The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-17

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BIG DAMAGE BY
/ FLOODS IN DIXIE
CONTINUED from psse u
Kings Mountain. N. c.
| G. C. Kale, B. c. Gully, G. w.
KIutts, derrickmen, Charlotte !,
Andrew Scott, Tom Davis. Daniel
Heath. Sloan Adams and Will Cathey.
| coIored laborers.
| A. B. Blackwell, Western Union line
crew boss.
| William Cooker and r. Ball, Ashe-
vile, and three linemen.
The Seaboard Air Line bridge over
| the Catawba river at Mount Holly
N c., has collapsed as has that over
| the Catawba ON the Salisbury-Ashe-
vile line.
An earth fill at the Lookout power
dam near Shelby broke ard the East
Monde, West Monde, Liladoun and
Alspauge cotton mills are under
water. A wall of water forty feet
high was reported rushing down from
Lookout shoals last night.
Great crop damage to the sur
rounding country is reported from
Spartanburg, S. c.. due to heavy rains
of the last forty-eight hours.
Practically all railway traffic in
southwest Virginia and eastern West
Virginia was tied up yesterday by
slides and washouts.
Two Trains Lost.
ASHEvILLE, N. c., July 1.-Two
Cincinnati bound trains. the Carolina
Special, which left here Saturday
night, and another which left last
night, are~"lost" as result OF the
flood which swept eastern North
Carolina with the loss OF fifteen lives
All railway and commercial tele-
graph lines are down. The dead in
the flood caused by overflow OF the
French Broad river are:
LOUISE CRESSLER, Asheville.
JUCHUS FRAZER, Asheville.
P. w LdPE, Sr., Biltmore.
CHARLOTTE WALKER, Biltmore.
MABEL FOSTER, Biltmore
LOUISE WALKER, Bfltmore.
Three are dead at Hendersonville
and six at Charlotte.
Many bridges were carried away in
the flood and railway traffic is par
alyzed
Danger Of a food famine in Ashe-
vile caused the city authorities to-
day to seize the food supplies. Case
line prices scared to 81 gallon and
the city also seized the entire supply.
More than 500 persons are homeless.
The flood came. so suddenly that
many had to wade from their homes.
Those drowned at Biltmore were
away.
/ Five Hundred Homeless.
| ASHEvHI1R n. c., July IT,
Floods that devastated Biltmore,
model village, on the Vanderbilt es-
tate. have left 500 persons homeless
and have enrolled Mrs. George w.
Vanderbilt and her daughter Cornelia
among the hercfnes In this section
Personally In charge OF the rescue
work on the estate, the mother and
daughter took many grave risks, often
being compelled to wade through wa
tex to their waists to save thmeslves.
The known dead here are:
P W. LPE. SR.
MABEL FOSTER.
| LEM TRCXLER.
| CHARLOTTE AND LOUIS e
WALKER, sisters, all Of Asheville.
William Cooper and r. Bell are
missing.
| Most OF the houses In Biltmore we're
flooded to their second stories and
many families that remained in the
upper stories we're rescued with great
! difficulty.
/ Damage done cotton mills. power
-,znts and lumber mills will total
three million dollars. according to
from communication, however, and it
a k IN n
( damage to machines.
1 Boat cspsizes.
/ CHARLOTTEE, N c., July IL
Grave fears we're felt here this after
,opr tha. q rescue party attempting
+ u szTs the twenty men ensulfed in
Z:1e Cztzw5a river when a Southern
railway t-estle went down last night,
has been lost
The boat earring the rescuers cap
sszsd and Ike the men IN last nights
accident. none OF the rescuers have
sssa found.
: Twenty Bridges Out.
ES1gILTTE, July 11.-With the
ss,-rn Increasing. the Southern rail
way BEGAN concentration OF thousands
~ Es-Sr,en and track WORKERS 10
t-<rz order og1 OF chaos IN the flood
Is rexsoa Trains Fl North Carolina
are .s5t ~. There is ten feet Of
rs-s- cre- che tracks al. Dornah and
e<erso FRET 81 Rockford, The depot
q. c-r.anSest has been swept away.
Soec4zs trains isfsn with rescuerz
-. -Sss city early TO-DAY proyfesd with
z1s.s z.S ezsses. hs-t the torrent OF
~ rfrer -o~ ts. feet higher than
90 ssss1es. uzrk kDo~n IN 80 years,
s. 90, xr1e. 20 permit Of launching the
E1s.s Een WHO ~S1. tcE5 On the
e.ss.ze Las. n.zsl, s=S were Teen cling
k.x 70 trees 81 na4S-stcsazn are rlisG'
snz thar,
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