Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-20
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MANY LOSEL|VES
IN RECENT FLOOD
Additional Fatalities Are
Reported in North
Carolina
DAMAGES SIS; 100000
DAMAGES
Weather Bureau Announces the APP
proach of Another Storm Which
May Sweep Coast

Atlanta, Ca, July 20-As reports
filtered through yesterday from parts
:, of Western North Carolina, which
have been isolated by the recent floods
the death list continued to grow.
Six additional fatalities were report
ed bringing the known dead to Al
while at least six persons are mis-
sing.
Eleven persons were drowned IN
the village of Bat Cave and Chimney
Rock, N. c., which meagre reports
show were hard hit by the storm.
Two unidentified bodies were found
near Belmont, N. c., while another
death is reported from near Green
Vile, S. c., in the falling OF rail-
wav scaffold undermined by the
floods. a..
While flood waters were recedlng
| in North Carolina. Tennessee and Vir-
ginia yesterday, the Wateree river in
South Carolina was rising and Allan
tic Coast Line officials reported two
bridges on their lines had been flood
ed with a consequent interruption in
service.
Conditions around Asheville and
throughout Western North Carolina
were much improved yesterday with
! workmen busy repairing railroads and
putting industrial plants into work
ing order. In Virginia and the Pied
mont section of South Carolina rapid
headway was being made in repair
ing damage.
The material damage in the floods
| in the four states cannot be definitely
determined, but it is estimated the
total loss will be least S15,000,0O0.
Winston-Salem, n. c., July 20
The bodies of three women, two men
and two children were discovered yes
terday near Ronda, Wilkes county, in
two houses cast ashore by the flood
waters of the Yadkin river, accord
ing to a message received here from
Ronda. Four of the bodies were iden-
titled as a man named Cauale, his
wife and two children.
The houses were found Ii miles
from the point where they originally
stood.
Spartanburg, S. c., July 20-A re-
port from Hendersonville, y. c.,
said only two lives were lost at Chin
new Rock. 1t said several residences
and a hotel were washed away and
two laborers were drowned.
Wilmington, n. c., July 2O-Flood
Twaterfs of the Wateree river were Two
feet above the Atlantic Coast line
trestle near Acton, S. c., and were
rising about five inches an hour. 1t
was believed the bridge would stand &.
The bridge across the Santee river,
at Rimini, S. c., also was almost un-
der water and the river is slowly
rising. Through railway traffic is
suspended, but trains are being ope-
j rated up to both bridges on each side
|NS attempts were being :. made to
transfer passengers.
Suspension of traffic on the two
lines has seriously interfered with
train of other railroads, which had
| been detouring over these routes.
The main line of the Atlantic Coast
Line from Jacksonville to Richmond
still is open.
Washington, July 20-Another
West Indian storm like that which re.
Gently struck the Gulf Coastal Mo
bile and Pensacola, is moving north
ward over the Atlantic $50 miles di
rectly east of Charleston, S. c., Il
may sweep the coast from Virginia
TO Maine should it continue in it's patti
with its present intensity.
Weather Bureau reports by radio
from vessels at sea indicate a winc
velocity of Cd miles an hour to tht
, southwark of the assumed location o
; the storm centre. Strong northeas
winds blowing on the North Carolin;
coast are another indication of th'
strength of the storm. From all re
ports at hand the Weather Burea'
t saws the storm appears to be of pro