Show FLOODS IN NORTH CAROLINA toll of five lives and property loss of many millions ashville N C flood water which swept through the french broad and swanannoa valleys of 0 north carolina sunday following a cloudburst took a toll of uve five lives and caused property damage estimated at from to several houses in baltimore were carried away and many others made uninhabitable by the water the inundated sections of asheville 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 aider water ranging in benth from 3 3 to 5 feet the town is cut t off from asheville by water a mile wide |