Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-01-26
RIVERS ARE over their
BANKS and Still RISING.
Thousands of People Are Homeless
Factories In Louisville and Other
Cities Are Closed = Street Cars
Stopped and Railroad Trains Delay
ed-Water Covers House Roofs.

LOUISVILLE, jan Z1.--W1th the OHIO
relentlessly pouring it's food south
ward and maintaining a steady rise OF
an inch an hour, Kentucky streams
contributing their volumes from the
mountain regions, high wind blowing
up stream all day, damaging shipping
and preventing the rapid passing Of
The current, Louisville now faces a
food situation which promised to
equal, before the crest is passed, the
stage of 1854, the greatest flood ever
known to the city. Thousands of peo-
pie are homeless and are housed in
school buildings, warehouses and other
structures.
Factories in this city, Jefferson
vile and New Albany, are closed,
throwing hundreds of people out of
work; stocks of merchandise in the
business houses along the river front
are ruined, and many small houses
toppled into the water. An estimate
of the damage is a quarter of mil
! lion of dollars.
| Street cars in several parts of the
city are entirely stopped, while trains
on nearly all the railroads are arriv-
ing from three to 10 hours late. Late
this afternoon the back water from
Bear Grass creek forced it's way out
of its bank at Broadway and was
soon spreading over the Louisville &
Nashville's tracks.
This district is within few blocks
of fashionable residence section.
The water is within two feet of the
Seventh street station, which is the
terminal of the Illinois Central, Balti
more & Ohio Southwestern, Big Four
and Chesapeake & Ohio.
The tracks of the Illinois Central
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
and Southern railways are now two
feet from the water.
All night the "cut off," where the
greatest danger was supposed t.
center, men were on duty to watcl
pressure. but at daylight the rapid.
increasing food drove the watcher
from their position and the water be
gan to pour over the valley of home
: known as THE Point"
: Between 1900 and 140o houses oc
: cupied that portion of Louisville.
AL udy lOh6 thC UdtOi pun Od wv
the embankment a foot deep and
quickly seeking its level, TRANSFORMS
a large majority of the residence sec
ton into a vast inland sea.
Melwood avenue from Sixteent
street to the Country club, is unde
water, which in some places is reach
: ing second stories.
The scene in Shippingport, in tn
western end of the city. is one of desC
= lation. Hero the waters cover tn
4 houses, not only to the first and SCI
ond floors, but in some instances t
L the chimneys. Thousands of peopl
abandoned their homes in this sectio
E two days ago, and the majority wer
{ unable to take any of their effect
1 with them. as it is impossible to 81
) cure enough boats and men to effeC
= the removal. Last nights wind tol
e pied over several houses, and the W;
L tiers today carried them with thei
} contents down stream.
The cold weather is causing muc
J. suffering among the people, who ar
J being sheltered in public school built
Il ings, warehouses and other places.
The crest of the flood can not ye
: be determined exactly, as gener;
/ rains have fallen over the watershe
; during the past "a hours.