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GENERAL NEWS

Mrs. W.A. SCOTT, who has been ill, is improving rapidly.

Miss Bessie COOLEY is teaching music in Bluefield.

Miss Gracie HAWKINS is visiting her sister at Flat Top Yards.

Miss Georgie CROCKETT has gone to Pulaski to visit relatives.

Miss Thomas E. PEERY, of Bluefield is visiting, her relatives Dr. and Mrs. J.H. CROCKETT.

Miss Carrie WILSON, of Graham, has accepted a position as stenographer for the Hurt Insurance Agency.

E.M. LILLY, who has been working at New Caperton, W.V. for some time, is at home.

Mr. W.B.F WHITE gave a reception last night to Mr. Barnes GILLESPIE and bride.

Miss Della WEST arrived in Tazewell Sunday to be the guest of Miss Hattie HARMAN for the summer.

Dr. J.R. GILDERSLEEVE left on Monday for Marion, after investigation is over he will visit watering places in the State.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry HARMAN attended the Bryan lecture at at Pocahontas Tuesday and returned on Thursday having missed the train on Wednesday.

The total number of dead bodies found to date as a result of the Pocahontas coal field flood is 31. Five other persons are missing making the total list of drowned 36. The work of relief goes steadily on. Several cars of ice have been forwarded into the coal fields during the past two days to furnish a supply of water for drinking purposes to the residents of the flooded district, all of the streams being polluted with garbage and dead animals. The work of temporary repairs is progressing rapidly, several more of the coal operations having resumed work today. It is estimated that the loading throughout the coal field today will reach close to half of its normal output. The railroad company today succeeded in getting through two of its passengers trains on schedule time beginning tomorrow or Monday. Freight traffic has been resumed to a small extent East of Vivian Yard by the use of the lightest make of locomotive in service and at a speed not exceeding six miles per hour. 

The bodies of two boys and that of an aged woman were found by the forces making repairs and clearing away debris on the North Fork branch yesterday. The bodies were so decomposed that it was impossible to identify them. 

A force with an engine in charge of foreman JENNINGS, while clearing away drifts at Peerless operation near Vivian today discovered the headless body of a woman with nothing about her by which she could be identified.

CEDAR BLUFF

Now that a week has passed since the great down pour of rain resulting in the destructive flood which swept down the Valley of the Clinch and Indian Creeks, our people here have been more able to investigate their losses and time and investigation tend only to augment the figures. The growing crops along the side of these streams are mostly destroyed and what is left is endangered. ???? fencing has been washed away. At our town the cows are grazing at will in what were beautiful gardens, and corn and bean lots, the vegetables being covered with mud. Once beautiful green yards studded with flowers, the work of fair hands, are now covered several inches deep with a black mass of mud, and nothing green, nor even a flower to be seen, while the poultry and bees that were carefully tended by their owners were all swept down the Clinch. Our people are doing all they can to repair damages, temporary foot bridges have been placed across the streams at convenient points, and the roads, and ??? cleared of rubbish and debris as well as houses cleaned of mud and in some instances fencing temporarily repaired.

Messrs. C.G. REPASS and Joseph PATRICK of Cedar Bluff who have been for sometime past employed at Cumberland Gap, receiving intelligence of the disastrous effects of the recent flood here have returned home to help repair damages.

One of the busiest men in our town is Mayor J.H. GILLESPIE. He was at Grundy when the flood came which swept all of his property at Cedar Bluff away, and on his return home he donned a pair of blue overalls and jacket and has been hard at work for the past week recovering some of his effects from the waters and from his broken dwelling house lodged one mile below town.

Our young friend Chap WINGO proved himself a hero on the day of the flood. He is the assistant Post Master and clerk for R.F CECIL in whose store the Post office is kept. Young WINGO stayed at his post working to remove goods, postal matter, etc to places out of reach of the rapidly rising water until every one near had escaped to the hill side and the water was flowing in and around the store room when he rushed out into the water and swam to the foot of the hill in the rear end of the store. 

One of our citizens says the when the water subsided so that he could enter his him that he was greeted by the frogs sitting calmly and singing merrily in his dining room, and we are told of another who found as guests in his parlor a live turtle, a fish and a snake all of which seemingly as contented as if in their native element.

Dr. BAYLOR and R.F. CECIL are having their gardens and lots plowed prepared for planting corn.

Mrs. PEERY and Mrs. MCGUIRE who were in Buffalo, NY when they received the intelligence of the flood, shortened their visit to the Exposition, and started immediately for their homes arriving here on last Sunday. The property of both these ladies was badly damaged.