The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-23
FLOOD AT ITS CREST
WATERS nDGrN TO sUBsIDE AT
 LOUISVILLE.
Up River Poists However are Sfni Suffering aud the Loss of Life
 WtII Not be Ipconsid- erable.

l I cheering information was given out 1 by District Forecaster walz this morn l ing that the flood in the Ohio had reached It's crest and that thz water which has done so much damage and caused intense suffering among the
 poorer residents of the city living in
 low lying sections. would begin to subside by tonight.
 The river at 10 o'clock this morning 1 showed fl. feet in the canal and had been stationary for two hours. This together with a cold wave, it Is thought, warrant the assertion that danger of further serious damage is over The river rose steadily all night at the rate of an inch an hour. crest was reached was about five feet lower than the great food of 1884 :. The canal is oinvisible and all the locks are under water. Below the locks. where fhere Is depth of sixty eight feet of water. tho river Is several miles wids and is carving s1uthward vast amount of small buildings. ;age and other debris.l
 The water this morning ceme up to the tracks of the Louisville and Nashville station at the foot of First street. but the company continued to use the depot. Trains on the Cjncin- nati division for a distance of three miles were operated under difhculty. the engines ploughing through water in places d foot deep, at full speed. sending the spray high on either side.
 Entrance fer passengers to the Sev- enth street station, whi .b is used by half dozen roads. is made over a temporary bridge. the water being a foot or two deep at dip ir the street which lies just outside the station. The water was creeping over one of Ia AIre A axE kh- but the station will rot be flooded unless there should be q further rise
 The Henderson route 's tte only railroad entering Louisville wli. h has entirely suspended the operation of trains. but the service on the others is maintained with difficulty and much interruption to schedules. There is considerable delay to the mails in every direction. An
 Relief work for the sufferers con- tfnues actively under the direction of Acting Mayor Owen Tyler. Six school buildings have been turned over as temporary homes for the sufferers, in addition to several warehouses and numerous smaller buildings. The city council will tonight appropriate a sum for a relief fund which Is being augmented by private subscriptions Commissaries have been established In several sections of the city. Ap- peals for aid have been received from. many towns in Kentucky.
 section of land surrounding a. dis tillery at owensboro. Ky. was wash ed out ring the night and part of the building caved in, letting 400 barrels of Kentucky whiskey into the river. It is hoped to recover some of it when the flood subsidies.
 '. Across the river from Owensboro, in Spencer County. Indiana, a number of houses are flooded. In one house there are two dead bodies, but 1t is impossi- ble to reach them for burial. Seven hundred cattle are standing in water two feet deep, near owensboro.
 siding of the Henderson route at Hawesville, Ky, was washed into the Ohio this morning. taking with it sev- eral cars of merchandise.
 A dispatch from Evansville reports the river as still rising. Henry Barwe who was blown off bridge at Evans vile Saturday night, died today of his injuries. It Is learned that John Lef- scher was drowned by the sinking of his shanty boat at the same time Dead horses cattle, mules and hogs, with many good-sized farm houses, are re- ported floating down stream by Evans vile. and 1t is believed the entire crop of growing wheat in that vicinity will be destroyed.
 Jeffersonville, across the Ohio in In- diana, was thrown into a state of panic shortly before noon today when the fire department sounded an alarm that tho "lll" below the reformatory had collapsed and water was pouring into the city.
 The report originated as the result of a telepragh pole lossening in the fill and permitting a small stream of water to run through.
 The "fill' is the roadbed of the Penn sylvania Railroad and cost over a mill lion dollars, including the trackage. It was built in order to free the rail- road from danger of just such rises. When the bells rang and the whistles blew. it seemed as though the whole city began moving its household ef- fects, and for nearly an hour many scenes of disorder and terror were wit
 messed, the people having lived in a state of alarm for ten days.
 The Pennsylvania Company prepared for the emergency, had gangs of men at work on the threatened place in a few minutes, and at last reports their work was proving effective. The Penn sylvania has abandoned its suburban service between Jeffersonville and New
 Albany, distance of four miles 1t is reported tbat the track is washed out in one or more places. This wash out will not interfere with the Penn
 sylvania's Louisville Chicago service but if the report be true, will prevent the Monon from maintaining it's service over it's regular route. as the Monon uses the tracks of the Pennsylvania from Jdfersonville to New Albany.