The two August hurricanes, Connie and Diane, were matched in destructive force by a pair of their unnamed predecessors that swept northward from the Gulf of Mexico in July, 1916. Floods resulting from the two storms of nearly 40 years ago put 826 miles of Southern Railway line out of service. Catawba River bridge near Fort Mill, S. C., was one of many washed out. Working from a temporary bridge Southern construction forces are shown "fishing" the steel spans from the river and placing them in a new permanent structure.
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Sometime in 1896 this picture of an old wood-burner was taken at Jarrets, N. C., now known as
Nantahala, on the Murphy Branch of the Southern's Asheville division. M. A. Burns, of Sylva, N. C.,
furnished the picture but was unable to identify the people.
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