Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE FLOOD DAMAGE REACHES MILLIONS HEAVY LOSSES REPORTED FROM ^ ^ _ _ i t EM IKE SOI I HE AM. Railroad Traffic Demoralized and Trains Annulled?Cotton Jlills and Other Plants. Atlanta, Ga., March 16?Reports of "heavy property damage throughout the Southeast, as the result of the terrific rains of the past two days, continue , to be received h-e.re, ana earner estimates that the losses will reach into j millions are sustained. Rivers and smaller streams are all out of banks and railroad traffic is generally demoralized. Reports to th-e Southern railway here today, tell of the washout of a trestle over the Haw river, near Reidsville, X. C., stopping through: traffic on the main line, while sche-! ' t- t: _ ? r> ? ? i; dules on orancn uues m u?e v/ctiuiia? have been annulled because of washouts and damaged trestles. Through trains are being detoured to the south by way of Knoxville and Chattanooga. ^ Cotton mills and other industries along the smaller rivers have been compelled to shut down by high wat<er, and in North Carolina alone the losses are estimated at half a million dollars. T n ttnufli rnroli'nn. JLU UVUlii VUJLVAAKMV Reports from Columbia show sini-i ilar conditions in South Carolina. The Congaree and Broad rivers, at Colum-j bia, have become raging torrents and the flood threatens to carry away the big steel bridges over both rivers. At Camden, the Wateree river has carried away two bridges and all roads into the town are submerged. The Saluda i riVer also is out of bounds and re- i ports say a freight train has been i caught between two washouts near j Saluda and abandoned. Reports From Georgia, The Savannah river, at Augusta, came to a standstill tonight at 36 feet, if incnes, aner spr^.amg over a large part of that city. The damage, it is .said, will be much less than the mem- ' orable flood of j.908. At Macon the' rise of the Ocmulgee river caused a' break in the city water mains, cutting off the water supply of part of the city I and leaving the city without fire pro-j iection tonight. From southern Alabama come re- j ports that all rivers are steadily ris-j ing and damage to property is enormous. At Montgomery the Alabama ias backed up nearly to the union station. Governor O'Xeall today issued an appeal for help for the storm victims at Headland, where a hurricane yesterday killed five and destroyed forty homes. Situation at Columbia. . Columbia, March 16.?The Congaree Tiver was 29 feet at 7 o'clock tonight j and was still rising, and Section Di-: rector Green stated, at 8 o'clock, that lie expected it to go over 30 feet He j said that he thought the crest of the flood would pass here between 9 n n r? m i rl n i cli r fVi o f off i v V1V/V/A. aim l, uuu mat auci midnight he thought the- waters would begin to recede slowly. For a period of 15 hours the Congaree rose at the rate of five-tenths of a foot per hour, i but in the last few hours the rise has j been slower, about three-tenths per! hour, and it is rising at this rate now. At this hour, 9 o'clock, waters are al- j most lapping the bridge across the Congaree, although it is thought that no serious damage to the bridge will result. Fears are entertained that the locks of the Columbia canal may give way, and should they do so serious consequences would result. A for e of volunteers is on duty at that point, and so far has succeeded in keeping the locks intact. The power house of the j Columbia Mill company is flood?d and | the mill was forced to suspend operations. Workmen braced the interior i.1 i _ T? . I ui lu? wans oi uie uoiumuia xuuiway, , Gas and Electric company, and up to! this hour have succeeded in keepifT^ j the water out of the building, although' it is in imminent danger of being flooded. The city is now using the steam plant, although the pumping station; of the company is not yet under water.! All riQV Inner r>rn\rdo /->f nannln Viovo: a*" v**?v vi v M uo \ji. auiv ! visited the scene of the raging waters, < although it is not thought that the Congaree will reach the heights of the j flood stage of 1908, when it was 36 feet. The Southern railway is cut off from ! all connection with Spartanburg and j Greenville and no trains are being op- j erated out of the city on these lines.1 There is a washout at Dysons, and the approaches to the bridge between ^Happens iUIU .MIltfLV OlA, Oil LUe Southern, have been swept away, blocking all traffic on that line. The' approaches to the bridge at Alston, the junctional po:;.t of the Spartanburg and Greenville lines; have been! i ) swept away and much of the track be-! tween Columbia and this point is under water, entirely preventing any trains from being operated over these lines. Wires are down and communication with the greater part of the Piedmont is practically cut off. General Manager Foreacre, of the Southern, who is here in charge of the work, said that the bridge at Alston was intact. Traffic is being maintained between Spartanburg and Herberts, a little .station ; above Shelton. Traffic on the Green vilie line is limited to between Greenwood and a little above Belton. The Charlotte-Savannah division is1 all right, except that the Florida Fly-1 er, which was due here this morning at S o'clock, has not yet arrived, and will not get in b i'oie tomorrow, it1 being delayed by a washout in Virginia. The northbound, train from Florida over this line went through tonight, a little beiiind iime. "The Carolina Special" was devoured via Charlotte and went through several hours late. No. 14, Columbia to Charleston, left out this afternoon, running on the "Carolina Special's" schedule. Communication is being maintained to within a few miles of Augusta, although a report, not confirmed reached here this afternoon that the yards at Hamburg, near Augusta, were under water. The Seaboard local trains are running about on time, but through trains are all several hours late. The Seaboard trestle over the Catawba, near Waxhaw, on the Atlanta division, is reported washed away. The Atlantic Coast Line and the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens report no trouble and their trains are maintaing schedules so far. No loss of life has been reported from the flood today, although the property damage is tremendous. Traffic in the up-country is tied up. The; people along the Congaree, warned ol the approaching flood, moved out in time, and several families on the Lexington side of the river had to abandon their homes on the rising waters taking possession. The railroad officials are straining every nerve to meet the emergencies and they stated this afternoon that they hoped to 6e able to restorp rail communication with Greenville and Spartanburg by Monday and to get conditions back to normal. The peo pie are intensely interested in tne reports from the country which was yesterday swept by wind and rain, and especially is every report from the stricken city of Augusta listened to with the greatest interest. Worst Over in Augusta. Augusta, Ga., March 16.?The third flood in twenty-four years almost comr>r\VjiTOrl tVia hlicinpcis SPfh'f.n JL C 1 J V/ V/ * 'V -A V U V** V/ W V* ** VW ?? av V w ? ? ?? and the larger part of the residence section of the lower city today, the river reaching a height of 36 feet 9 inches up to 8 o'clock tonight, when it was at a standstill. At 4 o'clock this morning the water was 34 feet high, the maximum height predicted j by the weather bureau, but before 9 o'clock this morning the bureau had changed its maximum estimate to 371 feet, the river being then 35 feet, 5: mcnes. While business was completely suspended throughout the day on account' of the water covering all but a fewblocks of the centre of Broad street,! the damage has been nothing like as great as the fall freshet of 1908, or the freshet of 1S98. The river attained a height of 38 j feet, 9 inches in the 1908 freshet, two feet more than the present freshet, j thus putting the water from one to! two feet deep in all the stores and a: majority of the residences of the city. But this time the water has entered\ comparatively few stores and only j .... I those residences nearest tne river ana in the lowlands in the southern section of the city. COULD SOT ACT AS JFRYMAX. Col. Roosevelt Was Very Much Disap- j pointed Because He Did >'ot Serve a, at Xineola Court * Oyster Bay, X. Y., March 14.?Col. Roosevelt earned $10.80 as a juror, but probably never will receive the I money. After lie had been excus-ed from further duty at Mineola today i a court officer advised him he could claim mileage at the rate of eight cents a mile for the distance between Oyster Bay and the county seat. By : railroad the distance is 15 miles, so that Col. Roosevelt is entitled to $1.20 for each of the nine days of his services as juror. ? 11 Mafrimnnial Revival. A Boston pastor wants the basement of his church turned into a "courting parlor." Planning a matrimonial revival, as it were.?New York Herald. s THE CONSANGUINITY OF THE HUMAN RACE I find notorminpfi In iflvanRfi I UUU UU1UIIIIIIIUM III nw i hiiuw uiw Bounds of the Nations. Pastor Russell Finds Great Changes Imminent Amongst the People of the World?The Barriers of Language Yielding Because of the Approach of the Divinely Appointed i imes. 9 [ London, 'March: jpfl ^]| today to greet Pas- j ^l|i i ^ K-'jll of the Foreign Mis-! S*0DS *nves^*a*'on j United. States Ar[IPASTQR. RUSSELL) my; Prof. F. H. j Ilobison, Dr. L. W. >>?-. at r. t T n "Pt-Io? ATr T^l W. AUl. o. jl. A J V. Kuehn and Mr. R. B. Maxwell, all ! of the United States. His text was: "God hath made of | one blood all nations of men, for to I dwell upon the face of the earth; and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitations, thnt they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him and find Ilim." (Acts xvii, 2G, 27.) lie said:? My text is taken from Saint Paul's address to the Athenians, whom he found so religious that they had erected an idol to every known deity, and then one prominently 4,to the un-1 known God." The words of my text j have been repeatedly borne in upon ! my mind in my sojourning of the j past four months. I marveled as I perceived the thoroughness of the di1 vision of the human family as a re: suit of the confusion of language. Conditions Nov/ Changing. It should not surprise us to find at this time great changes imminent amongst the peoples of the whole I world. The bounds of human habita| tion and the barriers of language are \ rapidly yielding because of the times | of Divine appointment which have j i tho naiMnrJ mentioned in J uctu I.ca\,uv/u, vwv, ? Daniel's prophecy as "The Time of the End." (Daniel xii, 4.) And here we must remiud you afresh that The I Time of the End does not mean the end 1 of time. It merely signifies the time for the ending of the present order of things, that a New Order, the Messianic Kingdom, may be substituted. Twenty-five centuries ago God deter: mined this time and gave us four im; portant proofs by which to identify it. , (1) The first sign of The Time of the | End was to be, "Many shall run to and fro." How wonderfully this prophecy is fulfilled before our eyes today! Its fulfilment has been in progress, especially, for fifty years, and it is less than j ; eighty years since the first locomotive j | was built. The nations, first separated j I by diverse languages, have kept well l within fho bounds of their habitations! until now; suddenly wo have a running to and fro in fulfilment of this prophecy which is amazing! The various nations and languages are being scatter-1 ed all over the eartb. (2) The next step in the prophecy j marking The Time of the End of this | Age is. "Knowledge shall be increas-! ed." The general increase of education | amongst all classes ).? a logical result of the commingling of humanity and i the lessons of comparison and compe- i titxm being learned. Suddenly, as though iu obodience to the Divine command, nation aftvr nation has made schooling free; and more, have made it compulsory; and this spirit is spreading to unenta; lanus. me wuoie wonu waking up! Personal rights and na-; tional rights are everywhere being discussed. The schools of India are said to be turning out a million graduates : in the English language every year. The Chinese als3 are introducing Eng- i lish schools. What will be the results? Enlightenment? Yes! Godliness? No!! Contentment? No! Dissatisfaction, war, strife, anarchy, are coming to the world by leaps and bounds, as a result of general education and the i breath of libertv, because not backed * by reverence for God and Ilis will. Those Days Will Bo Shortened. ened there shouk? no flosli be saved: ! but for the elect's sake those days shall ! bo shortened**?because of tho ''clef t." i1 and the King-loin vliieli \::ny will tablish, thrlf "til1"- "r i v,-'" ) ;? ?ui short. Dan. "! Mau. ::xiv ' (3) The third item indicative .of The j Time of the End of this Age is: "The ! wise shall understand;" not the worldly-wise, but those wise toward God. And so we find it today. While the great and the learned and the masses are rapidly drifting into heathenish darkness, away from the Bible, God's j saintly few, of every nation and de- | nomination, are gradually seeing more j clearly the teachings of the Scriptures, j (4) As a result of the fulfilments of Xos. 1 and 2, we see nearing us, portentously, No. 4: "There shall be a time of trouble such as never was I since there was a nation." That time j of trouble is now looming up on the ; horizon of every nation. It comes in the wake of an unsanctified knowledge. \ It would mean the utter wreck of all j <* -(Vvt* +Vin intov. ! civiiizaiiuu n uut , position of the Kingdom of God's clear j Son. for which we have long waited i and prayed, "Thy Kingdom come; Thy j will bo done on earth as in heaven." j Our Lord, speaking of this trouble, do- ; rO o rnrl -r> 1 fliACo /lore worn Cil'i AVt - HOW OLD PEOPLE i May Prolong Their Lives At an advanced age waste is more rapid than repair. The organs act more slowly and less effectually than j in youth. Tho circulation is poor, the blood thin and watery, the appetite poor and digestion weak. We want to say to every agea per- t son in this vicinity that Vinol, our do- , licious cod liver and iron tonic (without oil) will prolong life. It creates an appetite, aids digestion and makes good blood. In this natural manner Vinol retards waste and replaces weakness with strength, giving new j life to the worn system. If people in this vicinity only real" J 1 ~rl': 1 {nrrlcrAflltoC" A 11 OH Til f? ' izeu now v iuui luvisuia^a wv* ? we would not be able to supply the demand. Try a bottle of Vinol with the un- j derstandins: that your money will be j returned if it does not help you. j For ssile by Gilder & Weeks. j INDIGESTION Kidney and Bladder Troubles and j Nervous Debility Yield Readily i and Quickly to Treatment with HAGGARD'S SPECIFIC TABLETS "A SURE CURE" Chattahoochee. Gk Htgaard Specific Co., Atlanta. Ga. 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WHEREAS, one-third of the resident electors and a like proportion of the resident free-holders of the age of twenty-one years, of Utopia School i n;otr;r>t \*n in of Xewberrv County. 1 AV/Vy A 1 v< AV; v. - . ^ - v State of South Carolina, have filed a j petition with the County Board of j Education of Newberry County, South j Carolina, petitioning and requesting ; that an election be held in the said School District on the question of re pealing one mill of the special annual | tax of two mills heretofore voted, le-1 vied, and collect-ed on the property located in the said School District. XOW. THEREFORE the rndorsigned3 compo?ing the County Board of I Quality is V I We have the ; to be had in B at 50c., 75c., $2.00 and 2.5 I Gilder^ I The Right I f Attention of South This is the year for you ' the Old Reliable "Star Bran Co's Manipulated Guano, a clusively. It has given sati * r 1 * _ .1. over 4D years, ana is acKnc it to be the best all-round C the world. It gives you th Money. 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Send $1.00 for a yearly s paper started at once, three ti Address all orders to Tri-Weekly f Atlanl i I Ill I Education of Newberry County, South. Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the said School District, j No. 10 (Utopia School District) to hold | an election on the said question of re- j pealing one mill of the two mill tax heretofore voted, levied and collected on the property in the said School District, which said election shall be held I _ i at Utopia School house, in the said School District, No. 10, on Friday, .March 20, 1912, at which said election tlie polls shall be opened at 7 o'clock in the forenoon, and closed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The mem!: ; "? of the Board of Trustees of so id Sch-Ol District shall act as managers; of said election. Only such elector* . i ; fhat Counts greatest value ase Ball goods I $1.00, $1.50, I ;o. I . [Weeks Drug Store. 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' *, ' . in the homes of over 100,000 ly circulated tri-weekly news- t 11 the needs of the people for if unusual value in its various Features, and interests every father, mother, children, and ) , . 1 ' r ' ere over the bouth, at every ^ j; et, on eve-T rural route and ?. Splendid inducements in. miums, agents' cash commisfor an outfit today, free, if C !j "'f ,' . 5 sending his own name and :en neighbors by post card re- ^ ^ V''v f -\i, t ubscription now and get your ; x* v> mesa week. Almost a daily! ? < ' ' W Constitution :a,' Ga. \ J as reside in said School District and return real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their tax receipts and registration cetificates as required in general elections shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring a repeal of the said tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "yes" printed or written thereon, and each elector opposed to such repeal shall cast a ballot containing the word "no" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seals on February 29, 1912. V T4 AT'TT E. 0. COUNTS. County Board of Elucr.rjon of Xewberry Coui.ty, South Carolina.