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Show DESOLATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA High Waters Bring Death and Destruction. De-struction. A Columbus, S. C, dispatch contains con-tains the following: Though the great flood of water is passing on to the ocean laden with debris of every de-. scription and the swollen streams are subsiding in the Piedmont region, the losses of life and property are increasing, increas-ing, and a conservative estimate tonight to-night places the property loss at not less than $3,500,000. The most conservative con-servative estimate of the dead is eighty. At Clifton alone 100 mill operatives oper-atives are missing from the village, and all are believed to have been lost. At Converse thirteen dead are reported, re-ported, and forty-one at Clifton No. 2 mill. At Clifton No. 2 twenty-six homes are destroyed; thirteen at Clifton Clif-ton No. 1, and twenty at Clifton No. 3. The loss at Clifton's three mills will approximate $2,000,000. At Pacolet the loss is near $1,000,000. The greatest great-est want among the survivors is at Clifton, where 500 are destitute. |