The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-09-01
FORTUNATE IN THAT
NO LIVES WERE LOST
HEAVY DAMAGE THROUGHOUT
y. SOUTH CAROLINA.
Number Of Lives Were Lost in Diff
ferent Sections Of State-Cond-
tions Rapidly Improving.

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Reaching their crest some time dur
ing the early hours Of last Thursday
morning, the flood waters which COW
cred the river sections of Newberry
county have been steadily and rapid
" receding since that time, leaving
destruction in their wake.
The whole State has suffered along
with Newberry county, and the dam
age to property in South Carolina
will reach several millions of dollars.
A number Of lives have been lost. in
this latter respect, however. Newberry
? has been more fortunate than the
other sections Of the State. Not a
single death in the county as a result
of the flood has been reported. Two
negroes were drowned at the point
where stood the upper steel or1dge
between Newberry and Saluda coun-
ties. They had gone out in boat TO
see whether or not the bridge was
holding, and their boat became en-
tangled in the telephone wires and
was eapsized. They came from the
Saluda side Of the river, however.
The damage to property in the
county has been very heavy. In the
river sections Of the county, Where
The waters have been hundreds OF
wards out Of their banks, cotton and
corn crops have been entirely de-
stroyed. In the bottoms along
creeks close to larger streams bottom
corn has been entirely destroyed. up
land corn and cotton has also been
somewhat injured. In some sections
of the county, the planters away from
the streams estimate that their entire
cotton crop has been damaged by the
excessive fall Of rain from five to
seven and one-half per cent. In oth-
er sections of the county planters
who have upland cotton say that their
damage has been very slight. All
have suffered some damage, however.
In the last issue Of The Herald and
News it was estimated that the total
damage in Newberry county, to crops
and bridges and roads, would reach
100000. These figures are not far
wrong. The damage to bridges, how"
ever. will not be as much as was at
first thought, but the damage TO
crops will be little more than was
out in the estimate Of The Herald
and News.
Bottled Up For Time.
On last Thursday afternoon New
berry was completely shut off from
railway connection with the outside
world. The Southern had not been
able to get a>train through from Co
lumbia since Wednesday morning, and
had had no train further up the road
than the Little river trestle, near Old
Town. since Tuesday night. Traffic
ON the c., N. & L. road was not SER
iously interfered with until Thursday
afternoon, when the back water from
Saluda river covered the track at
Leaphart to a considerable depth
Passenger No. So, which came in from
Laurens on Thursday afternoon,
reaching Newberry at 800, stopped at
Newberry and spent the night. The
c.. N. & LIS afternoon train from
Columbia lid not leave Columbia.
The c., N. & L. passenger on Friday
morning went to the point above Co.
1umbia where the track was inundat-
ed and transferred passengers, taking
up the regular schedule Of No. 81 on
the return trip to Newberry and
Laurens. On Saturday the c., N. &
L. got through to Columbia, and re-
sumed its regular schedule between
Columbia and Laurens.
Conditions on the Southern.
The Southern has been heavy suf-
ferer. Its track between Columbia
and Aston will have to be almost en-
tirelv rebuilt. The Aston trestle ov-
er Broad river stands, but the ap-
proach on the other side is gone, and