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Nothing But Name Left at Hamburg Aiken, Oct. 28*?-'"Hamburg, S. C? just across the river from Augusts, is gone this time for sure," is tne way the Augusta Herald begins an editorial under the headline "High Waters Leave Town with Nothing but a Name." The article la the Georgia paper continues as follows: "The little city that was once famed throughout the southeast, but which in a period of a hundred years dwindles to the point where it rep. resented nothing more than two fllU ing stations and some 25 or 30 negro dwelling houses, a silent tribute *o the vast strength of the Savannah river when ijt goes on a rampage. "Ipupdfttion of the lower floors of k their hojgies has been almost an annual experience of this little colony of negroes. Past freshets compelled them to move, to the second floor or to temporarily desert their homes i. i. * ' ' in, ? until the Hood*? subsided. Little actual damage resulted. "Hut it was a different story in the recent floods, two of which came in as many weeks. Speeded up by the levees they kept the raging waters from spreading over Augusta, the "Main Street" of Hamburg was itself 11 swirling river bed and the waters lapped about the tops of the chimneys and pounded against the shingles of the roofs. "Jb'rom 12 to 15 houses were entirely swept awuy and are lost somewhere in the swamps below Augusta, An equal number of residences were left twisted und torn, some of them being moved a block awuy and leaning against trees. " 'Hamburg's done for this time,' we remarked to an elderly negro who poked among the ruins for some truce of his belongings that were swept away with his home. " 'Yes, sir," he said, 'Hamburg's gone now.' "And his lugubriously suggested distruction of his little community was a greater blow than the loss of any personal belongings. "A few of the negro families who have lived in Hamburg for many years will come buck. Already they are trying to make a house here arid there habitable. But the owner* of this property are not expected to keep these mud battered and twisted shack* in livable condition. It would be sending good money after bud. "And so it is not difficult to predict that Hamburg is ready to join South Carolina's list of 'forgotten town*.' That is. forgotten except to the historian, for the fame it made and enjoyed over a long period of years will exist for quite a span of time. "Piled up against the Southern railway trestle are the shells of dwelling houses. In the mass of the wreckage one may see sections of a roof, gable ends, sills, doors, window frames and no end of muddy pieces of household furniture. In one pile . . ' '1 1 * | - r-rrrr?t-t frr?? of debris we saw a baby carriage, an oil stove, old shoes, cooking utenails and a baby high chafr. "If Henry Schultz ghost stalks about those ruins it must be an apparition that bears a great sorrow. "There is a far greater monetary loss on the highway Just a stone's throw from Hamburg settlement. Hut it is not so pathetic. It is less impressive. ".Sherman did not know half as much about destroying towns as does the Savannah river when it goes or^ a rampage. "In some of the houses left standing one can see household furnishings stuffed into the atttc, or on the second floor piled upon tables. This bears mute testimony to the hope of Hamburg dwellers that the flool would not reach them there. But it did. In most instances the muddy waters went clear to the roofs, the silt and slime upon the shingles revealing the high mark of the overflow. * "<0n the toighway-MLJ. S. Route No. \t some 1,200 feet of All and pavement are gone. The pavemejit was either swept into the swamp or pick' ed up and twisted into blocks and dumped back again onto the broken highway. One freight car just below the All is standing with its heels turned toward the skies. " When one looks at the havoc wrought it is hard to believe that this way can be made passable by the time the bridge repairs are completed. The South Carolina highway authorities say it will be dope. We hope they are correct in tneir estimate." Stolen Navy Fuuda Recovered Washington, Oct. 29.?Navy department officials announced t9day that they had found $47,000 buried in a chicken yard in southeast Washington by Lieutenant Charles Musil, who disappeared from Charleston, S. C., several weeks ago with a $54,600 payroll. v . Father of 14, Wed* Samson, Aia., Oct. 31. -C?pmt, R. S. Spurlin, 87-year-old command^ of the Samson Camp of Confederals veterans, and 'Miss Emma Joba** 17, have been married. * Tha veteran's first wife died six 1 months agp. Then Miss Johnaon and her grandmother went to live in his home, the grandmother as housekeep. er. Recently the grandmother became too feeble to carry on the work I and returned to her home. 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