The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-07-18
SERIOUS FLOODS
SWEEP CAR0L|NAS
MANY PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED IN
RIvERs-LAR0E NUMBER RE-
PORTED DEAD.
ESTIMATE LOSS S10,o0o,ooo
Five Known Dead In Ashevilie and
Biltmore.-Western North Carolina
Hit Hard.-Power Lines Wrecked.

Biltmore.-Western North Carolina
Hit Hard.-Power Lines Wrecked.
Charfotte.-Serious floods in North
Carolina. South Carolina and Virginia
Sunday caused five known deaths
with 1S others known to be missing
and rendered hundreds homeless, dam.
eyed property and crops to the extent
OF 10000. 900 according to first esti.
mates and demoralized railway, tele-
graph and telephone communications.
Following the hurricane that struck the
South Atlantic Coast unprecedented
rains have fallen. driving rivers and
smaller streams from their banks and
fmperdlling many lives.
What are said to be the worst
floods ever known in the Catawba.
Broad and Yadkin Rivers did untold
damage in the territory within ra-
dius OF so miles Of Charlotte with the
possible loss of IS lives.
Just above the Southern bridge.
over the Catawba at Balment. the
Piedmont & Northern Interurban
bridge and the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad bridge at Mount Holly were
washed away Sunday afternoon and
night. Farther up the river. near
Mooresville and Statesville. two high
way bridges went out, while at Ca
tawba, the Southern's bridge on the
Salisbury-Asheville line, was washed
away
At Monbo. below Catawba, the
West Monbo Cotton Mill OF 5000 spin
dies. is under water and believed to
have been washed away, and the East
Monbo Mill. across the river. is prac-
tfcal1y submerged. while a cotton
warehouse with 400 bags OF cotton has
been washed away. Still further up
the Catawba, the Nledoun and Ais
paugh Mills are under water.
The damage to these mills is laid
to waterspout in Alexander county
that caused a section OF the earth
embankment of the Lookout Shoals
power plant of the Southern Power
Company to give away adding Is feet
OF water to the already more than 20
foot tide in the Catawba. That volume
Of water also caused the last two or
three Of the bridges to go.
The Dravo Power Company's dam
on Broad river near Shelby went out
late Sunday Afternoon, menacing the
Southern Power Company's plant near
Blacksburg. S. c., and cutting off the
electric supply for Spartanburg and
the textile towns surrounding that
city. The Southern Power Company
however. may be able to meet this de-
mand
Near Winston-Salem, the town OF
Rondo was cut of from the outside
world for several hours until a tele-
graph operator, flooded out of his Of
fee, carried his instruments to a high
hill and cut in on a telegraph wire
Trains cannot be gotten to North
Wilkesboro and will not be operated
west Of Donagha for some time be-
cause OF the tide on the Yadkin river.
which is eight and one-half feet higher
than known in 43 years. A Southern
Railway train supposed to have left
North Wilkesboro Sunday afternoon
has not been heard from. while one
that started from Winston-Salem to
that town had to stop at Elkin Resi-
dents Of Jonesville and adjacent
The French Broad River broke from
its course near AshevilIe, flooding fac.
tories and homes in the lower part
of the city. At Biltmore three per-
sons. Capt ]. c. Lipe, Miss Nellie Lipe
and Mrs. Leo Mulholland were drown
ed when the Lfpe house was flooded
Two persons were drowned at Ashe-
Vile while trying to put food into the
upper story Of the Glenp Rock Hotel.
Many are marooned in their residences
along the river and rescue parties for
hours have fought their way against
the rushing current in an effoM to
reach them.
Swift streams of water are flowing
down some of the streets Of lower
Ashevihe. The Southern Railway sta
ton is flooded to a depth Of six feet
as are all othes buildings in that vicin-
ity. The city proper. 300 feet higher,
Is without lights. but otherwise is not
Affected.
Industrial plants everywhere suf-
fered severely. property loss in cot
ton mills. woodworking plants and
lumber yards along the French
r Dad and Swannanoa Rivers was
estimated at from $1,5OO00O to g..
100000.
From Hendersonville came a report
that placed the property loss in Hen.
derson county at approximately ST.
100000. The plant OF the Henderson.
Vile Light & Power Co was put out
Of commission and the city reservoir