Show FLOODS IN NORTH CAROLINA toll of five lives and property loss of many M 11 II ons ashville N C flood nater ater which swept through the french broad and swanannoa valleys of north carolina sunday following a cloudburst took a toll of five lives and caused property damage estimated at from 5 to 10 several houses in baltimore were carried away and many others made uninhabitable by the water the inundated sections of ashe ville are about feet lower than the business section almost all of the town of biltmore laid out twenty five years ago by the late george W vanderbilt is under water ranging in depth from 3 to 5 feet the town is cut olf from ashe ville by water a mile wide |