The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-07-19
MANY HOMELESS
IN GREAT FLOOD
Property Loss Estimated
At $40, 1000, 1000.
VIRGINIA AND THE CAROl|NAS
Suffer From Effects OF Terrible
Hurricane, Spreading De-
vastatiOn and Death.
wATERsPOUT ALSO ADDS RUIN

Atlanta, Ga, July 16.-Serious
floods in North Carolina. South Car.
olina and Virginia to-day caused five
deaths, rendered hundreds homeless,
dana ged property and crops to the
extent of $4,000. 900, according to
first estimates, and demoralized rail-
way. telegraph and telephone COM
munication. Following the hurri-
cane that struck the South Atlantic
coast Thursday, unprecedented rains
have fallen, driving rivers and
smaller streams from their banks
and imperiling many lives.
The French Broad river has bro
ken from its course near Asheyille,
flooding factories and homes in the
lower part of the city. At Biltmore
three persons, Capt. J. c. Lipe, Miss
Nellie Lipe and Mrs Leo Mulhnlland.
were drowned when the Lipe house
was flooded The Vanderbilt estate
at Biltmore was not damaged. Two
persons We're drowned at Asheville
while trying to get food to flood ref
ugees in the second story of the
Glenn Rock Hotel. Many are ma
rooned IN their residences along the
river. and rescue parties for hours
fought their way against the rush.
ing current in an effort to reach
them.
Swift streams are flowing down
some OF the streets OF lower Ashe-
Vile.
The Southern Railway station is
flooded to a depth of six feet as are
all other buildings in that vicinity.
The city proper is without lights to-
night, but otherwise is not affected.
Throughout Western North Caro-
lima the situation is reported Sc
rious. Two dams at Hendersonville
collapsed, releasing hundreds of
tons of water and fears are felt for
the big dam at Lake Toxaway.
The Southern Railway bridge over
the Catawba river at Belmont, n. c.,
has been washed away, carrying ten
or twelve workmen into the river.
Whether they We're drowned has not
been learned. The Seaboard Air
Line bridge over the Catawba river
at Mount Holly, y. c., has collapsed,
as has that over the Catawba on the
Sails bury-Asheville line. Many high
way bridges also have been swept
away.
Practically all railway traffic in
Southwest Virginia and Eastern
West Virginia was tied up to-day,
telephone and telegraph wires are
down and heavy crop damage has
been reported. Crops in some sec
lions of South Carolina also suffered
heavily.
At Monde, n. c., below Catawba,
the West Monde Cotton Mill, OF -
600 spindles, is under water and the
East Monde Mill, across the river. is
practically submerged. 4 cotton
warehouse there with 400 bales OF
cotton has heen washed away. Still
farther up the Catswba the Lila
daun ard Alspa'sh mills are under
wat,r
The damage &, these mills result
cl from watarspout in AleXan Ter
county that carssd section OF H."
sa:th clntankmcnt OF the LOOKOUT
Shoals power plant OF the southern
Power Company to give way this af-
ternoon, adding fifteen feet of water
to the twenty-foot tide in the Ca
tawba.
Reports of loss of life in the Hen
dersonville and ToXaway sections
have not been confirmed. as there is
no telegraph or telephone service
into that territory. The bravo
Power Company's dam on Broad
river, near Shelby, went out late this
afternoon, menacing the Southern
Power Company's plant near Blacks