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? m (Ml THE UNION TIMES ...JH VOL. LXVI. NO. 29. UNION. S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1916 #1.00 A YKAK ANGRY T< DEATI Unprecedented I of Millions in tl nessee ai Falling Waters in P and Property Dama r.rnQcinar Wataro VkJVJAll^ f f UAVyJl V Atlantic Goas at Rimini With falling water in the Piedmoi revealing tremendous damage t property and possibly greatly ii creased loss of life, warnings are b? ing issued to the people of lower Sout Carolina! where the rivers, swollen b the rush of water from up-State, wi probably approach the record fc floods. The Piedmont section fears n more damage and is now engaged i establishing its losses and plannin to repair the damage wrought. The Santee river at Rimini is risin rapidly and the Atlantic Coast Lin railway trestle at that place is i grave danger. The Wateree river t Camden is receding after sweepin away a section of the steel trestle c tL- CI 1 1 A I ? T * -* 1 me ocauuitru mr Liine runway. Village May Be Lost. The worst i's fea"red for the villag of Chimney Rock, N. C., near th famous rock of that name in Ruthei ford county. Reports reaching Spai tanburg are that the town has bee destroyed by the high water and man if not all of the 160 inhabitants c the village are'believed to* haV?rT>?te lost. The hotel and several dwelling of the town are said to have bee swept 14 miles below on Broad rivt near the Cox plantation. The builc ings can not be reached, but with th exception of a dog on the roof of house no sign of life has been ot served. The Chimney Rock highwa has been destroyed. After destroying a section of ste< work on the Seaboard trestle at Can den at midday the Wateree began t fall late yesterday afternoon. Th county bridge, a short distance sout of the Tailway trestle, is not eonsic ered in danger. Houses and store south and east of Camden, on creek: have been almost completely sul merged by the backing water. Ever automobile road except the one lead ing to Kershaw is under water an passage is cut off. The rising waters of the Santee ri\ er at Rimini endangered the trestl of the Atlantic Coast I.ine railway an many cars are in waiting at nearb stations to be placed on the tresth It is estimated that 100 will be nect ed to add sufficient weight to secur the structure. Advices from Pine wood are that all mail and trail' will be cut off from the south exc*; ty way of Sumter. Railway official hope the heavily loaded cars wi'il ...iv the trestle and if their hopes are just tied traffic will be resumed within th next few days. If the trestle fail several weeks will be needed to resfoi it. Santee Mounts High. At 10 o'clock last night the Sante was rising seven inches an hour a Rimini and was within three feet c the record. Officials expect water t go five feet over the top of the rail - *.wl uuauiimatcr yy iiitt? is wurtwii with day and night crews in an effoi to save the trestle. At Ki'ngville la? night water was reported in the rai way station. Today the swollen stream moves o to the sea, and by tonight the ere* should reach the Atlantic Coast Lin trestle near Eastover where alread water is touching the rails. Communication with Camden ye: terday was bad, especially after th dama'ge to the Seaboard Air Line trestle, but it was a record breakin flood, estimated at 45.5 feet. Thi stage of the Wateree with the Cor garee will make 33 feet, it is est mated, at Rimini on the Santee, o July 22, rising probably within a foe of the 1908 record reading, 33.7 fee Ferguson, on the Santee, will likel have 23 feet, which is near the floo figure of 1908 when 23.7 was the hig mark. The crest of the Congaree has pra< ti'eally a day's start on the Watere crest. A good deal of this* water wi run into the Santee, passing Rimii before the Camden crest gets into tl Santee, but the Congaree flow will nc be of sufficient strength, it is though to crest at Rimini before the generi flow, consequently the water wi v ' ORRENTS < i AND DES floods Cause Loss le Carolinas, Tenid Virginia. \ * iedmont Reveal Death ge?Seaboard Trestle e at Camden Goes, t Line Structure in Jeopardy. it probably go to a single crest at a Rimini on July 22. There is more l- water in the Wateree than the record <s- and less than the record in the Conh garee. y The water will rise to about 20 feet, 11 it is predicted, at May, the Southern >r railway bridge, about three miles 10 from Kingville. The water is exn pected to wash across the ties at May. g The water at Rimini and at Ferguson is expected to reach a width of g about 20,000 feet. ,e Death List Grows, n . as tne nood waters throughout the 1 stricken districts of North Carolina, ^ South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia were receding, reports increased the death list to 28. John Heath and his mother a*nd e Mrs. Caldwell Sentelle and her child ie died yesterday from injuries received r~ when their homes were caught in a '" landslide, four miles from Brevard, n N. C. ^ The property loss continues to grow ' and when towns and counties now cut off from communication are '' heard from the first estimates of n from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 dam-1 age probably will be increased. " Railroads apparently have suffered e far more than was at first realized. a Reports from western North Carolina a're that some lines there will y have to be almost entirely rebuilt, while bridges were carried away at many points in all four States and sevious washouts and landslides uc? turred along the roa'ds. e Measures for the relief of passen" gcrs on trains marooned near Ashe"i'le were taken today, automobiles !S bemg employe<l to carry the passens? gers to the nearest cities where they >_ can be oroperly fed and housed. Fifty y automobiles were used to move the 250 passengers from the Florida Snec ^ ia! of the Southern railway to Asheville. Cotton mills in North and South le Carolina have been heavy sufferers d from the flood and thousands of worky ers have been thrown out of employ2. ment. In many instances mills have 1- io Le entiiely rebuilt and it will be c' months before these arc put into opi eration. ic i Reports of damage along tlfe Call fawba river in North Caro'iti i conis tinue to come in and several (ities e along that stream, including Hickory i- and Lenoir, still are cut off from coin^ munication. Great damage has been Is done all along the waterway and the o same is true along the Yadkin. Asheville wa's getting yesterday to something like normal, with gangs of e workmen busy rebuilding plants and ^ clearing debris. There was limited ,f electric power and health authorities ,o were taking stringent measures to s prevent any disease epidemic. Latest g reports there made it certain that the t Lake Toxaway dam had held against it the flood watrs. I. In Tennessee the flood waters were abouf stationary. Great dam&'ge was n done to crops, railroads, mills and it warehouses throughout the flooded e area in the eastern part of the State, y Many towns and villages there were yet to report. Conditions in southwest Virginia e were rapidly approaching normal and >s work of repairing railway bridges and ' tracks was proceeding rapidly. Con3 siderable damage to industrial plants ^ and crops in that section were reported in latest dispatches.?Wednesday's n State. >t Chimney Rock Lost in Flood. y Spartanburg, July 18.?According to information brought here tonight h by H. A. Marlette, who went to Thermal City. N. C., yesterday in an automobile, the village of Chimney Iiock, !6 N. C., hear the famous rock of that 11 name in Rutherford county, was comli pletely washed way by the high waters le of Broad river. There were about 150 >t inhabitants in the town, t, According to Mr. Marlette, a party il from nearby towns went to Chimney 11 Rock to try to rescue some of those :ause truction caught by the flood, but on account of 1 the body of water surrounding the village they were not able to get close <to the houses. The party saw no signs of human life, it was said, but got close enough to hear a dog barking in one of the houses. The postofflce and hotel were washed to a point several miles below the village to a place known as the Cox place. A company had just built a new [ road to the top of Chimney Rock this summer at a cost of $10,000, and this is said to have been completely destroyed and will have to be rebuilt. Chimney Rock is 25 miles from the nearest railroad. While Chimney Rock and Bat Cave are two separate villages, several miles apa'rt, it is possible that the story reaching here tonight refers to the report from Asheville of loss of life at Bat Cave. The valley of the Rocky Broad in the Bat Cave section is very narrow but inhabitants ; should have had no difficulty in ! reaching places of safety. I Flood's Death List Approaches Thirty. Asheville, N. C., July 18.?The , death list from the floods in several Southeastern States is growing rapidly as news comes in from isolated districts. Nineteen additional drownings reported today brought the known deaths to 34 and dispatches that the town of Chimney Rock, in Rutherford county, N. C., has been literally washed away, has led to the belief that the casualty list will be much crouler. First word reaching the outside t world from the Hickory-Lenoir-Mor- 1 ganton region of North Carolina, e brought the news that $'1,000,000 dam- c age had been done in that section by c the overflow of the Catawba river, i Two lives were lost. I Eight additional deaths are reported i from Bat Cave, a village in Hender- ' son county on the Rocky Broad river,- i North Carolina, two from Volga, small c town in Buncombe county^; four from i Brevard and three from the Hickory -i Nut Gap section. In addition un- c verified reports sa"y three lives were c lost below Marshall, N. C., in the t overturning of a boat. f The report deceived here early this i evening that eight people lost their e lives in the Bat Cave section of the 1: State last Sunday, when the Rocky Broad river rose from 15 to 20 feet T above its banks, seemed to be con- c firmed by a telephone messa'ge re- I ceived here tonight from John Patrick o at Fair View, eight miles from Ashe- v ville. Mr. Patrick stated that six wo- r men and two children were carried I away on the flood waters at Bat Cave :i a'nd that only one body, that of a f little girl named Wilson, had been c found. He was unable to give the e names of the others. Fair View is 22 i miles from Bat Cave. Mr. Patrick <1 said that the conditions at Bat Cave [ are really deplorable^ more than half of the houses of the village having t been washed away. He says that peo- I pie who have money to buy provisions t have no way of getting them, the 1 highways on both sides of Bat i CaYe having been washed away in <> several sections. It is feared that the ; Hat Cave section will reveal a heavy t loss of life when full communication has been established. o Later reports from the Bat Cave <i section, which includes the village of t Chimney Rock, two miles from But iCave, state that every effort is being r made to reach the flood sufferers s there with food supplies. Two car- 1 loads of provisions were sent over i from Hendersonvflle this afternoon, 1 being transferred from wagon to \ wagon across bridgeless streams. i The report from Spartanburg that the $25,000 scenic highway recently i constructed to the foot of Chimney Rock was destroyed by the flood is confirmed by a dispatch from Hendersonville tonight. It is also stated that two laborers lost their lives in a land- jj slide on the highway, but these deaths ] are probably included in the Bat Cave } list of casualties. The additional deaths reported to- t day include Mrs. John Heath and son, j John Heath, Jr., Brevard; Mrs. Cald- j well Sentelle and child, Brevard; Mrs. j Kdgar Hunt and two small children of Hickory Nut Gao section. To this may he added three lives reported lost in the flood waters below Marshall, and three boys, names yet unknown, c reported to have put out in a' small ^ boat from Fletchers, Henderson coun- j ty, yesterday afternoon. ( The earlier estimates of property j damage throughout the entire valley may be considerably increased when (j the rivers have returned to normal ^ levels according to a' Madison county a lumberman today who stated that the losses in the flooded sections may . reach $12,000,000. Relief work is being rapidly pushed forward in the stricken sections, and c the greater part of the 1,200 men who were thrown out of employment by the destruction of 25 industrial plants f (Continued on last page) 11 HOSPITAL PLANS ARE DEVELOPING Work of Committees to Secun Subscriptions to Begin Friday of This Week?Present Status and Outline of Future Plans For Building. Many people are askinp: "Wha1 has become of the hospital?" Everj day some one seeks to know just the status of the enterprise and what rospects there are for carrying out tee undertaking. Briefly the present status is as follows: Up to a few months ago the Jallace Thompson hospital was charred as an eleemosenary institution id the plan was to operate the enterprise as a charity institution. The concern owned a fine lot and the cash >n hand apprepated some $2,000. Betides this there was a poodly amount n subscriptions. But for a year or ;wo the enterprise lapped. Recently i movement was instituted to n?t mterprise upon a purely business >asis and to amend the charter so as *) make the concern a joint stock :ompany. These plans have proceed>d only so far as to applying for a :ommission to open books of subIfcription to the new organization. When these subscriptions to the new ;oncern are secured, then the old organization will be disbanded by law? he law requiring that the dissolution >e advertised for four consecutive veeks. It is proposed that where one i*s made a' hundred dollars contribuion to the old organization he shall lave issued to him stock to that imount in the new concern. Where >nc has contributed less than one hunIred dollars he will be urged to raise t to that amount a'nd accept a share, >ar value of one hundred dollars, in he new. Recently three committees were apjointed to make a thorough canvass >f Union. The chairmen of these ;o?nraittees are: J. Cohen, one side of na1h street and all that half of the ity; R. P. Morgan, the other side if Main street with all that half of he city; Emslie Nicholson was ap>ointed to see what could be raised n subscription from the management if the various industrial enterprises iere. These committees will begin work 'riday, and it is believed that the irganization can be perfected. The tanks of Union have made quite libral offers of financial assistance, proided the subscriptions aggregate aoasonable amount. The hospital will ie incorporated for $15,000. From l careful investigation it has been ound that similar institutions in ities the size of Union have been a'rning a substantial amount on the nvestment. There is no reason to loubt that the enterprise will pay in Jnion. Some people have suggested that he present depression caused by the ioods will make this an inopportune ime to carry forward this enterprise, lut the committees have decided that t will not do to wait, and that an nterprise such as this will encourage ind stimulate, rather than depress he citizens. The committees will go to work at iiice, making first a canvass of each f the physieiatis in Union, then of he business men and corporations. The committee appointed several Months ago to take the steps necesnry to reorganization upon the new tasis consists of Emslie Nicholsan, hairman. R. P. Morgan a'nd Lewis M. vice. This committee has gone forward as far as possible and it is now .p to the subscription committees to ret busy. This reorganization comnittee feels that it is now or never. THEATRE PARTY. Theatre parties are becoming quite i popular means of entertaining and a ecent delightful one was given by >Ir. Miles Storm at the Edi'sonia. On Monday afternoon he was host o the young ladies composing Miss day Smith's house party to see 'rancis Bushman iq "A Million A dinute," and it was heartitly enjoyed. MISS SPEARS ENTERTAINS. Miss Mary Spears was hostess Fn lay evening and had as guests of lonor, the young ladies composing diss May Smith's house party, Misses 'ecile Barr, Vera Corley and Louise leigler. The rooms were bright with yellow laisies, bowls and jardiniers of these dossoms were placed in every availible space. Tables for rook were placed in the rnrlors and hall and a lively game was >layed. The hostess served refreshing ices, ake and mints. Mr. C. A. Jeter of Carlisle has suf'ered severely from the recen- Hot ds. His low land corn crop is destroyed. FLOOD UNI > Bridges Washed Away and Crop Owing to Road Conditions ai of Mr. L. B. Jeter, Jr., Not in the minds of the oldest in- j habitants has there been n.ore destructive rains than fell throughout the county, beginning late Friday afternoon and continuing practica'I'y j. without interruption for thirty-six , hours. And it was after a terrific , downpour. Crops throughout the ' county have been seriously injured. . Bottom lands, in which corn was growing, has in many cases been swept bare. Bri'degs and roads have , suffered greatly and the lock of m.-'l \ connections has worked a great inconvenience. Harris bridge oyer the Forest on the Sedalia road is down. , Rice's bridge over the Forest on the ' way from Buffalo to West Springs is down. The bridge on Big Brown's creek is down. A large number of [ small bridges throughout the county has been swept away. The bride over , the Forest at Murphy's Shoals is badly damaged and has been condemned. Broad river, at Lockhart and Neal Shoals, was higher by five feet than it was in the Pacolet flood. Only one or two feet of the Nea'l Shoals power house was not submerged. The Union and Glenn Springs track just this side of Neal Shoals was washed away in two places, one about seventy-five yards and the other perhaps two hundred yards in length. The high trestle on the Union and Glenn Springs railway below Neal | snoais is swept away and quite a considerable bit of the track below there has gone with the raging flood. Many people from Union went down Sunday and Monday to see the angry waters. It is probable that it will require a' month to get a train through to Neal Shoals and it will be perhaps two weeks before the power plant at vNeal Shoals can be gotten ready for operation. Broad river, when it swept away the railway this side of the shoals, took to an old channel in which it had flown during former freshets, thus leaving the residences on the knoll near the shoals an island. The residents left out Sunday morning about 3 o'clock and when they were informed that the waters were overflowing the railway track this side of the shoals. At Loekhart a portion of the dam gave way and the cloth room was inundated, but the damage wa's comparatively light. The homes of the operatives suffered no damage to any great extent. Union and Buffalo BAPTISTS TO MEET AUGUST 3(1. Association Will Be Held With Fairview Church, Five Miles East of Union?Body Will Hold Sessions for Three Days. The Union County Baptist association will convene Wednesday morning, August 30, at Fairview Baptist church, five miles east of Union. The association met last year at lxjckharf. The various churches of the association l,nun Koo... ~l i iumv i 1 ClJUC.-)tCU IA> L1USU LIIUIT reports the last of July and get same adopted by the church. This resolution was passed by the association at the last meeting. DEATH OF A (JOOI) WOMAN. Jonesville, July 1<5.?Mrs. John B. Foster died suddenly at her home here on Main street Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Foster was in usual health to the moment of her death. She slept well Saturday night, rose Sunday morning and with the help of her husband attended her domestic affairs, prepared the breakfast and was standing at her place at the head of the table waiting for the family to assemble when she fell backwards to the floor. She was taken up, carried i to her room and laid upon the bed and in less than five minutes life was extinct, having never spoken a word. Mrs. Foster was f>(> years of age the 12th of June last. She was the mother of 12 children, nine of whom are living, Irene, the youngest, being 1(? years of age. Their names are Carrol H. Foster of Sumter, Mrs. C. A. Pender of Augusta, Dr. Alexander Foster of Baltimore, Mrs. A. J. Good<l?ll ,?f .fanlraAnirilln 111 M W I? Hoyt and Mrs. 1). W. Crim of Johnson, (lilbert S. Foster of Norfolk, Va., Fuller Foster of Columbia and Irene, the youngest, who is at home. Mrs. Foster joined the Methodist church when quite young and her children all followed her into the church. Mrs. Foster was an industrious woman and kept her home well and was really a slave for her family. When her children all arrive the remains will be laid to rest in the family plot at Cilead. Services held at the Methodist church conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. B. Justus. Mr. Herbert Lindsay was a business visitor to Union Wednesday. E WILL COST IUNTY $200,000 is Injured?Great Inconvenience id Mail Interruptions?Home , at Santuc, Unroofed. mills, it is understood, will run, one in the day and the other at night, both being supplied with power from Buffalo, until the repairs at Neal Shoals are made. On Saturday afternoon late and during a heavy downpour of rain a small cyclone visited Santuc. The residence of Mr. L. B. Jeter, Jr.. was unroofed and the barn blown up against the house, but no member of his family was hurt, which was almost a miracle. This same cyclone lifted the roof olT of Mr. J. McJ. Fant's barn two miles from Santuc and cut a path through his growing crops. It traveled from his place to Santuc, blowing down several large trees before it struck the home of Mr. Jeter. It left, no trace after striking there. (Later Report) Wednesday afternoon we are able to give the following report, obtaining the information from County Supervisor J. T. Jeter, as to the bridges of ?u? env iuuiii%\ ; 1. Harris bridge, steel, gone. 2. Murphy's bridge, steel, one pier almost gone and bridge impassable and liable to go. Chaingang will be rushed there in an effort to save the bridge. Rice bridge, all gone. 4. Mud bridge, a GO-foot wooden bridge, gone. 5. Gist bridge, above Mud bridge, gone. G. Webber bridge has lost the approach on the Joncsville side. 7. Peake bridge, near the Glenn Ppake place, is gone. Jackie bridge, steel, over Sugar creek, on main road to Coleraine, gone. t). Mulder bridge, on Sugar creek, near Hayne Smith's, gone. 10. Lancaster bridge, over Big Mitchell creek, gone, as is the Lee bridge over Little Mitchell creek. 11. At Grindall Shoals the new fill approaching the bridge has been washed away. 12. The lower bridge near the Sims place on Hig Brown's creek, gone. LI. Bates' bridge, near Beaty's bridge, and on Tinker creek, a .'500 foot new bridge, is gone. 14. Cain creek bridge, near Herbert, is gone. Quite a number of smaller bridges in almost every township, has been washed away. LAST WARNING. You Have I'ntil July 2.~> to Knroll?If You Tail to Enroll by That Time You Cannot Vote in the Democratic Primary. A last warning! You must enroll between now and July 2~>. This gives you but four days from tlu> date shown on this issue of The Tines. Tuesday, July 2~>, is your last chance. You will have no one but yourself to blame if you do not go to your nearest voting precinct and enroll your full name, just as you did two years afro, and as you will have to do every two years hereafter. CHARLES AM) KSTKS BEFORE MAGISTRATE (Jl'INN Preliminary Hearing at Fnion Tuesday?Both Cases Against Each Sent Up to Higher Court. The cases of Marvin Charles a'nd Will J. Estes came up before Magistrate Quinn of Buffalo at Union Tuesday morning. Each defendant was charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated with conspiracy. Both case? . each defendant were sent up 1\>. tal at the next term of court which vonvenes here the last week in August. J. C. Otts, Esq., of Spartanburg, represented the defendants. ,Jno. K. Hamblin, Esq., represented the State. These cases grew out of the attack made by Charles upon Magistrate Mann here Tuesday of last week. ICECREAM SUPPER POSTPONED. The ice cteam supper which the Woman's Missionary Society of Lower Fairforest church was to have Saturday evening at the church, has been postponed indefinitely. The floods have swent. awav the hridinew anil mil off communication and it is thought best to postpones the entertainment. DETAINED BY FLOODS. Rev. J. Harry Chesley and family, who were expecting to move to Maryland some days ago, have decided not to attempt the move until about August 1st, owing to the road conditions caused by the floods. Rev. Mr. Chesley expects to fill the regular appointments and at (Ilenn Springs, provided he can get through to do so.