Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-07-21

49, sOe4S0 40 AVA q So = 10 = So
water was receding today and no
more fears are entertained for
the breaking of the dam at Lake
Toxaway.
The body of Miss Charlotte
Walker, a nurse, was found to-
day at Biltmore. Miss Mabel
Foister, another nurse, and Miss
Louise Walker, also lost their
lives at Biltmore. These, with
the death of Lonnie Trexter, a
white laborer, and Luther Fraz-
Ter. ! negro, bringing the list to
eight.
Seventy-five families, mostly
cotton mill workers, residing in
the lower section of, Ashville,
lost their homes and are being
cared for BY a citizens relief
committee.
Attempts to revise estimates
of damage to mills near Ashville
today brought little hope that
they have suffered to an extent
less than reported last night.
The damage estimated for this
section remained at S., ZOO, DOC
to $40, ZOO, 900.
kslville still is without gas OF
electric power and the price Of
gasoline had gone to a dollar a
gallon. No trains left today and
none arrived.
On the Murphy division of the
Southern Railway, however
trains are running from Waynes
Vile to Murphy. The main lin'
toward Washington is open be
iyond Salisbury.
The area that felt the effect
Iof the food extends from Ten
uessee through southeastern
West Virginia, southwestern
Virginia, across North Carolin;
roughly to Wilmington, and EN-
braces virtually all of South Car
|oiina. Should the dam at LAX
IToxaway yield to the f1oode,
waters pressing against it, de
ivastation in that section woul'
be followed by floods down tn
lSavanah river water shed tina
would imperil Augusta. Ga.
| The immediate cause of flood
1around Ashville Sunday was tn
bursting of the da n at Hender
lsonville, N. c.. and that at Ka
nuga. Volumes of water swep
Idown the Swdnnannoa river, en-
lgulfine portions of the Wander
lbilt estate and the village of Bilt
more, laid out twenty-five year
'iago by the late George W. Van
Iderbilt: Two nurses from th,
lBiltmore Hospital are though
to haye been drowned. Person
here familiar With the Biltmor,
|section expressed the belief tina
damage to the Vanderbilt estat,
might have Lean heavy ant
thought the Biltmore nurserie.
lprobably were flooded. Biltmors
is cut off from Ashville by q
mile of water.
Down the French Broad Val.
ley swept another flood from the
broken dams until lower Ash.
vile was inundated and scores
of industrial plants were dam
aged. Several hundred mill
workers are being cared for here,
their homes having been washed
away. The Southern RAILWAY
depot here and the Glen Rock
Hotel, both a mile and a half
from the business section ofAsh.
willie, were covered with several
feet of water. Twolaborers were
drowned trying to carry food to
persons marooned in upper floors
|of the hotel.
Near Charlotte, N. c., which
also reported heavy damage. is
men working on railroad bridge
went down, and either were
drowned or are marooned in tree
tops.
TWENTY DEAD IN FLOOD AREA.
Raleigh. N. c., July 49,
Twenty persons are known to
have persisted in the storm which
swept North Carolipa, according
to DELAYED dispatches reaching
here this afternoon.
Six were drowned at AshevilIe,
ten at Mecklenberg. three in
Alexander County, and one in
Wake County.