The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-07-19
SERIOUS FLOODS
SWEEP CAROL|NAS
MANY PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED IN
RtvERs-LARGE NUMBER RE.
PORTED DEAD.
ESTIMATE LOSS S1O,000,000
Five Known Dead in AsheVllle and
Biltmore.-Western North Carolina
Hit Hard.-Power Lines Wrecked.

Five Known Dead in AshevlIe ard
shtmore.-Western North Carolina
Hit Hard.-Power Lines Wrecked.
Charfotte.-Sgious foods in North
Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia
Sunday caused five known deaths
with IS others known to be missing
and rendered hundreds homeless. dam
aged property and crops to the extent
of SIG, 900 600 according to first estl-
mates and demoralized railway, tele-
graph and telephone communications.
Following the hurricane that struck the
South Atlantic Coast unprecedented
rains have fallen, driving rivers and
smaller streams from tneir banks and
imperlhng many lives.
What are said to be the worst
foods ever known in the CataWoa'
Broad and Yadkin Rivers did untold
damage in the territory within ra-
dius OF so miles Of Charlotte with the
possible loss Of is lives.
Just above the Southern bridge,
over the Catawba at Balment, the
Piedmont & Northern Interurban
bridge and the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad bridge at Mount Holly were
washed away Sunday afternoon and
night Farther up the river, near
Mooresvine and StatesTille. two high
way bridges went out, while at Ca
tawba, the Southern's bridge on the
Salisbury-AshevSlle lire, was washed
eway.
At Monbo. below Catawba. the
West Monbo Cotton Mil OF 5000 spin
dies. is under water and believed to
have been washed away, and the East
Monbo Mill, across the river, is prac-
tfcally submerged, while a cotton
warehouse with 400 bags of cotton has
been washed away. Still further up
the Catawba, the Lilsdoun and AIS
paugh Mills are under water.
The damage to these mills is laid
to a waterspout in Alexander county
that caused section Of the earth
embankment OF the Lookout Shoals
power plant Of the Southern Power
Company to give away adding IS feet
OF water to the already more than 20
foot tide in the Catawba- That volume
Of water also caused the last two or
three Of the bridges to 80.
The Drayo Power Company's dam
on Broad river near Shelby. went out
late Sunday afternon, menacing the
Southern Power Company's plant near
Blacksburg. S. c., and cutting off the
electric supply for spartanburg and
the textile towns surrounding that
city. The Southern Power Company
however, may be able to meet this de-
mand
Near Winston.Salem, the town Of
Rondo was cut off from the outside
world for several hours until tele-
graph operator, flooded out Of his. Of
fee, carried his instruments to high
hill and cut in ON a telegraph wire.
Trains cannot be gotten to North
Wilkesboro and will not be operated
west Of Donagha for some time be-
cause OF the tide on the Iadlan river.
which is eight and cne-half feet higher
than known in 43 years. A Southern
Railway train supposed to have left
North Wilkesboro Sunday afternoon
has not been heard from, while one
that started from WiGston-Salem to
that town had to stop at Elkin. Resi-
dents Of Jonesville and adjacent
towns were moving to high land.
The French Broad River broke from
its course near Ashevilie. flooding fac.
tories and homes in the lower part
Of the city. At Biltmore three per-
sons, Capt. J. c. Lipe, Miss Nellie Lipe
and Mrs. Leo Mulhollaad were drown
ed when the Lipe house was flooded.
TWO persons we're drowned at Ashe-
vile while trying to put food into the
upper story Of the Glenn Rock Hotel.
Many are marooned in their residences
along the river and rescue parties for
hours have fought their way against
the rushing current in an effort TO
reach them.
Swift streams Of water are flowing
down some OF the streets Of lower
Asheville. The Southern Railway sta
ton is flooded to a depth of six feet
as are all other buildings in that vicin-
ity. The city proper, 800 feet higher,
is without lights. bat otherwise is not
affected
Industrial PANTS everywhere suf-
fered severely. property loss in cot
ton mills, woodworking plants and
lumber yards along the French
B soad and Swannanoa Rivers was
estimated at from s1,5o0,00O to S..
100000.
Fyon HenderSonville came q report
that placed the property loss in Hen
derson county at approximately ST.
100000. The plant Of the Henderson
Vile Light & Power Co. was put out
Of commission and the city reservoir
flooded by muddy torrents that made
the city drinking water unfit for con-
supntion. Many persons were driven
from thei rhomes in that section and
number OF bridges carried away.
Only the big railway bridge south Of
Hendersonyilie remains intact. 1t was
said. and no trains have entered or
left HendersonvNle IN the past 4S
hours.