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BIGGEST AND BES
OF BRIDGES
79, SEMI-WEEKLY.
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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
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i oiucDt? ciurn nv
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L916.
Airy inr duth op /. ot
111LII nllL The'entire coun
________ early Monday mor
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"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
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