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VOL. XXXVIII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JULY 26, 1816.
NO. 51.
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GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION
APPEALING FOR FLOOD AID
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
Governor's Office, Raleigh
TO THE PEOPLE OP NORTH CAROLINA: A great disaster has
befallen a large region of our State; hundreds of people are homeless
and helpless. At this time I cannot describe the extent of the dam
age done by the unprecedented floods of July 15th and 16th, nor can I
undertake to portray the present and prospective suffering. By reason
of the fact that Asheville has been cut off from communication with
the outside world I could not be as promptly and adequately informed
of conditions as others. But I am now prepared to say that along our
western streams, large and small, running eastward from Wilkes on the
North to Rutherford on the South, in the mountains, the floods have
swept away not only the homes and the growing crops but even the
lands themselves of hundreds, if not thousands, of our fellow men and
women. They are in distress and many of them utterly destitute and
helpless. Their all has been swept away in a night.
Now. therefore, I,, Locke Craig.Governor of the State of North Caro
lina, am calling upon our generous people to respond to the cry of
Those who have been so terribly stricken. There is every reason to be
lieve that many will for weeks have to be supplied with the necessities
of life, in order that they may be sustained until they can find a
means of livelihood. It is but right that our entire people should share
this burden but reasonable that the people in regions of the State in
which no damage was done, where crops were spared and homes undis
turbed, should open their hearts in generous giving.
I understand that a number of local subscriptions have been start
ed and that at least two relief committees have begun work. It is not
my desire to interfere with their work. I take occasion, rather, to com
mend them. At the same time, the disaster is so extensive, the work
of relief so great that I feel constrained to appoint a Committee of
General Relief, and to authorize it to take subscriptions and to appro
priate funds as needs appear. Every dollar shall be accounted for, and
every penny shall go to relieve actual need. I name the following
citizens to constitute this committee:
Edward E. Britton, Chairman, Raleigh; John A. Park, Ral
eigh; J. W. Bailey, Raleigh; E. L. Daughtridge, Rocky Mount;
Julian S. Carr, Durham; Cameron Morrison. Charlotte; Sant
ford Martin, Winston-Salem;. A. M. Scales, Greensboro; Ger
ald Johnson, Greensboro; Nathan O'Berry, Goldsboro; Walker
Taylor. Wilmington; A. D. Watts, Statesville; J. J. Farriss,
High Point; M. H. Justice, Rutherfordton; John Sprunt Hill,
Durham; E. C. Duncan, Raleigh; Geo. A. Holderness, Tarboro;
Hugh MacRae, Wilmington; John F. Bruton, Wilson. Clarence
Poe, Raleigh: H. E. Fries, Winston-Salem; N. J. Rouse, Kin
ston; W. D. Turner, Statesville; R. M. Miller, Charlotte; E. B.
Crow. Raleigh
Subscriptions may be sent to Edward E. Britton, Chairman, Ral
eigh. X. C.
I am sure our people, once they realize the distress of their fellow
North Carolinians, will be quick to pour out their money in this noble
cause.
Done in our City of Raleigh, on this the twenty-second
day of July, in the year of our Lord one tsousand
(State Seal) nine hundred and-sixteen, and in the one hundred and
forty-first year of our American independence.
By the Governor: LOCKE CRAIG, Governor.
May F. Jones, Private Secretary.
STATEWIDE APPEAL
Need Greatest in Ashe, Wilkes,
Alleghany and Watauga
Counties.
Charlotte. That there is destitution
and need in certain flooded districts
of Western North Carolina, especially
in Ashe, Wilkes, Allegheny, Y.a
tauga counties on the upper water of
the Catawba and Yadkin river valleys,
is the information receved and along
with the information comes the re
quest for otuside aid. Governor Craig
has issued a proclamation appointing
a state committee to receive and han
dle funds for the relief of the flood
sufferers.
The need is said xo be very groat
and the situation is such that instant
action is imperative.
Where Need Is Great.
In these mountain counties where
there are so many streams and where
the people made their homes for the
most part in the valleys, the destruc
tion of property and the isolation of
communities has been much greater
than elsewhere. In many of these
localities the devastation is said to
have been on a parity with the Cataw
ba valley in the actual path of the
flood. Fortunately for the lower
reaches of river, few people resided
on the banks of the stream and hence
es; aped, but in the mountainous sec
tions conditions were different.
' rtunately, the situation in the
otl r sections of the flooded territory
is ;ing handled locally and there ap
pears to be no need of outside aid.
This applies to the French Broad val
ley and the sections in and about Bat
rave, Chimney Rock and other local
ities. There has been need but the
cases have been handled by people re
siding near at hand who were not
seriously hurt by the flood. The fact
however that these sections lower
down the streams do not require out
side help should make it all the
more incumbent that responses for
aid for those higher up in the moun
tains should be instant and large.
The interurban and Seaboard joint
ly have inaugurated their ferry ser
vice at Mount Holly.
Governor Craig made it plain that
all calls for aid in the French Broad
valley were met promptly and ade
quately Monday and that all -rases of
suffering were quickly relieved. Hen
dersonville he stated came to the as
sistance of the aBt Cave sufferers
and is handling that situation.
That the resumption of traffic com
munications with the outside world
will do more to relieve conditions in
the flooded territory generally than
anything else is generally admitted.
To this end, there are thousands of
workmen busily engaged night and
day in restoring connections
FLOOD CT MS
FLOOD STATEMENT
No Outside Aid Needed In Ashe
ville Section. Other
Sections Needy
Charlotte. Governor Locke Craig,
marooned at Asheville, his home city,
since the recent floods, by long dis
tance telephone issued the following
statement as to flood suffering and
relief measures in North Carolina:
"In response to an urgent appeal
from a committee of the Raleigh
Board of Trade, I have appointed a
commission for the receipt of funds
for the destitute in the flooded dis
tricts of North Carolina. E. E. Brit
ton, of Raleigh, is chairman of this
commission. The committe of the
Board of Trade of Raleigh, in re
questing the appointment of this com
mission, stated that, there was evi
dence of destitution in the Allegheny
and Wilkes counties section and that
outside aid had been requested.
"There is now no need, according to
my best information, for outside as
sistance in the Asheville, Black
Mountain, Marshall, Bat Cave and
Chimney Rock districts. All suffer
ing in the Asheville section has been
promptly and adequately met by those
residing here. This was done Sun
day and Monday, sufficient funds be
ing provided for that purpose.
"Hendersonville has agreed to look
after the Bat Cave and Chimney Rock
sufferers. Some supplies were sent
from Asheville, but none is now ne
cessary, since Hendersonville has as
sumed responsibility for relief in
the', district. The situation at Mar
shall and also at Black Mountain has
been taken care of and my informa
tion is that all of this section of the
state is in fair way toward recovery.
"I have reliable information of the
situation in the Wilkes and Alleghany
section and acted, in appointing this
commission, at the instance of the Ra
leigh Board of Trade and others."
Some of the Results of the Floods.
Number of lives lost, 90.
Damage to property, $10,000,000,
growing crops $5,000,000.
Hundreds of homes washed away
and occupants left destitute.
Every railroad and highway bridge
on the Catawba river was swept
away.
C. C. & O. railway bridges and
track so badly damaged all train
schedules are cancelled indefinitely.
Many towns were without sugar,
salt, flour or matches for more than
a week.
Entire town of Chimney Rock (150
inhabitants) Including new $25,000
highway to top of rock swept away.
At Elkin a small hotel, farmers'
warehouse, three stores, three ma
chine shops and two livery stables
j carried away.
GERMANS RESIST
ALLIED ADVANCE
PUTTING FORTH FULL STRENGTH
TO PREVENT ALLIES FROM
GETTING THIRD LINE.
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS GAIN
Allies Have Captured 26,000 Prisoners,
140 Big Guns and Many Machine
Guns Taken Since July 1st.
London. Australian troops have es
tablished themselves in Pozleres and
are said to have gained a position on
both sides of the road in the direc
tion of Bapaume, in a new British at
tack against the Germans on the en
tire front from Pozieres to Guillemont.
The Germans have been putting for
ward their full strength in attempts
to prevent the British forces from
reaching their third line positions.
Fighting of the fiercest character Is
in progress.
The fact that General Haig has been
able to resume the offensive so soon
after the unsuccessful German counter-attacks
of last week in which very
strong German forces were brought
forward is regarded as a good
augury.
At Guillemont and Longueval for
tunes fluctuated, both places changing
hands several times. Late tonight the
fighting was proceeding with the ut
most violence.
The German counter-attacks recently
delivered against the French front
have proved equally unsuccessful and
the Entente Allies now are fighting
slowly in the direction of Combles,
which is only two miles distant from
Guillemont.
According to reliable estimates the
British and French together have cap
tured since July 1 more than 26,000
prisoners, 40 guns and hundreds of ma
chine guns. British troops operating
in the northeastern section of German
East Africa have occupied Muheza
and Amani.
HERRERA SENDS GENERAL
TREVINO TO MEXICO CITY
Commander of Carranza Forces In
Northeastern Mexico is Transferred.
Washington. Gen. Jacinto Trevino,
commanded of the Carranza forces in
northeastern Mexico has been ordered
to Mexico City and will be succeeded
at least temporarily, by Gen. Luis
Herrera., commander of the Chihua
hua City garrison. Despatches to the
War department from General Bell,
reporting the transfer, contained no
explantion as to the cause. Army
officers here were plainly surprised
at such an important change at this
time.
General Trevino has personally di
rected the campaign against bandits
in Chiuahua and it is said ho be largely
because of his efforts that the Car
ranza soldiers have continued heir
operations against Villa and other out
law leaders on such a broad scale. For
that reason some regret over the
transfer was expressed here, though
officials said they were confident that
General Herrera would use every re
source at his command to contiuue the
campaign.
VILLA IS MOVING
TOWARD TORREON
San Antonio, Texas. Villa has not
attacked Torreon nor cut the com
munications between Torreon and the
border but was moving southward
through the State of Durango in the
direction of Torreon six days ago,
according to information received here
from General Bell. Army officers here
do not share the optimistic views of
Carranzi3"ta offcers that Villa is be
ing cornered by Carranza forces.
GERMANS CLAIM ATTACK
HAS BEEN ABANDONED
Berlin, via London. The German
army headquarters staff in an official
statement claims that the great uni
form Anglo-French attack on the
Scmme sector in France has been
abandoned.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY,
HOOSIER POET, IS DEAD.
Indianapolis. Ind. James Whit
comb Riley, the Indiana, poet, is dead.
Death was due to a stroke of paraly
sis. Riley, born of the Middle West,
sang the joys, sorrows, fancies and
humors of its folk, largely in its own
dialect. The world was so touched
by his inspiration and the realism of
his homely symbols that he was one
of the few, that, devoting their lives
to poetry, gained a fortune.
BOMB EXPLODED IN CROWD
KILLS FOUR, INJURES 41.
San Francisco. At least four per
sons were killed and 41 or more in
jured here when a timed bomb, con
cealed in a suit case, exploded on
San Francisco's main thoroughfare in
the midst of a throng viewing a pre
paredness parade. A one-story brick
structure against which th suit case
stood was wrecked, and the explosion
blew a gap through the crowd, blast
ing men, women and children.
FOOD GOING INTO
FLOOD DISTRICTS
CITIZENS HAVE TURNED TO RE
LIEF WORK IN THE DEVAST
ATED DISTRICTS.
FEDERAL AID IF NECESSARY
War Department Engineers Are In
vestigating. Believed Now That
Death List Will Stand Near One
Hundred.
Charlotte With the southeastern
floods virtually over, North Carolina
citizens have turned to the work of
relief and supplies of food and other
necessities are going into devastated
districts from half a dozen cities in
the state.
Representatives Page and Webb, in
Washington, have called the War De
partment's attention to conditions in
the Yadkin Valley and Secretary
Baker has ordered a report from dis
trict engineers with a view ,of ask
ing congress for authorization to ex
tend help to sufferers if federal act
ion should become necessary.
Conditions are described as se
rious in Wilkes, Ashe and Watauga
counties, where many are said to be
facing famine through inability to get
food supplies into the district be
cause of lack of transportation. In
Iorth Wilkesboro a committee ap
pointed by the mayor has sent out
appeals for help. All food supplies
are said to be exhausted or greatly
curtailed and with roads and railways
washed away the transportation prob
lem is serious.
Flood victims in the Asheville dis
trict are being provided with food
from that city, and wagons and
motor-trucks are leaving other points
with supplies. Rutherfordton has
sent wagon trains and pack horses
over the mountains with food for 350
persons in the Chimney Rock and
Bat Cave section. About 100 tourists
and summer vacationists are among
those penned up in the hills.
Two additional bodies have been
recovered from the Catawba river
near Belmont, leaving six of the 20
who went down with the Southern
Railway bridge Sunday unaccounted
for. It is believed now that the
death list from the flood will be less
than 100.
The armies o frepair men sent to
the flooded section are making rapid
progress and prospects are that next
week normal schedules will be resum
ed on the main lines of the railroads
affected. Various brunch lines will be
out of commission much longer.
BILL TO PROVIDE GREAT
NAVY PASSES THE SENATE
Amendments Voted Down Overwhelm
ingly and Bill Goes to Conference.
Washington. The naval appropria
tion bill with a three-year building pro
gram including the immediate con
struction of four dreadnaughts, four
great battle-cruisers and 58 other craft,
passed the Senate by a vote of 71 to
8. It carries $315,826,843, or $45,857,588
more than the total as the measure
passed the House.
Many proposals to curtail the enor
mous building increases written into
the measures by the Senate Naval
Cammmittee were defeated overwhelm
ingly and as soon as final passage was
announced the Senate voted to insist
on its amendment and send the bill at
once to conference.
Two Democrats, Senators Thomas
and Vardaman and six Republicans,
Senators Clapp, Curtis, Gronna, La
Follette, Norris and Works, voted
against the bill which has had the
support of leaders of both parties dur
ing the week of debate that preceded
passage.
ROTARY CLUBS TO MEET
NEXT YEAR IN ATLANTA
Cincinnati, O. Atlanta, Ga., was se
lected as the convention city in May,
1917, of the International Association
of Rotary Clubs here by the new and
retiring officers empowered to make
the selection.
C. R. Perry, of Chicago, was re
elected Secretf y.
PROHIBITIONISTS PICK
HANLY FOR PRESIDENCY
St. Paul, Minn. The Progressive
National Convention, which has been
In session here, adjourned sine die
after nominating J. Frank Hanly, form
er governor of Indiana, as candidate
for preside t of the United States and
Dr. Ira D. Landreth of Nashville can
didate for vice president. Dr. Lan
dretJh's nomination was made unani
mous after the other vice presidential
candidates had been withdrawn. Mr.
Hanly was nominated on first ballot.
LULL IN FIGHTING BY
ALLIES ON SOMME FRONTS
London. The intensity of the Brit
ish and French attacks against the
German front north and south of the
Somme river in northern France ap
pears to have lessened greatly ac
cording to the latest official state
ments. "London declares a lull has set
in on the British front and the Paris
official statement mentions no activ
ity along the whole front from north
of the Somme to Switzerland. Floods
prevent advances in some sectors.
TRFVINO REPORTS
GUSH WITH RERELS
FOURTEEN ARE KILLED AND
SEVEN CAPTURED IN BATTLE
NEAR SANTA YSABEL.
CAPTURE 40 HORSES ALSO
Pand Was Attempting to Surprise
Passenger Train on Mexican North
western Railroad. Bases of Agree
ment Reached.
Mexican City. General Trevino,
che commander at Chihuahua, has in
formed Secretary of War Obregon
that he has dispersed the rebels who
recently attempted to surprise a pas
senger train, bound for Juarez, near
the station of Santa Ysabel on the
Mexican Northwestern Railroad.
Fourteen of the rebels were killed,
General Trevino reports, and seven
of the bandits and forty horses were
captured.
It was announced in a brief state
ment here that information had been
received from Washington that the
conference between Eliseo Arredondo,
the J Mexican Ambassador designate
and acting Secretary of State Polk
had resulted in the reaching of an
agreement for a general basis for the
solution of the border difficulties.
FOUR DROWNED IN HIGH
WATERS OF JOHN'S CREEK.
Many Towns Fear Famine. Food
and Matches Are Needed.
Hickory, N. C. News was brought
here that four persons were drowned
in the flood at Collettsville, ten milts
west of Lenoir, when the Johns river,
overflowing its banks, swept through
every buildiig in the little town, rose
to the second floor of every residence
and left a trail of loam from two feet
to five feet deep in every building.
Rev J. D. Harte, pastor of the First
Baptist church, returned to Hickory
from Collettsville with Mrs. Harte
and son, Nelson, who were marooned
there. He and two men pushed a
railway dump cart over the ten miles
of track with Mrs. Harte to Lenoir.
Mrs. A. P. Shoemaker and three-year-old
child were swept, from their
bed by the midnight torrent, the
mother screaming "Oh, Lordy," and
grasping her child as the waters hurl
ed both out of the house. The father
clung to the mattress and was car
ried a mile down stream to a tree,
where he clung until the water rose
above It, when he was left on a cliff,
terribly bruised and almost dead.
The three-year-old child of W. N.
Clark was swept from its father's
arms and drowned during the deluge,
and the wife of Tate Moore, and aged
negro, was swept away. Her body
was the only one recovered.
BRITISH MERGE WITH FRENCH
IN FRESH OFFENSIVE
London. Following their recent
successful advance In the western
fighting zone the British forces have
merged their troops with the French
at Hardecourt, where the French of
fensive has been renewed with great
force on a five mdie front on both
sides of the Somme. The progress of
the Allies in this territory conltnues
successfully in the face of German
counte r-attacks .
The Germans in the region of the
Somme have been forced before the
fierce onslaughts of the French to
give up first line trenches over a front
of approximately six miles to the
French and to ithe north of the river
similar lines a thousand yards long to
the British.
The forward push of the French
extended from Barleux southwest to
Peronne to the heights of Vermando
villers, which lies some three miles
west of Frasmes and marks an ad
vance furtier south.
The Bri'lish gain was made in the
seotor north of the Bazentin-Longueval
lines and in addition to the troops of
King George captured more terrain in
Delville wood and the village of Lon
gueval. The French also occupied and
consolidated German positions near
Hardecourt.
KLUMPH HEADS THE
WORLD ROTARIANS
Cincinnati. Arch C. Klumph, of
Cleveland, was elected president of
the International Rotary Clubs at the
organization's closing session. The
other officers follow: First vice presi
dent, F. W. Galbraith, of Cincinnati;
second vice president, Guy Gundacher,
of Philadelphia; third vice president,
E. Leslie Pidgeon, of Winnipeg, Can
ada; treasurer, Rufus Chaplin, of Chi
cago; sergeant-at-arms, Joseph Con
nable of Memphis.
HOTEL MAN SLAYS WIFE
AND MAJOR IN U. S. ARMY
Alpine, Texas. Maj. M. C. Butler,
of the Sixth United States Cavalry,
and Mrs. H. J. Spannell with whom
he was out riding in an automobile,
were shot and killed by H. J. Span
nell, husband of the woman. Immedi
ately after the shooting, SpanneU went
to the jail and surrendered. Mrs.
Spanhall was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Holland, well-known resi
dents of Alpine. Spannell ia the pro
prietor of Holland Hotel here.
FIERCE FIGHTING
NORTH OF
E
NO ABATEMENT OF STRUGGLE
BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND
GERMANS.
BOMBARDING ABOUT VERDUN
British Succeed in Regaining Part of
Territory Lost When Teutons Made
Heavy Infantary Attack in Delvil'e
Wood.
London.- There has been no abate
ment in the sanguary struggle be
tween the British and Germans north
of the Somme, which began after a
German bombardment and an attack
by heavy infantry forces which gave
to the Teutons part of the villagj of
Longueval and Delville wood.
In counter-attacks the British suc
ceeded in regaining most of the ter
ritory they lost and in addition dis
persed, with thsir artillery fire, a
large body of Germans who were
massing for another attack to the
south of Delville wood. Hard fighting
is still going on in this sector. To the
south of the Somme the French re
port the capture of several German
trenches.
Around Verdun, in the region of
Hill No. 304 and on the Fleury sec
tor, the Germans are heavily bom
barding the French positions, proba
bly presaging the usual infantry afe
tacks.
ARREDONDO AND POLK
ARRIVING AT ADJUSTMENT.
Formal Announcement "Very Soon"
as to Course to Be Followed.
Washington Preliminary negotia
tions between Acting Secretary Polk
and Eliseo Arredondo, Mexican Am
bassador Designate, for peaceful set
tlement of border difficulties, pro
gressed so well that a formal an
nouncemen ''very soon" as to the
course to be followed was officially
predicted.
The conferences met twice. Later,
Mr. Arredondo telegraphed a report
to his government, and Mr. Polk pre
pared a similar report for Secretary
Lansing, now on his vacation, and
probably will talk the situation over
with President Wilson. Mr. Lasing
is being fully advised of every step
In the preliminary negotiations.
SUBMARINE DEUTSCHLAND
READY FOR RUSH TO 8EA
Baltimore. The two spars of the
German merchant submarine have
been taken down and the conning tow
er closed. Close at hand lay the tug
Thomas F. Timmins with a full head
of steam up. In the vicinity of the
submarine were numerous launches
with agents of the Eastern Forwarding
Company and patrols aboard. These
craft hailed a newspaper launch and
tried to induce the reporters to leave.
"You're interfering with our plans,"
the watchman said.
To all appearances the Deuteohland
was ready to leave at any time. Her
master and full crew were said to be
aboard.
Among the late events that tended
to confirm this belief was the stowing
of more than 40 tons of fuel oil on
the submarine.
AND IT RAINED AGAIN
AROUND GREENVILLE.
Greenville, S. C. Another heavy
rainfall in this section added to dam
age already done by the floods. It
was confined largely to railroad
property and did hot affect cotton
mills here.
FIVE LIVES LOST
AT LIN VI LLE FALLS,
Raleigh, N. C. A dispatch received
here says five lives were lost at Lin
ville Falls, two being children of
Walter McGee. The names of the
others were not learned.
SAY SOLDIERS ARE
IN EXCELLENT HEALTH.
San Antonio. Official reports from
medical officers of the United States
Army, who have inspected the camps
of the National Guardsmen on the
Mexican border, indicate that high
state of health exists in all the en
campments. This is true also of the
camps of the regular troops, it Is
said. The base hospital here records
271 patients, 125 from the militia and
the balance from the regular troops.
MAY CONSIDER THE
BLACKLIST UNFRIENDLY
Washington. Action on Great Brit
ain's blacklist of nearly 100 firms do
ing business In the United States un
der the terms of the trading with the
enemy act, is beng delayed by the
state department with the expectation
that Ambassador Page at London will
send some sort of a report. If a re
port does not arrive soon the depart
ment will caible an inquiry which in
turn will be presented to the British
foreign office.
MM
ESTIMATE MARE
OF FLOOR DAMAGE
TABULATION SHOWS APPROXI
MATELY $12,000,000 DAMAGE
IN STATE.
SMALL FIRMS NOT COUNTED
Railway, Power Line and Crop Losses
Are Heaviest. Many Small Coun
try Stores llete Loss.
Charlotte. Tlu. .ave been ny
inquiries received for an estimue of
the aggregate damage occasioned by
the tempestuous floods that swept
r,, - m Broad
and French Broad Rivers.
j . - , ... dollars and
cents would be a hazardous under
taking for the destruction has been
so widespread and so general in ex
tent. The loss to growing crops for in
stance would be impossible of calcula
tion. The damage to roads and high
ways, to general farming operations
in the loss of stock, buildings, fences,
and a hundred and one other items,
would be; nothing more nor less than
mere guesses, pure and simple. The
injury sustained by railroads in the
caving in of embankments, of the
undermining of fills, tearing up of
tracks, destruction of property gen
eraly throughout a wide scope of ter
ritory especially in the mountains, ex
clusive of the loss entailed by the
thing that only time will disclose.
The loss occasioned by iausiiues,
the sweeping away of houses and
dwellings and barns is next to im
possible of calculation.
Estimates have been given that the
damage occasioned will approximate
2R. 000.000 tht-ughout the Carolina
territory but this is generally regarded
as excesive. Other figures have been
sent out carrying the aggregate even
above the first estimate named. A
canviss was made among railroad
men, cotton mill experts, road build
ing engineers and architects and
builders generally for an approxima
tion and from this some general idea
of the loss may be gleaned. It Is
given for what it is worth and should
not be accepted as official. The dam
age is distributed as follows:
Some Figures.
Hydroelectric damage, to power
stations and other vested interests of
Southern Power Company along Ca
tawba and Broad Rivers $1,000,000.
Dravo Power plant and other power
stations along Broad River and tribu
taries $500,000.
Yadkin River hydroelectric damage
at Clemons, Whitney and elsewhere
$250,000.
Textile interests along Catawba,
South Fork, Broad, Yadkin, French
Broad Rivers $750,000.
Railway bridges across Catawba,
(Southern, Seaboard, P. & N. and C.
& N.-W.) $500,000.
Railway bridges across Broad, Up
per Yadkin, French Broad and tribu
taries $500,000.
State and county highway and road
bridges $1,000,000.
Track and property damage to rail
roads, exclusive of bridges and ap
proaches $2,000,000.
Damage sustained by Southern Bell,
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
$200,000.
Damage to growing crops., livestock,
farm buildings and other agricultural
operations $5,000,000.
Total $11,700,000.
This, of course, does not enumer
ate various losses sustained at numer
ous points and in numerous lines. The
road damage throughout the flooded
one is something staggering to con
sider and also the loss due to the
delay in getting started again. The
interruption of operations in many
lines will sweM the total.
Piedmont Bridge Opened.
Spencer. The Piedmont toll bridge
on the National Highway across the
Yadkin river at Spencer, which has
been out of commission several days
on account of the flood, has been re
opened for the public.
Thinks State Competent.
Washington Further appeals for
aid have been received in Washing
ton from Wilkesboro. Claim is made
that many people there face destitute
circumstances because of the scarcity
of food supplies a"d will require gov
ernment assistance. At the present
time no funds are available for the
use in that work. Both Senators
Overman and Simmons and Represen
tative Doughton have been requested
to seek some remedy. The opinion
was expressed that North Carolina
will be able to care for every need.
Urge Work for Land Bakn.
Durham. Chamber of Commerce of
ficials and John Sprunt Hill, father of
rural credits in North Carolina, have
written every chamber of commerce
in the state, urging that they aid North
Carolina in getting one of the 12 land
banks to be established in the United
Stajtes. After the state gets the bank,
it can be decided as to which city is
best for Its location. The local cham
ber of commerce has written senators
and represntatives from this state to.
make a concerted effort to get the
bank.