The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-07-27
A TRIP TO THE YADKIN
Viewing the Results Of the Recent Flood
threat Holes Washed Beside the
River Bed--A Rocking Chair
Bcbbing Up--A Human-
Event Story.

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Event Story.
Sunday the editor and family
motored over the good roads from
Hiah Point to the Yadin river bridge.
there 10 view the results of the re.
cent flood.
The approach to the bridge for
about 1000 yards showed the effects
Of the high water. the corn being
drowned out and large piles of sand
washed over the land, with big gull
lies and holes here aud there, the
land looking like it had been disar-
ranged by the hand of man instead
Of the swirling waters that poured
through the channel of the Yadkin
river and rose for more than 20 fset
high. and spreading for hundreds of
feet on the low lands. The ground
was wet and soggy and the filth of
the flood had found lodgment here
and there presenting an unsanitary
appearance to say the least.
The main part of the bridge is
lust little higher than the highest
embankment on the Dawson county
side of the bridge and this no doubt
saved the bridge as much Of the
water overfowed the banks and
help relieve the strain on the main
current. On the Rowan side the bridge
is trifle lower Chat is figuring the
middle of the bridge divides the
two counties) and here is the only
place the water really covered the
main part of the bridge. On the
Davidson county side the approach
to the main part of the bridge for
about SO feet was washed away,
this short distance being constructed
of wood which already shows the
wear and tear of years by travel
and weather. This has been hastily
reconstructed but on examination
shows it to be none too strong.
The main part of the bridge is
non resting On extra large rock pill
lars; well tcementedx and hIaced with
IRON STRIPS. THEse pillars are ap-
prOximateiy 80 feet in length, 20
feet across and feet in diameter
and it is no wonder they were able
to Withstand the mighty on rush of
water and debris. the accumulation
of myriads of streams as they
foundA their way into the larger
stream. Great piles of logs, boards,
trees, lumber, bales Of cotton and
other things beat against these pill
lars which stood Gibraltar-like
throughout the test of strength be
tween the flood and its toll and the
great pillars of strength.
Passing under the arches of this
bridge were live stock, human be-
ings and almost everything imagina-
bic during the mad rush Of the wa
ters during the recent floods. Hun
dreds of people visited the Yadkin
river front Sunday and Monday
previous expecting to witness the
undoing of this mammoth structure
but little did they reckon the
strength of rocks and steel that
he'd it together and today it is safe
and hardly will another such flood
happen in this generations.
While standing on the bridge and
looking at the water and debris COL
lected around one of the main rock
pillars our eyes rested on something
that looked like a back of a chair
and as the waters churned the con-
glomeration Of wood the chair bob
bed up aud down and pretty soon
the outlines of a child's rocking
chair came to view. Only a little
chair with nothing to indicate where
it came from or the former owner
and to the uninterested nothing to
draw upon the Imagination. But
here, perhaps, was a human event
story speaking out more elOquently
than words in the bobbing up OF
this little rocking chair as the wa
ters sWirled around it and tinaHy
carried it down the stream, onward
to the mighty Atlantic. Perhaps
only few days before some little
f1axen haired girl had sat in this
very rocker and cooed and sang
lullabys to- flaxen haired doll. All
if that little chair could talk-me
thinks it would tell of many happy
moment in home where father
and mother ruled and the little
fiaxen haired occupant was queen
Maybe the little girl who was snatch
ed from the mothe. 5 embrace in that
far away mountain home by the
angry food and carried TO a wa
terry grave that dreadful Saturday
night cf July 18th owned that very
little rocking chair. Who knoWsi