With increases of malaria reported after the flood, Clarendon county points requested supplies of free quinie from the state health officials.

Numerous instances of stalled automobiles and some cases of passengers marooned filtered into Columbia as communication was reestablished.

Marooned in their car by rising water, Rev. E. V. Best, Mrs. best and Rev. Mr. Booth were stranded for seven hours Wednesday night and Thursday morning near Blaney in water shoulder high, before neighbors heard their cars and rescued them with a rowboat.

In Columbia, one negro left his automobile parked in a low-lying section of the city. returning after a visit with a friends he looked for the car, thought it was stolen, and later found that the rising water during his absence had completely submerged the machine.

Julies E. Dunlap, employe of the Record, was with a gathering of friends near Lakeview Wednesday night. The dam broke. His car was flooded, He and other friends, including a young lady, had to swim to safety and leave the car in the flood waters, near Boyden Arbor road. Thursday night Mr. Dunlap found his car, the water still over its radiator and hood. It was towed out by use of a long rope.