The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-31

l Previous to above, Canton had IFS. making 6.33 inches there in forty-eight hours. Section Director Chaffee of the Weather Bureau issued the following warning at 10 a. m. Sunday:
 "Rivers will rise rapidly at all stations in this section during next two days, rise continuing in Lower Coosa and Ala bama. Stock should be moved to high ground and necessary precautions taken along entire Coosa and Alabama. Flood stages will prevail at Canton, Resaca, Rome, Gadsden and probably Montgom- cry and Selma. Following stages may be reached at places named: Rome. 32 feet; Gadsden, g feet by Mon day night Tallassee. 22 feet during to- night; Wetumpka. 3T feet during Tues | day night; Montgomery about 34 feet by | Wednesday morning Selma, 35 or S6 feet by Wednesday night or Thursday morn | ing.
 In all the rivers, except the Tallapoosa, l the warning was we'll in advance of the flood crest, and doubtless has been the | means of saving immense loss in live stock and other interests along the Coosa and Alabama Rivers. The rainfall over the Tallapoosa was so sudden and the river rise so rapid that no warning could have averted the damage done on that ! | large.
 Not in the past ten years has so much water fallen over the Tallapoosa water shed in the same time, and tine rapid drainage into that river soon made it raging torrent, against which every im- pediment gave way
 Photographic connection with Tallassee was interrupted yesterday, but the last report received by the Weather Bureau a1, af niapa shows that the river rose about 15 feet in twen- ty-four hours.
 The Weather Bureau office issued sup plementai warnings yesterday morning for following stages at places named:
 Resaca, 26 feet by last night; Rome, B feet by this forenoon; Gadsden 24 feet by this afternoon Lincoln, 20 by tonight; Wetumpka. 43 by tomorrow morning; Montgomery. 3s by tomorrow afternoon;
 Special river observations taken ut p. m. yesterday show following:
 Canton, 12O feet; falling.
 Resaca, 25O feet; rising slowly.
 Rome. 309 feet rising slowly.
 Cfadsden, POT feet; rising slowly.
 Wetumpka. SIS feet rising steadily.
 Montgomery. 34.6 feet: rising steadily.
 Selma. 27.0 feet: rising rapidly.
 The following special river forecast
 
 "River now falling al Canton; will hardly exceed 32 feet at Rome. Previous ly estimated stages of 24 feet at Gadsden, 48 at Wetumpka. 3S at Montgomery and II at Selma. will be reached and may be slightly exec eeded; rise from now on will be slow at Montgomery, reaching highest during Wednesday afternoon"
 It is doubtful if the river service of the Weather Bureau in this region was ever of more direct benefit than during the past two days. The rises in the rivers were so very rapid that had the timely. warnings not been distributed along the Coosa and Alabama nearly all of the very many thousand head of stock pas tured in the river bottom would have been lost even as 1t was, the escape, in many instances was quite narrow one. In addition to this, the warnings probably averted some loss of human life. Even if the water does not go quite as high, or should it slightly exceed the stage fore cast, 1t does not alter the fact that the value of the river service of the Weather Bureau is so great that the cost of it's maintenance is insignificant as compared with the benefit derived.