Evening star., 1909-06-04
TorrentiaI Rains Sweep Over
Southern States.
CYCLONE STRIKES GEORGIA
Houses Demolished in Screven
County and Many Persons Hurt.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCK REPORTED
Double Tremor at Singapore Is Re
corded on Instruments at Manila
and Cheltenham.

NORFOLK, Va. June 4.-Torrential
rains. amounting to cloud bursts at some
points, occurred last night throughout the
eastern cotton belt in the Carolinas, Geor-
gia, Alabama and east Tennessee.
SPARTA NBURG, June 4.-Following
heavy rainfall for the last eighteen hours,
bad washouts are reported on the South
ern railway between Spartanburg and
Asheville and the passenger trains on the
division are now reported six hours off
schedule. The largest washOut is between
Tryson and Landrum. twenty-four miles
ives. of Spartanburg. All of the streams
are much swollen and there is fear of
repetition of the floods of last August,
when great damage was done.
At Union, S. c., unusually heavy rains
caused all streams and the Broad river to
rise materially. and nearby mills are ap-
prehensive of a repetition of last years
disastrous flood which did hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth Of damage
Cyclone in Georgia.
Half dozen persons were Injured In
cyclone that passed over the lower part
Of Screven county, Ga. yesterday after
noon, and while no life has been lost
many persons escaped by seeming mir
acles, houses falling about and upon them
without inf1icting fatal injuries.
The cyclone wrecked the home of Ste
phen Thomson. white farmer near
Dovey, and buried under it's ruins the
act of heroism followed. when the elder
of their sons. after working valiantly de
spite his injuries. managed to eX-
tricate himself from the fallen tim
then rescued the other members
of the family in turn. Mrs. Thomson was
seriously hurt. Two tenant houses on
the place of j. c. Walker were destroyed
and their colored occupants injured. Ten
ant houses on the places of Thomas Lee
and John Bobbins We're also wrecked.
Floods in Wyoming.
DOUGLAS. Wyo.. June 4.-One life has
been lost and heavy property damage has
been caused by floods in the North Platte
river and it's tributaries.
The North Platte Is at record food
stage and continues to rise at the rate
of half an inch an hour. Bridges have
been carried away and roads in many
places are impossible. From all sections
come reports of irrigation bitches being
wrecked by floods and great damage in
this respect has been done.
Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
of cement stored in a warehouse of the
lie Preie Ditch and Reservoir Company
were destroyed by water.
ben N1euerdneT, MS SISTER ana n6T
four year-old child were precipitated into
La Bente creek near the Esmay ranch
by the breaking of the bridge and the
child was drowned. The horses and
wagon in which they were riding were
swept away by the torrent and the ami
mails drowned.
Earthquake Shocks Recorded.
MANILA, June 4.-Beginning at 2:46
and continuing until 500 o'clock this
morning the seismograph at the observa-
tory here registered an intense microseis-
mic disturbance. It Is estimated that the
earthquake was 1.4OO to 2.OUO miles dis
tant.
The records correspond closely to that
obtained in February, 1903. during the
earthquakes In Java and Sumatra-
SINGAPORE. June A double earth
quake was experienced here at Lao o'clock
this morning. No damage was done.
The Cheltenham magnetic observatory
Of the coast and geodetic survey reported
today that moderate earthquake shock
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