Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?g???I 8f MUCH DAMAGE DONE I BY FLOODED STREAMS B Seceding Waters in Riiers of Pied niont Show Injury in Many Sec[ tlons?Only Two Railway Lines in Operation in Spartanbunr. Spartanburg. .Tuly IT.?Slowly receduisr waters in the rivers ol Pied0 1 ! mom South Carolina tonight are leaving this section of the country with-1 out railroad connection except over' I the main line of the Southern railway . ' to Atlanta and the Charleston & ! Western Carolina to Augusta, while j the stations of the big water power! I developments are flooded and out of commission. Railway bridges are out, scores of highway bridges have been * swept away and on the mountain di? visions of the Southern railway and Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio there are j numerous serious landslides. The cotton mills of this immediate section have not suffered greatly, j though many of them have oeen forced to close because of high, water. Olost of the cotton manufacturing plants of this county are on the Tyger and Pacolet rivers and these streams have not reached danger point. The story of greatest destruction reaching here today came from Polk county, North Carolina, along the valley of the Pacolet river. Here for *? .?-vP 19 miios Ashevilte a uioiauv^ vi ~~ division of the Southern railway has been almost destroyed, while an automobile highway built by the count? I two years ago at a cost of $75,000 has disappeared. Not a bridge on the entire road between Tryon, N. C., | and Sal-uda, N. remains and at I places slides from the mountains have I * buried the road for long distances. I l Three Trains Marooned, f In this valley the Southern railway lias three trains marooned since last Saturday. The passengers on two ot i them were brought back to SpartanI feurg this afternoon. Officials of the road here believe it will be weeks, perhaps, before the line may again be operated. Little better is promised for the main line east of here. The Carolina, ClincMeld & Ohio railroad between Spartanburg and Johnston City, Tenn., is closed and, according * * -? - ' A + to statements given out ucic wmsuu. will not be able to operate trains for two weeks. A span of the "bridge over I Broad river, 20 miles north of this city, was the Srst serious trouble. Beyond Marion, N. C., the "bridgesj over the Catawba river is out and on i I the mountain division serious slides j 3re blocking the line. Railway people say the situation is the worst that has ever confronted them in this region. Many passengers . held here since Saturday are still in the city, unable to proceed to their destinations or to return ^ome. Persons walking from Saluda to Tryon today and reaching Spartanburg tonight over the Southern railwav brins: accounts of damage not only to the Southern railways line which over the Saluda grade has been almost completely wrecked, and to the new automobile road built by the county two years ago at a cost of $75,000, but to farming land. The bottom lands near Tryon, where a week ago splendid crops grew, are now cov erea aeep in sana anu unit ?wu from the mountain slopes. A similar story may come from the ; mountain division of the Carolina m Mrs. Jay McGee, of Steph- I Ml " enville, Texas, writes: " For fflj fim* (Q\ vparc I suffered with lAl 1 womanly trouble. I had ter- V | rible headaches, and pains in K my back, etc. It seemed as if BJ I would die, I suffered so. At last, I decided to try Cardui, 9] the woman's tonic, and it 9 helped me right away. The 9) I full treatment not only helped klj I mp hut it rnrpH mp " !] TAKE ti Cardui 1 Tl? Woman's Tonic h Cardui helps women in time [^] IK of greatest need, because it ai iV contains ingredients which act vi K specifically, yet gently, on the if j| weakened womanly organs. Si J J So, if you feel discouraged, EI |J blue, out-of-sorts, unable to El K do your household work, on >4 fA account of your condition, stop Al worrying and give Cardui a V! IE I trial. It has helped thousands A iu of women,?why not you ? W I | Clinchfield & Ohio railway wlien communication is established, for reports of great destruction are reaching the city, though the road has no wires beyond Chesnee. 17 miles norm of Spartanburg, and is not informed as ro damage beyond iJroad river Dridsre, where one straii-.i of that structure ' * ' i n i neariy it > a't-i ?.juvc mv . ".lan-ii;;*. 1'".;is road has not operated trains .<nce Saturday and ;;c% to i at -aients given out here will hardly be able to open for two weeks. Today the c:ly had only two lines of railroad open, the main line of smithorn wp^r to (Atlanta and the I tug kJU U l,*4V4 A?. [ Charleston & Western Carolina to i Augusta. The main line of the Southern to Charlotte is blocked by tho destruction of the bridge over the Catawba river, while trouble on the line to Columbia begins at Broad river bridge at Shelton and continues to Alston and beyond. Textile Plants Escaped. With the exception of a dam washed out at Fingerville mill in th.3 northern part of the county, the textile plants of this immediate region escaped serious damage, most of these being on the Pacolet and Tyger rivers, where the floods were somewnat lower than on the Broad and Catawba rivers. Tlie plants of tlie Soutn <jaronnrs. Light, Power & Railway company ai Gaston shoals on Broad river, six miles north of Gaffney, is out of com mission, having been flooded and sustaining a break in the island side of the dam. Officials of the company | left Spartanburg for the dam today | but have not returned. On Broaa river below Gaffney, the Ninety-Nine island plant of the Southern Power company was flooded. Tt? <Jnartanhdirff there has been a great destruction of highway bridges, over 30 having been reported to the supervisor's offices as out. Ii is estimated that the cost of replacing these structures will reach $60,000. Prom all sections injury to crops especially corn, is reported. The railroad predicting with any assurance wtien traffic wil be normal as ai any time. In many places bridges i are trv hp rebuilt, and miles of road are to be constructed. Old Age and Death Start >k Liver Your liver is the Sanitary Depart* ment of your body. When it goes wrong your whole system becomes poisoned andyour vitality is weakened. The best remedy is Dr. Thacher's Liver and Blood Syrup I A purely vegetable compound, Laxativa and tonic in effect. It cleans out your body, and puts energy into your mind and muscles. We recommend thia remedy because we know from many years' tzperi nce that it is effective. Keep a bottle in your home. 50c and $1 at your dealer's. THACHER MEDICINE CO., CHATTANOOGA, TENN. <S> County Campaign Schedule. <S> <?> - <S> <$><$><$><$><$<$><$$><$ <$><^<$><?<$><S><8><3> Whitmire, Saturday, Ju^y 22nd. Utopia, Tuesday, July 25th. Young's Grove, Friday, July 28th. Pomaria, Tuesday, August 1st. Longshore's, Thursday, August 3rd. Chappells, Tuesday, August 8th. Newberry Court House, Friday, August 11th. Jalapa, Tuesday, August 15th. Valt + 'a f~lr*r\Tra TTVi Hot* All orlicf 1 Ri'Vi 1 vvltt O VJ I U ? r i XUU/ 9 iTXUQ tivj V Little Mountain, Tuesday, August 22nd. Newberry (West End), Saturday, August 26th. The meeting at 'Whitmire will hegin at 2 p. m. The meeting at West End wil begin at 8 p. m. All other meetings will begin at 10:30 a. m. Frank R. Hunter. B. B. Leitzsey, Chairman. Secretary. H'EWBERBY PEOPLE nrnn ivCfrtWr i nnfAV txxj A .It 1JU.1 Those "who have used it ia Newberry are astonished at the INSTANT action of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc, as mixed in Adler-i-ka. Because it acts on BOTH lower and upper bowel, ONE SPOONFUL Adler-i-ka relieves almost ANY CASE constipa tion, sour stomach of gas. it removes such surprising foul matter that a few doses often relieve or prevent appendicitis. iA short treatment helps chronic stomach trouble. Gilder & Weeks Co., Druggists. FRENCH BROAD FLOOD f CAUSES MUCH DAMAGE | 1 With Streams Returning to Banks, \she\iiie I?Minis I"j? Toll in { ]>un Heaths and | Property Loss. A~!irviiie. X. July IT.?Eleven j ii-.'i a property loss estimated at j I -.tttio: the destruction of C0| : 4uu people homeless; 2"> man-! ! uiacturing and industrial plants par- j | tialiy destroyed and the complete j i paralysis of all railroad traffic in anil | | out of the city, except-on the Murphy division, are the results of the i disastrous flood which swept through j the French Broad valley from sun-j . rise yesterday until 1 o'clock this ' morning. Leaving a trail of disaster ana ruin I in nieir waKe as tney receue uie waters of the French Broad and Swanannoa rivers are rapidly returning to their normal levels and it is stated tonight by official gaugers that both rivers will be inside their banks within the next 24 hour*. The known death list reported yesterday has been reduced by two, it being definitely established that Mrs. Leo Mulholland and Miss Nellie Lipe, hp twr? daughters nf Cant.. ,T. d. Line. who lost his life when the rescue boat overturned in front of his house at Biltmore, were rescued by boatmen who took the two women off tree branches which, they had grasped as they were swept down stream. Beyond severe nervous shock, the women received no injury and they ale now recovering at Biltmore hospital. Three Women Drowned It is also definitely known that the two nurses of the Biltmore hospital Miss Mabel Foister and Miss Charlotte Walker, and the latter's aged sister, Miss Marion 'Walker, were drowned in the flood waters when they attempted to return across the railroad tracks to the Lipe house at Biltmore after rescue there by boatmen. The rush of water carried them off thteii feet into the river and they caught hold of a tree when they were being swept away. One of the nurses tied ' her sweater to the tree and to this ' the three women hung until carried ] away by a mass of wreckage which came over the Biltmore bridge. The bodies of the Walker sisters were recovered about half a mile below the bridge early this morning but that 01 Miss Foister 'has not yet been found. The total property losses caused by j i the flood throughout the French Broad valley embracing the counties of Henderson, Buncombe and Madison will not vary much from the earlier estimates which placed the total damage to woodworking and power plants, including the municipal plant which supplies Asheville with lighting uurrem auu motive power, tue cuy gas works, the Asheville cotton mills, the National Casket company's plant and the Southern railway shops, at $10,000,000. Death Toll Tleven. So far as can be ascertained, th<; death toll of the flood stands at eleven people, two of whom, Walter Trexler j and Luther Frazer, the latter a negro, | lost their lives in trying to pass food j to marooned guests of the Blen Rock I hotel. There are many conflicting re \ ports, however, to the effect that several lives have been lost in the flood, ed districts of Henderson and Madison counties. It is also feared that an 11 year old boy of West Asheville, Edward McDowell, was drowned when Smith's bridge, a stell and j vooden structure below the city, was voi i icu <x yv<xy /csieiAiaj aitertioou. His parents reported him as having been missing through the night and at noon today nothing had been heard of him. The city supply of gas and electricity is still cut off and, it is feixed will remain so for several days, botL plants of the Asheville Power & Light j wuipanj uemg snii unuer water, it | is now stated that not more than 60 j houses were destroyed by the floods i in the cotton mill and railway section but the number of homeless people is i placed between 400 and 500. 'All 1 these are being fed and housed by re- < j lief committees organized at a public < [ mass meeting this morning when the ' sum of nearly $1-0,000 was subscribed 1 for relief work. : In the flooded .districts of this and ] neighboring counties conditions are ] rapidly improving as th.e waters re- < cede and in some instances the work < of restoration of damaged plants has i already begun. The city authorities i of Asheville publicity announced this < morning that the local relief commit- i ' tees could handle the situation, and t that nrv rm+sirip hpln hp nppripd The first authentic information re- < garding the flood situation at Mar- I s"hall and other joints in Madison ] j county reached Asheville tonight t when Lewis Foster of this cit3\ who ( was at Marshall Sunday, arrived hero 11 in an automobile from Marshall, liav-. 1 mg come through the country aftei crossing the French Broad river b) traveling cn wreckage swept down bj the flood. Foster says that three livewere lost at Marshall, the dead being: James Guthrie. a Miss Bridge (firs! name not known), and an unidentified child. Foster also sa>s that (JO frame houses at Marshall were washed away, and that the property los: 1- * - - - i - - "? * a K wn 4- ^ l.i ?I>VA /-.Aft AT: mere, iiit'iuuin^ iuui at a i.u iuuwi mill on the banks of the Fren -li Broad, will roach $3.">o.000 ar.<T at other ponits in the county $2"?0.00t' more. THEY ALL DEMAND IT People with kidney ills want to be cured. When one suffers the tortures of an aching hack, relief is eagerl} sought for. There are many remedies today that relieve, but do not cure. Doan's Kidney Pills Jiave brought lasting results to thousands Here is Newberry evidence of their merit. H. F. Addy, blacksmith, 1308 Caldwell St., Newberry, says: "A hard case of La Grippe left my kidneys in frightful shape. I had severe painf across my loins and was laid up for two months. I couldn't do a strok of work. My kidneys were weak. The kidney secretions were scanty, caused a burning sensation in passage an<5 also contained sediment. I had dizzj spells and headaches. The first bo? - ? . ,;j T^:1T~ o si/i 01 JJOan S AllliiCy mis ucipcu uic auu after I had taken six boxes, I was cured." V 50c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburi: Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Two Things Yon Must Do for Success. In the July American (Magazine w< read the following: "Remember if you have your mint bent on success that two things ar< necessary, two things that you mus do yourself, that no one can aid yoi o^iova?imaq+prv of vourself &n< W wvi"v ? ?- ...... J ( a clear road to the goal. Hew dowi your obstructions for yourself. If yoi have no opportunities, make them!" TRAVELING SALESMAN AFRIAD TO LEAVE HOMI OFTEN HAD TO REFUSE BETTE PAYING POSITIONS. HELPED BY TANLAC. "It would be a hard matter to est mate the good Tanlac has done me said W. Day Barrett, 2613 Burrougl street, one of the best known men i Savannah. Mr. Barrett has been city salesman in the grocery line f( 16 years, and his enthusiasm ov< Tanlac is no surprise to the mar friends who knew of his previoi condition of health and now reali2 what it has done for him. "I've been a little better than nervous wreck for three years," h continued, "and have been treated b no less than 15 .doctors right here i Savannah. I was forced to turn dow better paying jobs, traveling, becaus I was afraid to get away from horn in this condition, and at times I wa actually afraid to go out on the stree 11 was so weak and shaky. | "I suffered with headaches and neu ralgia and my stomach was in ba condition al the time and it seeme conditions all the time and it seeme would set me in order or enable me fc digest my food. I couldn't eat any thing that wouldn't sour on m: stomach and give me pain or mak< me miserable. I was thin and hac very little strength. In fact the leas ' '"I* -r.rrt-M'M avThon<sf mP ATlf ilbUt? tACl UUil VVUUAU Vammmwv I was hardly equal to anything. 1 would have pains in my back and i- Ints continually, and would be sc nervous and exhausted at night 1 couldn't sleep at all. I would often have to take stimulants to enable m<= to keep on going. "One of the doctors who treated m<? suggested that I try Tanlac and see what it would do in my case, and besides that, a close personal friend begged me to take it. So I started in 3n it about a month ago, and I wouldn't tell you in a week how glad [ am that I got it, for it's the very :hing. I haven't taken but two bottles fet, but I've actually gained several rounds in weight and it's simply picking me up and getting me ove} jvery one of my troubles just as fast - ~ A? t aoi/l hofnrp there is lb It Octll. ??rxo X 10 estimating the good it has done ne. It is a great medicine beyond all loubt and I am going to keep on takng it until there is no chance of these :roubles coming back on me." Tanlac, the master medicine, is sold exclusively by Gilder & Weeks, dewberry; prosperity Drug Co., Prosperity; Little Mountain Drug Co., Lit;Ie Mountain; Dr. W. O Hollo way, ^happells; Whitmire Pharmacy, whitmire; D J, Livingston, Silverstreet. Price $1 per bottle straight.?-Adv. k CHDDTEY ROOK DESTROYED r Extent of Disaster to Mountain ; Village Yet I'nknown. | Spartanburg, July Iv?The village ' ' of Chimney Rock. X. <*.. has been de': stroved bv high water, according ro i i 1, reports reaching here tonight. Tin 1..V-. 1 , ? ../M'AVrt 1 ^ f ll A /I TT'Al 1 * ? ? ?V - * IUhfi (lini 5?;vciUi U* unc \i ? Ci i lii -.D 'r t;.e town are in the bottoms, fouri"(jit miles below, on Broad River near i the "Com Plantation." ' | There iias been loss of life, but the extent is unknown. The buildings haven't been reached, but with the exception of a dog on the roof of on-^ I To The > Let me urge i wheat before yoi There is no dry L a not been sunned 1 and then blame i you good work. : FARMERS , 1 J. H. WICKIi 1 1 ' 1 J FIFTEENTI E ' . s EXCU1 ; atl; r GEO iy is XT :e V : C. N. & L. & : FRIDAY J * Following Rates and ?? T Qf JUV. Vjwm. vjrcivio wo ! Irmo a Ballentine... 0 White Rock ! 1 Hilton Chapin r Little Mountain i [ j Slighs 1 t j Prosperity 1 | Newberry Jalapa , Garv Kinard Goldville __ Laurens Clinton Ar Atlanta Tickets Jimited for return 6 DAYS IN J Tickets good returniz (except Seaboard Train N< p. m.) up to and including lanta 8,30 p. m. Wednesd For detailed information above mentioned E.A.TARRER,C.A., J.! C. N. & L. R. R., j 1120 Taylor St. Phone 10 Columbia, S. C. i | I ) ? there is no sign of life. There was ? population of 150 at Chimney Rock". The Chimney Rock 'highway has "been ! destroyed. Chimney Rock is twentyi rive miles from the nearest railroad. M QUICK ACTION ON HAY Senate Promptly Confirms His domination. Washington, July 17.?The senate j to<.c/ con firmed President Wilson's ri/.niina;ii n /\ t r i lamPS Hay of Virginia as a justice of the j court of claims. Mr. Hay will resign I from congress at the end of the pres' ent session. Public you to sun your 1 take it to mill. wheat that has . Do your part ne if I do not do OIL MILL lR, Manager i " f ^ r rj ______?. I'1 ; I / \|| i ANNUAL RS10N ro I iNTA j RGIA v-: ? A l/\ ? SEABOARD FULY 28th Schedules Will Apply: 11.25 a. m $3.50 11.-50 a. m 3.50 11.58 a. m 3.50 12.03 p. m 3.50 12.06 p. m 3.5o 12.14 p. m 3.50 12.26 p. m 3.50 2 32 p. m 3.50 12.44 p. m 3.50 1.00 p. m 3.50 1.16 p."m 3.50 1.22 p. m 3.50 1.29 p. m 3.00 1.36 p. m 3.00 2.25 p. m. 3.00 2.35 p. m 3.00 8.o0 p. m. t until August 2nd. 1916 ATLANTA 6 ??? oil varrnlar traini *]? UU Utl ??...... d. 6 leaving Atlanta 3.00 r train No. 12 leaving Atay, August 2nd, 1915. < t i call on any agent at stations or write ). ETCHBERGER, T. P. A. Seaboard Air Line, '40 Arcade, Phone 574 j| Columt"- S. C. " i