Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-04-07

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Chattanooga Suffers Heavily Itains
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Swell Water Courses EverS,Vhere.
Asheyille, N. c., April HEAVY
rains and high waters last night and 4
to-day did great damage TO many
sections OF Western North Carolina,
the Southern Railway being the hard
est hit. The Murphy division OF ths|ti
Southern is blocked for more thah(
half its distance by, heavy landslidestk
and Washouts. F&%> q s i5y i. \
Trains from AHheville to Knoxyilied
are marooned in the vicinity s OIL
Bridgeport, a small village near News
port, Tenn, Tonight and the fSouth4l
ern has made arrangements to feeda
the passengers and make them COM
Portable for the night. Other. itrains1
due here from Cincinnati IT, /; and thai
West were detoured atf MofristoWiia
and johnson City to the c.. G: &s0.aspt
In Asheville the French Br6adEl
river reached its highest stage, 8t6..d
daylight feet--of any. time sincst
the great food %of 1915, the wateryl
being In the easements OF the JbfgI
factories along. the, waterfront, and \
scores Of families have been cons
PEELED to move out. .:s y z Its!i
HeaVy DVnlaR6, NnOSVluO Sfe&t1OnSiSl
Knoxville, Tenn. April 2. 2.-4FlooIsl
following ususually heavy rains did \
widespread damage In this sectioIt1
last night and to-day. Ten miles of
the Little River Railway G Colnpany's
tracks in the; mountains above Knox-,1
vile were completely destroyed, ! and
from 1b to+20miles morss@ereI either
destroyed or badly damagsd!E. The
damage to the road is estimated at
more than $4,000, and fft5Wilittake.
two mouths or more toysepair0 tins
! damage done. -, & Y v Isss,
The Knoxville and AugJista RaiiZs
way also suffered considerable loss
from washouts and .lost two trestles.
between Maryvllle and Welland and
Maryville and CaulderWooad;NS,s sl 4, I'm fsS
| The Louisville and NashvIlte Ratis
road suffered severe washoilts besI
tween Etowah and Cooper Ssf1ill, !, OH
the Atlanta division, causing oIs
train toGbe annulled and nee cessitats
ing the transfer Fs, Of pass gefs eeh oths
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to-day, and many families were Yofc-;
ed to flee from their homes. LighC
and power plants were out Of COM
'iAAooAohb Civ GlS IO"u WAS
from Knoxville when the high water
covered the railroad tracks.
At Knoxville the Tennessee river
has reported & stage Of % feet, but
soon is expected to begin falling.
Much damage was done by swollen
creeks, the banks Of which are very
thickly populated. Last night and
early this morning police reserves
were called out to assist in bringing
families to safety.
47-FoOt Stage--Boy browns.
Chattanooga, Tenn, April with
47-foot stage of the Tennessee river
predicted. by Sunday night and many
Of the low sections Of the city already:
under water, city officials moved to-
day to furnish relief to flood suffer-
ers. Early to-day motorcycle police
men were sent into all the threaten
ed territory and residents were warm
ed to move out at once. An army tab
ernacle and school buildings have
been set apart for the homeless and
food relief headquarters have been
established at the office of Mayor
A. w. Chambliss.
Numerous manufacturing plants
have already closed down, and virtu-
ally the entire industry will have to
Gease operations on Sunday. Col.
Foltz, in command at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ca, has offered the use of
as many army field kitchens as are
needed in the relief work, but has
stated that he will be unable to fur
nish any troops for relief work.
The first fatality of the flood oc-
Cured this morning when a 16-year-
old boy named Ward was drowned
as his father drove a team over
bank into the swollen waters Of the
Chattanooga creek, near the city.
The father, John Ward, was caught
IN tree, from which he was rescued
by men in boat several hours later.
Two horses we're drowned.
Reports from other sections along
the river show that the food stage
has been reached at Knoxville and
Charleston. above the city, and at
Florence and Riverton, Ala, below
Chattanooga.