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NIAGARA OF DEATH FROM THE HEAVENS
CAME TUMBLING ON SOUTH CAROLINA
MILL SECTION LAST SATURDAY MORNING
List of Loss of Life, 57; Homeless, 15,000; Damage to Various Kinds of Property; $4,128,000. I
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THE CONSTITUTION’S LIST OF KNOWN DEAD 43
People left without homes or work 15,000
Mill losses that are knowns 3,280,000
Damage to farmers and others (estimated) 500,000
Damage to railroads (bridges, etc.) 100,000
General business loss (estimated) 250,000
Total of damage to propertys 4,130,000 •
IESOLATION
ANO DEATH
i HOLO SWAY
By C. R. Henry.
: kiartanburg, S. (_'.. June 7.—(Special.)
, ('Jution. death and ruin arc holding
'' | sway along the banks of the Pacolet
■ t r front Clifton to Pacolet, a distance
. 110 tniies, as the result of the awful
; #d of Saturday morning.
| jrom the scene of the destruction of
f j big i <>-spindle mill known as Clif
'■ ; No. :t. down the river a quarter of
. |aii.- where Clifton No. 1 is wrecked
I I on around the bend another quarter
I ia mile to Ciifton mill No. 2, which
I Liso half gone, nothing but debris and
I L kage cun be seen today when only
| lw hours ago the hum of over 100,000
I |idles and the musical ripple of the
> |r was heard.
I jt<: transformation is one that smites
I , —j' .1 .tor dumb, and words are alto-
I her inadequate to describe the scenes
/ i sin which lme the banks of the liter
5 miles down. In some places where a
,1 village stood with its dozens of
!j jses today is seen only a long flat
f Id bank, the river hiving changed
i, npletely the aspect of the country, in
: pe places the road bed of the electric
(\WI V is completely annihilated and the
ire bed is washed away, water eover
| the ground. It will probably be nec
? jiri lor the line to take a detour of a
? . from the old location in order to
B di Clifton.
I " day hundreds of people have hov
s d about the scene of destruction.
.1-.lking down the river gorge is veil
ileult. and it is only by the greatest
>rt that th.: trip from mill No. 2 to
s. 1 and 3 is made. The survivors all
, today stood upon the spots occupied
iurda y by the homes of their dead
. pi.is. Not a trace of half a hundred
hes is today visible. In some places
sites occupied by the houses are
j, ,i beneath great sand banks and only
. ■<>, visional piece of plank projecting
f fugh the sand would indicate that a
j Ise stood in that place. The destruc
j I is awful and complete. The force of
| I flood has so completely changed the
I Iks of the river and Hat borders on
■- fc-h numerous houses stood that it
■ I not be possible to rebuild on the
tr.cr sites.
Forty to Fifty Dead.
} tivelj
ted at from forty to fifty Only a
g I bodies, perhaps half a dozen, have
r h secured from the floods. A young
| fs body was found buried so deep in
| f sand that only her knee projected.
S i man was taken out of the river in
| (unconscious condition 9 miles below
I scene of his being overtaken by the
ii One woman clung to a tree for
a fa s while the surging flood splashed its
| jry waters against her f '-ct, and as
I - rescuers failed again and again to
E (h her she began shouting in her re
| bus zeal thinking her end had come,
st * was later rescued.
a t Clifton mill No. .1. just above the
I jti’.orn railway trestle, ten people were
g fwned and only a small part of the
■ hense mill, about one-fourth, now re-
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mains. Some eight or ten houses are
gone and several are ruined. At mill No.
1. next, in order following the course of
waters down stream, one-third of the
mil! is gone.
The lower floors that remain are flood
ed and piled with debris. The scene here
is indescribable. The upper end nf the
n il! is gone and the section thus exposed
show:- the crooked and bent machinery,
the broken timbers, the wreckage and the
debris piled up to the second and third
floors. Out of lower windows long dirty
streams of cloth are hung, the ends in
I Wic mills still being attached to the looms
which were wrecked by the floods. The
(power put where the water turned the
I hug' wheel is all gofie, and only a part
of the wrecked machinery remains.
; Across the river that part of the mill
[ village located within 150 feet of the
I tanks of die river is gone. The long
I covered bridge and the gangway lor the
hands are gone and also a livery
I stable, i store and other structures.
I At mil! No. 2, which is the last down
I stream, tills once handsome four-story
I structure is now half demolished, the two
lower stories are piled with detris and
rubbish and flooded throuhout. When the
waters -truck the mill about 5 o'clock
Saturday morning all of the operatives
I living across the river were warned in
time to escape with their lives. A num-
I her of houses were washed away. At
I this mi!' the occupants saved nothing
j whatever The ware house of the mill
'and 2,009-balos of cotton were also car
ried away by the angry waters. The com
pany's stole at this mill was also de
stroyed.
Woman and Man in Tree.
liiekman Stribbling, who slept in file
store, u. s awakened by t le water in his
room. He jumped to save his life, and
after a short time caught hold of a
tree, where lie remained holding half
of the day with no clothing to protect
him. A woman also found refuge in the
! same tree, and the two were rescued
alter a long delay anil her ■ work on the
! i a,rt of the rescuers.
! The greatest loss of life ■! >t Santuc,
I .( section ct the mill sell if’Tnbnt a lew
hundrei yards down the river from mill
| No. 2. Here it is estimated that from
I twentr-nv" to thirty-live people w :e
drowni I. Tie settlement is a rather flat
place and receiv'd the lull fury of wa
lers. Bight residences were also washed
away. Bud Johnson ami two of bis
sons drifted 9 miles down the river to
Pacclet, where the father was reported
to hav< been rescued in an unconscious
condition. Johnson is a merchant at
Sarituc. lie lost his wife arid two chil
dren and all of his property. Th ■ story
j of his rescue is marvelous.
I The work of recovering hodfiis n-" -
I essarily slow ."dost of the bodies ol the
drowned have been wash d down stream
and in ail probability will never be re
covered.
The rescuers continued work last night,
i but accomplished little. One of Air.
Johnston's little boys. who drifted 9
miles down stream with his father, was
seen at Pacolet just before he went over
the darn. It is said that the little fellow
called out a last goodby to the crowd on
shore before he went over the dam.
A report from Clifton No. 2 this after
noon stated that forty-one persons were
missing. This would make total • dead
fifty-live. Tlie number of houses destroy
ed will be between fifty and sixty. The
money loss cannot be estimated for some
days, but will reach between two and
three millions along Pacolet river alone.
The news from Pacolet today indicates
that the first reports were not in the
least exaggerated. Mills Nos. 1 and 2
are gone and No. 3 partly- wrecked. The.
company is busy today taking goods out
of one of their ware houses, which it is
feared will collapse.
Belief Work.
At a mass meeting held in the jjpera
house here today $2,509 was subscribed
by citizens within fifteen minutes for
the relief of the sufferers. A resolution
was also adopted at this meeting extend
ing sympathy to the presidents of the
two mill companies and the directors
upon their enormous loss and wishing
them unlimited success in their efforts
to rebuild their destroyed properties. A
relief committee also spent Sunday at
the Clifton mills investigating the situa
tion with a view to presenting to the
people the exact status of affairs. From
10,900 to 15,000 people are deprived of a
living by the disaster at Clifton and
Pacolet. These people live largely from
hand to mouth, while many are indebted
I to the mills for supplies. Consequently
: if relief fails to reach them quickly they
I will be in dire want, especially of food.
; It is believed, however, that on account of
the scarcity of mill labor over the south
I these people will have many chances to
I secure work at other mills. A mill in
! this section recently closed for the sum
' mer and a half dozen agents of other
i mills were on the scene at once to offer
work to the operatives. The call for food
will be the most urgent at present as
most of the survivors have a sufficiency
of clothing.
An interesting fact in connection with
the question of the loss of life is why did
I the people not leave their homes before
! tlie houses washed away. Instances tire
(mentioned which occurred during Satur-
I day's flood in which people were warned,
j but refused to come out of their houses
l It is thought that the inmates of the
I houses understood the power and de
structiveness of the flood, but before thev
j realized their danger it was too late.
( Again the sudden rising of the water
was something unheard of. One man
j says lie saw a wave hi feet high rushing
down stream. This is probably exag
gerated, but all accounts agree in the
statement that the water rose so rapldlv
as to hike everybody entirely unawares
Strange to say. the force of the cur
rent along the banks at Clifton as re
vealed by investige'.on today showed
that huge rocks in cliffs along th?
stream were in many eases battered and
broken by the wate r to an almost incon
ceivable extent. They were torn from
the cliffs and hurled from mother rocks
as If dynamite an ’ not water were the
power in operation.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION! ATLANTA.. MONDAY. JUNE 8, 1903.
LIST OF THE
KNOWN DEAD
BY ALAN S. ROGERS.
SPARTANBURG, S. C.. June B.
1 a. m. —I am wiring you the list of
known dead. The names and num
bers are CORRECT. List follows:
AT CLIFTON MILLS NO. 3.
Mrs. Will Kirby.
Miss Maggie Kirby.
Mrs. John Owens.
Her four children.
Mr. Hall.
His eight children.
Mr. Elders.
Mrs. Elders.
Gatland Long.
Mrs. Garland Long.
Sam Swaingan.
Mrs. Sam Swaingan.
Miss Fleta Goss.
AT CLIFTON MILLS NO. 2.
Augustus Calvert.
Mrs. Augustus Calvert.
Lucy Calvert.
Felix Calvert.
Robert Finley.
Mrs. Robert Finley.
Their five boarders.
Mrs. B. F. Finley.
Mrs. B. S. Johnson.
And four children.
Three Williams children.
Marie Sims.
List of the known dead is now
43 and there are known to be
14 others diowned at Satuc and
Clifton mills No. 2. TOTAL 57.
Five bodies have been recovered,
one of which has been identified as
Lucy Calvert and the other two as
Maggie Kirby and three children cf
Mrs. Williams. B. S. Johnson, who
was reported yesterday to have
drowned, after having clung to a
house top from Clinton down to Paco
let, a distance of 8 miles, who, when
last seen, went over the dam at Paco
let, escaped by catching to the over
hanging boughs of a tree, returned
to Clifton today only to find that his
wife and four children were all
drowned.
Spurtnnburg, S. June 7.—(Staff Cor-
respondi’nce.)—The latest reports place
the estimated loss of life from the recent
flood nt fifty-five. Damage to property
will run into the millions of dollars. Over
3,000 employees in the mills of the Clifton
Manufacturing Company are out of work
and in destitute circumstances.
At Pacolet 2,000 people are practically
destitv’o. In the smaller mills of the
county the number thrown out of em
ployment will exceed that 5,000.
Owing to the absolute Isolation of Spar
tanburg terrible suffering cannot possibly
be prevented from the many thousands
afflicted by the catastrophe. Appeals are
being sent out for aid. In those appeals
money is particularly requested, as pro
visions cannot reaeli any of the points,
owing to the fact that railroad bridges
are down in every direction. The latest
reports of damages sustained are given
by those in authority as follows:
President Montgomery, of the
Pacolet mills, places their loss at
$1,000,000.
President A. H. Twitchell, of the
Clifton Manufacturing Company
mills, places the loss at $1,800,000,
For the D. E. Converse Company,
at Glendale, S. C., the estimate is
$50,000.
Tucapau mills’ loss placed at
$25,000.
Lockhart mills’ loss is $25,000.
Fairmont sustains loss of $5,000.
Whitney loss placed at SB,OOO.
Lolo loss is about $5,000.
TOTAL MILL LOSS, $3,280,000.
The damage to the Southern railway
cannot be accurately estimated at this
time. Bridges arc dr n in every direc
tion and tracks have been inundated
in many localities. The reports of the
condition C the road are being con
stantly received and add to the loss sus
tained.
The same conditions prevail on the
Charleston and Western Carolina rail
road in a lesser d gree. Wrecking and
material trains are hard at work day
and night endeavoring to complete tem
porary repairs.
All mail trains are blocked and the
transient guests of Spartanburg county
are made permanent for the present.
Present indications show that several
days must elapse before trains will be
running. It will be impossible to give
mails even by trains of transfers for at
least two or three days.
Tlie damages in different portions of
Spartanburg county cannot be ascer
tained at this time as wires and every
means of communication are cut off in
every direction. Although telephone
wires are down In almost every direction,
sufficient reports have been received to
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guarantee the statement by county offi
cials that bridges are down everywhere
In the vicinity of Spartanburg, with this
place as the center of the greatest dam
age.
The report of Frank Robinson, local
official of the United States weather bu
| teau, shows that between the hours of
: 2 o'clock and li o’clock of Saturday morn
: ing more than 5 Inches of rain fell. Re
ports show that in the northwestern part
( of the country the rainfall far exceeded
■these figures. The effect on all rivers,
' branches, creeks and even ditches was
[ unprecedented.
i The water levels tak'-u by M -srs. Und-
I shaw & Ladshaw, civ- engineers of this
city, at Glendale, on F>r'a, show
tiiat the water was 20 feet higher than
the highest mark heretofore registered.
This meant a rise of between 45
and 50 feet above the low water
mark. A single instance showing
a rise of 3 feet within thirty minutes
proves the fact that all those in the
track of the flood had little time to
escape its ravages.
The farmers have suff.-re l tremendous
damage for the reason that their wheat
was Just ready for harvesting, and a
great, deal of it is blown down. All bot
: tom lands have been flooded.
BELIEVED BIGGER MILLS
WILL SOON BE REBUILT
As yet there has been no meetings of
the directors of the different mills, as
each company is anxio fly awaiting a
settled condition of affairs that, will make
future efforts in tlie way of reorganiza
tion possible. Even the portions of mills
still left standing are so inundated that
it is expected that the foundations will
give way and the buildings topple over
at any moment.
Clifton No. 1,2, 3 and the Pacolet
mills, it is believed, will havl to be
nearly entirely rebuilt.
The ware houses at Glendale of the
D. C. Converse Company were swept
away
ton worth $72,000 and 500 bales of
cloth worth $25,000. but were found
later half a mile down stream with
goods only partially damaged.
The dam at Glendale was washed
away, which it will cost SIO,OOO to
rebuild, according- to the statement
of W. S. Manning, a large stock
holder in these mills.
It is stated that two months’ time will
be required to make such temporary re
pairs as will be necessary to put the
looms ot the damaged mills in operation.
Six months' time will be required to re
build the mills swept away providing
such action is taken at meetings of the
directors to be held In tlie near future.
While the officials of 4he several mills
refuse to make any absolute statements
in this regard, It is univresaly believed
on the very best grounds that every mill
in Spartanburg county will eventually
resume operations with an Increased num
ber of spindles and looms.
(.'ne great lesson has been learned and
It has been seml-offlclally stated that all
mills rebuilt will be placed on higher
ground with electricity as the motive
power. It Is known from official sources
that the orders which have lately been
placed with the wrecked mills were suf
ficient to warrant an enlargement of
plant in almost every instance
A further guarantee of the rebuilding
of the mills as soon as possible is as
sured by the fact that many contracts
had been placed for months ahead with
cotton bought to be delivered at such
times in the future as would meet the
convenience of the mills to fulfill these
contracts.
BUSINESS GROWTH
INSURES THE REBUILDING
Both tlie Clifton mills and the Pacolet
mills have been receiving large increases
in their orders for tlie export trade to the
far east. Botli mills and several others
in this district shipped directly to Japan
and China.
The wonderful Increase in this trade
alone is generally acknowledged to be a
sufficient guarantee in itself for the re
building of the mills. It is known, too,
that extensive preparations were being
made to meet increasing demands with
the lowering of the rates of transporta
tion with the opening of the Panama
canal.
At the time of the disaster stock in
either the Pacolet or Clifton companies
was practically unpurchasa.ble. Pacolet
was quoted at 253 pe r share, while that
of the Clifton Manufacturing Company
was quoted at about 200 per share.
It was from the. accrued dividends of
Pacolet, mills Nos. 1, 2 and 3 that the ill
fated mill at New Holland .Springs w:.s
erected and operated. Until this mill
was built Pacolet stock was quoted over
300, which had the record of being the
highest dividend paying mill in tlie south,
witli no stock purchasable on the mar
ket.
S. M. Milliken, a well-known capitalist
of New York city, is a heavy share holder
in the Pacolet mills, owning about h.i f
of tlie stock. 'Pho Montgomerys, sons of
the late John 11. Montgomery, were next
heaviest losers. The stock in the Pacolet
mills today is by reason of both the flood
and the disaster at Gainesville valued at.
par. It is a significant fact, however, that
not one share of this stock is now on
the market.
A large semi-annual dividend exceed
ing 10 per cent was to have been declared
on July 1 by tlie Pacolet mills.
The heaviest loser in the Clifton mills
are President A. 11. Twitchell, Mrs. D. E.
Converse and W. S. Manning. This stock,
while its book value is less than par, is
not on the market. All of winch facts
point conclusively to the rebuilding and
probable enlarging of each and every
mill.
DESOLATION AT PRESENT
CANNOT BE EXAGGERATED
While all of these facts point to the
future prosperity of Spartanburg county
the present destruction among the thou
sands of homeless, unprotected, can hard
ly- be exaggerated. Officials of ail the
mills have given out the information
that will lie used so far as
practicable in tlie repairing ami rebuild
ing dams and mills.
Notices have also been posted by both
the Southern Railway Company and the
Charleston and Western Carolina com
pany for laborers in the matter of con
struction of temporary repairs.
Notwithstanding tiiis, but comparative
ly few of the great army of unemploy
ed will be available for these purposes.
It is semi-ofliclally reported ili.it the
Arkwright mills and Spartan mills will
immediately adopt a plan by which some
relief can be given to the unemployed,
either by running three mills half time
as to their present employees, or double
time so as to utilize Hie efforts of the
afflicted.
This plaji has been warmly and gener
ously sanctioned not only by the ><■>> ■ '
tors, but by the operatives of the Ark
wright mills and tlie Spartan mills.
Added to the fact that the afflicted
district is entirely shut off from the out
side world, is the certainty but just es
tablished fact that several of the mill
stores have been severely damaged, bot h
as to stock and building, while others
have been entirely swept away.
QUESTION OF RELIEF
IS THE PRESSING SUBJECT
This question of meeting demands for
Immediate supplies is quite the greatest
that now confronts the relief commit
tee. The members of this committee, of
which R. H. F. Chapman is chairman,
are working day and night In the inter
ests of the homeless and unemployed.
All checks to Mr. Chapman and the
exigencies of this opportunity for real
home mission work cannot be over-esti
mated. Unless all signs prove to the
contrary, there will be real hunger and
grave distress among these unfortunates,
who have been entirely cut off from em
ployment. The representative of The
Constitution, upon offering to make a
request for help through the columns of
his paper, was warmly thanked and as
sured that any response would meet witii
thorough appreciation.
Almost all of the sufferers at the Clif
ton mills came from the mountains of
western North Carolina, and in great
many instances have large families and
no means and were solely dependent upon
the wages earned by themselves and
their children in the mills.
Congressman Johnson Jest today for
Washington Io see Secretary Root and get
federal aid. He walked to Cowpens, she
nearest point, to board the northbound
train.
HEEDED NO WARNING
AND LOST THEIR LIVES
S. M. Smith, a spinning room boss at
Clifton No. 3 (Converse), told the follow
ing story:
"About 5:30 Saturday morning I reached
the bank just below mill No. 3. At this
place I, in company with several other
helpers, succeeded in rescuing four. I
saw two persons clinging to a root,
whom I identified as Sam Swamgim and
his wife, it was impossible to save them
I feel quite sure that 1 identified among
those who floated by as Maggie Kirby,
a Mr. Hall and family, eight, 1 think.
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? Pacolet Mills Nos. 1 and 2, Destroyed by Cloudburst.
in number, Mr. Elders and his wife and
Robert Finley, with live others, whom I
believe boarded at his house."
In a walk along rhe banks of Pacolet
river from Clifton No. 3 to Clifton No. I,
Superintendent Shea, of the Clifton Man
ufacturing Company mills, said that
about 2 o'clock in the morning of Sat
day last, a night watchman came to
him, as required by the rules of the com
pany, and report'd that the water was
rising rapidly. At 4 o'clock ho again re
turned and reported the condition as
dangerous. Superintendent Shea Imme-
DRAMA TIC DESCRIPTION
OF THE FLOOD HORRORS
By Alan S. Rogers.
Spartanburg. S. C., June 7. -(Staff Corre
spondent.)-Awful beyond description
was the terrible misery and untold suffer
ing, together with great loss of life, that
followed and .-till follows in the flood
swept district along Pacolet river and
Lawson's Fork, in Spartanburg county.
Wlnle it is impossible at Hits time to
give the Jist of the loss of life or esti
mate accurately the resulting damage,
remarkable steps have been taken by the
officials in charge and many reports au
tlienlie and reliable have been received.
The angel of death has passed over one
of the most prosperous and largely pop
ulated districts of Spartanburg county,
leaving in its wake hundreds on hun
dreds who mourn the loss of loved ones,
while thousands of their generous South
Carolina, neighbors are sending a practical
requiem by extending every possible aid
to tlie afflicted.
Never in the history of these illustrious
Spartans has a calaniitx so great befallen
its people.
Where but two days ago there was
noise and rattle of shuttle and loom,
there is the wail of those whose loss
leaves them absolutely unable to be
comforted. The placid streams that
fed motive power to some of the best
and most enterprising mills in all of
the south have become rushing, rav
enous torrents, which having swal
lowed many victims, cruelly refuses
to give up many of its unknown
dead.
Where but a short time ago great
dams held in peaceful confinement
the waters of Lawson’s Fork, yester
day found a seething, turbulent mass
of billows that formed a spectacle so
awful as to defy all possibility of ex
aggeration.
WAILING WOMEN STAND
WAITING FOR LOVED BODIES
Most grewsome Is tlie unknown inven
tory of these angry waters. Enough de
tails, however, are now known to perma
nenetly establish in history' the Spartan
burg county disaster as the Johnstown
flood of the south
Along the banks of the Pacolet
river and Lawson’s Fork weeping
women stand gazing in anxious sus
pense for fear their most horrible an
ticipations may be realized.
It is a pathetic fact that, although
these wives., many of whom have, in the
last two days, become widows, refuse
to acknowledge the advice of kind friends
who point out again and again the im
possibility of any bodies still remaining
in the vicinity of the floods first cruel
outrages
Sonia of the actual scenes along the
banks of the river were sad beyond
portrayal. While the flood was at its
height, scores of persons floated down the
channel of tlie stream. Many of these
were picked up by rescuers, who did their
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, diately ordered the watchman to go to
! the houses located on the banks of the
• river, wake up the occupants and notify
them to immediately leave their homes,
i as the rapid rising of the water made
I tiiese houses unsafe. He learned later
I many of those warned had refused to
i vacate, saying that they had seen plenty
: of floods before and .were not afraid.
- Shortly after this warning was given
I many of those who had laughed at the
I notification were clinging to tlie tops of
( the roofs of their houses and floating
j down the streams to certain deaths.
nt.mo.si to save ihose who clung to the
toofs of houses arjd. floating timbers.
HORRIBLE DEATH MET
BY TWO LITTLE ONES
Early in the morning two children
apparently around, twelve years of
age, appeared directly in mid stream.
In their terrible voyage they cried
out most piteously. It was impossi
ble to get to their rescue, and both
children were seen to go over the
Pacolet dam in each others arms.
It was 2 o’clock in the morning when
the rain began to fall. So rapidly did the
river rise that houses containing sleeping
inmates were carried from their founda
tions without the least warning and the
first information of the occupants was
learned by finding themselves afloat
While many -.f jju>e were re.- . th’' .-'
suffered terribly from exposure in their
terrible trip. Almost all were clad only
in their night clothes. Many of these
have contracted colds and other compli
cations that may prove fatal in some
cases and serious in all. Physicians from
the surrounding country hurried to the re
lief of the suffering and all are being
cared for as well as the limited fa -iliti s
will permit.
TWO THRILLING RESCUES
BY THE REV. MR. SNYDER
Another sad' case was that of Mrs.
Ixmdrum Williams, who was awakened
while yet in her bed by the noise of
rushing waters. She at first attempted
to escape from the house with her two
youngest children. She returned to a
room in the second story to get her two
other children and by the time she had
awakened these the house was afloat.
Grabbing her youngest, an infant, in her
arms and the next of age, a little girl
of some four years, she succeeded by
onl.v the greatest effort in reaching the
roof. The two other children were drown
ed before she was able to drag them
from the second story.
The little girl of 4 years of age was
caught .in a terrific current as Mrs. Wil
liams reached for her while hanging
over the edge of the roof, and to save
the infant, which she held in her other
arm, the agonized mother was compell
ed to see her little girl go down before
here eyes and listen to her last cries
of piteous agony.
The panic-stricken woman, half crazed
with terror, floated on down the river
and was finally able to moor her fright
ful craft by grasping the branches of an
overhanging tree. For only a moment
was she able to change the drift of the
floating house, but it was sufficient to
grasp with one arm a limb while with
the other she pressed her tiny babe
against her breast, finally rescued.
Hickman V. Stribbling made his es
cape in a similar way and lodged in
the same tree and here they stayed foe
eight hours until they were finally res
cued through the heroic efforts of Rev.
Mr. Snyder and one other man, who.
with the aid of a. rude craft made of
two common bales, which were floated
out to Mrs. Williams ami Mr. Srib
bling, on which they placed themselves
and were safely pulled in shore.
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