Show LVES OST I FLODS I j p t t I TwentyTwo People Perish ii i in Middle Tennessee II I I t I I PROPERTY LOSS ENORMOUS I 4 1 I j II I Damage Will Aggregate Four Million i Mil-lion Dollars and I May Be Greater j I J e Situation in Flooded District One I 1 I ofl Extreme Gravity Section Vis I 4 ited by Deluge One of the Richest i f Rich-est Portions of the State Two i I sttefo Counties Are Isolated and Cannot IiI Ii I Be Benched Bridges Destroyed j 11 K 1 i 1 i f Nashville < Tenn March 30 Reports II I from tho flooded districts of Tennessee I I cmphaglze t the gravity of the situation Jt Js I believed thalv the damage will I rpach 4000OOX while twentytwo lives are known tobcJost Several counties 1 II I certain fO have suffered heavily are I io t cut off from communication qndthe I J loss of properly nnd life may be greater i great-er From figures available tho casual i I 1 tcs are glyen as follows II i 1 I VICTIilS QF FLOOD j Puiaskl 1 Houston Connor Sarah J i Philips John Cole wife and three children I chil-dren Slick White wife and two children 1 chil-dren all colored I I I iLewisburg 3 Anna Robinson two I H children of Joe McClollan all colored 1 Murfrcesboro a colored girl tl MeMlnnvllIeD Mrs Blevln and three children Henry JMadcwell j Harriman 2 unknown i I After a perilous night in the top of i I a tr aln the Hermitage district three i men J were rescued early this morning j I DAMAGE TO FARM 1ANDS t I 1 Thq section visited by the flood embraces em-braces one of the richest portions of the State and damage to farm lands is a serious i Item It Includes counties J I 1 lying between the mountains on the I I east and the Tennessee Thc on the 1 west and between the Cumberland I I river and the Alabama line j i I I LOGS ADRIFT I j Thousands of logs are reported adrift I In tho upper Cumberland whl h I I stream Carthage late this afternoon was rising at the rate of sx Inches l i per hour It was ptedlctcd aPCarlhage t tt that the Cumberland would go beyond r the flood tide of 1SS2 If such be < the cjaso the work Of4etru ci1on Is not yet j J rn 1i ONj 1 T m 9 1 r It There Is no communication with Linden 1 Lin-den In Perry county or with Lynch I burg in Moore but both sections are Relieved to be seriously damaged BIG BRIDGE FALLS The bridge of the Nashville Knox S vllle railroad at Lancaster a 300foot t span said to have cost 100000 went 1 down Saturday night i Jo TWO COUNTIES DEVASTATED I 1 The loss by the flood that swept Emeryville may reach nearly a million dollars In Roane and Morgan counties i when the full story Is known At Harriman Har-riman the loss will be belween 55OOQ 1 and 125000 At Oakdale the loss is not more than I SljjOOO hut it Is on the farms along tKer Emory river where the greatest damage dam-age it Is feared has been done 1 CARING FOR HOMELESS I The flooded section of Harriman and i tbe whole county In which It is situated I situ-ated presents a devastated appearance In Hztrrir an the city lighting plant cannot be operated for a week The majority of the homeless are housed In the gymnasium of the American Temperance Union |