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r i ["HE Lan< "AST ifeii - *, ' ? . 4 FR N IF.WS n V VOL. 11, NO BIGGEST AND BES OF BRIDGES 79, SEMI-WEEKLY. T{ I The Southern Railwa f /otte-Atlanta steel brldgi !Catawba near Belmont v l-lIML Taway by the flood at 5: UUI1L I I afternoon.. A dozen mi LANC, :" ~j Six LIVES ( vac carried " v 35 a":'z DV mroTCDii \stER, s. c.| i pEsEEl i oiucDt? ciurn nv MB wmm L916. Airy inr duth op /. ot 111LII nllL The'entire coun ________ early Monday mor urnnnrn iP>rm?H mi llfi r m VlM "T,r: "i?niioiur iO A YEAJtt. NEWS it 1 DAOT UfTCir Southern. Seaboard. Int and County Bridge Catawba in Meet County Swept Awa) Mighty Waters. Man puted to have been loet Division Chief Engineer arurban nance J?e Kiiiian. eiuiuan At Mount Holly, the Se s Over iLine stee bridge, the steel bridge and the co ilenburg way 8teel br|dge were I by the fSunday afternoon. Drlf ? nthorc cumulated against the yUlllulb %hen against the Intert , including t ui ncaitnn of Malnte, , aboard Air Interurban YOUNG WOMEN RE! unty high- TREES WITHOUT smashed twood ac-; INJURIEI Seaboard, irban and I raicno OHO Dl SCUCO FROM THIRTEEN ARE Kl W SERIOUS A8 RESULT A1 L . BRIDQ * a - ju I IiLUniJLUi on of the North nicnity had passed night. He had b MOWN MISSING f?r *he Pa8t 8everl death came as a I BELMONT friends thrroughoi iE. the State. J. Clark Robinsi this community Ji Lancaster com- j 1 tway during ihei ? *en in Hi, health STOR.f A .... il month*. yet nis SIUKM AND blow to his many it this suction or ? j To Close S(o on was born in' in? Week mi ine 29. 187r, he- * K ai i rnoi nun ? HEAVY RAIN res at 0s30 Dorid 10 O'clock Go. MANY COTTON MIL ARE UNDER 1 <>early Sunday night af ' county bridge, all being These three bridge* wer I _ tlvely new and represer I \ vestment of more than The $100,000 reinforce WATFR highway bridge at Sloan'; f T fl I Ll\ . covered and reported goi i Dravo Power Co. dan tlon on Broad river w lalnst the ; I WATERS ARE NOti torn away. e compara ited an in-" $125,000. Mllea of Railway Ti d concrete Away.?Preparations b ferry was Rebuild Bridges Wr Flood. n and sta Washed Auhpvllla?.rinnilnil I RECEDING 1,000,000 SPINDI <* > racks Washed F'lood Damage Grew Are Begun to mated at $20,000,00 ecked By the Are Flooded and T Workers Are Idle. wnUri nf Ihu rhnrlnlln Raul/lor i r* ARF IDLE Ulg forrty-?ne >e* LE5 Ant IIILt dayg oH at the t, 1 He vrai married ti ! sar January 12. 1 ' Greater, Cetl- jv|ved by h|? wife 0.?Power Plant* t,vp boyg one gtr houeanda of Mill ui? haul. James CI Hartow CraiJf an ' father, 8. D- Hot . ? T~ irs and seventeen SatardtT line of his death. 0 Miss Eula Cou- mmunit: He is sur_ S"n< *y by a hea and six children, "(1 wh,ch dld r I. vter Latha?, , e nor,heaste *rk< Jr.. David. town vl8 H Margaret; hie ' " f.h 1 about 9:3( >lnson. and three I!a" and a,so a cy f Nifcht*. ! I y wan visited last vy rain and strong nuch damage. ?rn Part of our lit* tited last Sunday > by a* heavy rainclone, tirte latter do wamsge to concrete Dims a Stations is Immense.?Sev Along Catawba Under Wires Down and Comn Broken at Many Places.?' vice Demolished. The Catawba rampant, wi flooding cities and towns a1.il>.. I ... ? 1 ind Power! Taway early near Gaffney eral Milla The C. A N. W. st< Water. across Catawba near Rh ported washed away, tunication . _ . _ I The dam at Osceola Train Ser , 8CVen years ago, by Hen ! capital, burst early Sur ;; Ing. th waters Z..Kanuga lake dam own situated [Stephens of Charlotte I S. C. French Broad and Swn sel bridge wer# rapidly receding odhlst re- t|on ?f denlte reports ; | show a startling uggr lake, built a|fe anli suffering In t* dersonville leys. As nearly as co? iday morn- t,,i tjlP net results of tb were: ed by Geo. gjx lives lost, broke Sun- Sixty residences was mnanoa Rivera soph Klllian, Section but compila- Thompson of Balmon received here ley nml George C. K egate of dam- members of the der teir fertile val- rescued from the tun lid t>e eetlmat* Catawba by Fofts 1 e flood Sunday St owe, negro bortsn two miles below th Southern Railway b hed away. I counting for four of T, l<rothera: D. R Foreman R. C. ., . . ~ t. and H. C Cur-1Hobinson aml *w< ale of Charlotte. 'Hovd ('ral? -v rick crew, were P'lnoiafc^ervicw ;ld waters of the home at 2tin o'clc toss and P. II. (noon by hi* pastor nen, at a poiut terson. and Interc e wreck of the |?h. Tlie pull bea rid^e, thus ac- Robinson, A. B. T the reDorted 18 ?>> ^ . . Mark and E. L. i . ?r (,ama? > sifters, Mrs. J. ? to the h(?m? Irs. Allen Adams. ' vere held at the r rhPr* was ?n< >ck Mondav after-! fari,lers w,v?* w \ Rev. W. S. Pat- fr,,?htenpd untiI ' nent was at Shi-|?Ut.and I erg were: W. p. |un,il storm i tobinson. R. C. ^r' Ash? to iinnn kl. t 1 I <o to the crops and 3 of the icood farm? of the very best f \ he was so. badly she talked of folnf In the potato house was over. ? will soon he ready ?.ivsiib ii.-) i/a 11 iv n, MilllUtTKIII ' cotton mills and manufact tei prises almost without smashing great railway an<J bridges spanning its tei course, twisting great trees ing incalculable daango, ri to the millions, such was t of the mogt destructive t ever visited the Piedmont : the CarolinnH A? itwtnvii ti K iiuuseu, {day morning about 10:31 urlng en- J One man and two wor number, led by the rising waters a I highway J just below Asheville. upestuous * Railroad service out o i and do- I to North and South Care mging in- Is at a standstill, he rec ord A big dam at Lake To lood that ?carried away, sect ion of I Hundreds of thousan loc ock. Four hundred peopk nen drown- Twelve hundred w it Biltmore, ment Twentv-ttve indu?trii f A.Hevllle (,ally ,,Mtroyed Una points,. Complete tio-up of i i, wtth one exception. xaway was Property )i>bs Slft.onn . <> Workers in cotton i ds of dol-,, bef plunta ,n Buncom ) homeless# who were swept awa; ltlu?trt. employ- Sunday afternoon \? i rew. attempted savei id plants par- bridge at Catawba. 1 city, passed downstr railroad traffic lapse of the middle s 9. line structure. .000. Thirteen Unaeci Tiilla and lum- According to the 0 be. Henderson of Claim Aeent P.'l. V at 6:30 o'clock ^ ^ocn hen a derrick and J Boyd CrBt rs of the'railway A ,ar*e number 1 miles from the Parts of the count earn with a col- funeral procession pau of the main the ch*tirch reached length. >unted For. He was a life lo' iffii ial statement Shllo^i Assoc iate 1 Ward, the list teraln ehurrh in ci rane, j.uo. Adams ",a ""Ke K, n?en If you want of people from all Mr' Ashp ,8 the ly attended. The ITis *moke stack from the home to b,own down Sum I nearly a mile In ?' ,bIs ancl the fi Is full of water o* member of iho ter> he has not b< lleformed Presby-;t,lls week b"t he ililrh h? orythlne In read! Kim or brirks and to buy Rood brick, man to buy from, tojiis plant wu lay and on account ict that his clay pit from .the high wasen able to run any will iootf have ernr>Q? ? ' u stream sought to shake its< mighty protest against tin superhuman efforts of mat scribe its course and limit lties it gave an exhibition most irresistible power whi ed in many mighty steel bridges going down; three, possibly five or six state ai highway bridges, including u >uihii<} inns wui in ui urnocr ri ilf in one j ried down the Yadkin 9 almost *day. i to con-1 I Embankment fill at tl its actlv- T dam broke at 5:30 Sun of its ul * noon, sweeping away th i ll result t Monbo mill, the East ? railway * house with 400 bales of < four and T West Monbo Mill and Its tid county Idles are submerged. Eai till! newJ I half iuhm?rn?H , *i> and Madison counties 11 r Sun{ for hero. Nearly $10 " aorlbed here for rellel le Lookout ? . _ tlood sufferers. Ashevllle at ill was e o est anj electric power Moi tide ware- _ . , . . , _ ' gae and electric plant cotton. The .. . , ..... . . c ... , flooded. Milk and ice 5.000 spin-,, it Monbo Is Four Drowned at On the famous Vm ire being eared of 13 Southern ampU .000" was sub j yet unaccounted for. I work among j H. p. Griffith, aupei j married, wife and flvi without light \v. L.j Fortune, a ?ilay night, the Kings Mouatain, man a having been | children, wero scare*. C. S barboo, aectio Blltmora. lotto, married; wife i -xlerblYt estate I jyea who are aa tlctently served as Is as follows: years. He was i rvisor. Charlotte, North l^ineaster ? cblldrem took great Interei action fdhsman. n,a(tpni He wnB ted, two or three sjv(, farmer, ,alwaJ ? foreman. Char- int('rept ,n 'he n,?r md several chll- of *he r"UI ltidge Farm" w;is dea?on for many makin* the pood i trustee of the >ou want to bu; chnol and always'W e or caI! h,m ?t la educational !p,a^e* a most progres-, business e >p taking a great ,ftave decid?>d to icurtaral Improve- tflrou?h the week ity. His "Oalrifjturday n'?hts c one of the finest! a11 are *,ad - av n" uack lO brick again. If Y brick from him, i at his boarding Qen of our town close their store* : at 6:30 and on it 10 o'clock sharp, to see them trr to steel bridge at Mount H0II3 cording to reports the eleg 000 bullt-for-the-ages relnfo crete structure at Sloan's 1 partial submersion of dozei ton mills unfortunately lo< close to the hanks of the such as the East and We Mills, near Statesvlll W001 Mount Holly Mills at Muu r, and ac> A waterspout on Lit ant $100.-1 near Taylorevllle In reed con- county, swept away a flo "erry, the some of the tenant hous is of cot , merged.. Part of the Lll rated too . is submerged and the All ( stream, is covered with several st Monho ter. 1 law 11 and The Southern Rallwa) nt Holly ; | Catawba broke. tie River, ' near here and In the Alexander ! more. laid out by the 1 ur mill and Vandefbllt. the passim ea are tub- showed heavy damage, ledoun mill In Blltmore were swop ipaugb mill w?h here that four 11 feet of wa- | while two women tied t " tree and were reatut t bridge atar/pe quantities of hay out at the Vanderbilt ei village of Bllt ) r W. Kluttt. d ate George W. Charlotte, 34 or 35 t of tkc flood j r'e<*. '?ur children; Many hou^ai j ?'*ht years. >t away and It J- Gordan, car v?a wore loot, lotto, not Mnarrled, h?aee{*es to a ?M. father very old a >d e<*t day.; **' the scone of were washed r Andrew Soott, coloi i' t/ .100 aero* J Hill, S. C.. ace un! errlck employe. iJoror Jersey hoc ( years old; piar- anywhere, six months to j. ciark Rol. use lilal citisen of ^hoi iMpector. ch?-.<ihoulil , .boot 86 r~r. Ad entirely tare accident. sympathtklnp ieif ed laborer. Rock voted Christie *e Known, probably ^wnys eo lived *Vat armq to be found , out nf ,he s the week go the; >n was n aubstan- J**1? soc'*l Part c Qi Any communltv "lore than glad t< : a devoted hus- Saturday night at dlovU* father: a Can Ket UP on St thbo# and a de- oe on Wxuo at ch? utlennn. He al-l The mpn>bers l?^?.>rd was its r>?*nion?tratlon cl. - tore soon through y can get out Into >f life and we are > see them close on , 10 o'clock so they inday morning and irch. of the Van Wyck 11b were very much I / " " arid " efious oditeMTami-^Ti roads. crops, houses, timber not be estimated at this tin One of those who had several fierce Ohio and 5 floods iikeued the Catawba the tributaries of those str iiif? the flood tide of their sway, when there was not onnlil if< furv * nnii>M?ay bMdv* tMat Can- Stateivltle and Nawton ae. [\ ing the day. witnessed . Th? Ilsslsslppl ,w"n Moc"'"v"" *"d one of W" earns dur1 The Southern Power C irreatlble I i ??T h?u*" I.I..K <hat ; S"oal. Catawba. Nlnet Thp rlnm. :,and8 a"d tHe 8te8m P,an ? between ' of corn Is reported coi broke dur- and many of the suppl UMisiVe farm 'operatlo bridge be-" have to be replaced. Llncolnton,, Rebuild Bridges ompanyre- rharlotte. - Vice *taiV00k?U.t ' Thonsason of the Pledi y * 4 ern Rall^av staled thi t at Mount . h rer?*wlth ,tfr ' Ofc-lnU., ies for the ex Tom Uavls. colored na there will N- c 49- marr one-half mile from six children .oldest . _ vears. Thi? man hna at Once. . , viof for many years. Preeiderft B. ? Dan|ei Heath, culo nont St North- 23 yeara. residence it the Interur juneau on Bob Catli nvrpnt fr?r thn ? .. . ? _ _ _ _ n j laborer. Junaau. never known to pn led, live* about crooked" net towai Juneau, five or as a reeult his fri being about 15 Truly, it can be sa been In tba aar u HS A MAN." red laborer age NoTKS |.U(|M X|11 13 mi lee fif >m lev farm. Wife. , , \lr 11 nt lor ,bv; d Uu ??- wei art Ice s ^^jTor!*n,ra **"*? rda any man, andj*?n Was not pros ends were many, i'11" we are a" 'n id of him that he'be *ith us at 01 As Miss Creight Mrs. J. M. Yode : Mil,I. VIMyAGi: ?,Ir Falr Asaocia the meeting and r. u lui t> >a Kthel Vauehan r mesday afternoon Jl *1hat "Miss ent at the meeting ' \ hopes that she will J ir next meeting. on was not there, r, the president of tlon. presided over the Secretary, Miss pn H K ?* ? * age to the immense coner anil power stations of the Power Company on the could not be figured but it Into the hundreds of thoi dollar;- No big dam was away but the power houses description were flooded, tailing operations and of t tailing much injury to niacli ? i Holly partially subme ete damn 1 power dam8 have yet be Southern t y C atawba 1 The fjoocj j,as eclipsed will ninjte more than 100 years. Uganda of t l washed *- * i of every excessive. At Labora thus <ur- Shoals, Ia>nK Shoals, 1 ourse en- elsewhere, the loss was o linerv and ?? .. ? . .1 broken bridge at Mour ten washed I .. , , ... 1 7 that steps would be 1 ?l . to replace this. He i the record I , , . . J was nlreudv wiring foi | would begin reconstru * ^ery earliest possible n tory, High An ^"K'?eer of the larden and W?K a' Mount Hoi! 'stimated in- ,'u* situation there witl ------- luiititiiiir iTint bridre ucssie. ana one cnim, it Hollv and siuau Adams, colt taken at once yearn old married, idded that he house. Charlotte. material and will Adams, colore iction a* the Qf Sloan. tuarrlet aoment iiIItc with his wife. Seaboard Air H|ster. Carrie Forg ly to look over strPet. i a view to re jOIU Anhwood, t ?l._ 1.1.. O" "I'1 , a oauy. ? ?rod laborer. 20 very ill with typhc lives in section better. Master John b d laborer, brotb- been very sick, is 1. but does not Misa Hennio S; Boards with his boon sick for gom( uson. on First ' ;n>r. olored laborer. Mr- E,! ?riffin v i vvif? I'aKeland this wee >i(1 fever, is som-' 'nr ?,ir l*air so Hio community w [night, who has ;,ro expected to much hotter now. busy at once anders, who has ^'r- A. Hyat ? time, is improv- AJonday afternoo work with the isited relatives in ^' "st Company's k. AV. X. Ashe m me priicrum that everyone In ill know what they do. We must all t left for I*ancaster n to finish up his Farmers' Rank & i now building, ado a hiisin???e equipment. At Lookout S miles north of Statcsville, had washed over and cari a great embankment till o tawba side which, while i part of the pressure on proper, turned loose such i water that the old West M below, with its 5.000 spin submerged and the Last M honls, 12 the wuter Tin* Dravo Power Co rleil away anil iwwrr station on the n the Ca- near (iuliney wa? carrie t relieved monstraMiig that the Cata the tluni alone in its demonstratlo * flood of power. At Ninety-Nine I onbo Mill l>r> to 20 ndles below, tin dies wns tumbling across the top onbo new , of the Southern Power C nilUtt. , " " General Manager Th mpany dam that ho had gotten wort It road Itiver the South Carolina div d away, de- everything was In wba was not though the water In th n of mighty w&s the highest on rec< slands some 5 water was Tracks Washed of the dam ftt&tosville. N C.?'T ompany sta the Catawba river havt inuimuij ?? r?' 3 "*v omason stated jjTea a( Mdtee. 9. C. 1 through from Evans IJrown, 21. iiiion ami that 9iU|(ie, Hodman. S. f >d shape. al- aj,iy uvea at Rodman e Saluda river Julius White, culoi ord. 2R. Wife living In lotte. Away. I 1,000,000 SpindU he waters of | Some conception o 8 receded as ! ,xr ?h.? <i?vu?tni tn?? < "Mr. \V. 1$. Adam colored laborer, Sunday morning. Mother prob- Uev. Wvlip Cat. the members of th? red laborer, age Second Baptist chi Brooklyn, Char- mornlnp nf n oV . . Miss Acnes Flvi > Affected. f the magnitude th<* ',ast w,'f'k nnt;oiiin>ii('fa of Mr. R. S. Snipes * was seriously ill ,n 'took Hill Th Mr. R. c. Yod ?< will proaoh to ,nP Charlotte ? Woodmen at the Mrs. R. jo uroh next Sunday ''a?p'?ter. N'anry, look. f'ie past week w nn has been siok '** Nesbit. Mrs. O. S. M i is still in bad sP?*nt Monday ursdav. er made a business Friday. Sharp and little of CokoaburK. spent ith her sister, Mrs. assev of Waxhaw with Mrs. R. H. mill directly across the rive put under water, he wurel flooded and hundreds upon of hags and hales of cotto away. Passing down the river, hoard Air Line bridge at M( was the first to hreak, the n being smashed which drop ??t/v /.At.?r?1 ottn iifl T ni r partially, tion hut not doing any louse was of damage when last ) hundreds' The power house had be n washed ?d hut this damage can j The Hroad was far ahead l ?ver known before In th the Sea stream. >unt Holly ( liddle pier' Officials of the Soutl ped down Company did nothing bfl to. I.. ll.? Hal*.? A I vast amount rapidly as they rose ar leanl from ' only al>out normal. I u submerg- information of damage be rectified flooded stream has bee of anything cause of the destruotio e history of and telegraph wire* an j to orosa the larger .s ? ! which bridges have 1 1 . f h (l ' The train which left Wh !. Wilkesboro and had a id are running the Kr??Rt Hood may dttlo additonal ti,0 statement that tl i done by tlie er Company annullet n received be- secondary power co 11 of <te4ephone rut 0ff the juice froi d the inability 000,000 spindles loca dreams along 0rai territory. All >een destroyed. I have their steam pLar isloa-Salom for j)e ahle to resume op Ince be?-n iin- d.-hiv if thev ao el be gleaned from health, le Souhern I'ow- Mrs. Will Hat to i service to all sick the past wee nsumers which Mrs. pock Barto m more than 1,- fives in the county ted in this genot II,.,. mill. M U,1NE (<mrs , its and they will icrations without act. Of couraa Masscy. n has boon vorv The many frie k. master aro glad n is visiting rola- Improving fi Misses (lortrui lysville, who is [>j> mor school at l'K< TI\>: WOPtv ^nt Monday wi II. Massov. II nds of our post, to sav that he is rom his operation, tie Oliver of Greeattending the sumWinthrop Collese, th Mr. and Mrs. R. *.c I) uic i ?? u ixwtiai n|iann. ua1 afternoon at 5:3f? the South' main-line bridge aeros* the near Belmont, on the dir through to Atlanta, went i shook carrying a force of engaged in seeking to rell of the driftwood pressure lower end of the bridge. T was built about 12 years agi pni'unlotl flu nna r?f tlio )io I*TI ill IHC : ll^lilft nuiui n. ni 1AHIHIM urn's steel was higher than pvor bef ! Catawba tlwre are no records} In ect route years thnt approach the down, the ell. The dam was con workmen withstand anything imai ieve some such a flood as this was r on the ered. The fact that th< liis bridge of reinforced concrete \ o and was stand was a splendid trl ut cm tfiA U'nrl/ i\f tfin fiuif rurtnru ii me wilier _ _ . # ore. Indeed hwird from ,B m over 100 Thf> orcw of thf* ' present lor- thp maU Herk*' 1 strueted to Wllkesboro to Taylors finable but nn,rh of tho 20 m"?* by lever consld- *? StatMirtlle on train *i 3 great pile ?ton-SalMn. The tralnn vaa able to tho 1rn,rk w*a Pr<>bnb,y Ibute to the mUM betweon Wilkerfb ir,.\ eton-Salem and will pr d ait Wilkes- those in the actual 1 train, including not be able to do an: heir way from an(\ maybe months trills, traveling j ?? foot and en me 10.000 GERMANS TA a route to Win-1 PRISONERS IN S irn stated that destroyed for | London.?The Ttritit oro and Win- additional German pr obnbly require Somme region and br looded area will Washington. Jul rthing for week* t , jt< reputation as gle factor for poac I'nited States Ma OMME BATTLE ,ho ,oss of :i few , wounded. has quiel <h have cai?turcd quelled the latest isaners In th? Domingo, and witl ought their total undue parley has .Mr. Stephen F y 11 ?Id ring up jg spending a wh i th'- greatest son- jiere e in America. the Rev j y Da' rine -'ei-ps. with ^ District Oonferei m?*n killed and Master Otis W tlv and effectnnliv ,an(1 Tom -\v revolt in Santo vrry painful arc Uout time lost in ternoon by cuttlr forced the nbelU r? lowell of Kershaw ile with his friends i . .-is is attending the ice in Lancaster. ilson. son of Mr. ilson. met with a ident Tuesday af- ( ir his foot with an line. * The Tnterurhan new nil st at Mount Holly went out ji when nil telephone ronnet the river was lost. This 1 almost inevitable when the bridge / fell, thus superlmj the pressure on fho alread burdened structure below. I that designed It. eel bridge A dramatic Incident Ir ibout 8:P>0 with the breaking of th Hon with trestle In the afternoon m >reak was once of at least a hundi Seaboard spectators along the trestl losing all moments before the eras ly heavily some wiseacre gave war Tho re- close proximity of dangei months of repair worl train ran make Its ret i connection Mr tannery of C. C. Sm e Seaboard Wilkesboro was swept ? ras the pres -ed or more East Tennessee I le Just a few Knoxville. Tenn ?Tji h came, but nessee felt its first effe< nlnR of the Una storm when the nil and nearly tains let loose floods of k before their Bince July 1 up to urn trip The 10.77D men of other oot and FW>n at tion 17 heavy and 13 iway. have fallen Into Drlti their perod. Flooded. i Many attacks by iper East Ten* against the Italians ts of the raw- poefna Valley provet ie Ridge Moun- bending back the lint water tha/t put, who, In a rounter attat 1S9 officers and chieftains to lay ranks. In addl- ;irHj return to peat 3 lighter guns Chris(1 ah hands during atatos M the Austrian* ,r?l ,ho pntir" In the upper "a't> an,l Santo I ! unavailing in ated. an<l that ro s of the Italians, without serious k in which there loss of life it is cl MA,. 1/1 , ijjr nrur down their arms to tircs8 the wou ;eful pursuits, ae- noA- doing very Master Julius arines now eon- fovv uf h)S friendi island on which m?r on Monday. )oniingo are situ- Miss Eva Mas ntrol was gained Hill Tuesday wl fighting or great .'"^tal work don aimed, because of Mrs Porter 11 was i-uut*n at once nd and the child U nicely. Voder entertained a s at a birthday dintsey went to Ttnclc lere she had some I I (>11 i < r.f TIIII ports as to the Southern the linn to Rock Ilill Indh the structure was holding crest of the flood had not that point at that time. On the South Fork of the the damage was almost unl The mills, which hover clc banks of those streams we and the damage to reserv bridge on everybody left the brldgt ated that break rame. With the < ; but the two boys. who were all reached middle of the structure j gan to bend and snap. Catawba, ness alone saved them, believable they escaped to an adj >se to the before the broken part c re flooded ture gave away and w olr dame, with cheera by tnany of j before the atreams and rivers on t exception of they had not bene In 3 nost In the bethton and several otl when It be- threatened with serious Their quick- various railroads have i With a daah losses from washout a olntng span have completely block? >f the a true- trains Into Bristol on t ore greeted vision of the Norfolk & the bystaad* road wore annulled, tra ho rampage as 1 was hamhtofliand fli !0 ypars. Kllza- the Austrlans over I ier towns wore Failure likewise folic damage. while of the Austrlans t Buffered severe Italians In the Trovo nd slides that | Intermittent bomha ?d traffic. All cal fights between Inl he Radford dl-1 place In the Caucasus r Western rail- the Turks and the R ilns being un-1 poriant changes havt Bliting. repulsed the thorough pre the entire front, marines for the I >wed an attempt ;in(j tj,0jr knowlec 0 eurround the ... , ? their ways. Valley. rdments and lo- ' 'antry are taking To our 1 region between bring your suit < uaslans. No im really clean and p l taken place in Satisfaction guara paredneaa of the soent a few dava business at hand, her sister. Mrs. J Iro of the people Mr. John Ore < Hyatt and daughl Master Kl Ki Lancaster Thurs< in the country patriot Conferen >r skirt in. We Mrs. C. R. Yod resa your clothea. 'nr Hortenae, (ia * i where she was cj nteed. Sanitary # , the pa?t week with . JJ. Nesbit. nshaw, Mrs. J. A. ter. Miss Annie, and % f j Voder motored to lav to attend the ice. ' er and children left Friday afternoon ailed to the bedside power stations ana textile machinery era. able to pasa Radford. I this theater. Harber Shop. . in nrr miner, wo live. u is noi e*pec^ea 10 i I ! y | # " : 'it I J