V'lLUME XXXIV -NUMBER 28. _LAUB1NBURG. N. C.. THUB8DAY. JULY SO. 1*16
HOODS IN WEST
TAKE HEAVY TOLL
Swollen Streams la Wetter* Carolina
Do $11.080488 Damage and Taka
Many Urea.
Thaw oaten portion of North Caro
lina has Won since Saturday in the
throe* of the moot terrible, daalk
drating and property-destroying flood
over known in tho history of the State.
Prom nows report* gathered from
many sources the situation i* sum
man ted below:
Thirteen persons dead, at least Ur
missing and property damage esti
mated at around 116.000,000, is the
known toll of the floods which have
raged la Are Southern States for the
past 48 hours
Although the water* are recoding
in nearly all districts and railroad and
telegraph communications are demor
alised and reports from towns anti vil
lages now Lsolatad may Incraee* the
number of deaths sad the property
loM.
Nortii Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia. Tennessee, and West Vir
ginia all suffered heavy damage from
the overflowing streams, swollen by
torrential rain* which followed last
week's hurricane as It swept Inland
from tho coast, but the heaviest looses
were In North Caroline, where eleven
of the 18 deaths are reported and
where two-thirds of tho material dam
age was done.
The list of known dead:
Asheville 2.
Bittmore 4.
Alexander county S.
Radford, Va., I.
All but one of lb* dead were white.
The missing:
Ten Southern Railway construction
men who wont down with the South
ern bridge near Charlotte.
The property damage is summar
ised from the latest reports as fol
lows:
North Carolina: As barilla—Twenty
five industrial plants destroyed, in
cluding cotton and lumber mills, ma
chine shops and coal and feed yards
. Siaty residence* in the lower part of
the city washed away and 400 persons
hemaleea with 1880 out of employ
ment. Power and gas plants out of
commission.
' uus—small hotel, Tamers ware
house, three itoree, three machine
shops and two livery stables carried
Monbo—Monbo Cotton Mills damol
■ 1 East Monbo—Cotton mills damaged
end $6,000 worth of cotton destroyed
fjtisstsjss&'ss&.sz
ton Mills damaged.
Buncombe, Henderson end Madison
counties—Many mill* damaged and
hundred* of person* out of employ
ment.
Statesville—Brick plant destroyed
and Long Island Cotton Mill* nearby
dtmiifod.
Catawba ' County—Cotton ware
house with 1600 bales of ootton car
ried away. In this county ns well an
in Iredell and Alexander, great dam
age waa dene to rropa and small mills.
Biltmore—Many persons driven
from their homes end mills and crops
In surrounding territory damaged.
Marshall—Kilty-three homes de
stroyed.
Jonesville—Many homes flooded.
Hendersonville—Two dams washed
set, damage to mills and to crops in
Henderson county.
Lexington—Several lumber mills in
surrounding country carried array,
stock killed and crops destroyed.
Cleveland County- Drevo Power
dam near Shelby destroyed; crops in
county damaged.
Vive highway bridges, three In
Mecklenburg county and asm near
Statesville and another near Mcores
ville, are known to have bemi washed
away, while at least six railway
bridges were destroyed.
The Soothere Bellway lost a bridge
near ML Hedy, another near Bock
Hill. The See board Air line bridge
above Belmont Is gone as Is the Pied
mont ami Northern Electric Lina
TYPHOID VACCINATION BEGINS
VERY SOON.
Dr. CM»«r Write* That Work Win
PrahaMy Start Monday, Aaguat
>1—Win Ba In Charga * Dr.
Bulla.
"■ *
Tha anti-typhoid campaign, which
will be wagon in Scotland county this
summer, will probably ba started on
Monday, August 21, es stated la Dr.
Coopers letter below. It ia announced
from tha State Board of Health head
quarter* at Raleigh that Dr. Balia,
who ha* been In charga of this kind
of work In Mecklenburg county, will
have charge of the campaign her*.
Dr. Cooper will come hare, however,
and make arrangements far the work.
Dr. G. M Cooper of tho Bureau of
Rural Sanitation, North Carolina
State Board of Health, writ** that he
is greatly interested in campaign
against typhoid, which will be con
ducted here this summer, following
the action of tha Beard ef County
Commissioners recently when they
appropriated >400 with which to carry
on Dus work. Dr. Cooper'* Uttar fol
lows:
Dear Sir:
I have just read your admirable
presentation ef the proposed cam
paign against typhoid ferer In Scot
Youx editorial and the part of the
subject matter I sent Mr. Peel* was
presented on the front page la a
strong and convincing manner and ia
such a way aa to Wav* no odfvnee
I)r. iBullitt reported the situation
and stated.that he saw no chance for
anything to be done about the situa
tion >
Judging from the action of the
Beard Monday I suppose those official*
DO thing* Instead of taking official
time in talking. I worked about a
day in getting up all the definite facta
and the comparison which I found be
tween Robeson and Richmond was
what mad* me present the matter aa
I did. for I know that all tha three
cnnntie* report about alike—equally
good, and that the geographical loca
tion nil la about equal.
Now. I wrote Mr. Perl* that ws
gram t]ip ->n»ui #1 taaq iso opoj etfoq
anrraaeful aad you are certainly do
ing jroer part. I hope to see yon per
eonally within ten days so that I can
give you a full outline of the plan
we usually follow in this work aad
also to gat your advice in several im
portant particulars.
I want us to do a thorough job ef
advartlalng before we begin the vac
cinating, which I think we can do by
Monday, August flat. The suocaei of
tho enterprise from a public stand
point will depend on the preliminary
ami educational week. "
Again thanking you and looking
forward with plan sore to seeing you
in a few .day*, I am.
Tours sinaeretr,
. G. M. Cooper.
I TKAvHERa AND TUBERCULOSIS.
Mar* Teachers Dm of Tuboreuloais
Than af An* Other Disease.
That teachrra *r* especially prone
to tuberculosis la tha statement made
by tha Bureau of Educational Hygiene
of tbo City of New York. This de
partment says that this disanaa is
twenty percent more prevalent among
teachers than among others of corres
ponding sox and age, and that about
hdlf of all deaths among woman teach
era is caused by tuberculosis, and this
in spite of the fact that teachers be
long to a bettor hygienic grade than
tha general average.
Strenuous, nerve-taxing work that
eaoaas physical exhaustion and nerve
break-down is given as the main
cans*. Tenaan states that "four
boors of actual teaching represents
about sight boars of ordinary oAea
work." What is probably tha aooond
eanaa Is lack of sufficient mat and
regular exercise tn tha open air.
Bpeakta* along this tin* the State
Beard of Health says: “The wan.
tired look that usually marks the
teacher, especially about the dose of
echoel, la too often a condition of aart
"tired rmdm condition," or ion
of "worn eat nerve*" or both. bat
thoeo ere predlsposln« eaaaee erf tn
berenloeU ee modi or koto than oth
er*. "Unless tho teacher to wioo,"
eojre tho Board, “and ae qaiekly ee
poedble overcomes this tired feelinr
land recoins her aeual eUto of health
and vitoor, she subject* hoAolf to eg
open risk egaiiut tuberculosis aa wed
ae to other diseases. What tho wise
toother will do to to avoid o»sr-’os«h
and a norrsos strain and eae that the
Mmwt awdlUm thafta to,
' tho bo«iimlnc of a lone tad story is
1 e««y to prevent. To prevent H should
: Health J3dj£ *** "-"• C
MllS ALSTON OF BABTOBD IN
AUTO ACCIDENT.
Bo. E. Be sum of Cardenas KfUad sad
Miaa Alston lajursd la Accident
at Raleigh Baaday.
Bax B. Saxton, of Cardonas, was
killed and Mia. Heroic Alston^? Bam
ford, wa* iajaiad Sunday afternoon
when Southern Railway passenger
train No- 18#, dor in Raleigh ata^OS,
‘frock an auto, in whkb they war*
riding at tha Fayetteville street Croat
mg and hurled both car and ooea
panta 2i yards up the track. Mr.
Saxton, unconscious, was picked- up
from beneath tha wreckage and died
four koura later in Rax Hospital. Miaa
Alston teas also unconscious, bat r*l
Itod after being taken to tha hospital,
and is not considered seriously hurt,
a few bruises and savers shack coot,
prising tha extant of bar injuria*
Hecdleaa of the shouts of waning
from Charles H. Card, who eras aaat
ad on his porch not far from tha
crossing Mr. Saxton and hi* compam
son rode across the track but a few
faat from tha fast approaching train
with practically no crane* of aacapa
ranching the track. Tha aflat
of tha angina struck the auto (laUks
tha midtUa and demolish ad tha ns*,
china. Miss Alston was thrown clear
ef tha wreckage sad fall on aa em
bankment to the right of tha track.
Tha auto was also thrown dear of
tha track.
Gatos Nat Operated.
Failure of the gatasaan. Frank Jos
tle*, to operate tha gates at tha cron*,
lag. is attributed as on* of tha caasaa
Madlag to the acrid sat. Ingoiry
tram people living near the creasing
and also from the gatoaan brought
out tha information that tha gates
war* upon at the time and at* aat
•parat d at this croasing on Sunday.
Mayor Johnson staled after the aoc£
dent that the ordinances of the city
of Raleigh called for all railroad
crossing gates to be operated every
day with ao holiday for tha gatosnan
on Sanday.
U. a-a.__S LI _ • _
«n route to the city from the hoM ad
Mr. Brack Gunter, 14 miles south of
Raleigh, where Mias A la toe was slo
tting. According to witnesses the
auto waa traveling at a moderate
speed but that the young man and
girt seemed busily engs/erf la omiT
venation and were aonarantiy us.
”i?{Wkias'^Cs5S
Lana Saaton and the lata Rufus lad
ten. He waa 24 Mara old and waa
regarded aa one ol the i
r^y^ ta
stem at _ __
•*dee bis mother he is rurrlved
sisters, Mrs. Lana Back
£■**• *«**«•. n«d »• baud__
8exten. His mother. sisters and
brother were notified shortly after the
accident and reached the hospital
•bout an hour afterwards.—News and
Observer.
FOUR MORE COUNTIES FIGHT
TYPHOID.
Union. Catawba. Stanly and fUrttand
Apply far Aatl-TyyhaU Cam
PflfM.
.. July 17.—Foot new c«o»
tim. Union, Catawba, Stanly and Soot
Wna. hara each made application ta
tha State Board at Health for tha
5°«'d'» Pl*« af typhoid praranti«
work which it doe* fa eo-opmt <i
5**. *0? too to the people.
Bach of thaao countie* appropriated
WOO for thfa work and, accordingly.
rigorona anti-typhoid caaspalgns will
•oon atart in all foor count fee.
P7-Of. T. Carat*rphen of tha Madt
2*„ «d "Wake Forest Collar*
wlU ho In charge of tha work fa On
fc'SsMtafcar&a;
of tha work in Catawba atartfaklSon
July 31. Dr. Chao. 8. Haagaas
•J . r, Ptgftoont of tha
8tata UnirnraKy will taka charge fa
gfeawffnvsSs
wort ln"aa*SSTwm ge^tTlfafa?
Uad torn Charlotte probably Aagnet
I7. <* take charge of the work dwt
Nine count!** fa all have ■ iionaof
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DEUTSCHLAND IE BEADY TO
I LEAVE.
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•
hSwUni Are That * —**nf Is
} A hast Cmpktri; Ns On Al
| , lowed On BaaL
••Hbwt, July IT—Thar* wen
mmyr indwatjoos tonight that (be sub
■autae merchant ship Deacsehlaad
wiE be ready to sail tomorrow.
T*1* b{* Thomas F Timmins, which
towed tbs submersible to Baltimore
the capes, caaled this afternoon.
CapUm Hinson, of the intoned North
Oormoa Howl stammer Mocker, who
had charge of tbs Timmins when she
DeuUehlaad, was assn
w the Timmins just befors she left
the pier to take on coal. Several coi
•rsu stevedores, answering questions
aa to bow their work was going sail
. thay exported to finish landing by 11
0 dock tomorrow morning. They
ware palled away from their question
i sea by other workmen who cautioned
I them to stop talking.
! Sbortly before S o'clock this eftor
a*0*1.Theodore Motto, foreman of tbs
Pp* Jcv. accompanied by the air
igasaar s&fys:
.srjaf V£“Mar-ass:
Binaoa said ha regrettad that ha eonld
>Mt issue a pass to ga aboard the
P^***Maad, *>« «t had been decided
• Betty allow any more visiting.
’ Officers of the Eastern Forwarding
; Company would rive ao information
concerning the sailing of tho Deatsoh
: land, or as to bow far ths stowing of
I tho cargo had programed. It Is
known however that a quantity of
aiekei, which will do doty as ballast.
•* well as form part of the cargo has
•bean taken aboard. Moat of the rub
1 box that is to be taken to Germany
• Is thought to be in the vessel's hold.
| The painting of tha DaataehUnd'a
.hut] so that it harmonises with the
I1*!*" *}*• Atlantic even no the
fwWto cape, has been completed.
Tonight the tag Timmins and the
kfro are patrolling the river
j la ths vicinity of tho submarine and
|F*tX*a« their searchlights in all di
tucfiian Vessels that approach too
usaar the pier are warned cfT.
Amhore there la a constant patrol of
.fmmjpma and special watchmen of
!“*• Eastern Forwarding Company.
Jmbo keep all persons at a distance of
• aevmal hundred yards from tho sub
marine and permit no loitering.
L- may ua out BrtKtpt
j'WMhtagtoo, Jaly 1T.—Aakad today
iftrtWr iT would be a violation of tbo
lntematiopal law if tba Deutachland
'fT°—id tba thraa mil# limit on ha*
Irinas movement* ware act aoeh aa to
reoaUtala a manaea to navigation.
Tbay nm inclined to baliavo how
25* $** **F attempt U go a con
udarmbla diataaca beneath tba mrf
aoa in the territorial water* of tba
i Unit**! SutM would in its nature
| menace navigation and therefore
wouid not be penaiaaible.
SECOND HALF BALL SEASON
STARTS WEDNESDAY. II.
Ffcnt Game With Lamb art an at Lam
bertno—Play Raafard Her*
Thursday and Friday.
! Tba aaeond half of the riaann far
i Can* Fear League begins Wadnaa
,day of thta waek. Laurinbory'i flrat
Earn* Ja with Lombaiton at Lombar
• ton-. Thursday and Friday of tbii
[weak a two gam* eerie* with Raefocd
! Sorts'. jJWatnss
ffisnJ.tSASSli'a
gfyn of tha boma tanas arc ba
Unlfh* team with high apirfta.
The local* have bean oanaidarably
Uraagthaaad by tba addition of now
playara and may ba expected to make
a record during the Uttar part of tha
aaaaoo. H is ukaly that unprecedent
ed crowd* will go oat to aoa tba two
game* thia weak.
i sssrsaass-Li-i a
PROTECTING PLANT AT BLEW.
rrr palls.
I aariahecg Resolving UateUrrupted
| U|N and Fewer Service Fellow- I
la« Hoods of Lest Wee*.
It la stated that as a precautionary
■ay; »«!• the aiactrie power
works at Blewitt Palls were forced
,ta close down «a aecoaat of tko heavy
■o*1* i" the valleys of the Yadkin
other river* in Oit vssttm part
I®* tba ®t*u> the company emu a
I number of engineers to tha plant to
I do everything possible to prevent any
fence to the plant. It is reported
that ao far ne femaxe has bean dona
to the plant, hut that the company
emit tba anxinaars to make aura that
there would bs no interruption of
•ffrifli.
Laurtnburg through tha local paw*
«■ ■«d lifht company gets He Hghu
sad electric power from Blewitt FaBe.
and has enjoyed tba same good aerv
ics fotlowtow tha floods chat is gives
in normal times. Tha local com parr
been able to tundar, and baa rend*
mwd. at a time whan many towns and
eHJas of tba Btata art groping in
darkness and doing withost power.
STORM DEATH LIST » IN MOUN
TAINS.
Many Femme Resorts la Wentera
^ Haw
Ajterfflo July 1*—The list of
dmtlM la tkia section reacted a total
of tHI tonight whan raporta from tho
Bat Cava section of North Carolina
stated that eight persons have been
drowned there Sunday, and that taro
*>" Buaie doltia* and Mlu
Poll Collins, slaters, met death at
Volga.
Seceding water* In this section at
tends has revealed seven other rtsaihi
ant known before today, according to
reports reaching hers tonight. Tow
of these were near Brevord and three
'(*> the Hickory Nut Gap section near
hero.
Bogarts that eight persons ware
drowned Sunday at Rkt Care a I MB
in fly were confirmed tonight h>- a tel
•phoae message from John Patrick
at Kairview, who wid he heard that
*1* women and two children were
«*«hod »*»T at Bat Cave and that
more than half tho hswsse in tho
village had teen destroyed. Patrick's
information, if correct would add two
■ore deaths to tho Bat Chra district,
ft* having teen previously reported.
He oouM not give any names of nc
SWfe
j^tf.suTara.'ussi
•J* **•*• *" *° I tomedisto prospect
of getting relief to them. BatCsvo
“ within two miles of Chimaoy Rock.
rl. C.
I Efforts also art being made to re
lieve persons marooned la isolated
sections around here, and tonight it
waa said that all the 26S paatengcr*
marooned sines Sunday on a Southern
Railway train near Marshall had hern
taken in automobiles to Marshall.
Passengers who had been marooned
on other trains at Tiyon. Saluda,
Marian and Connolly Springs q»sq
have teen taken off. according to rail
road officials.
It waa said there was much suf
fering among the passengers on the
train near MarshalCbobica in partic
ular lacking milk and it was feared
for a time teat tea water would ranch
the rails.
AH Chimney ltock Gone.
CANTALOUPE SEASON
now at ns oaanr
Mw af UKWto with
toww are fally spprscifltirs at tha
sSurta^aH^atts:
ZZ&“*£&.t£1SS &
E«s5Jr» iisrsts;
At $JOQ per Mr Dus would rrorvunc
* s?*aAKrfi'^S
BgdsdCneS
Wyiargirasc
ah>t^s?ag&gjfc
ton woek rupt irtnd^M doUar
Ei^fS&JS
standard crate. **
Tha aressahro raiaa m daabt offset
th^q^lty of eantalaapai at roh
i^^^rar^sraa
Plenty rtfSashtCT’fur tho'lMs/^W
toy* will ha of tnaorliaal la «3n
J* to tmmnrUhdj estimated that
snsSSrjs “ «
Sre^dCSi'Srr"*'
■bc about RSOXOA. Then
an fat 1 aarlalaaa and
cjoaty. Thto yaar it la «p...
thf tolaate of ihtyamtawill ha mb
sMcrably ere* ter than last year and
Wtun are much batter up to thto date.
AJ! of which moans tha county to an
ivyiiur a splendid staso-L notwlik
«tan<fln» heavy rain* and short crops
» »«J*a instances.
Calcatottac ansa a hacto of proa
Sjpa.-XRr&fS
ooo. Hi is mas as that aotaathte Oto
ssa s&ga£F
a
ojltoopja wb* chart its benaAta ahma.
From tna uxllift boy bi tha
«b«l, to the b,gfr,tbon»,». SnStS,
ttos money find* fto fur. And- all
fn*l it* magic looch. ifd* lm
•mo come* at a xawe of the year
arban moat town* and countia# ara
•npcrionclng a painfully dull miiin
The oOca of tin Ijmnrilmrf and
South#™ report* MO nfripnto
car* placed up to Wedneeday. July
ii’psss&csi,j^tsrs
available at tile tima. But it ie like
XXaWlSK«yirSS
Hundred for the 8aaboard.