The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-07-20
ENORMOUS DAMAGE:
IS DUE TO FLOOD
Nine Persons Dead, Many Miss
ing, and Property Less Is
$10,OOO,OOO In South
eastern States.

Raleigh. N. c.. July 1s.-Flood wa
ters which covered some parts of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia.
Tennessee and West Virginia yester-
day, taking toll of q. least nine lives,
rendering hundreds of persons home
less and doing property damage vari-
ously estimated at from S10,O00,0o0 to
$l5,OoO,000 We're receding today.
The worst conditions obtained in
western North Carolina, where the
flod was described as the most disas-
trous in the history of that section.
ASheVille and its environs were the
heaviest sufferers, but, With train ser
vice at a standstill as the result of
washouts, slides and lost bridges tele-
graph service badly crippled and roads
almost impossible, it probably viii b.
several days before the full extent OF
death and destruction will be deter
mined.
Lower Asheville still was flooded to-
day by the waters of the French Broad
River. Two deaths were reported in
the city proper, while another death oc-
Cured at the town of Biltmore, to the
easT. and two score persons. including
members of railroad construction
gang who went down with a bridge
We're listed as missing.
Between Asheville and Salisbury.
railway bridges We're washed out on
the Catawba river. Saw mills and 9TH
er property, as we'll as live stock, sui,
fered throughout this section.
Property Damage Great
Similar conditions obtained on the
9adkin river around Lexington, n. c.,
and dead animals, wreckage from mills,
A,tton, tobacco, oil and other debris
foated down the raging streams.
In the Piedmont section Of South
Carolina crops suffered great damage,
highway bridges were washed away.
and railroad service was badly inter
rupted. The Southern Power company's
plant. near Spartanburg, was flooded,
tying up the interurban line between
Spartanburs and Greenwood and Gas
tonia and Charlotte.
In southwestern Virginia, flood wa-
tiers carried away bridges and tracks,
tying up traffic on the Bluefield and
Bristol divisions of the Norfolk G.
Western.
Besides the damage to railroads in
southwestern Virginia, many buildings
We're washed away, including some at
Radford, and one man was drowned
while ferry!ng across the river at that
place.
In eastern Tennessee. floods also in
terrupted traffic on the Virginia Car
DINA. the Eastern Tennessee & West
ern North Carolina, and the Carolina
Clinchfield & Ohio railroads
HUGE DAMAGE REPORTED.
Roanoke, Va, July 1T.-Swollen by
heavy rains in southern Virginia and
western Carolina. New river which
early Sunday morning reached the
highest stage that it has known since
1878, has damaged houses. bridges and
railroad tracks along the Gala branch
of the Norfolk & Western railway. and
along the main line of both Norfolk &
Western and Virginian railways
Many buildings We're swept away.
several large houses at Radford being
cempletely destroyed. Four bridges on
the Norfolk & Western Gala branch
We're wrec,.->d and one on Potts Creek
pranch damaged but is still standing.
+ small bridge CT the little creek ex-
tension was wac --ay.
FIND Be- IN TREE.
Asheviile. n. G, july 17.-Miss Nellie
Lipa and Mrs. Leo Mulholland, report-
ed drowned yesterday. when the home
of their father j. c. Lipa, at Bilsmore
was washed away, were found toda,,
tied to the top of a tree. accordias ~
reports received here. No further re-
ports of loss of life have been received
FIND MEN IN TREE.
Charlotte. N. c.. July 17.-Rescujnp
parties sent out by the Southern Rail,
E,,c,
neer Joseph Killian and two other Yna,,
clinging to a tree today about q NJ,
below the point where bridge aua,.
the CataWaba river went out with thasr,
and II other employees Yesterday. 9th
er men are reported TO be on an island
farther down. The river reached ~
crest at 5 o'clock this morning
HOTEL WASHED AWAY
Winston-Sa N. G., July IL
Meager reports today told Of heavy
d ei mage in the Yakin river district west
ed to have demolished the Hotel Sl H.
TIE and carried away the farmers w my
house and eight other buildiags Rasi-
dents Of Jonesville were forced dles't
a AZ their homes SATURDAY night
80 ~ sAsu NJ had been reported early
'o1f''' :. ~ rlVer ls falling rapidly.
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