Show SWEPT FROM THE MAP BY TERRIBLE STORM great cotton mills wiped out and many workmen killed by a cloudburst in south carolina atlanta june 6 A last night between greenville and spartan burg S C bent tiger river out of its one span of the southern rail may bridge over tiger river at greer 6 C was washed out atlanta june 6 A special to tha journal from spartanburg C says mill no 1 of the pacolet cotton corn piny abc pacolet was washed away ladt night by a terrible cloudburst and knill no 2 was totally destroyed the dams of three mills were washed out it is feared there has been loss of life as the mills employed a large number of opera k lives who live near the mills the warehouse of no 1 wa washed away with the total stock of goods and cotton the hotel presbyterian church livery f stable and many other buildings were washed away the flood is moving with the river and is sweeping everything before it at clifton S C cotton mill no 1 was destroyed and mill no 2 is expected to ho destroyed the property loss for this part of the country is very large greenville S C june C reports are being here of great havoc wrought by a storm last night and early this morning the steel bridge across tiger river at arlington several miles above here bis been washed away and the southern railways trestle at duncan Is gone several houses and barns were away and much property damaged at circero Cir eero S C A special train is being made up frere to ta kethe place of no 0 now on the other ide of the trestle near duncan no 30 from atlanta for washington is held up by the loaff the bridge at greers spartanburg S C june 6 before ibe waters of a mighty flood pacolet S C has been swept from the map anil the great cotton mills of spartanburg and clifton S C have been wiped out by a storm which struck this part of the country late last night up to the present hour it hag been impossible to ascertain the loss of life six bodies have already been seen drifting down the stream it ia possible that mary workers in the mills have gone down before the current pacolet and clifton are situated in the defiles of two valleys between lofty ranges of hill most of the bomea of the workmen are located in the valley near the mills in which they are laborers the shadow of the storm settled over spartanburg last night it gatner cd force until the proportions of a giant cloudburst ere reached when the downpour from the clouds swept away the dams which in turn settled into one baat swirling stream which rushed down the valley where the mills are situated at ahw leour 1 p m the waters are roaring above houes and homes where yesterday the spindle and the loom were at work and a thousand laborers were busy it is that the loss will reach 2 WW at pacolet the following damage i reported mill no 1 has been washed away completely mill no 2 ia totally destroyed the drains of three mills arc swept away the warehouse of mill no 1 with its total stock of goods and cotton was swept away while the hotel the leading churches and almost every building in the little city lias been partially or wholly destroyed will no 3 at haa been destroyed and clifton mill no 1 and the glendale at clifton are reported totally ruined wire communication with that section is interrupted victor montgomery is the owner of the pacolet mills lit spartanburg and that at New holland pa which was BO ly crippled by the tornado last monday |