The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-09-03
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Fer Forty-slx Hours the Turbulent sa-
vannah Held the city in Floods
Grasp, Causing Loss Of Life and
Much Property Damage.
Augusta, Ga, Aug. 29.-The reign
of mud began Friday morning at day
light in the streets, and houses of Au-
gusta, where for f~orty-six hours the
turbulent Savannah had enslaVed the
city in it's grasp.
At 6 O'Clock Friday morning the city
was free of water, except in the low
lands. Standing in lower Broad street
at that hour no water was in sight
In any direction, but in its stead mud
was everywhere from an inch to many
inches deep.
Streets Washed Out.
It will be days before normal condi-
dions are restored. Streets have been
washed almost away, sidewalks have
in many instances completely disap-
peared, leaving only ragged holes and
bitches to mark the place where the
pavement a The upper half Of the
houses and stores are white and clean
the first story yellow and covered with
mud. The hand of the food has been
plainly marked by its trail throughout
the city.
With the dawn of Friday came the
second chapter of the greatest food
in the history of the city, and as the
waters disappeared, hope and energy
and relief came to the rescue of the
stronghearted people who had sat in
silence and at the mercy of raging
torrents the day before.
Canal Locks Intact.
A pleasant announcement is that
the canal locks are intact, and only
one break in the canal bank whicc
can be easily repaired with a lower
stage of water.
1t is known that six persons were
drowned Thursday in Augusta.
Harry Carr, bookkeeper for the
Nixon Grocery company.
John Paul, a negro fireman on the
Southern railroad, while attempting
to free the river bridge approach Of
debris vas swept overheard and sank
in the raging torrent of the river.
A brakeman vas drowned in Broad
street food later in the day.
Two negro draymen, while engaged
in carting goods at the corner oil
Broad street and .Marbary street, Iost
their lives in a swift street current.
and their bodies we're carried into the
canal.
E. C.. Omara is reported to have
been drowned during the food at Nc
Kinney street.
Many Reported Dead.
Two negroes are believed to have
been drowned Thursday, when the cit,
bridge was swept away, many claim
ing to be eye-witnesses.
1t is reported that a white mar
leaped from the second story of the
Metropole going into the open cellar
and drowning in the deep water there
Fires Follow Flood,
Since Wednesday noon the time the
waters reached Broad street and the
big food was actually on, there nave
been five great fires in the city in ad
dition to a number of smaller fires.
The fire department was compellet
to join the spectators during the prog
ress Of the CONGREGATIONS, as the en-
gines and wagons were covered By
water and there vas no human agen
cy available in fighting flames. II
nearly all instances, the fires burned
to the waters edge.
Epitome of Damage.
Many human lives reported lost
fourteen verified.
Total actual physical damage, one
million dollars.
Great loss of live stock in city an
suburbs and lowlands
Damage to city property, a quartz,
Of a million dollars.
Damage to railroads and railroad
property n hundred thousand dollars
Damage to telephone and TELEGRAPH
companies, twenty-five thousand dol
lars.
Damage to merchant sand local in
dustries, two hundred thousand dol
lars.
Damage to residents, .ffty~thousant
dollars.
Probable loss to mill operatives il
the loss of wages, IN hundred thou
sand dollars.
Great Suffering.
Interest in August centers in tn
dead INT the relief measures to b,
taken for the poor. The greatest sui
fering is along a deep gully known a
Bridwells Bottom and Perry's bottom
Here in instances the houses were sub
merged to the caves, and the peopl
have lost their all. The damage /
estimated at from one and a half t
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