The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-21
crest OF FLOOD
! COMES TUESDAY
n,isv1Ie People Shivering in
rynectanCy That Scenes of
1884 will Be Duplicated.
OHIO IS STEADILY RISING
.,,7 DAMAGE REPORTED
ALONG The RIVER.

...,.riIle Ky, Jan. 3.-With the Ohio
.--,,sslv pouring it's flood southwark
maintaining a steady rise of an inch
tour kentucky streams contributing
"a. rolumes from the mountain regions,
i ,'.h wind blowing up stream all day,
'..,oging shipping and preventing the
4 - ,assing Of the current, Louisville to-
~, faced a flood situation which prom
j., n equal. before the crest is passed,
-. .,oee of 1854. the greatest flood ever
Inn IN the city. Thousands of people
4 ~ homeless and are housed in school
-,islrgs warehouses and other struc-
..-ss Factories i'm this city, Jefferson
4ls and New Albany are closed, throw
~ hundreds Of people out Of work: stocks
/ "a merchandise i'm the business houses
rog the river front are ruined; much
.ir,ber has been washed away, and many
.-,on houses and their contents toDpled
oser into the water. A conservative esti-
rate OF the damage done. with the crest
m the flood yet two days off. is a quarter
m million dollars. Street cars in several
,srts OF the city are entirely stopped.
While trains on nearly all the railroads
are arriving from three to ten hours late.
First Time in Years.
Iste this afternoon the back water from
I,par Grass creek forced its way out OF it's
hanks nj Broadway and was soon spread
iag over the Louisville & Nashville's
tracks This district is within a few
blocks Of a fashionable residence section.
and II IS MANY years since that part of
the city was OvertlOwcd.
The water is within two feet of the
Seventh Street station. which is the ter
mlual of the Illinois Central. Southern.
Baltimore a. OHIO Southwestern. Big
-Four and Chesapeake & Ohio. The tracks
of the Illinois Central. the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern and Southern railways
are st under two feet Of water.
All night at the cutoff where the
greatest danger was supposed TO center.
men were on duty 10 watch for a break
The ievee withstOOd the pressure. but at
daylight the rapidly Increasing flood drove
the watchers from their positions and the
water began TO pour over the embankment
into the valley of homes known as THE
Point" Between LOO and ] 400 houses oc-
tupy that portion OF Louisville known as
the abodes OF river men and people Injured
90 all sorts Of hardshiDs.
Poorer Glasses Driven Out.
AN day long the water poured over the
ombankment foot deep and. quickly
seeking its level. transformed a large ma
JorltY Of the poorer residence section into
q, vast inland sea. MelwoOd avenue from
Sixteenth street TO the Country club. is
under water. which i'm some places is en-
tering the second stories
During the afternoon a force OF police
IQcn was sent to q point within three
books OF the flood area. where they
stopped all sight-seers. fearing a loss Of
Tue should the cmbankment at the cutoff
give way.
Inc scene IN ShiDDingport. I'm the west
Crn end Of the city. is one of desolation
Here the water covers the houses. not
only 70 me first and second floors. but in
some instances % the chimnevs. Thou
sands Of people abandoned their homes in
ms section two days ago. and The ma
JOrlty were unable 10 take any of their eff
lecis with them. as il was impossible to
secure enough boats and men TO effect
me removal. Last nights wind toppled
over several houses. and the waters to-
lay carried them with their contents
down stream