Complex sentence: High water from the White River and Eagle Creek forced 4,000 to flee their West Indianapolis homes when an earthen levee failed and a twenty-five-foot wall of water flooded an area nearly a half-mile wide around Kentucky Avenue and Morris Street.
Split into simpler sentences: High water from the White River and Eagle Creek forced 4,000 to flee their homes in West Indianapolis when an earthen levee failed. A twenty-five-foot wall of water flooded an area nearly a half-mile wide around Kentucky Avenue and Morris Street.