The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-25
AT FLOOD STAGE
ALABAMA RIVER Is RIsING RAP-
IDLY. ~ ~
FArmers are Warned that q FIeod
Stage r. Coming-Rains Were
General Over the

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The rain OF Sunday night and Mon
gay morning continued merriiy through
last night Throughout the whole OF this
section OF the country. The additional
rail- givinG such totals az to make the
amounts Of rain at the different sta
lions ending at o'ciock1a. M Tuesday
morning as follows; -
canton ass inches; Resaca. asa:
horne, 136; GAdsden,. ass; Wetumpla,
4. 50; Miistead, $40; Moftromery, SOL;
selma. asa: Mobile. kse. ~
These additional rain reports have
caused the local Weather Bureau to
raise its estimate OF the highest stages
70 be expected on the Alabama, Coosa
and Taliapoosa rivers. It was the
opinion IN that once yesterday that
moderate food stages would be re-
corded in the lower Alabama and lower
coosa- The rise will continue In the
maximum stage OF forty feet is expect
cd at MONTGOMERY Thursday morning.
At Selma the stage IL expected to be
forty-four feet BY, Thursday night or
Friday morning
II 10 predicted that even II these
stages be not actually reached the wa
ter on this rise will be past the food
stage. reckoned for the Alabama at
Montgomery ana Selma at IS feet
II RRGC44t ANEQItHs " tHE lOCaI w 0Atu-
or Bureau give the following stages
for 10 o'clock, noon. yesterday: Rome.
2o.e feet. with the water rising at the
rate OF one foot In fve hours: Gads-
den. 1873 feet. with thes water rising
at the rate Of 1.6 feet in i've hours;
wetumpia. 20 feet, with the water ris-
ing at the rate OF a. feet In fiye hours;
Milstead. ass feet, with the, water ris-
Ing at the rate ofs2 . feet I'm Ave hours,
k<ws q - 49,
rising at the rate Of FL feet in fve
Ehours; Selma. 3o.4 feet. with the wa
ter rising at the rate Of as feet In
At 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
report shows that there had bean q
rise OF a feet at Rome within Two
hours; IS feet at wetumpka and at
Miistead IN the same time. The rise
at Montgomery during the same two
hours was Ia feet. and the same re-
cord was shown for Selma.
The storm which caused all OF the
heavy rains Of Monday and Monda y
night yesterday noon moved of to the
| eastward and was central over the
South Atlantic Coast An area Of reia-
| lively high barometer moving IN from
the southwest on the heels OF this storm
centre caused the fair weather OF yes
terdAy afternoon, and Is expected TO
cause conCfMuec 1Air WeAtner tuI ou8 n
today and possibly Thursday.
Farmers along the rivers have kept
| the local Weather Bureau very busy
since the heavy rains. with requests
| for estimates on this rise. To all of
these. requests the section director has
replied that they would do well TO pre-
pare for q moderate flood rise. While
the predictions of the bureau may not
be strictly accurate the water will be
nigh enough oyer the danger or food
stage to warrant preparations being
made FOR the worst.
on previous rises the Weather Blu,
reau has done much service In the saw
| Ing Of property in the low lands all
along the river, and the farmers Of that
section OF the state have come to re-
gard the warnings which are Issued by
the bureau 80 invaluable.