The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-07-20
Death Toll Increases
Fifteen Million
Property Damage
Railroads and TeIegraphic Communica-
tons Still Demoralized anb Further
Reports may Increase Both Loss
of Life and Property Damage.

Fifteen persons dead, at least ter
missing and property damage esti
mated at around $15,O0O,O00 is the
known toll of the floods which have
ragged in five southern states for the
past forty-eight hours.
Although the waters are receding
in nearly all districts, railroad and
telegraphic communication still are
demoralized and reports from towns
and villages now isolated may in
crease both the number of deaths and
the property loss.
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia, Tennessee and West Virgin
ia all suffered heavy damage from
the Overlooking streams, swollen by
torrential rains which followed last
weeks hurricane as it swept inland
from the coast but the heaviest loss
was in North Carolina, where eleven
OF the twelve deaths are reported and
where two thirds of the material dam
age was done.
LIST OF KNOWN DEAD
Ednaville. N. c.. Township. Ashe
vile 2. Biltmore 4. Alexander coun-
ty 3. Marshall g. Radford, Va. /.
All but one of the dead were white.
MISSING
Ten Southern railway construction
men who went down with the South
ern bridge near Charlotte.
PROPERTY DAMAGE IN VARIOUS
STATES
The property damage is summar-
iled from the latest reports as fol-
lows:
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville--25 industrial plants de-
strOyed, including cotton and lumber
mills, machine shops and coal and feed
yards. Sixty residences in the lower
part of the city was washed away
and 400 persons homeless with 1,200
out of employment. Power and gas
plants out or commission.
Charlotte-One million cotton spin
dies idle as result of flooded power
plants. Street cars at standstlll
and city in darkness.
Monbo-Monbo Cotton mills demol-
ished. East Monbo, cotton mills dam
aged and $4,000 worth of cotton de-
stroyed.
Alexander County -Alspaugh cot
ton mills washed away Liledon cot
ton mills damaged.
Buncombe- and Madi-
son counties, many mills damaged
and hundreds of persons out of EN-
ployment.
Statesville-B plant destroyed
and Long Island Cotton mills nearby
damaged
Catawba county-Cotton warehouse
with 1,500 bales of cotton carried
away In this county as well as in
Iredell and Alexander great damage
was done to crops and small mills.
Bllmore Many persons driven from
sheir home and mills and crops in
surrounding terriofy damaged.
Marshall Fifty-three homes de-
stroyed.
esville-Many homes flooded.
Hendersonville-T dams washed
out, damage to mills and to crops in
Henderson county.
Lexington Several lumber mills in
surrounding country carried away,
stock killed and crops destroyed.
Cleveland county-Droyo power
dam near Shelby destroyed; crops in
county damaged.
The flooded Yadkin river has de-
stroye6 all communication into Wilkes
county. At Elkin, a town of 1000
population, $200,O00 damage was done.
In the county the loss is estimated
as high as $9.OOO,OOO. Many manu-
featuring plants have been submerged
and Southern railway stations all
along the line are said TO be tlooued
to a depth of from five to fifteen feet
Many bridges have been washed
away.
Five highway bridges, hree in Meek
lenburg county and one ear States
vile ad another near Mooresville, are
known to have been washed away,
while at least six railway bridges
we're destroyed.
The Southern railway lost bridge
near Mout Holly, another near Rock
Hill, another near Salisbury and an,
Air Line bridge just above Belmont
is gone as the result of the Piedmont
& Northern Electric line bridge near.
by.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Crops badly damaged throughou