The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-09-03
Loss At AUGUSTA
Growing Greater
MILLS, WAREHOUSES; AND BIG
BLOCKS ARE RUINED
BY FLOOD.
Dead May Number sixty-Great Dam.
age and Widespread Distress In
North and South carolina-Fay.
etteviIle is Submerged.

ettcNlIe rs submerged.
August Ca, Aug. 29-The flood
water at Augusta is receding rapidly,
and as the water leaves the streets II
is apparent that the loss has been un.
deT-estimated.
In addition to the disasters already
reported, the Riverside mills. in dam
age to plant and loss of cotton which
hoated away, sustained loss of
100000; the Reid cotton warehouse,
the finest In the south, was greatly
damaged, but 1t will require survey
to determine the loss; the Triangular
block, where the wholesale houses are
assembled, was badly damaged The
Nelson Morris q Co. warehouse has
collapsed and is being razed; the Au.
gusta Grocery company's building was
damaged to the extent of $4,000; the
National Biscuit company building
was wrecked. The Central grammar
school and the Davidson grammar
school were also damaged severely.
Death Rate May Reach Sixty.
Twenty-Five bodies have been recov-
cred and corpses are being found
every hour or so. The captain of the
river steamer Swan, which arrived
Friday, reported that he saw on the
trip up the river at least 25 corpses,
all negroes except one. There are
reports Of many drownings among
negro farm hands on the lower valley.
The Chronicle estimates the death list
at so.
The citizens in mass meeting and
the city council and the board OF
health In special session have taken
measures to relieve the distress.
South Carolina's Flood.
Columbia, s. c., Aug. 29.-The crest
OF the great freshet, which, starting
In the Piedmont section OF the state, |
has swept through South Carolina, |
leaving ruined farms and crippled |
railway lines in its wake, has now
passed Columbia and is moving to- |
ward the lower part of the state.
Kingville, 20 miles south of this |
city on the Wateree river, is seven
feet under water and every house In |
the town is deserted.
No accurate estimate of dam
age can be made, but il prob.
ably will run well into the millions
The brunt of this loss falls on the
farmers, who have lost practically all
their bottom land crops.
Fayetteville is Submerged.
Fayetteville. n. c., Aug. 29.-The
Cape Fear river at this point has
reached a height OF 70 feet, breaking
all records of former floods The
river valleys on the east side are
covered for miles with a rushing tor
rent of muddy waters Houses and
bridges are swept away for miles
around, and the estimated damage to
the cotton and corn crop will go be.
yond 50 per cent
The greater portion of Fayetteville
is covered with water backed up to
the city hall from the river which
is a mile and a half distant.
Three thousand people are homeless
and proclamation was issued by the
mayor at noon Friday. The city was
in total darkness Friday night, the
power plant being submerged.
Great Downpour In New York.
New York Aug. PA terrific down
pour of rain lasting more than "a
hours and attended by the coldest Au-
gust weather New York has expert
enced for 23 years, was responsible
for two deaths Wednesday and great
property damage. More than three
inches of rain fell and the thermome.
ter registered as low as So degrees
The gale during the night, tore up
trees and leveled field crops in the
vicinity of New York Those to meet
death were John Lynch, who drowned
in a sewer, and an unidentified Grip
pie, who perished from exposure in
an East side hallway.
New Buildings Collapse.
Several buildings in course OF con-
struction collapsed when their founda-
tions became inundated At Fire is
land the Surf hotel sank several
inches and part OF the building fell.
Miss Oakley, daughter OF the proprie-
tor, was injured by falling plaster, but
the guests escaped unhurt. Sections
of several streets sank. and In one
place in Brooklyn there was danger
that a number OF buildings would fall
as a result of the sinking of a street.
In upper Manhattan the roadway
sank five feet as a taxicab was trav-
cling over II, and the two passengers
and the chauffeur had to scramble
through mud and water to save them
selves. The auto was rescued after
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