The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-07-21
HAVE CAUSED DAMAGE
OF FIFTEEN MILLIONS
Estimated That That Figure Has been
Reached in Storm Disaster in Five
States-N0rth Carolina Chief
Sufferer.


known toll Of the floods in the five
Southern States they have touched.
Although the waters are recedins
in nearly all districts, railroad and
te.egraphic communication still are
demoralized and reports from towns
and villages now isolated may in
CT ease both the number of deaths and
the property loss.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, Tennessee and West Virginia
all suffered heavy damage from the
ove-fowing streams, swollen by tor
rental rains which followed last
weeks hurricane as it swept inland
from the coast, but the heaviest
loss was in North Carolina, where II
of the Is deaths are reported and
where two-thirds of the material
damage was done.
The list of known dead: Asheville,
2; Biltmore, 4; Henderson county, 2;
Alexander county, 3; Marshall, g.;
Radford, Va, i. All except one of the
dead were white.
The missing: Ten Southern railway
construction crew workmen who
went down with the Southern bridge
near Charlotte; II year old boy at
Asheville.
The property damage is summarize
ed from the latest reports as follows:
North Carolina.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Industrial
i plants destroyed, including cotton
and lumber mills, machine shops ann
coal and feed yards. Sixty residences
in the lower part of the city washed
away and 400 persons homeless with
1900 out of employment. Powder
and gas plants out Of commission.
Charlotte-One million cotton spin
dies idle as a result of flooded power
plants. Street cars at standstil and
city in darkness.
Mondo-Mondo cotton mills de-
molished.
East Monde Cotton mills damaged
and $4,000 worth of cotton destroy
ed.
Alexander County-Ashpaugh cot
ton mills washed away. Lilledon cot
ton mills damaged.
Buncombe, Henderson and Madison
Counties Many mills damaged and
hundreds of persons out Of employ
ment.
tatesville-Brick plant destroyed
and Long Island cotton mills nearoy
damaged.
Catawba County-Cotton warehouse
with 1900 bales of cotton carried
away. In this county as we'll as in
Iredell and alexander great damage
was done to crops and small mills.
Biltmore-Many persons driven
from their homes and mills and crops
damaged.
Marshall-Fifty-t three homes de-
stroyed and 263 persons marooned o1s
a train.
Jonesville-Many homes flooded.
Hendersonville- dams washed
out, damage to mills and to crops i'll
Henderson county.
Lexing gton-Several lumber mills in
surrounding country carried away,
stock killed and crops destroyed.
/ Cleveland county-DroVo power
dam near Shelby destroyed; crops in
county damaged.
The flooded Yadkin river has de-
stroyed all communication into Wilkes
county. At Elkin town of 1000
population $2,OO0,OO0 damage was
done. In the county the loss is esti-
mated as high as 100000. Many
manufacturing plants have been SUB
merged and Southern railway stations
all along the line are said to be
flooded to a depth of from five to 15
feet. Many bridges have been washed
away.
Five high bridges, three in Meek
lenburg county and one near States
Vile and another near Mooresville,
are known to have been washed
away, while at least six railway
bridges were destroyed.
The Southern railway lost a bridge
near Mount Holly, another near
Rock Hill. another near Salisbury
and another near Belmont The Sea-
board Air Line bridge just above Bel