The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-07-26
The Editors Eris IN The pp-ceIatry.
COLUMBIA. S. c., July 81, 19lt

The Editors Fris IN Tho up-conatry.
COLUMBIA. S. c., July d, 1916
As / am marooned in Columbia and
the outlook is not at all bright about
getting home, I will try and give my
readers an account of the storm in the
up-couutry and the harranging exper-
fences of the writer, which we hope to
never undergo again.
On Wednesday the 18th, l left Man
ming early and drove through to Jones'
vile, Union county, to spend few
days - my family who was visiting
at ;of Mr.. Dan Hydrick. The
ideal going and the seen.
er gr /. 2eipg first on high hill
an t. 30 in a valley. The crops
we. !, ne.,r as good as those in Clar-
endou, but the farmers claimed
they would make good, as their sea ons
are later, though we are afraid to see
our fields now, for from the meagre re-
ports we have seen in the papers from
all over the Pee Dee, we feel sure our
fine crops are all but ruined. I have
not seen a line in any paper from Man
ming (The best town in the world
though I hope every thing is alright
down there, and that I will get back
some day, and when I do, will not want
to see railroad for long time again.
After getting to Jonesville and resting
up couple of days, offered Mr.. and
Mrs. Hydrick and Mrs. Appel and kid
dies trip to Saluda for day. At six
o'clock Friday morning the sun shin
ing beautifully our party got in "John
Henry Ford" and proceeded to "do"
the mountains and other scenery along
the way. We went to Spartanburg,
and OF course. the ladies seeing great
things IN city show windows had to
stop and shop little, Tor may be they
Just looked.) However after about
forty minutes delay we travelled some
more and here is where you 60 through
some of the prettiest country imagined.
After going through several towns we
came to Tryon, which is situated at the
| foot of the Saluda mountains, and from
there on you can see the great mounds
of earth, rock and trees hundreds OF
feet high. The road through the
mountain was good, though very mar
row, and for about six miles we were
twining around the mountalo, and on
one side, the rock stood hundreds OF
! feet above US, while on the other side
we would be at least two hundred feet
above the river with only few feet
margin, and while all this beautiful, TO
! look down almost directly under the
car wheels and see this great fathom,
made fellow little nervous. Well,
we got TO Saluda and after spending
few hours with Mrs. Harrin and Miss
Loulie, who are conducting boarding
house there. we bade them good bye,
expecting to get back to Jonesville be-
fore right, but just as we left the rain
started to fall and when we reached
the mountain the road was gettiEg
slippery, and all precaution had to be
used TO keep from. going overheard,
when we got out, the whole party gave
"a sigh of relief. The rain continued to
fall and when within about ten miles OF
Spartanburg the wind started to blow,
and when we got in the city there was
strong gale blowing, and darkness
closing in on US, we saw we were up
against proposition. but not knowing
we were in the grip of terrible storm,
we contin,-ed our journey. The road
from Spartanburg to Jonesville is all
clay and in lots of places the car cut
down to the axles, but luck was with
US and Henry pulled as he never pulled
before. In fact, this trip was made
practically in low-gear, a distance OF
| twenty three miles, and we reached
home about elevon o'clock, all wet, as
the wind drove the rain right through
the curtains, but after good rubbing
down, we went to sleep, and next
morning all felt good, the kids not
even taking cold.
The wind howled all night and the
rain fell in torrents, this kept up for
thirty three hours, abating Saturday
afternoon late. | was to come home
Sunday, but seeing the water was too
high and the roads so sloppy, abandon
ed nv car and took the train, and have
not reached my destination yet. From
all accounts am as badly water-bound
as ever. The only outlet l can get IS
TO 60 to Lugotf on train and paddle
across the Wateree riven in a canoe.
like padding in Home Lake, but not
in a raggirg river of two miles with
waves knocking the boat all around.
However, with not being able to go
out on a train until next week, l will
take my CHARGES tomorrow OF boating
or swimming the Wateree.
On Sunday when I boarded the train
at Jouesville, was told that the trestle at
Broad River was intact. so left on
schedule time, but when we reached
Carlisle, which is about six miles from
the river, the conductor had orders to
hold up, the trestle was giving away,
and some of the roadbed was washed
up. We stayed there until 3 O'Clock
tout in the sticks) with nothing 10 eat,
save some lemon snaps and coca cola
bought from a negro shop. We were
then sent back to Spartanburg, dis
tance of forty miles, and were to be de-
toured around by Charlotte, that being
the only outlet, but before the tram
could be ulade up, wire came Ina!
the bridge over the Catawba river had
gone TOO. taxing twenty people down
the surqinc stresm and TO their death
In the Spartanburg yard there were
thirty or forty trains, standing as help
less as a baby, fol- every road was ther
blocked and all they could DO was tc
stand and pop off steam. l went oack
TO ,Jonesville, but owing to my family
being four miles out in the country
and vehicle to hire an inpossibl'ity,
had to sleep on crosstie, but got back
out to Dams Monday for dinner. Stay
inc out there until Wednesday, made
another attempt to get home, and am
still attempting. I went back to Spar
tanburg, then to Greenville and back
to Newberry on the Southern. There
we took the G. n and L. to Columbia,
making this trip in twenty hours lwhen
we should have run it in fourl. have
had some experiences, but this trip
caps anything I have ever been uE
against. OF coarse, there are hundreds