The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18

f1cQnOnt S6CllOH Ol oOuth NNoioi eO- night are leaving this section of the country without railroad connection except over the main line of the South
 
 and Miss Marion Walker, elder sister of the nurse, were rescued from the Lipe home early Sunday, but later were drowned when they attempted to re- turn to that vicinity The bodies of the Walker sisters were recovered today, but that of Miss Foister and Captain Lipe have not yet been found.
 The other two lives lost were in the lower section of Asheville. where the Southern railway depot and the Glen Rock hotel were covered several feet deep in water Walter Trexler and Lu- ther Frazier, the latter negro were drowned while trying to take food to guests who were marooned in upper stories of the hotel Sunday. Edward McDowell, aged II, is missing from this section.
 Hendersonville suffered similar dam age in flooded houses in the lower sec tions and in damage to crops and man ufacturing plants. but as far IS known there no lives have been lost It was the Henderson dam and the kanuga dam that burst causing the floods.
 All reports received here say the Toxaway dam still is holding and 1t is believed the danger Is past. It was expected that the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers would be within their banks by Tuesday night or Wednesday, It still is uncertain, how ever, when railroad traffic can be re- stunned on any definite schedules. The only line operating tonight was that known as the Murphy N. C., division of the Southern railway, all others be- ing tied up by washed out bridges ana flooded tracks.
 The first authentic information regard ing the flood situation at Marshall and other points in Madison county reachen Asheyille tonight when Lewis Foster Of this city, who was at Marshall sunday, arrived here in an automobile from Mar shall having come through the country fer crossing the French Broad river by travelling on Wreckage swept down on the flood.
 Foster said that three lives were lost at Marshall, the dead being James Guthrie, Miss Bridges first name not knownl and an unidentified child. Eos ter also stated that 60 frame houses a; Marshall were washed away, and that the property loss there, including large cotton mill on the banks of the French Broad. will reach $350,0 and at other points in the county $250OOo or more
 Remarkable stories of narrow escapes and heroic rescues are reported rom Oio Fort and the Swannanoa section, put net a single life was reported lost in the en- fire Swannanoa valley. George W. Fl. Sebrinee. former mayor of Jacksonville, and four other persons were taken on rafts from a farm house where they were boarding.
 SOUTHERN TRAIN NARROWED
 The Carolina Special Southern rail- way passenger train. which left knoxvlAe at 5l0 last Sunday morning and was due to arrive here at 1920 the same morning, ia marooned by the high waters four miles below Marshall with 2s3 passengers aboard including women and children who are badly in need of supplies, especi- ally milk for the children. Relief Will De sent out from Asheville tonight by auto mobile via Mars Hill. It will require detour of 40 miles to reach point wn1cn is only 20 miles from here by rail.
 This information was brought here to- night by F. E. Harris, an Associated Press telegrapher. who was on the ma rooned train. Harris said he jumped from the train window, climbed to high ground and walked four and half miles to Noconna. There he found wagon and a team of mules and was driven to Mars Hill At this point he got an auto mobile and reached here shortly after o'clock tonight He said conditions at Marshall have been serious, but that he believed that the situation there is stead fly improving.
 Latest reports from the Toxaway sec ton are to the effect that the big dan at Lake Toxaway still is intact and thai there is no danger of breaking.
 DEATH LIST GROWS
 The total of lives lost in the flooded districts of the French Broad valley was increased to Il by reports from Tender. son county tonight that Isaac Connor, T and the 3-year-old daughter Of Tillmsr Freeman, Ednaville township, were drowned in the waters of Clear creek All bridges and culverts in Henderson county have been washed away
 The damage at Hendersonyille has no been heavy, nor is there any loss of lift reported there It is stated that $500 or $6O0O will cover the property losses a Hendersonville No trains have reached or left Hendersonville since early Sunday morning and railway officials here states that it will be the last of this week cl the first of next week before train serv ice is resumed
 TEN MEN STILL MISSING Charlotte. N. C., July 17.-Ten of ths 20 persons thrown into the swollen Catawba river by the collapse of ths Southern railway bridge at Belmont | Sunday were rescued today. No trace | has been found of the others. | tI~urr