The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-21
TWO cARoLINAs, TWO VlRGlNlAs
AND TENNESSEE SUFFER
FROM STORM.
is DEAD; MANY MISSING
Houses, Bridges and Railway Tracks
In Five States Washed Away Cot
ton Mills suffer-Flood Wa
ters Recedina.

dead, at least 10 missing ana property
damage estimated at around S15,O0Q.-
900 is the known toll of the floods
which have ragged in five southern
states. The list OF known dead:
Ashevtlle 2, Biltmore 4, Alexander
county 3. Marshall 8, Ednaville town
ship, N. c., 2, Radford, Va, /. All but
one of the dead were white.
The missing: Ten Southern Rail-
way construction men, who went down
with the Southern bridge near Char
lotte.
Although the waters are receding in
nearly all districts, railroad and tele.
graphic communication are democrat
lied, and reports from towns and vii
lagos now isolated may increase both
the number OF deaths and the prop
erty loss.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir.
ginia, Tennessee and West Virginia all
suffered heavy damage from the over
flowing streams, swollen by torrential
rain which followed last weeks hurrt
cane as 1t swept inland from the coast,
but the heaviest loss was in North
Carolina, where IA or Is deaths are
reported and where two-Inlrds OF the
material damage was done.
The property damage is summarized
from the latest reports. as follows:
North Carolina.
Asheville. - Twenty-Five industrial
plants destroyed, including cotton and
lumber mills, machine shops and coal
and feed yards. Sixty residences in
the lower part of the city washed away
and 400 persons homeless, with 1900
out of employment. Power and gas
plants out Of commission.
Charlotte.-0ne million cotton spin
dies idle as a result of flooder power
plants. Street cars at standstill and
city in darkness.
Catawba County-Cotton warehouse
with $500 bales of cotton carried
away. In this county, as well as in
Iredell and Alexander, great damage
was done to crops and small mills.
Biltmore. - Many persons driven
from their homes and mills and crops
In surrounding territory damaged.
Marshall - Fifty-three homes de-
stroyed.
Jonesville-Many homes flooded.
Hendersonville.-Two dams washed
out, damage to mills and 10 crops in
Henderson county.
Lexington.-Several lumber mills
carried away, stock killed and crops
destroyed
Cleveland County. - Drove power
dam near Shelby destroyed; crops In
county damaged.
The flooded Yadkin river has de-
stroyed all communication into Wilkes
county.
At Elkin, a town of 1000 population,
s2O0,00 damage was done. In the
county the loss is estimated as high
as 100000.
The Southern railway lost bridge
near Mount Holly, another near Rock
Hill, another near Salisbury and an
other near Belmont. The SeabOard
Air Line bridge just above Belmont is
gone, as is the Piedmont & Northern
electric line bridge nearby.
:. Tennessee.
Newport.-Partly inundated and
many families forced from their homes.
Butler.-virginia & Southern Rail
way bridge washed away.
Thousands of acres of corn and pea.
nuts inundated between Chattanooga
and Padueah. ny, on Tennessee river,
and much crop damage around Dan
bridge.
All railroads in Eastern Tennessee
suffered heavily from washed out
bridges and eulverts.
Virginia.
Four Norfolk & Western bridges at
Galax Branch, on Little Greek extern.
sion. Pepper bridge near Radford and
another bridge near Pearisburg wash.
ed away. Damage in the Pearisburg
district alone estimated at a million |
dollars.
The small town OF Narrows is re-
ported completely submerged.
South Carolina.
Crops badly damaged throughout
Piedmont section and several railway |
bridges, including the Southern bridge |
at Aston, washed away.
Observation-Disclosures and stores
on water front and two lumber mills |
damaged. Seaboard Air Line tracks !
washed out for short distance.
West Virginia.
Crops damaged along Kanawha river
and some damage to railways by wash.
outs and bridges carried away.
British Steamer Hits Mine.