Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-18
TWENTY LIVES
LOST y. " )! - J
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Damage Estimate at From
100000 to $15,-
100000
RAILROADS HARD HIT
Scores of Bridges Carried Away,
Tracks Washed Out and Telegraph
Lines Demolished

Raleigh, N. c. July 1S.--Twenty
persons are known to have perlshed
lin the storm which swept North
Carolina, according to delayed dis
patches reaching here this after
noon.
Raleigh, N. c., July 18-Flood
waters which wept parts OF North
Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
Tennessee and West Virginia, tax
ing toll of at least II lives, render
ing hundreds of persons homeless
and doing property damage varlously
estimated at from $1O,OOO,OOO to Sl5,-
100000 are receding.
The worst conditions obtained in
western North Carolina where the
flood was described as. the most dis
astrous in the history of that section
Beween Asheville and Salisbury
railroad bridges were washed out on
Catawaba river and further south
along the same river railroad and
| highway bridges were carried away
and tracks were placed under water.
Sawmills and other property as wei!
as livestock suffered throughout this
section.
Similar conditions obtained on the
Yadkin river around Lexington, N.
EC.. and dead animals, -wEeckage from
mills, cotton, tobacco, oil and other
debris flcated down the raging stream
In the Piedmont section of South
Carolina crops suffered great damage,
highway bridges were washed away
and railroad service was badly inter
rupted. The Southern Power Com
pany's plant near Spartansburg was
flooded, tying up the interurban line
between Spartansburg and Greenwood
and Gastonia and Charlotte.
Asheville, N. c., July 1S-The
death list from the flood that oyer
whelmed this section of North Caro-
lima Sunday was increased to eight.
Reports from Madison county said
two lives were lost and that SO houses
were demolished in Marshall. The
water was receding yesterday and
M moro fears ara entertained f0i
the breaking of the dam at Lake
Toxaway.
The body of Miss Charlotte Wal%e'
nurse was found today at Bill
more. Miss Mabel Foster, another
nurse. and Miss Louise Walker, alsc
llost their lives at Biltmore. These,
| with the death of Lonnie TreAter, a
white laborer, and Luther Frazier, o
negro. brings the list to eight.
Seventy five families, mostly cot
tonmill workers, residing in the low
er sections of Ashevile lost their
homes and are being cared for by a
cirizens' relief committee.
Asheville still is without gas or
electric power. and the price of gaso-
line had gone to 81 a gallon. City
officials 'confscated the entire supply.
+, No trains left yesterday and none ar
rived.
Miss nellie Lipe and Mrs. Leo Mul-
| holland, reported drowned when the
homc of their father. J. C. Lipe, al
Fillmore. was washed away, were
found tied in the top of tree, ae'
e cording to reports received here. Nr
) reports of further loss of life have
been received.
! The Swannanoa and French 3r"ao
rivers are falling rapidly.
Conservative estimates of flood
damage place the figures at $4,000,
600 in Ashevile and an additiona
81 100000 in Buncombe county:
Twelve hundred persons are w:sh
6 out employment and it will be day
before their employers can open tn
factories and mills along the frencl
Broad river front.
Salisbury, N. c., July 1S-Report
from Statesville said three childre
were drowned in Alexander count
when farmhouse was undermine
and swept away by the Catawb
river.
Columbia, S. c., July 1s-River
: throughout South Carolina continue t
overflow their banks, causing tn