Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-01-26
Big FLOODS IN Ohio CAUSED SENSATION
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. 21.--With the Ohio
relentlessly pouring its 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
flood situation which promised to
equal, before the crest is passed, the
stage of 1884, the greatest food 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
ale ruined, and many small houses
toppled into the water. An estimate
Of the damage is quarter of a 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 a few blocks
of a fashionable residence section.
The water is within two feet of the
Seventh street station, which is the
terminal of the Illinois Central, Balti-
more e. 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 to
center, men were on duty to watch
pressure. but at daylight the rapidly
increasing flood drove the watchers
from their position and the water be-
gan to pour over the valley of homes
known as The Point"
Between 1900 and 400 houses oc-
cuped that portion of Louisville.
All day long the water poured over
the embankment a foot deep and,
quickly seeking its level, transformed
large majority of the residence sec
ton into a vast inland sea.
MelWood avenue from Sixteenth
street to the Country club, is under
water which in some places is reach
ing second stories.
The scene in Shippingport, in the
western end of the city, is one OF desc
latiOn. Hero the waters cover the
houses, not only to the first and sec
ond floors. but in some instances to
the chimneys. Thousands of people
abandoned their homes in this section
two days ago, and the majority were
unable to take any Of their effects
with them. as it is impossible to Sc
cure enough boats and men to effect
the removal Last nights wind top
pied over several houses, and the wa
ters today carried them with their
contents down stream
The cold weather is causing much
suffering among the people, who are
being sheltered in public school build
ings, warehouses and other places.
The crest of the flood can not yet
be determined exactly, as general
during the past "a hours.