| Show FEARFUL TOLL OF FLOOD F IN SOUTH t PERSONS KILLED TEN MISSING AND PROPERTY LOSS OF MILLIONS towns inundated and people driven from their homes by raging torrents crops being ruined in large areas raleigh N C fifteen persons lead at least tea missing and prop arty damage at estimated at around is the known toll of floods doods in five southern states although the waters are receding in nearly all districts railroad and tele graphic communication still are de moralized moralizer zed and reports from towns and villages now isolated may increase both the number of deaths and the property loss north carolina south carolina virginia tennessee and we west virginia ir s V all suffered heavy damage from the overflowing streams swollen by torrential rains which followed last weeks hurricane as it swept inland from the coast but the heaviest loss was in north carolina where eleven of the thirteen deaths are reported and where two third of the material damage was done the list of 0 known dead follows asheville two biltmore tour four alexander county three marshall three Ed naville two radford va one all but one ot of the dead were white in addition ten tea southern railway construction men who went down with the southern bridge near charlotte I 1 are missing crops were badly damaged throughout the piedmont section of south carolina and several railroad bridges washed away at portman the southern power companas comp anys plant shut down cutting off power to greenville and many cotton mills at georgetown warehouses and stores on the water front and two lumber mills mill were damaged at redford va several buildings were destroyed and crops in nearby counties damaged damage in the Pearls pearisburg Pea burg district alone is estimated at a million dollars lars newport tenn is partly inundated and many families have bee been forced from their homes |
