East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-08-02
STORY OF FLOODS N
NORTH CAROLINA IS
GRAPHICALLY RELATED
Blue Ridge Division Of 4. c. a Co i
EBrirely DeSsroyed-EssmaJed IL
VII cost SS,0Oo,O00 TO Replace the
Track over the Mountain - Food
supply Low.


F4s, hand Information concerning
. ne srea, haVoc wrought fE the lono
. Ia Narh Carolina during the middle
. % J41-zry Is contained IN a letter
T slss received By W. ID Peterson @.
tbs ll-y from an old friend J. BL
. Ezy president of the Back Mountain
. T. r. Cg-. OF Burnside, y t. nj Rag
Z Is a-o.hFr 1l the LAKE postmaster 0.
. Erezw4tsr.
The leI.er reads in par as follows
The Hood damage the Black
Z Maahtsln Railway cons zazaa-y. some
{sa44 to $4,000 Ii a4shed our
trestle al Pensacola. ana d.d c5nsid-
. cradle lamaE- 10 the track In tina.
E vicinity o. also washed i've heu1s
( from beneath a trestle al K3na. our
T junction with the C. C & O. II also
. ala considerable dana-e 81 the sub
structures ot The bridge Al that place
il smp1 destroyed the Blue Ridge
1r Mountain division % she T.. e. *
@. II Is estimated th4, il viii Cost
1ye millions 70 replace the track on
The mountain. requiring four months
70 get trains over same and eighteen
months -0 accommodate The heaF1
coal tra rs which that company or
crates The flood Of 1901 had
taught lesson 10 the inhSol-
r4nrs along the Toe river and they
have kept well away from same Al
! spruce Pine il did considerable dam.
age. no loss Of life. however. II
cleaned 0ur some three miles Of rail-
road In the gorge OF the {. c. a o.
which has been repaired and Tuesday
was our first mail over THAI line 70
this place. The conditions are seri-
Gus. in that the food supply in some
0f the remote sections j. running Low.
The train went 10 Spruce Pine on yes
terday. and Will operate regularly
unless the rain storm at that place
has again .nterferred, which took
place yesterday afternoon. Ashsville
Biltm6re and Bat cave suffered
greatly Asheyille i attempting 10
min mize the damages. fearful Of de-
tracing the summer travel which vls-
It's that section Several hundred
people were marooned on the south
I sru railway in the ne-gh0OrhoOd OF
4 Asheyiue. The Spartanburg branch
s all gone. The French Broad Tivsl
Is running where the railway used -l
be below Asheville The Round
4 Knob section Is complete wreck
4 Trains det0uring to Lynchourg ana
= through 10 Knoxville. then 10 Mur'
4 phy and over Murphy riyision Z.
\ Asheville The desplzed MURPHY
Z branch saved the situation Tor Ashe'
) Vile Ashevile Was in complete
4 darkness for a week. Conditions ar
J ngw about normal al that point. som
Z thirty lives were lost in and aroans
ssneyile. southern r r. is injuTe,
al SratesyIl.e. Hickory and Monroe
and the Charlotte division betweel
Charlotte and salisbury Is now oper
aLug. -Four thousand men are re
pairing the Ashev.lle-Salisbury div
sion The Y. & ". east Of Bristol L
y Lynchburg suffered but little. Tn
narrow gauge out Of Johnson City
now rum NJ although il sutferel
& with the remainder OF the roads
3 Acres and acres Of land on the fac
\ Of Blue Ridge in Mcdowell on G c
< o. has slipped several feet and
z seems that the face Of that mountain
: : a 1at. sloping rock and the waite
2 getting down 10 the rock loOsene'
z the earth and the whole thing slip
Z ped Millions VI Yards Of railroa'
: dlls are gone, Not a foot-bridg
Z along the Toe river. The Popla
Z Bridge weathered the storm a. di'
= the Unaka Sprn bridge the nortl
fork Of Cacawa1a went out. I, va
a single span bridge with one pier uu
= der center The only damage don
was 10 the crops OF Tancey, and ina
along the Cane river section at Can
river or Ebert wilson section. y
: cutting OF the Iand-just washe.
I away the harvested wheat and sub
3 merged the corn crops. The damag
10 Yancey is nil from a comparative
! viewpoint.