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CONSERVATION 



That both sides of the story are due 

 to our recklessness of cutting and 

 waste of the forests can hardly be ques- 

 tioned by thinking men. 



The recent southern flood in August 

 and September covered a wide area in 

 North Carolina, South Carolina, and 

 Georgia, the principal damage being 

 done along the Cape Fear, the Yadkin, 

 the Catawba, the Broad, and the Savan- 

 nah rivers and their tributaries. The 



running from six to eight miles an hour, 

 and lasting for a period of forty-eight 

 hours, the flood covering an area from 

 east to west of five miles from North 

 Augusta Highlands to a point beyond 

 Horse Creek. 



With all communication with the out- 

 side world practically cut off — wires 

 down, no street-car service, no electric 

 or gas lights, without fire protection, 

 and short of water, except the twenty- 



IN A FLOOD-GWEPT REGION 

 House Washed Down the River by High Water, During a Flood in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 



damage done to crops and low grounds, 

 by washouts of roadways, and railroad 

 rights of way, railroad bridges, county 

 bridges, and by losses in the various 

 cities affected is not short of $25,000,- 

 000, with a lamentable loss of nearly 

 a hundred human lives. 



The worst flood in the history of the 

 Savannah River overwhelmed Augusta 

 in the early morning hours of August 

 26th. the high-water record of the 

 worst previous flood, that of 1888, be- 

 ing exceeded by two feet before mid- 

 night of the 26th, at which time the 

 height of the water over the street-car 

 tracks on the principal thoroughfare, 

 beautiful Broad Street, was two feet, 



five miles of red and raging torrents 

 that swept over her and submerged her 

 to the farthest foothills ; with hundreds 

 of people homeless ; business and traffic 

 entirely suspended, is it necessary to go 

 into further details to bring the horrors 

 of the scene more closely home to you? 



Augusta's experience is in part du- 

 plicated in Columbia, S. C, and other 

 less important points in the section af- 

 fected, and along all the streams are 

 striking evidences of the power of the 

 unrestrained and angry waters that 

 will take many months and many mil- 

 lions to restore to normal condition. 



There should be no story without a 

 moral. This one carries a striking one 



