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FLODD LOSS $2,000,000 Railroads Heaviest Losers--Crops Badly Damaged. AUGUSTA WAS RAGING SEA Augusta, Ga.—The most serious flood in twenty years swept over Au- Busta and other cities in Georgia and the Carolinas, resulting in the report ed death of twenty-two persons, a property loss of approximately over a million dollars, blocking traffic and cutting off all communication by wire and telephone. Following the break of the big dam at the head of the Augusta canal, practically every street in that city was covered with water and many of ‘the stores were abandoned, The river at Augusta reached a height of thirty-eight feet and the wa ter was two and one-half to four feet deep in Broad street, The canal dams broke and added to the seriousness of the situation. The losses to the railroads on ae count of damage to tracks and des truction of trestles and bridges are enormous. The water completely flooded Broad street, the principal street, and the plant of the Augusta Herald was put out of business. On the Ocmuilgee river are Haw kinsville and Abbeville and on the Oconee river is Dublin. All three of these places were flooded. ~While the waters were rushing like a great stream through the streets of Augusta, fire broke out in the Nixon cotton and grocery warehouses, and for a time threatened surrounding property, The fire department was absolutely helpless, and citizens gazed at the hlaze doing its work, and hoped for the best. The buildings were destroy ed, but fortunately the horrors of a general conflagration were spared the panic-stricken inhabitants, and the fire was confined to the warehouse, It is said the blaze was started by the wa ter reaching some lime in one of the warehouses, causing an explosion. As the water recgded many build ings collapsed, their foundations hav ing been undermined- by the water Among the most important buildings destroyed in this manner are the Na tional Biscuit company’s building, the Central Grammar School, the Dav§d son Grammar School (both schools are the propetry of the city of Augusta), the Nelson-Morris warehouse and the Triangular block. £ As to the loss of life, twenty-two bodies have been recovered, and corpses are found every hour or so. The captain of the river steamer Swan reports that he saw on the up trip at least twenty-five corpses. All of ltéxem ‘are negroes except one a white man. Thero are reports of many drownings among negro' farm hands in the lower valley. The Au gusta Chroicle estimates the death list at sixty. &l‘he . Savannah. river valley fa mefi worked like demons haulihg crops and farm implements’ and driving cattle to the uplands out of reach of the water which flooded that district. Railroad schedules were deranged. Ten washouts were reported on the Charleston and West ern Carolina and several on the Eiouthern, between here and Colum bia. \ Camden, S. C. — The Waieree bridge at this place was washed away- with the probable loss of nine teen lives, The river, greatly swollen by the tremendous rains of the past forty eight hours, caused the bridge to give way when a number of rafts and: “other craft jammed into the iron structure. The destroyed bridge cost SIB,OOO. Columbia, S. C.—Reports from Spar tanburg and Anderson counties tell of unprecedented rains in the Pied mont section of South Carolina, re sulting in great damage to property, forcing power plants to close down, thus cutting off the source of power of a number of cotton mills, electric ‘light plants and other enterprises. Spartanburg county was under wa ter for forty-eight hours. It is esti mated that $150,000 will not cover the damage to bridges in the county, a dozen or more having been wash ed away, The great dam across Lawson's Fork at Whitney Mill, three miles north of Spartanburg, was swept away by the flood. A train on the Charles ton and Western Carolina railway ran into a washout and the engine was ditched, Athens, Ga.—ln a period of thirty seven hours, a little more than twelve inches of rain fell in this city, The Oconee was above the lvzhest mark in the recollection of the people here, and at places nearly a half mile wide. Three city bridges were wash ed away and the two remaining ones rendered unsafe for traffic. The northbound Southern from Ath ens barely esqgfiped going into the riv er, at the trestle two miles out from Athens. Some hoys seining heard the trestle crack and saw it rocking. They rushed to the bank and suc ceeded in flagging the approaching train just before it reached the tres tle. The streets of the city are dam aged at least SIO,OOO. Total damages here will not be less than $50,000 in all lines, Charlotte, N. C. — Unprecedented rainfall—which has kroken all weath er bureau records since 1865—has wrought untold damage in this vicin ity. Street car traffic to the suburbs was suspended and residents along creeks adjacent to the city have heen compelled to seek higher ground for safety. Asheville, N. C.—A Southern rail way train was ditched by a washout between Saluda and Flat Rock, En gineer London and Fireman Phillips were killed, being caught beneath the overturned engine, ‘ e —————————————————— OF POLITICAL INTERESY, It is announced that Mr, Bryan will not come into the south duripg the campaign, but willi-devote all his time to the doubtful states. ! “It puts a premium on reckless banking and is an inducemeut to "_reckless banking.” Thus said Mr, Taft in respomse to a direct question, state ‘what, in his opinion, is the vital ob ijection to the proposed plan to guar ‘anty deposits in ngtional banks, - KEugne W. Chafin, prohibitionist candidate for president, in a speech ‘at Minneapolis, Minn., said: “If I am elected president of the United States and inaugurated on the 4th day of next March, I will call a special ses sion of the congress of the United States the next day and ask the mem ‘bers to legislate the liquor traffic out of existence.” l The prediction of increased strength in the national prohibition movement this year is based on the remarkalle gains that local prohibition has made in a large number of states. At the ‘beginning of the year there were six prohibition states in the union— Maine, Georgia, North Dakota, Kan sas, Oklahoma and Alabama. A monument in the Bethel ceme tery, near Montgomery, Mo., has this memorable appeal for Mr. Bryan as an epitah for the late B. H. Norris: “Kind friends, I've left behind, Cast your vote for,W. J. Bryan.” Sacred to the memory of B. H, Nor ris, died April 9, 1960. Age 50 years, Arrangements for William I Taft’s trip to Toledo, where ne will attend the G+ A. R. reunion, have been com pleted. A special car will carry Mr. Taft, correspondents and secretaries and speeches will be made from the ‘car platform. On occasion to his visit ‘to his birthplace at Salem, 111, W. J. Bryan was greeted by an immense crowd. Mr. Bryan inspected the Bryan-Ben nett library given by himself and Phil C. S. Bennett, to the city of Salem. The library is built on the spot on which was located the house in which Mr. Bryan was born. William Randolph Hearst on being asked tq resign from the Iroquois club a democratic organization of San Francisco, sent in his resignation, to gether with a letter in which he stat-i ed that he was no longer a democrat and asked the club members: “Are‘ you 1902 democrats, or 1906 demo crats, or 1900 democrats, or 1904 dem ocrats, or are you: 1908 democrats? Are you Cleveland democrats? Are} you Parker democrats or are you Bry an democrats? 1 A statement has been issued by Treasurer Haskell of the democratic campaign committee acknowledging $19,458 turned in to the campaign fund by five daily newspapers and The Commoner, Mr. Bryan’s paper. Union labor’s equation in the dem ocratic national campaign and the plans that, have been formulated by officers of the American Federation of Labor to swing the labor vote to Wil liam J, Bryan, were subject matters of a series of conferences in Wash ington, D. C., between National Chair ‘man Norman E. Mack and Samuel ‘Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, Secretary Mor rison; of the Federation, and Presi dent McConnell, of the Machinists’ union. - 3 S R Mr. Taft is spending® the week on Middle Bass island in Lake Erie fish ing and resting before starting on a 'speech-making trip in Maryland. A large bale of hay reached Lin coln, Neb., from the Bryan-Bailey club of Forney, Texas, addressed to the man who keeps the democratic -mule, Lincoln, Neb. It was delivered to the mule who seemed to appreciate it. The officials of the Georgia State fair have written Mr. Bryan offering to contribute SSO a week to the dem acratic campaign fund for the privi lege of exhibiting the famous demo cratic trick mule at the state fair in Georgia, It is said that in the event of Sam uel Gompers, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, making speeches during the campaign favor ing Mr. Bryan, Secretary Strauss, of the department of commerce and la bor would answer the argnments for the republicans. “If elected I shall call the Sixty first congress together in extraordi nary session to revise the tariff at the ‘ very earliest moment I have authority‘ to do so. I consider such action to be my obligation under the tariff plank of the republican platform.” | The foregoing is William H, Taft's statement made in expressing his views regarding the revision of the tariff. | Mr. Bryan will make a determined effort to place New York state in the democratic column, He will speak in New York city, Syracuse and Ro chester, between September 16 and 20, and early in October will again speak in New York city and in Buf falo, / Mr. Taft has foiled the plan to get him into the West Virginia republican tangle, He has refused politely the in vitation to ‘“visit a few prominent West Virginia towns in- the mountain resort thirty miles from Hot Springs.” The refusal is of suech a manner as to smooth the feelings of both fac tions. He gives as the reason that a visit would be misconstrued, } It is said in New York that Tam any Hall will not support Martin W, Littleton for governor of that state. This comes as a surprise to the dem ocrats of New York, In American politics none of the! minor parties has enjoyed so long a life as the prohibition party, For more than 35 years a prohibition na-! tional ticket has been in the field at every presilential election, | Thomas Watson, the populist can-’ didate for president, was forced to stop in Athens, Ga., for twenty-four hours on account of the floods in that district, He tried to hire a special train to take him to Augusta where he was to speak, but was unsuccess ful. Practically complete returns from the democratic primary held in South Carolina show that Governor M. F. Ansel has defeated Cole L. Blease for governor by a plurality of 19,174, 91,- 380 ballots being cast in this con test, \ PREDICTS RECORD CROP i —a s Secretary of Agriculture Wilson' Optimistic as to Outlook. / {Estimneu 13,000,000 Bale Cotton Crop ~ Which Sold at 9 1-2 Cents Will | Bring in $600,000,000. Washington, D. C.—Just before leav-{ ing Washington for his farm in lowa, Secretary Wilson, of the department of agriculture, said that this year's crops would exceed any ever produc ed in former years, This statement he said, he was willing to make not from hearsay, alone, but from facts which he had gathered from every section of the United States. That the secretary is not guessing about the yield this year is borne out by the fact that the corn crop, ac cording to present estimaes, will yield 2,700,000,000 bushels, which, if "sold at 72 cents a bushel, the September price, will bring in $1,700,000, The wheat crop, with a. yield of ‘about 675,000,000 bushels, at 93 cents, ‘per bushel, will amount to $627,000,- 1000, : | The cotton crop, which promises to he at least 18,000,000 bales, = will, if, sold for 9 1-2 cents per pound, bring in $600,000,000. ‘ All the crops of the last year were estimated by the government otayi estimated by the department of agri culture at a caluation -of $7,412,000, 000 on the farm, and, in view of the large yield this vear and the good‘ prices generally obtained, it is only reasonable to expect that this year the farmers will produce net wealth worth at least $8,000,000,000, if not more. This amount has never yet been realized from the sale of farm products, The farmers of the United States, as a whole, are in-a better financial condition than they have ever been beforo, according to statistics secur ed by the census bureau and given to Secretary Wilson, and, since few,gt,;i mortgages exist, they will be enabled to do still better next year by being’ able to pay cash for all supplies and other commodities required in, thefr work. e From the far western states, here the large hay and corn crops are made, and where thousands of bush-. els of the yellow grain are soon to be housed and later turned into mon ey, reports come that the farmers are preparing to take advantage of the present good times“by enlarging -their holding, erecting new "buildings and generally investing their earnings to better advantage. Just as Mr. Wilson was leaving Washington he called a number of workers in the agricultural depart ment into his private office, and to them and a group of newspaper men said that from all indications there would be excellent harvests this fall, that money wouldl be plentiful and that every one, especially the farmers, should be thankful, for " the bountiful yield. ~ EDITOR M}Cllififi LLY KILLED, Opening Grip to Get Cigars, Pistol ~ Was Accidentally Discharged, - :Stone Mountain, Ga.—T. J. Chaffee, associate editor of the Augusta” Her ald, was -accidentally shot and killed on board a Georgia railroad train just beyond Decatur, Ga. | He was seated with Mr. Steiner of Augusta, talking when it was sug gested that they go to the smoker and purchase some cigars. Mr. Chaffee said that this was not necessary, as he had some cigars in his grip. He went back to where his grip was lo cated, and opened it. As he did so a shot was fired and Mr, Chaffee ex claimed “I am shot!” It seems that there was a pistol fas tened some way in his grip, and in opening the grip the pistol was dis charged, the bullet striking him in the abdomen. He was taken off the train at Stone, Mountain and died in abpout thirty minutes. ’ GOTTON SOUTH'S MAINSTAY, 801 l Weevil Must Be Fought By the Farmers. Natchez, Miss.—Cotton willl con tinue to hbe the south’s mainstay in spite of the boll weevil, and the farm ers must learn to raise their own pro visions, hay and stock, is.a summary of the lectures delivered by the scien tific agriculturists representing the United States department of agricul ture, who addressed the Farmers’ in stitute, which has been in session here, A new thought was expressed when Professor Lloyd, Mississippi director of the farmers’ institutes, said that in his opinion the time is coming when the white man can look after politics and the negroes can do the farming. American Arrested in Paris, - Parisy France,—The police here ar rested an American thief, known un der the name of Benedict Lupraska, of San Francisco, who, the police say, has for a long time been victimizing Paris jewelers, If is estimated that his total recent robberies foot up to more than $350,000, National Storage of Wool. Salt Lake, Utah—Resolutions ap proving the plan for national storage of the western Wool crop were adopt ed unanimously by the National Wool Growers’ association, The president was authorized to seclect a city where a central store market will be estab lished and to form a corporation, Fleeing Banker Caught In Brazil, Cleveland, Ohio.—~A cablegram to County Sheriff McGorday from Rio Janéiro, Brazil, says that two Cleve land officers have arrived there, hav ing in custody Anton F. Bonelli, the Italian banker who is charged with having misappropriated $30,000 be longing to depositors of his bank. Bonelli disappeared about three months ago. Eventually he was trae ed to Brail, where he was taken into custody by the Brazilian authorities. ; BRITISH SHIP SINKS. Of Fifty-Three Hands Only Two Escap e B " .ed From Typhoon. . Tokio, Japan.—News of the sinking og the \ British steamer Dunearn and the loss as all but two of the fifty thrée members of her crew in a ty phoon which raged off the port .of Goto, on the island of Kiuhiu, has reached here in a report received ,trqm Moji, a town on the same island. The names of the survivors are given as William Phillips, an engineer, and Jobn Lanman, a seaman, both of Wwhom were picked up in mid-ocean by the Japanese steam Sakoy Maru. The Dinearn was bound from Miko lalesk, Asiatic Russia to Singapore, and put in at the port of Kartsu for coal. Again putting to sea the ship ran into the very center of a typhoon, Which sent her to the bottom, The two survivors are prostrated from ex- Dosure and hardships, and a subscrip tion has been taken up for them among the crew of the Sakoy Maru. ~ The Dunearn was a steel screw steamer of 2,220 tons, commanded by Captain G. Graham. She sailed from Hamburg for Nikolaiesk on May 217, and arrived at the latter port on Au gust 21, GENERAL A. P. STEWART DEAD. Was -Lieutenant General in the Con - " federate States Army, ‘Biloxi, Miss.—General Alexander P. Stewart, one of the last two surviving lieutenants general of the confederate states army, -died at his home here” Although in his eighty-seventh year, and suffering from the infirmi ties of old age, General Stewart's death was sudden, and came as a dis tinct shock and surprise to his rela tives, comrades and friends, Death was due to heart disease. ‘General Stewart was a native of Tennessee, and lived the greater part of his life in that state, but of late years had been making his home in Biloxi, where he found the salt air and pine woods of great benefit to his health, - When the civil war broke out, Stew art was one of the earliest volunteers in the copfederate army. He offered his services to Isham (. Harris, then “ ernor of Tennessee, who made him a major in the artillery. . :General Stewart participated in %ni;ny of the baftles during the war, being especially active in the Tennes. B€e campaign and in the battles around Atlanta. . After the final surrender of the con federacy, General Stewart returned quietly to his home. For five years he was engaged in business, when once again his profession called him. He was unanimously elected chancel dor of the University of Mississippi. ‘He remained at the head of the uni versity for twelve years. - A tribute to his steadfast character 18 the sobriquet, given him by his sol diers in battle when the cry, “Follow ‘old Straight,” would turn a rout to A victory, a retreat to a glorious suc cess, ~ General Stewart’s death leaves only ‘General Simon Bolivar Buckner as the only surviving lieutenant general of the confederate states army, " FATALITIES IN COAL MINES. Conference Dealing With Mine Condi. o - tions in America, - Pittsburg, Pa.—A conference deal ing with mining eonditions existing in the DPnited States and the great number of fatalities resulting from mine accidents, is being held here. Victor Watteyne, chief of the Belgian department of mines, is conferring with Clarence Hall, of the United States geological survey, who is in charge of the government experiment al station here, and J, W. Paul, chief of the department of mines of West Virginia, A thorough investigation of the re cent mine disasters in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Alabama will be made, Captain Desborrough of Eng land, and Herr Meissner of Germany, both expert mining engineers, will Join Mr. Watteyne in the investiga tion for which congress has appro priated $150,000. ~ DECLARES WAR ON GAMBLERS. Govorng of New. Jersey To Use Mi litia Against Atlantic City Barrooms. Seagirt, N, J—Flagrant, open and defliant violation of the law at At lantic City, the largest pleasure re sort in the Unfted States, having been charged in presentments made to Gov ernor Fort, that official has issued a proclamation in which he threatened to restore order and enforce respect for the law by means of state troops, if necessary. For some time it has been charged that there has been no observance of the Sunday laws nor of the anti-gambling laws in Atlantic City, and that it was impossible to obtain enforcement of the statutes in these respects, KERMIT ROOSEVELT A HERD. President’'s Son Rescues a Woman el and Two Sons, Oyster Bay, L. 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