Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-. :ic. OUNTY SUFFERS . _ LN RECENT FLOODS ',1 e fra:n pa one.) ~ ::e.. r the Enoree for sixty yea', e : ever -o tie river as high. st everything in the world which :e nossessed. He stood and saw his > e Ew"t away. On the roof his ',d found a place of temporary s. fet -. and was still clinging to the roof as the house floated out of sight. Dam Stood Floods. Mr. L. C. Singley, who runs a mill on ^1f-h river, about a mile below B'b river church, had finished about the first week in July a concrete dam. across the river for the use of his mill. This dam is probably the first of it- kind built in the county. Not withstandin. the fact that the w?ters '.at Bush river were a great deal high er at this point than during the great flood of, twenty years ago the dam withstood the pressure and was :n injured. Throughout the State. ConditLions hve been steadily and rapidly imnroving throughout the State, and it will be only a few days until the railroads, in most instances, will be making their regular schedules. The Seaboard and Sout'ern trestles over the Congaree withstood the tor rents. though they were badly damag ed. Tt was thought that thJ Southern would be able to run trains across its trestle there yesterday. In every irt of the State the railroads have ,been badly cripled, and in many in shnees round about ronteq have been npeessarv in order to get trains through, but it has been the effort! of the roads to maintain trofiic at an" cost. and they have been doing - 'klyh! well. The Seabosrd between Atlanta and Monro. znffered dam eed trestles 1 acrocz t"e Savannah at C'lhoun Falls, and -acros the Saluda between Gre,en wood and Clinton. and at Whitmire. Work is beinz nshed forward rapid Ir on these trestles. Mr. Bullock, of Newberrv. was caught in Greenwood br the floods. In company with sev er-I others he went on one of the Seaboard trains to Sq.nda river. in tending to walk the trestle and take a! tr,in on thi.s side. so as to get to Clinton and from Clinton to Newber ry. The steel portion of the trestle over the Saluda was found to be all right, but the approaches were gone, and the track was floating. Mr. Bullock and several others walked the track, one at a time, and got through. Many turned back and re Sfused to take the risk.I DROWNED AT HIGGINS' FERRY. Two Negroes Had Gone Out In Boat To Look at Bridges.I Saluda, Aug. 27.--This -afternoon Dock Abney and Sam Holland, two negroes, were drowned in Saluda r!ver at Higgins' ferry. Wallace Sheppard, another negro, barely es emued being drowned with them. .The three had gone out in a boat from the Saluda side to see how the bridge was standing the flood. The boat became entangled in some tele phone wires and was capsized. The Sheppard negro, after a hard struggle finally caught in a tree and was lat er rescued. Great Damage in Richland. Columbia State, Sunday. The flood conditions in Columbia yesterday had been materially im proved. The mighty Congaree was subsiding, was well within its banks and was but a few feet over its cus tomary lines. But what a slimy trail it had left! The beautiful machinery rn the Spower houses were coated with from .two to six inches of the most offen sive matter, the sedimentation of a dozen feet of water. The naked bed of the Columbia canal was like the oozy trail of some fetid monster. The Slower end of the canal was filled Kwith alluvial mud to a depth of 10 Sfeet. covering many acres. ~Just back of the penitentiary was a great fissure in the canal bank Swhere the furious Congaree. driven to the sea, had turned to bite into the v ~itals of the earth which had defied for hours its monstrous approaches. Through this fissure poured a stream eight feet in depth and as wide as *Assembly street. It is now the work of the manage ment to replace this 150 feet, and it will require days and nights of ef fort to do this. As the water recedes there come statements of loss, of ruin and of %ufferine. It will be difficult to as so)rt the real from the fictitious and it h"s been snezested that city coun cii midht make some investigation Sinto alleged eases of destitution,. ..1:,I outyu"il he not less than o.-(A. includnl destruction of live . 1:. F rom t many fartns all of the tificial fertilization had--been swept :iaay. This loss may indeed approx iuate half a million dollars. Live: Lost Near Society Hill. It is r-eported that negr. in the river swamp near Society Li ill were f irced in some cases to .:eek refuge :n tree .-ol :! onl th Pl'ti!ion of --.it ll! of a nr.,'ro family ex cept the father were drowned. This .1-e Brnwn. 'yith his wife and ehildren, sought refuge on the top of Brown caught in the top of a tree and his wife and children were drqwned. Their bodies at last report were still Child's Body Seen in Stream. Anderson, Aug. 28.-People in the thi: morning from Pelzer say t :i crowd stood on the rix :r bank 'dnesday morning, watching the f1,-d water nour over the dam. The river was filled with trees and debris + ever- desripntion. As the people watched they saw a pair of mules hitched to a buggy float down stream, go over the dam and. disappear into the rapid. current below. A little later a horse hitched to a buggy came ..11 .\ trunk w' tied on the rear of the buggy. A little later the body of a little white child floated down. --e"'+ rn-01 the d",m and di,:ppeared. The water was so high and turbulent that nothing could be done to rescue the body of the child. and it disap .-r'd immnedi:'tel after en 1in'. ov the dam. No other human hdv w-lc seen in the river. It is i,-'t -n"wn to whom the bn '-ares -n d -d e ed. bnt the inno ition i' that "A were cana-ht when some of the 1b-id e= .9bove Pelzer went down. It is not known whether any lives other than that of the child were lost and the identity of the child has- not yet been discovered. ENTIRE FAMILY LOST IN WATERS OF SALUDA Spartanbug. S. C.. Aug. 29.-All daner to 20 or more bir cotton mills alone the river is passed. Several of the mills have been forced to shut down on account of aams and races being washed away. There has been loss of life in this section. -At- Pelzer, S. C.. an entire family, wagon and team of mules perished in the Saluda river. Two negroes, while at work on a railroad trestle in Laurens county, were carried down stream. It is sunposed that 30 or more people have been drowned throughout the State during the past week. The farmers have lost thous ands of dollars,by .their stock per ishing in the swollen streams. The damage to county bridges in this county will exceed $100,000. Anderson Was Bottled. Anderson, Aug. 28.-For the first time in four days Anderson received some mail from the outside world last night. State newspapers of Tuesday morning were arpong the lot and these with some copies of the Co lumbia State of Wednesday are- all that have been received here, except some delaved Atlanta newspapers. The railronids are simply out of business. It is figured by a wholesale mer hant here tonight that there is enough bpcon, lard, hams, etc., in .the city to last nearly a week. Nobody will suffer, of course, but there will be. no great variety on many of the tables during the next week. .Superintendent Anderson of the Blue Ridge railway has gone to Mis sissippi to secure heavy timbers tc rebuild the trestle blown out on his road. It will be at least three or four weeks before trains will be run ning according to any schedule. The tr-action company announees that its damages on the interurbar between here and Belton is .$20,00f and that it will be a week or more be fore temporary trestles are construct ed which will carry light cars. The heavy interurban cars will not be rur for several weeks, until the raodbei is repaired. Great Damage In Chester. The State. Chester, Aug. 28.-Ever since thi "Sherman freshet'' of Fe'oruary 1865, that aggregation of waters nas been the standard of measurement it this region. That record was broker by the very heavy downpour of las Monday and Tuesday. That high water mirk of more than 4.3 yvearn ag< fo.The work of dest ruet'o o) eropfS ha- been most thorough anm were five days azo there was pros pet of mmore than an average yielt u.Ist .n 1 1.,I des l:m1on1. 1ii; iS S pecially so on the lands borderin; on Broad and Catawb iier, where the crops were completely subimergcd ft,r II.I. i , tI 45 1a;Irs. IKat amidst all this work of desolation every bridge in the county has escaped any serious damage and the communication be t weeii the several sections of the county has been kept open. On one of the farm houses on Broad river the inmates of the house deemed it prudent to move out and on that farm several valuable cows were drowned. Entire Family Reported Lost. Lake City, Aug. 30.-The lower part of Williamsburg county and that part of Florence county between the Pee Dee and Lynche's rivers are devastated. Holes 15 feet deep have been washed under the Coast Line track at Eflingham and a part of the bridge has been swept away at Ba:; wagon bridge. Further down the wrat -r is four miles wide. It _ he 't toat 'ili m ecAllis .,, 1 il br-e", b en dro)Wne'l. 1~ . 4-1 " t' I , . :'.,;.1 z f ; hel). :e !'.o::1dl i ", t hen :il ic t:nal!. : iso l(, ^nd chickens have hPn swe"t awar by hundreds. C rr(,e f ntr..,'? dire fr- ,1m Lake rit to rerder :ssine. Two men launched a bo.t and made for Bass bridge. but turned h"ck. ",rilni t!.o current was too swift. The rise at sundown was one foot an hour. TM is the worst flood ever known in this section. T-r ort From Greenville. Greenville. Aug. 30.-?.m .r'n of t"i i,. to f"r"',. ;, fro-n~ all o er this immediate section. A far mer who lives on Encee river, 10 miles from Greenville , ier.l-red terday that lie had lost 1,000 bushels of potatoes. his field having bean lo --ted On -h bend of the river and the flood simply having wa.hed out the - - -n carried them away T. der'.ves ;t 'e has not 10 bushels :) : and cttonU near tie banks of 2 -e nd the flood simpily having wahe out the tubers and carried them away. He declares that he has not 10 bushels remaining mn the grouind. Corn and cotton near the banks of the iReedr. S.:luda, Tyger and Enoree rivers ha've al:o suffered gr-eatly; jast how much the dlamree is can not rect be accurately determined, but it is certain that it amounts to a great deal. In some instances corn crops were entirely ruined. *The Greenville & Knoxville road has not run a train since Monday and it may be several days yet before nor mal schedules .can be resumed. The ro:'d lost three trestles and suffered two fill-ins. Only one death from the flood is so far reported in the immediate neighb.,rhood, and that was of a negro at GreeL. Camden, Aug. 30.-The body of the little Hinson boy, who was with Mr. Geo. Rabon when the bridge w*ent dowen. was fo'nd in Baum 's swamr today. - + est colored driver's body was also found some miles down the river today. Mr. John liekle 's two mules and t wagon, and horse with a fine Texam saddle, were found at the old ferry No one around Camden claims the shorse and saddle, so it is supposei that it came from above Camden. Mr. Geo. Rabon 's body has no1 been found yet, neither have th< bodies of the.missing negro men. The rivei is back in its banks now All the crons in the bottom lands ar< a complete loss. Situation Rapidly Improving. Columbia State, Monday. Material improvement was md -torda' the flood situation Ao taj as Columbia and points within Smuti Carolina are concerned. The rail roads furnished some -enre '.'c -.r- to the public. one of these he inc' when the Atlantic Coast Lin train from Charleston came into Co lumbia. and almost on schedule time Thursday night of last week th< Atlantie Coast Line passener trahi into Columbia was forced to stop a the Wateree bridge, about 25. mile below the city, and the condition. the river at that point was such tha the train was annulled that night Friday it was announced that the At lantie Coast Line's tracks were unde several' feet of water at the erOssim enePIral s:ri-e when the regular ':-: ! ;n:- ase'ner train arrived from lci cj.,y mo!rni.g the waters had receded sutliciently at the Wateree trestle to permit an inspection, and this reve:led the fact that the bridge and trestle were uninjured by the high waters. A message was sent to Florence and the train from Charles ton came up and crossed the bridge with ease and arrived in Columbia (l1v about 25 minutes late. This train departed for Greenville, via Co lumbia. Newberry & Laurens and Charleston & Western Caroliry. Yes:terday afternoon No. 53, from Greenville to Charleston, over Char le=ton & Western Carolina, Columbia, Newberry & Laurens and Atlantic Coast Line passed Columbia on sched vie tine and went on through to Char leston. The Charleston & Western Carolina was reported operating yesterday be ti- Spa:rtanburg and Laurens. Mr. .T. F. Livinston yesterday -innunced tr"e 'hn)r!eston & V stern Caro ,' r .1 ,?'hia. N'ewherrv & Laurens .,1d Atlantic Coast Line would be able to handle on good time passen ~.. +ri the mountain territory who deziro to return to their homes. Co lnmbians and others from this sec tion who have been spending the sum -1 1r01nd Asheville. Hendersonville, n .--- rPh 11 olr'nmbin by this ." '+ 1 o'clor-k in the afternoon, ~ five minutes later for Char c" ^na interiediate points on the kt4,!^'t:r Coast Line. A-.-uMing Elopements. McCall' Magazine. The histor- of elopements, if it i) h writtPn. Il] nrove o,'e]-A if :n1"nroof he npeee spoken whi(h make two lovers one the boldest and most confident lover of the>i all can never make sure that he will not die a bachelor. This must assuredly have been the scid conviction of Edward Dugdale, a bold +n! n tt':r! of Leeds. Ena 'nd. wh_ o 1) ve -e"t-re i to be -- . the 'r er" of March, . VE wAVrl had fallen head-over Yo"ksh ire squire. cnlled Halstead; and. no the fnther contemptuously y.rned his petition for the young 1-i-'s hand. the attornev resolved on b,!d meanures, with the approval of hia fin:oncee. ! '-fter midnight. when th --o +, onpearanee wrapped -,4=i*"3 -'d @limber. the dhring lu at b'orgelf down fromi her (.b'n" her window. be means of a friendly vi'r of cheete, i rto- E!ward 'e exncst n'n-e. -nd a few minutes later the -rvd- entered a rerriaee at the " est- and were being driven rap 1lv awa. A n hour passed, the young couple -o-o bezinning to con'rratulate them elves on their escane'from pursuit, when the carriage came to a stop, the door was opened. and the runaway at torney found himself in the clutch of several strong pairs of arms In spite of his struggles and protests he was dragged irresistibly along, over what arneared to be not unfamiliar ground, even in the darkness of a March night, and wxithout a moment's wvarn ire he was soused overhead in water. Again and again the baptism was re~ neted. nntil at last he was dragged ont of the water. drenehed to the 'ein qnd almost lifeless, and left tc find his way home and muse on the vaity of rnmaway affections. The secret of this tragic sequel tic his romance wvas realle quite simple The driver of the runaway's carriagE had revealed the little plot to the fath er, who planned the interesting de noement. The driver was instructei to take a circuitous route. whiei would be unnoticed in the darkness ,nd at the end of an hour or so t< bring back the couple to the vers noint from which they had started where the father and his two stalwar1 sons would be waiting to teach thE runaway lovers a lesson. It neel c.~areely be said that the lover's ar dor wva effetually quenched, or tha he never again pronosed to becomE his baptizer's son.-in-law. One of the most amusing cases o: "elopements that fail'' was that of oung gentleman whose faith in run away matches was rudely shaken a short time ago. Precisely at the ap pointed hour be was waiting beneati the window of his lady love, but min ute after minute passed and ther< ws no sign of her appearance. Be coming impatient and fea,rful tha he had mistaken the time, he begat ti' throw pebbles at the window, hur 1 er w:ie no respo~nse to i1 51111 ned munin ilhrn o inpr leand:. a. ti e lnrespon1Sive glass. T hs deight it oned. and to hi: full l istorv of what ha;p'endI tihe1 hais never been revealed1. but for a long time the matter was a very "sore" point with him, and it is more than doubtful whether he will ever present himself at that particu lar house again. NOTICE. The County Board of Registration will be at the places mentioned below for the purpose of granting registra tion certificates to those who have not secured same, viz: Township No. 2, at Mt. Bethel school Sept. 1st. Township No. 3, at Mt. Pleasant school Sept. 2nd. Township No. 4, at Whi! miire Sept. 3rd. Township No. 5, at Jalapa Sept. 4th. Township No. 9, at Prosperity Sept. 5th. Township No. 1, Ot Ned1'erry C. H. Sept. 7th. Township No. 6, at Longshores store Sept. 8th. Township No. 7, at Chappells Sept. 9th. Township No. 8, Utopia Sept. 10th. Township No. 10, at Jolly Street, Sept. 11th. Township No. 11, at Pomaria Sept. 12th. E. Lee Hayes, Ch'm'n. J. W. Wertz. B. B. Leitzsey. 500 Mil-e State Family Tickets $11. 25.-Good over the Atlantic Coast Line in each State for the head or de pendent members of a family. Limit pd to one year from date of sale. 10O0 Mile Interchangeable Indivi dual Ticket $20.00.-Good over th in the Sontheas' aggregating 30,000 miles. Limited o one year from date of sal,. 2000 Mile Firm Ticket $40.00. I Good over the Atlantic Coast Lin and 30 other lines in the Southeast agre-ating 30.000 miles; for a man ie-er or head of firm and..crnployes li nes in the Sout.heast ag^rezatin 41L. mited to five, but good for only one of such persons at a time. Limited to Atlantie Coast Line and 30 other line, m':e vaar from date of sale. 1000 Mile Southern Interehangeabl< Individual Ticket $25.00.-Good over the Atlantic Coast Line and 75 other 000 miles Limited to one year froini data .>f sale. All mileage tickets sold on and af ter A pril 1st. 19M'.. will not be honor -orf fur .passaze on trains. nor in -heking bagigage (except from not' azeney stations and stations not open for the sal eof tickets) but must be presented at ticket offices and there exchanged for continuous tickets. 15 cents saved in passage fare by purchasing local ticket fromi our ag.ents. - Atlantic Coast Line. .T. C. White, General Passenger Agent. W. .T. Craig. Pasenzer Ttaffic Manager, Wilmington, N. C. BLUE RIDGE SCHEDULES. Eastbound. No. 2.8, leaves Anderson at .u a. m., for connection at Beiton witni Routlarn for Greenville. No. 12. from Walhalln. leaves A' derson at 10.15 a. mn.. for connection at Belton with Southern Railway for Columbia and Greenville. No. 20, leaves Anderson at 2.20 p. in., for connections at Belton with Southern Railway for Greenville. No. 8, daily except Sunday, from Walhalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. i., with connections at Seneca with Southern Railway from points south. No. 10, from Walhialla, leaves An derso-n at 4.57 p. in., for connections at Belton with Southern Railway for Greenville and Columbia. Westbound. No. 17, arrives at Anderson at 7.50 a. in., from Belton with connections from Greenville. No. 9, arrives at Anderson at -!2.24 p. in., from Belton with connections from Greenville and Columbia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 p. mn.. from Belton with connections from Greenville. No. 11, arrives at Anderson at 6.29 p. in., from Belton with con netions from Greenville and Colum bia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 7, daily except Sunday, leaves Anderson at 9.20 a. mn., for Walhalla, with connections at Seneca for local Nos. 17, 18, 19, and 20 are mixed trins between Anderson and Belton. Nos. 7 and S are local freizht trains, carrying passengers. between Anderson and Waihalla and betweer WVahall'a nn? Anderson A iIG REDUCTION. As everybody knows building operations all o ei the country for the past fe w mont1is have been rather slack, consequently prices have made a co::siderable decline, and as we have just received several solid cars, which we bought when the market was at its lowest, we are prepared to make you extremely low prices on DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, LIME, CEMENT, BRICK, Metal Shingles, Pat. Plaster, Rubber and Steel Roofing, Et. All orders and i- quiries given prompt attention, either personal or by mail. $ummwr Bos. Co. CHARLESTON & WESTERN CAR OLINA BY. Schedyle in effect May 31, 1908. Lv. Newherry(C N & L) 12:56 p.m. A r. L auren; 2:02 p.m. Lv. L:mnren1z (C & W C) 2:35 p.m. Ar. Oreenville 4:00 p.m. Lv. ,aureIn 2:32 p.m. Ar. Spartanburg 4:05 p.m. Lv. Spartanburc. (So. Ry.) 5:00 p.m. Ar. Hendersonville 7:45 p.m. Ar. Asheville 8:50 p.m. Lv. Laurens (C & W C) 2:32 p.m. Ar. Greenwood 3:32 p.m. Ar. McCormiek 4:33 p.m. Ar. Augusta 6:15 p.m. Tri-Weekly Parlar Car line be tween Augusta and Asheville. Trains Nos. 1 and 2, leave Augusta Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, leave Asheville Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Note: Th-e above arrivals and de partures, as well as connections with other companies, are given as infor mation, and are not guaranteed. Ernest Williams, Gen. Pass. Ag?., Augusta, Gd. Geo. T. Bryan, Glreenville. S. C., Ge'n. Agt. A Grand ramily Medicine. "It gives me pleasure to speak a good word for Electric Bitters," writes Mr. Frank Conlan of No. 436 Houston St.. New York. ''t's a grand family medicine for dyspepsia ana liver complications; while for lame back and weak kidneys it cannot be too highly recommended.'' Electrie. Bitters regulate the digestive fune tions, purify the blood, and impart renewed rigor and vitality to the wek and debilitatedt of both sexes. Sold under guarantee nt W. E. Pel 2am & Son 's drug store. 50e. Bucklen's Arnica Salve Wins. Tom Moore, of Rural Route 1, Coebran. Ga., writes: "I had a bad sore come on the instep of my foot and could find not?iing that would heal it until I applied Bucklen's Ar nica Salve. Less than half of a 25c. box won the day foi me by affecting a perfect cure.'' Sold under guaran tee at W. E. Pelham & Son's drug store. Dl. HUIET'S All..Healing Liniment, the best household remedy on the market, try it and. be convinged. Mayes' Drug Store. DON'T DELAY Your Customers and friends by not having your Ginnery ready, for we are prepared to furnish you genuine original Gaudy Belting, Leather Belting, Whang, Belt Ce ment and Dressing, Steam Fittings and Repairs, Oils, Etc., and at Prices Satisfactory to You. Make our stores your headquarters. You are always welcome, and your frirds wvill always kuow where to find vou wheni in town. Slmmer Bros. Co.