a y;:ai: r
V
, . - I -.
to A 4 ft v - - ..... -
with". the situation that IS
hours will find the water
its normal level. ,
or "1."
at about
. . -.-, j
- . . s . -
heaviest Slns'.e Loss Was Tlmt of
A noon S:':i t Mountain IsUnj
" V.'Uch" V.'as Cosrr! tt' AVa&l.ed
Away IlnUJlhe Ixss of iJ00,C03
All Tfjrea KiUjs at -Blount
"J lolly i Also New if 100,000
-t.'
a of I'1
ail Ouir
..tircly
Concrete l"rlj,,3 ft I
? ' .uy V..ou if i ,
rnde laid' I'i-t.
IV.'ver-lAU: r '.
to North Ci t C I
V.:IU Not Be Nor, ,1 for Y.h.h..
Crops Orer Oa-ston tutl 'C;V
er Cbuntic Badly D , I Tj
t 1 Ixss la Count J Upwar.N f
Dollars Water on Cataw
ba Rose Sixty Feet, Goic; lar Ce-
t nd Any Previous' Recorded Rec-
v ; . , - . . - : ;
crda. --. l ,r.
estimates" rLie
OotiMTvatlve
Caton cou' 'j's ! it Lti , s
and iwuii ! ne a ; :. .),(."'..; :
.The f.--' n'. : I ' 1 1 i-'s.
ton county w tie sl and
destroyed as tl.e r- . t the re
rnt floods. vlJcIi f veil the
tvo cLij'8 of raH: , ' . ' "
Moan's l'erry 1 1 ! ' Lows fo.
i.iston county, $J5,iJ0.''. '..
. KozzeUe'ii bridge a total' loi,
..",ooo. '. '. ' '
New Mount Holly briOe a total
$fO,()(K). '
?:-Adcnvi:io trl,-6 total loss,
?-:;,ooo. , ; ',.'-
Vewtal Ford bridge low,' "?,
Sadler's Creek bridge, 'loss,
Armstrong's Ford bridge, loss,
$300. . ,'-f "-;-'';-
Armstrong britfe, ; 'Uanwsed,
$300. - - - . '' :
Long Creek bridge, Oamaged,
?:.-,oo. , --' . ' .; . ' ;
IliKh Bboals bridge, C au;;- 1,
C-:hi. y :: - .-" . ,
1 lardln. bridge, t, C 3,000.',.
There re alm J r brlj 9
which spanned r aller stir h
and were !-.!. I cor .! --
Lly, whiih wUl i ... 5 fro;a ,
to 1,000- a eKii of il.' sj'
bridges. ,. ' - , f ; v';', ;
" The above figures are not ac
curate but are estimated as
approximately what each bridge
has been damaged.
rtenty
' Following1 more', na-rtenty-
Tight hours of vconsecutivfl ''.rain
. which begaa at 4 o'clock Friday af
ternoon and continued until eight
o'clock Saturday night, the rivers
and creeks la the county were swell
zed until H high-water marks were
eclipsed v Sunday. Three , railroad
bridges in the county, the Seaboard,
, Piedmont & Northern and the Sou
thern across the Catawba river were
washed down as were about ten or
twelve county bridges including, the
new Mount Holly t ridge ;. and - tr.e
magnificent $100,000 ; . concrete
bridge, at sfoan's Ferry. . A deatu
. toll which has not at this time, been
accurately deterr uied but which !3
estimated at about ' ten, occurred
Sunday night when twenty woru
nea were thrown into the ewoll-n
Catawba river by( the collapse of the
(5ou(hern Railway1 bridge at ' -. Bel
t"''nt. Ten of the twenty men wers
f nd clinging tff'tree tops' below
, . ere the bridge collapsed and were
brought to safety by rescuing par;
Jies. :x ",?::.
'Rising with an alarming rapidity
both . the Catawba and South" Fork
rivers as well as Dutchman's creek
and numerous other smaller streams
In the county reached unprecedent
ed heights some time Sunday night
and with" this rise ' of water. there
were hundreds of . people driven
from their, homes, scores of ' lives
threatened, bouses washed "away,
crops ruined, cotton mills damaged,
tele; hone, telegraph and train serv
lo paralyzed as. never before in the
I tory of the 'county.'". At Mountain
Island, four miles above Mt. Holly
on the Catawba river, practically the
entire, mill village was 'swept away
slang with the Mountain Island cot
ton mill at a total loss of approxl
r atelyt $350,000. One thousand
tales of cotton, which was stored in
t;. 3 warehouse of. this mill, . were
event Into the .swollen, streams with
the mill end houses and sent swlrl-
i: r down the stream. The manage
nui.t of the mill is offering a . ten
dollar salvage for every bale recov
er. -Several bales have been - re
ported brought to land, . seme- of
I jvhicu was at a n&K.ot uves. , j .
V Coming at a time when least ex
Southern'-' : Power Company was
switched off about 9:30 o'clock un-
dar night, leaving Gastonia and the
surrounding towns over-the county
la darknesav Those who had both
fas and electric lights in their homes
were fortunate as the gas ;. lights
Were welcomed by many. Five .or
tiJt o! Uastonla's cotton mills 5 are
standing idle' as the result of the
Southern Power Company's Inability
to manipulate : its 'numerous;1 power
rlants over the two Carolinas.-, .
I Nine mills in the city are running
either full or part 'time on poorer
ft rnished by - their' own ' steam
t xnta. The , Modena Cotton Mill's
i ; int ave to the city last night ana
tonight Its only electric current
which was turned on at 8:30 o'cIocK
nd off again at 6 in the morning.
It is reported that the surrounding
twns of Belmont,. Lowell, McAdem
lille, Mount Holly, Bessemer. City,
Kings Mountain and Shelby, are rn
uarkness and without' a sufflclent
supply of water. Gastonia a auxil
iary, plant furnished a; regular
amount of. city water,-but it is not
known how long this supply will
last. ' Reports are to the effect that
the iSouthern Power, plant at Mount
Holly' Is now above "water and will
probably furnish current within 2
hours. . This, however, is only prob
lematical and there. Is ho manner of
learning Just, when. the current will
be resumed. ;-"" i.'i "V ;.: -; 1 - r- " :
, Isolated as If on an island is the
condition Gastonia and the county
found itself in since (Sunday night
wbcu all means of communication
was swept away with the collapse of
the six. bridges along the Catawba
river. Only from the South la there
any telegraphic or telephone service
available. Tassenger train service
has be n cut until there are only
two tries' from Atlanta a -day.
Freight traffic , has been completely
I ra'..' 1. . ''. ' ;'-'.''?
Lei vi ; in its wale a trail of, rum
and di. n r-tho waters of the Ca
tavibaar. .1 'Jou :i Fork rivers are re
rrd:r,?.wUl.in teir banks and it Is
thought by thope who are acquainted
MOUNT HOLLY'S L033 " 7
HEAVY. :
Mount' Hollyfwa3 fiit' vzrkz; i
harder than any 'ether town in
the county. . Just what the t:l.l
property losa'is in the town Lni
that irnmedhta '.vicinity cr.:.ot
yet ba estimated. The brt ::t
:r.!a loc3 was tl.it cf the At.. . -:n.
Manufacturins1 Company's p!:r.t
at Mountain Island, up the ri .
' nijht t!i P. & N., the largest and most
expensive cf the three, went down and
was followed about thirty minutes later
by the new county bridge. . From per
. sons who claim to Jiave been on the
, bank and watched all three of these
bridges w ash away it Is learned that no
one of them went as a whole but in
sections. All are agreed that the last
t go was the middle section of the new
' county bridge.' This was opened about
two years ago, having been built joint
ly by Gaston and Mecklenburg counties
at cost of $18,000. The water ' at thij
point was about CO feet above normal.
The old . Mount .Holly Mill on Dutch
man's creek was flooded in. the second
a short dhtace 1. from m ! I
Holly. Thia mill is-
known as the 'Mountain I! -A
Mill ''Mr. Ci TL Hutchin n,
f story. The Woodlawn Mill was submerg
ed to the eaves of the roof. ; It js a one
story' structure. -The Nims Mill was
submerged , to t. considerable "depth.
The, water was oyer the Seaboad tracks
fie
president End treasurer- cf t!. 3S t points between the Seaboard depot
company, infprmed Tha , Gactta I d " business section of town. A
J(j j u jieu or mora residences , were sud-
few of the houses were washed from
their foundations. The water wasfcix
Inches deep on tbefloor of the pavilion
at Riverside Park and that structure
was entire' y cut off from the town. A
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Here's my'p'i.trnr.! C t" try !r
store and r t f) --.t b.-;.: f L'.
pirn's Liver To: Ti ' f i"-' ! a
if it dvn't f - ': i yoa r t
i I r .' y i f i f r1 I r- .
war t y-u t f 1 - k t tl tvore t
- t your rnor;. y. lv.' i.n's Liver 1
ii d ."i-troyir tl.e f ' f c!r. I t .
it is rral liver ec r.t;r ?y v
ti!.l, therefore it c u i. 'j (..'.. '
rr.ftke you sitk. -
I t" orarii-x that c-ro f '.;1 f I"
- ti' Live r Tone wil i . t ' :r '
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Monday afternoon that the
had made a clean sweep", t:
the entire mill,, the warehou:?,
compariy't store and practically all
of the tenant houses. In . aJiit
ion to. these the ; company :zt
aboul.000 bales 'of cotton, which
was swept dqwn the, river, f nd
will perhaps never be recovered.
It; was' ''worth $Gp,CC0 or mere.
All that was saved of the entire
lot was three bales which were
fished out of the river at Mount
Holly by employes of the South
ern Power Company. ' A reward
of $10 per bale was offered by
the management for every bale
saved but the current ' was eo
swift that there "wa3 ( no,' chance
to save any of it; .The total loss
to the Armon Company . is . esti
mated : at about JCOO, 000. The
company was capitalized at $150,-.
000 and manufactured twines and
hose cords. Ult had 10,000 - spin
ning spindles and 2,500 ? twister
spindles. This is the oldest mill
in the county, having been estab
lished, as the Mountain Island
Mill inlSia Mr.CE. Hutchinson
is president and treasurer, Mr;
J. Holland is secretary and R.
F. 'Craig i3 superintendent It
employed 35 people. It i3 un
derstood .that the Southern
Pover Company oCcil3 were
heavy stockholders.
. MOUNT HOLLY SUBMERGED
All three of the bridges over the Ca
tawba at Mount Holly were washed
away. The first to go was the Seaboard
Railroad bridge which was about half
way between - the new county bridge
and the P. & N. Railway bridge. ' A
sectionjof it went .but at 8:30 Sunday
section of the tj of the iron bridge
over Dutchman's creek on the road to
Mountain, Island was visible Monday
afternoon and it was the general belief
that this 1 bridge ", , was uninjured. The
big $250, 000. subsidiary plant of the
Southern Power Company was flooded
to a depth of several feet and had to be
abandoned. The employees' houses
were also in watar several feet deep.
It was a case of , "water, water every
where" :with Mount Holly. All day
Monday the hundreds of id! mill oper
atives of Mount Holly, together with
hundreds of people from . Castonia and
all oyer tha county lined the banks of
Jthe riverain the vicinity of Riverside
Park anfthe bridge sites 'toVatclT&e
raging torrent, while on the opposite
shore, "so near and yet so far" were
.gathered ; hundreds of ' Mecklenburg
county folks engaged in the same pas
time, . So swift and turbulent was the
stream that there was; no possibility
Monday evening of a boat making its
way across. '.. ;.'''' ,; '' '
work of . the , bri ie may be in j net total over 1,C
such shape that it can be utilized
in part. All day Sunday there
was a continuous stream of autos
and vehicles of every description
pouring into I.IcAdenvil! carry
ing people who wished to see the
river at this point.
C McADENVILLE BRIDGE : ;
-Z . GONE ;.'.. '.
Saturday ' ; afternoon at 3 :20
o'clock' the county bridge at ,Mc
Adenville went down. Itwa3 an
iron bridge constructed ten or
twelve years ago at cost of about
$15,000. Reliable information se
cured yesterday afternoon frcm
Mr. R, RRay is to the effect
that all the' stone piers of this
bridge reman intact with the ex
ception of one,, that being the
second one from the western ap
proach to the bridge.- It is also'
generally believed that the frame
DAMAGE TO MILLS SMALL
, The Gazette ha3 authentic in
formation with refercr.23 to the
damage to the McAd:n mills. It
13 most encouraging and indicate 3
that the loss to thesa milli i3 ccn
siderably les3 than wa3 anticipat
ed even by the management. It
was found yesterday, TuceJ zy,
that the dam, concerning which
there wa3 considerable uneas
iness Sunday is intact and un
damaged. The only los3Suta:ncd
of any consequence was to ths
race.' This entire damage can
be' restored for not exceeding
53,000. Two section 3 of tha
race washed out, one about fifty
feet long above the bridge ap
proach and another section about
the same length Kelow the bridge
approach. The washout below
the bridge approach wa3 in real
ity a fortunate one a3 it did away
with. the possibility r of water
reaching the mill baildings. In
fact the management va3 con
sidering the matter of of dyna
miting the race at this point at
the time it washed out. The
headgates of the race are intact.
About twenty feet of the brick
construction connecting the dam
with the race proper was washed
out This will be replaced with
concrete .', construction,' T h e
first sections washed out will
also be replaced with concrete
and this work can be ; completed
in a very short time. Mr. Ray
estimates that the race can be
repaired and the water power
restored within two weeks.'. In
the meantime an effort i3 being
made to secure ' second hand
motors ' with which to equipp
milU'nos. 1 and 2 temporarily
with electric power. Mill No. 3
is already electric-driven
Six or seven houses belonging
to the mill; and occupied were
submerged. - Of this number one,
on the eastern side of the river
was washed away and one other
was washed ; off its foundation.
The damage to the houses ' will
the entire ci:z t
mills at th:3 p!e.c3 . ;
at the out:'J3 rr.cro t'
sad will prclally L 3 .
J5.000. The . mi'j t
and all of ths machir.
tirely intact and ur.ir.j
Southern's K.l cnt V:'.
.: Away.
From our IV... t c
received TuesJ ,:y, ii t '
reference to t'.e v, :
Southern's tri.'j over ;
at that point:
V The Sloan's ferry 1 : '
e l with p! ; ;a all Lj:
Tha c. . .J.i had i . 1
the briJe but rry
their own risk. About &
day afternoon t1 e t '
heard a lou I f ; ! .; i a
tha cc'.rc' tr: ' :? s
dry l.ind. i I. a f . '.i
1 y t' a ! ; i' n cf t
Li. ' 1 ' , . It t
v . t t! ' . i a i - 1 r ( :" -rr.zr.y
r.o a kr. -. -t.
run all t
ty-f.ve.
ti c!.'
sri i 1. -
May fii
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the iziii th.it ' J :
the slrui tu-'. .n i
rick were t i t' I
bales of cctt,.a f 11
strain. It la t 11
orders to Lave t j Li .
sixns of wt . ' i r;;
the time 11 c
engineer ca.. ,1 tha mf"
t n ge and et c'.ce 1
and derri k (j.T. Ii
lievei of this vd-lt,
ver an 1 settle. As f,y
rcacht'd the t p cf the 1
ti with a u ? into a
tex. One 1 ; 1 y. ' -went
to the botto;a, carry,,
down l'.ke so r: tny pnts.
was" the force V it it C
rails ties o f the
for aliaU:.ce cf i:.ty f. t ;
the bank into the waters. .
tance was lined with .'
slow was the movement 1
thev stepped over into snff ty.
ment ' later he ids bean t
and down in the waves I ,t
was the force of the vat i
two men were able to r
the scene. The section f ;
Kirurs Mountain mar.;"; : ! t
the raft held up by the x..
ter a time ws rescued i i a t
tor boat. The other was a
hand who succeeded in h
a tree. Some distance '
stream spectators saw a r !;
it three men. They ra e 1 t
and waved their nan " i a t
J r
' " Ax;:.y, C
s Plant at Mountain Island Swept
,:3 of C
on down the stream. In t.
the Btream were eeveral t: .
these c: ,e the cries of f
men ho! -.iinrr on for dear 1 '.: r
in? for help. .
Tha terror stricken crr '
dumb. There was no s'n '
anywhere. Only a;very f
boat was near and it mevr.t i
anyone to venture out i '
rent Nizht was fa.-t e. ; -the
frightened victims i ;m
cries. Small bnats were I
from Riverside Park and l.t
toward the trees in which t
were perched, only H le ?
by the swirlin? waters n I t
to the bottom. Slowly the tr
wav one bv one and by 1 '
I at nis-ht the cries were h'i: '
'( river was doin? its fastest ri
H-tbi time. . . ..
Desolation reigmed over t ?
he whole niht. With day! r.
cue parties formed :, and
search the streams. Mr. T..
Lowell, took especially prr- -
in hi3 efforts at rescu.
composfd of Jr."John
Dave Wright and his t .
John Armstrong and -Mr.
took grave Tlsks in steer,
to a clump of trees en I
from which they recuf ! ;
who was almost exhau 1 ;
ed through, havin? t i r i
It was a mater of r
against life in these t
cue. ; The most euccf
were two negro men, 1'cta .
Fons Ross, cf telmor.t. h
cued six meil fro mtree? ii i
where the current was s-r : t..
these were men who hd
cue four who were mare
were themselves forced ti :
the trees when their 1' t -away.
One cf tha r-' i r
this party, was Mr. Ti. , .
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