The Washington times., 1908-08-28

/ AUGUSTA. Ca, Aug. 2s.-At noon to-
/ day sixteen bodies. victims of the most
! horrible food in the history OF Augusta,
/ had been recovered. They included FIVE
whites and eleven negroes. Two of the
white dead are Harry Carr and Robert
4 Lee BeIcher, A0th bool.keepers for the
Nixon Grocery Company They were
drowned Wednesday night together
/ Seven bodies of negroes were found on
/ Fenwick street. lying all in one heap.
| IL was only tnis morning that the Work
/ OF searching for dead bodies could be
/ begun, and the harvest Of the first few
hours indicated that the list must reach
! victims are negroes.
The city will be without light. water,
/ telephone and trolley service for at
/ least another twenty-fOur hours. and
when the water is turned into tbl mains
] it viii be i'm very meager volume, the
main pump nayi. been put out OF COM
mission.
/ OHers Of outside aid have been COM
ling in 10 Mayor Dunbar ever since the
nTst telegraph Uire was restored. he
/ has not replied formally 10 any OF these'
bat said the city would necG outside
helm. for the reor people who VIII be
Thrown ont of work by the stoDpage
OF All the GfilEl -l0AeLElGes WHICH, dt-
most without exception, received their
/ power from the broken canal
/ Train service has E0t yet been resumed
except over the Georgia railroad.
/ AUGUSTA. Ca, Aug. 2s-When Au-
| gusta looked oat OF her windows this
morning she gave ii little screech of de-
light For the higher portions OF the
I streets which yesterday were swim
ming places were above water a. dawn.
and rapidly drying Folk in Augusta
who have not walked more than tea feet
at a stretch for two whole days and
nights are out stretching their legs,
/ Broad street is dry for many UiOcks,
and the water is recedinE elsewhere so
/ RAPIDLY that the city Win be getting
/ back 10 business by noon
/ The total damage IS estimated at
! $4,000 All Augusta needs % be a real
( Venice Is a bridge of signs and red
1 sashes for its gondoliers. It has the
/ grand canal, right 4p and down Broad
street
Charge Exorbitant Rates.
They don't call them gondoiiers here.
! What most passengers called 'em is
unfit for publication, but when you
are told that one charged SIS 10 paddle
! a passenger 10 dry land and another
made him dig up FIVE 10 have himself
! dragged from a tree and rowed across
/ the street you can guess what Augusta
I folk are saying But floods come only
once in twenty years or SO and the river
men know how 10 make coin while the
I water suTges.
] To balance ones self in a 90-cent fat
/ bottOmed baJeau and hold ones feet out
! Of the bilge water while the waves
ripple across toe bows and trickle down
/ aft to soak ones only outing trousers
I IS enough, but 10 remember 20 keep
I balanced, hold your tobacco in the
middle Of your mouth and breath equal
/ IN from bOth lungs Is worse.
1 Broad street in flood time is a de-
ception and a snare ones canoe ducks
into it merrily from still water. and
starts down the street without a care.
! Then a cross street is reached
] Whish, Slush!
! Pull YOU son OF a gun, pun. Get
| away from that water plus. Dodge that
monument. Keep out Of Mr. Watkins
| front ya~di Now both togetheri"
! There That corner is past. Here
/ comes another one. pun and pray"
/ For padding down Broad street isn't
all a Joke. Across from the side streets
/ comes q raging flood direct from the
I river slapping the side @ the canoe
/ fore IL have been swamped, soaring the
/ { tsnderfoot out of years growth.
Several Boats Sunk.
| Crossing one of the swollen canals is
/ even worse. and here several boats have
/ sunk They are talking Of men who
went down in those cross currents who
/ never came up again, and you may see
/ men wadiug up TO their waists in the
! shalloWer rapids who can hardly hold
/ their own against the current
4 When you've been landed safely at
/ the hotel door and the Georgia CONDO
/ lier has lifted you on his hack and
/ stotedf you dry-shOd TO the first dry
sten half way up the stairs in the lobby
] Of the hotel. it's fun to think of Al
/ gusta's proudest thOroughfare as il
1 looks in fiood time.
/ Imagine n-tle OF residences with a
/ river for froIE yardsi Then imagine
/ that river by a sudden freak intrudfng
linto parIors and front porches to about
three feet above the floors inst
+ covering the table tops. Add a freshet
/ or TWO from the back yards. and stir
i the whole with a solution from the red
/ old hills of Georgia, and you have Au-I
I gusta in food time,
I Augusta folk have the English habit
/ OF living above their stores or somebody
eIse's stores anyway. Until you reach
/ The very heart of the city you see fire
fescapes and balconies on second and
Third stories lined with men and women.
/ tchildren and dogs, and now and then a
goat, ali looking down at the boating
Bcarnival below, and sometimes making
/ remarks 10 the passengers In the
tstreet a horde of young men and boys