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Show Fearful toll of flood in south FIFTEEN 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, X. C. Fifteen persons dead, at least ten missing and property prop-erty damage at estimated at around $15,000,000 is the known - toll of j floods in five southern states. ' ' ' Although the waters are receding in j nearly all districts, railroad and tele-: graphic communication still are do t moralized and reports from towns and j villages now isolated may increase ; both the number of deaths and the property loss. I North Carolina. South Carolina.! Virginia. Tennessee and West Virginia Vir-ginia all suffered heavy damage from the overflowing streams, swollen by : torrential rains which followed last 1 week's hurricane as it swept inland j from the coast, but the heaviest loss was In North Carolina, where eleven of the thirteen deaths are reported and where two-thirds of the material j damage was done. The list of known dead follows: Asheville, two; Biltmore, four; Alexander Al-exander county, three; Marshall, three, i-dnaville, two; Radford, a., one. All but one of the dead were white. In addition ten Southern railway construction men who went down with the Southern bridge near Charlotte Char-lotte are missing. Crops ware badly damaged throughout through-out the Piedmont section of South Carolina, and several railroad bridges ' washed away. At Portman the Southern South-ern Power company's plant shut down, cutting off power to Greenvlllej and many cotton mills. At Georgetown George-town warehouses and stores on-the water front and two lumber mills i were damaged. At Redford. Va., several sev-eral buildings were destroyed and crops In nearby counties damaged. Damage In the Pearlsburg district alone Is estimated at a million dollars. dol-lars. Newport, Tenn., Is partly inundated and many families have been forced from their homes. |