside more
than waist deep. Incoming and out
going passenger trains ran to that
point and transferred passengers.
Two miles above the city an ex-
ira freight train was wrecked, but
no injuries resulted. The track was
undermined and the engine and sew
eral cars derailed. Passenger trains
on this road were all delayed.
The large dam at Clearwater, s
c., by which the bleachery is operat-
ed, was broken. In the city the low
er weave room of the Sibley Mill
was flooded.
On the Augusta Southern road, be-
tween Augusta and Sandersvi1le, two
large wash-outs are reported near
Beall Springs, and one smaller wash
out nearer Augusta.
Richmond factory, on the Los
isville road, about nine miles from
Augusta, was under water during
the morning, but Saturday night re-
ports were that the water had sub
sided. Practically all the farmers be-
tween Augusta and Bell Air, on the
Georgia Railroad, report their farms
covered with water and the crops
practically ruined. On the Milledge-
vile road and west CT the city the
reports are practically the. same.
None of the cotton mills in Au.
gusta, all of which are operated by
water power, are In condition to run
now, and an order has been issued
by the commissioner of public works
of the city that no attempt must be
made to operate any of them for g
week from this date.
Great Damage in Lower s. g.
Charleston, S. c., Special.-A spe,
cial from Florence says that the ex-
cessive rains that have follen fol
nearly a week have seriously injured
the crops of cotton, corn and tobac
co. Many fields are completely I'm.
der water and the sun coming out al
intervals. sca&s and kills the youns
plants. &he rains have also done
great damage along the streams il
the lower part Of the State and doz
ems of bridges are reported WASHED
away and considerable damage tt
railroad tracks.