Flooding River May Force People Out of Homes, Jan. 19, 1925

River Out of Banks and Still Rising. . . Colored People Will Move Out If Water Doesn’t Soon Stop Rising—Looks to be Only Three Feet Lower Than It Was in September—Water Several Inches Deep Under Goat Club House. . . Temporary Bridges Built

Lumber River is again out of its banks, and the water is rising nearly as fast as it did September 29th and 20th, when many colored people living on the Charlotte-Wilmington highway west and east of town were compelled to hunt dry places.

Several houses at the time of going to press could not be reached except by temporary boards used to bridge the distance between the porch and other bridges which have ot yet been covered with water.

Judging from appearance this morning the water at McNeill’s bridge lacks only three feet being as high as it was in September, when a photograph of the bride appeared in the Robesonian. This photo showed the water striking the bottom of the old iron bridge. Water is whirling through and up on to the buildings at Tak-A-Dip beach, and it is reported that the water is several inches deep under the Goat Club House.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, January 19, 1925.

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