Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-01-18
RAGING WATERS
ENDANGER LIVES
In Illinois, Pennsyl-
vania, Kentucky
and Ohio
HEAVY RAINS CAUSE FLOODS
Coal Mines Flooded and
10000 Miners ldle.--
People Fleeing.

| Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. lS.-As the re,
suit of the flood waters in the Ohio, a
break was threatened at Shawnee
| town, linois, this morning. Shawnee
| town lies in an elbow of the Ohio Riy.
| er and is protected by an immense
dixie. When the river is at food, the
surface of the water is six or eight
feet above the street level in the low
er part Of the town. In 1898 the city
was inundated by the river, which
broke through the dixie on one side
and twentynine persons lost their
lives. The dikes were at once re-
paired after this calamity. Up to
11:30 O'Clock today the levee was still
intact,
Floods in Kentucky.
Jackson, Jan. lS.-The Kentucky
River has risen Is feet here in the
past two days. This stream passes
through Frankfort and empties into
the Ohio at Carrolton Kentucky, fifty
miles above Louisville, Kentucky.
River Still Rising at Cincinnati
Cincinnati Ohio Jan. 1S--The flood
conditions continue to grow worse to-
day Al seven o'clock this morning
the high water stage in this city was
59.5 feet and the river is rising one
tenth of foot an hour. Suffering in
the lower sections of the city and in
the Kentucky suburbs is already very
great. A heavy rain is still falling
Great Damage in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 1S,-A gradual
fall of the Allegheny River during the
past twenty-four hours has greatly i'm
proved the situation at Springdale.
The water has ceased to flow over the
dam there, The Allegheny River is
falling at its headwaters but the Mon
ongahela River is rising at all points,
Half of the houses in West Browns
vile are said to be submerged.
At McKeesport, the high water has
forced suspension of operations at
the Tin Plate Works and other plants
making several thousand men idle If
The rise in the river continues a num-
ber of the mills of the National Tube
WoIhs,- will-have 10 close down. Fa-
yette City is surrounded by watv,~~a,d
many people have removed from
their residences. California and Ros-
coe suburbs are partly submerged and
scores of families have vacated their
homes. Nearly every house in Black
Diamond another suburb is flooded.
All the coal mines in the valley have
been Shut down and ten thousand min
ers are temporarily out of employ
ment
Weather Bureau Issues Forecast.
Washington, Jan. 1S.-The flood
situation on the Mississippi River and
its tributaries is summarized in the
following statement issued by the
weather bureau today;
The Ohio River Is still rising be-
low the mouth of the Little Kanawa
River. The stage at Pargersburg to-
day was 37.6 feet 4:6 feet over the
flood stage and rising. At Cincinnati
it was 1.G feet above the food stage.
The following flood warning was is
sued today.
The river at MountsVernon and Ey-
ansyille should rise for at least five
days longer with at least thirty-four
feet, eight feet above the food stage
indicated by Saturday; at Paducah
and Cairo a rise for several days long
er is expected, reaching stages exceed,
ing flood stages at forty and forty-fiye
feet, respectively, the Wabash river
will be practically stationary for the
next thirty-six hours at the present
high stage; the Mississippi River at
Memphis, three or more feet above
flood stage of thirty-three feet ATHENS
four or more feet above food stage of
forty-two feet within the next ten
days; Arkansas City seven feet, and
Greeneville two feet in about ten
days, and Vicksburg one foot was over
the food stage of twenty-five feet at
the same time.