Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-07-21
TWO cARoLlNAs, TWO viRGlNlAs
AND TENNESSEE SUFFER
FROM STORM.
is DEAD; MANY MISSING
Houses, Bridges and Railway Tracks
In Five States Washed Away Cot
ton Mills Suffer-Flood Wa
ters Receding.

Asheville, N. C-Fifteen persons
dead, at least 10 missing ana property
damage estimated at around $15,O00,-
600 is the known toll of the floods
which have ragged in five southern
states. The list of known deac:
Asheville 2, Biltmore 4, Alexander
county 8, Marshall 3, Ednaviile town
ship, N. c.. Q, Radford, Va, 1. All but
one of the dead were white.
The missing: Ten Southern Rail-
way construction men, who went down
with the Southern bridge near Char
lotte.
Although the waters are receding in
nearly all districts, railroad and tele-
graphic communication are demoral-
ized, and reports from towns and vii
lagos now isolated may increase both
the number of deaths and the prop
erty loss.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, Tennessee and West Virginia all
suffered heavy damage from the over
flowing streams, swollen by torrential
rain which followed last weeks hurri-
cane as 1t swept inland from the coast,
but the heaviest loss was in North
Carolina, where IA or Is deaths are
reported and where Iwo-Innds OF the
material damage was done.
The property damage Is summarized
from the latest reports. as follows:
North Carolina.
Asheville = twenty-five Industrial
plants destroyed, including cotton and
lumber mills, machine shops and coal
and feed yards. Sixty residences in
the lower part of the city washed away
and 400 persons homeless, with 1,2O0
out of employment. Power and gas
plants out of commission.
y ,Charlotte.-One million cotton spin
dies idle as a result of flooder power
plants. Street cars at standstill and
city in darkness.
Catawba County.-Cotton warehouse
with 1900 bales of cotton carried
away. In this county. as well 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
in surrounding territory damaged.
Marshall =. Fifty-three homes de-
stroyed.
onesville-Many homes flooded.
Hendersonville.-T dams washed
out, damage to mills and 10 crops in
uandorson county
Lexington.-Several lumber mliis
carried away, stock killed and crops
destroyed.
Cleveland County. = Drove 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,
100000 damage was done. In the
county the loss is estimated as high
as $4,000
The Southern railway lost bridge
near Mount Holly, another near Rock
fill. another near Salisbury and an
other near Belmont. The Seaboard
Air Line bridge just above Belmont is
gone, as is the Piedmont & Northern
electric line bridge nearby.
Tennessee.
Newport.--Partly inundated and
many families forced from their homes.
Virginia & Southern Rail
way bridge washed away.
Thousands of acres of corn and pea
nuts inundated between Chattanooga
and Paducan. Ky., on Tennessee river,
and much crop damage around Dan
bridge.
All railroads in Eastern Tennessee
suffered heavily from washed out
bridges and culverts.
Virginia.
Four Norfolk & Western bridges al
Galax Branch, on Little Creek exten
sion. Pepper bridge near Radford and
another bridge near Pearisburg wash
ed away. Damage in the Pearisburg
district alone estimated at million
dollars.
The small town of Narrows is re-
ported completely submerged.
South Carolina.
Crops badly damaged throughout
Piedmont section and several railway
bridges, including the Southern bridge
at Alston, washed away. -