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& Representative Bewspaper. Bouers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties fcihe a Blanket. VOL. XXXIII. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUJiE 10. 1903. :jj III ! ? 11II III 3BBHKMMM' IIIW1MH' IMI IUH FH BUM SWliSVllil^^ WI<'^llinBM?BB3WBiafU1WJinT^niCTyTaBaBBaBgMBat?BBMaPaBBi[8MgH>BBaBHB3MngtnMai?^^^^^B^paB,(?DMM?Mt3_nJ|J-1J:MJil_t___ GLOBE BET GOOBS COMPANY, "W- H:. 2v?03iTC^T03ST, TI3-, 3*?.AJ&T.A.<3-:E3K. L&ao MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, H. C. r Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. October 13tf > Lever Sells the Shoes. ! eTviro diout ilD Tfl TUP OHbto mani wr w ? iMSNUTE. Dear Madam: A year ago we had so many people in the store Easter week that quite a good many did not get waited on. We don't know who the folks were, and to make sure we are sending you ! this word to say that this year we are foiiy prepared to promptly wait on all comers. We are very proud of onr spring j stock and want to say that we are ^ particularly, strong on OXFORDS for Ladies at $1.50 and $2.00. LEVER, "THE SHOE MAN," 1603 Main Street, COLUMBIA, - So C. Feb. 6?ly. i DR. F. G. GILMORE, DE1TTIST, Located at no. 1510 main street. over Husemann's Gun Store, Columbia, S. C., where he will be glad to see his former els well as new patients. Dr. Gilmore will be at Hammer Hotel in Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 24th and 15rh, to accommodate patients who find it inconvenient to call at his Columbia office. January 23, 1901?tf. Paints. A good Lead at 6 cents per pound. A better Lead, one that is gt aranf teed, and that will stretch till it is the cheapest in the end, at 7 l-4c. pcund. Cemen ti te Paint at 8 cents per pound and it only takes 5 pound <o the gallon. Be up to date and seLd us your order for a lot of this. ii lira BOX 240, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. October 98?ly. I ll A 111 III Aft Coluxnfe MUSLIN TTKDERWEAB. Our Muslin Underwear Department ie now lull cf bargeins. Each and 1 every garment ie made of good material and well made, at prices that cannot be matched elsewhere. LADIES' GOWNS. Full line: low neck and elbow sleeves. J&ce end embroideiy trimmed; high neck and Jong sleeve, trimmed, with tucks, lace and embroidery, puces, each from 75e. to $3.00 Ladies' Corset Covers, trimmed with embroidery and lace, sizes 34 to 40, at, each 25c? to $3: i f Cambric Underskirts, farcy trimmed with lace and embroidery 1 edge and insertion, each 50c to $3: IE JAMES 1641 and 1646 Main St COLOIBIA, ! CLOUD BURST. The Piedmont Section Ruined by Big1 Floods. While yet the hearts of the people of South Carolina were gushiog with a warm stream of sympathy for the sufferers of the Gainesville cycloDe and the raising of a relief fund was ill active progress, the news was flashed far and near that Spartanburg, Greenville and Oconee counties were threatened with a dire calamity by theii* swollen streams?the effect of a cloud burst and that property to the amount of over three million dollars were being wrecked by the raging flood and many human lives were lost. The disaster to the farming interest of the Piedmont section and the cotton manufacturing interests of the State is without parallel in the history of the State. The devastation and destruction to property and life surpassed those of either Johnstown or Galveston (so far as to make a comparison odious) The flood was due to a mighty cloud burst along the headwaters cf Pacolet river in Polk county, N. C. The crest of the flood wbeu it reached Pacolet was sixty feet high. The mills were located along the banks of this stream in ? "deep valley, high hills rising on each side and they caught the full force of the awful flood, as the mad rushing waters came pouring down the mountain side with terrific force sweeping everything before them. The scene of complete ruin and destruction of valuable property and the pitious appeals of men, women and children a3 they clung in desperation to trees, branches and whatever they could clutch and vainly called for help until exhausted nature could prolong the battle for-*Jtfe no longer and they dropped into the water and were drowned, beggars description. The picture was too awful in its reality to be overdrawn. "Within an hour after the cloud burst the mills at Glifton and a score or more of farm houses along the river tad been carried away and the debris came with a mighty rush on Mills Nos 1 and 2 at Pacolet. Just above this great structure is the dam that confines the natural waterway ia, S. C. Ladies' Cambric Erasers, lawn and cambric, ruffle. trimmed, at. each 25c. to $1 per pair. Cambric Chemise, plain and 'anev, e*ch, 75c. to SI.50. New line Ladies' Black Meroerized Petticoats, each from SI.25 to $5,00. UNDERWEAP.. Ladies' Knee Length Gauze Pants, loose and fitted at the knee, 35c. regular price, each per pair at 25c. Ladies Long Sleeve Gauze . Ribbed and Plain VeBts, sizes 30 to 40, at. each, 25c. Full line Ladies' and Childrens's low nc-k and sleeveless Gauze Vests. Boy's Balbrigggan Knickerbockers, sizes 24 to 34 iuches, each, at 25c nsn; reet, Corner Blending, S. C. jjjj' B&Ktt&tN GETTERS. 8 TV HEN YOU WAN WOETH |$j CORNER OF RICHLAND C0LVMB3 m tee fountain cc m tee fountain cc y tee fountain cc y the fountain cc m tee fountain cc I LADIES HATS y WE ME AX I MEET TJ8 AT "THE F< NER RICHLAND AN! T.DLUI uCv MuKoj 1 8AME MQNEY' f that furnishes the power for the i mills and it is Dresumed that this ! A. dam broke and added its waters to the already swelling flood. The mill operatives were just going to their early breakfast when the sound of mighty rushing waters broke on their ears and then the work of destruction commenced. A few minutes after 5 o'clock on Saturday morning, June 6th, it was Doticed that Pacolet river was rising and rising rapidly. The river sprang up in bounds. The yellow waters from the clay bills curled over and through the giant mills; it dashed against the homes of the operatives and rushed through the village streets; rising higher and higher, it ground houses frr\m hhair foundations and it dashed with inconceivable force against tbe massive masonry of the giant mills? the pride of eastern Spartanburg and they crumbled and feii before its resistless force. In the homes that were carried away were living human beings. Some clung to their fioating home?; some got on trees; men waded and swam to the rescue and there were brave deeds in that hour of terrifying peril. The Seedy river in -Greenville county was on a rampage, doing an estimated damage of between $10, 000 and 815,000. The big Pelzer Mills were not affected by the fiood. The Arlington Mill sustained a damage to its machinery of about $5,000. The Newry Cotton Mills sustained | a loss of between $20,000 and $25,- I 000. The magistrate of the town is an old white headed Confederate soldier, Judge J. H. Williams. He said that during his 79 years it had been hie misfortune to witness much carnage and suffering during the civil war I i i i; l u..L ??u:?_ i:i.? I ana several disasters, out uuimug u&e scenes passed before his eyes Saturday had he ever imagined. "I tell you, 8ir,"saidhe, "it has nearly kilied me. Hundreds of us strong men stood along the banks of that mighty BARGALN GIVERS. ^ T YOUR MONEY p GOTO 4 AND MAIN' STREETS, 4 :A, S. C. pN ). Sells DKY GOODS || I. BSUS MUU. iffe 3. Soils CLOTHING. j*. 3. Soils NOTIONS. <?> ). Sells HATS. ^ j|j BUSINESS. 8 3UNTAIN CO.," COR- W; 3 MAIN STREETS. g EE? MANAGER. I < % ? nooa ana watcnea it. I don t Know bow many men, women and children were washed to their death and we could not do a thing to help. Their cries to us could be plainly heard and God knows I heard them all last night and expect to hear them till my dying day. I dcn't know how many people were drowned before my eyes. I have no way cf recording." The stories of rescues and deaths are numerous and a few from such trustworthy sources that they cannot be questioned, J. J. Garrison, a reliable mill employee, saw a man and hia wife and baby, their arms clasped 'about each other, disappear beneath the debris of tbeir own little home near Mill No. 3. A. man and two boys, whose names could not be learned, were observed going down the stream on a house top. The boys were clinging tn fKo miin on/1 onnor/jnfln kaormnfr w iu^ okLx\jk bb 6 him not.to leave them. The mail finally, knowing that the children could not swim, had deserted them and they were drowned. He swam into an eddy and was rescued. C. S. Johnson, a mill employee, his wife and two children were washed down the river on their house top until they were within two miles ef Paeolet Johnson was then washed ashore but his entire family was 1 f TJ r\ f /\ if TTT1 f V"? lUCVj. J-4.C i CtUl J-ir?L4 IU LULl T/l ILi his tale cf horror, half crazed and refusing to bo comforted. L. Siribbling, a clerk in the eral store of mill Xo. 2, had the most remarkable escape thus far recorded. When the water began to rise in the store be saw there was no chance for escape through the doorway, he made a hole in the roof and climbing thereon was washed down the stream. He was washed against a tree which he clasped. Another man and woman ii,? nrv were iu me eame wee. iuo) ici mained in the tree until 4 o'clock in the afternoon when they were res- 1 cured. An unidentified baby was washed | ashore and taken to a tarm two miles ' below the town and is now alive and well. On all sides stories of this kind come up and the tenth part is not told. No tongue can tell the misery of it all. Telegraph and telephone poles and wires are down and communication with the stricken section cannot be had. Railroad bridges have been swept away as if by magic and all railroad travel has been suspended. The Southern's bridge across the Broad at Alston is unsafe and cannot be used. Thirteen bencbeR hav6 been washed out of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens' Railroad Company's trestle at Columbia and cannot ba crossed. As is usual with calamities of this kind the farming interests have suffered most severely. The burden of loss falls most heavily upou the farmers of the flood district. Their crops have be^u totally destroyed, their fertilizers have been washed away and their lands i earned and sear<d with ditches and gullies. The destruction was most com plete. While it is true that it is not. too late to replant, yet it is equally true that many of them will have to do so under great difficulties and many others will have to go info debt to be able to recommence their farming operations. Toe owners of the ruined mills have already commenced the work of clearing away the debris preparatory to rebuilding. Order has been brought out of panic and work is being laid out in systematic order. The people are beginning to realize where they are at and confidence is being restored. While there still remains much suffering and great hardships among the stricken people, yet the relief committees have gotten to work in earnest and the sufferers will receive that aid which their immediate necessities demand. The railroads, too, have gone to work in earnest to repair the damage wrought by the ravages of the flood Large gangs of hands have been organized and where conditions will permit it of being done the repairs ko road beds and trestles are being made. It is given out by those in authority that railroad travel to the j.? ?:n i- .0 1 IT*..; up country wiu ue rttjuuteu vy mday. The waters in the swollen rivers are subsiding and if the weather remains favorable they will beconfiaed to their natural channel. Spartanburg, S. C., June 6?So many wires are down and communication of all sorts is so thoroughly 1 'Shoes a: STYLE, LIGHTNESS AND STRE! DINED IN OUR II ^ FOR MEN A? Everv shape and all kinU of leather are offer whole truth about tb' e shoes would se believe your eyes vs DYEING and Cohen's Sh I 636 MAIN ST., C demoralized, that it is miponoiuio to form any definite calculation of the loss of life in today's cloud burst and the resultant fljods. Tne mortality list may go to 150, but the more conservative estimate place it somewhere around 40 or 50. The total property less iu the entire section laid waste by the stoim is likely to aggregate $2,000,000. The loss at Pacolet is pi tcrd at? $1,000,000, summarized as follows: Mills Nos 1 and 2 demolished; 28,000 spindles a wrect; 3.500 bales of cotton, >$200,000 worth of cloth goods in company's store damaged, grist mill, cotton gin, postoffioe, shoe shop, dental omce, livery stable and Presbyterian church all washed away. At Clifton, the Couverse Mill, with 51,000 spindles, has entirely gone. Toe Clifton Mill, with 27,000 spindles, is half-waehed away. The Dexter Mill, with 30,000 6pindles, is probably half-ruined. All these nulla belong to the Clifton Manufacturing Company. More than 5X00 people are homeless and 4,000 out of emplo>men:. There was no wind and no damage by lightning; oniy by waLer. Xuio fell in veritable torrents, converting the surface of the earth iuto a sheer lake of raging water, id vers overflowed their banks to heights never before known; creek-j became rivers, Hnd email rivulets roaring torrents, wiping out everything in their course. Railroad bridges were torn from stcne and iron pien; cotton mills were crushed like straw before the flood and grist mills and innumerable smaller industries and cottages were washed away by the angry waters. At a late hour tonight, scores of people were clinging to the branches of trees at CiifLon and could not be reached. Unless help comes to tbem soon it is feared that many of them will fall into the water and drown. Spartanburg, June 9.?Not until today has it been possible witmn any degree of accuracy to get an idea of the total losses. A careful and conservative estimate after exhaustive inquiry would not fall far from these figures: Ciifton mills, and warehouse, $1,800,000; Pacolet mills and warehouses, $925,000; Glendale mills and warehouses, $350,000; Whitney mills and warehouse, $10,0 0: 4rkwright Continued on Page Eight. e Right."? vGTR MOST SKILLFULLY COMNEW LINE OF m Footwear, ?D WOMEN. 'US? 8d at very moderate p:ij * Telling the >mi like fulsome praisj. me m ami rhen in our city. CLEANING of Store, :OLUM 3IA,'S. C.