The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-25

l | Louisville. Ky. Feb. 25.-With ths Ohio River at 26.5 feet and rising al the rate of three inches an hour. tho danger line" for Louisville and yicin ity will be reached by s o'clock this morning.
 Residents of Shipping Port, always the first district to be invaded by the | rising waters, moved from their homes | at dark last evening. The waters are | not expected to reach the more popu- | lous district for another day. River men and weather forecasters do not expect the flood to equal in l height or duration that of January, l 1907. Nor will the privations of those living in low districts be as great. All have had ample warning. Back water along the tributary streams Is expected to cause more damage than the flood in the Ohio proper, due to the relatively higher stages in those already swollen | streams caused by their inability to empty quickly. Property damage in Louisville thus far is small The flood of rain which ranged dur ing past twenty-four hours over nearly all of Kentucky and portions of India na and Tennessee, has done thousands of dollars damage in Louisville a~ae, causing the death early today Of John Price. negro. and the loss of over 500 head of cattle in and around this city.
 In Louisville and throughout Jeffer- son county the rainfall was so heavy that interurban traffic had to be sus- pended on many lines.
 During the twenty-six hours from 10 o'clock Monday night until mid night last night, five inches of rain fell. one of the heaviest precipitations ever recorded at the weather bureau.
 Conditions today are improved some what. although the rain Is falling at intervals. with a much lower temper ature. Railroad communication on roads running west and north is in interrupted. but the officials promise a restoration of travel before night.
 In this city, Beargrass creek. in the vicinity of the Ballard Mills at Broad way and Underhiil streets, spread out fan shape. With the greatest diff- culty one hundred families were taken from their homes by the fire depart ment.
 The Louisville and Nashville's Gin cinnati line was under three feet of water.
 In the power plant of the Louisville Railway Company, fire enginer were kept constantly at work keeping the tide from the fires beneath the boil CTS.
 Nearly 300 head of cattle were swept to death in the Beargrass creek.
 There were landslides at Branden- burg and Rock Haven. Fences and farms were washed away in the neigh borhood of Seatonville.
 Six inches of rain fell in twenty four hours at Shelbyville.
 Statement by FOrecaster.
 District Forecaster Walz today issued the following special bulletin on the flood situation:
 From two and one-half to five inches of rain has fallen over prac- tically the entire watershed in the nearly 12 feet at Cincinnati and 7.5 to 8 feet from that city to Louisville during the past twenty-four hours. while the rise in the Kentucky river has been from sixteen to eighteen feet from High Bridge down.
 'The river will go above the flood stage during the day and tonight and reach stages of from 50 to 52 feet at Madison asd 30 to 32 feet at Louisville by tomorrow morning."
 At Taylorville. on Salt river. 90
 
 seven feet deep in the principal street. There Is shortage of food and no trains can be gotten within ten miles of the place. Many families are re- ported in peril. The town has but A one-room boat which was being used to-day in rescuing families. until the craft went through a plate glass win dow, springing a leak and sinking in the street. Fifty persons are on the nF ha A,,k not believed to be in imminent danger.
 At Gradyville, where a disaster two years ago caused the loss of thirty-stx lives. the entire town was up all night. the water being within two inches of the mark set in 1907.
 Death by storm in Arkansas,
 Memphis. Tenn. Feb. 24-That the storm of wind and raj which prevail ed in eastern Arkansas, Northern Mis- sissippi and western Tennessee yes- terday was severe is confirmed by ad- vices received early today
 In the counties of Lonoke. Wood run. Prairie and Poinsette, in Arkan- sas. the force of the storm which an- parently originated in the first named county. was felt. The town of FIsb- CT. In Poinsett county. was practically destroyed. reports received statins that but two buildings remain ,n+ans while six persons were killed and number of others sustained mora nr less serious injuries
 Near Augusta the dead nuurber .,~ and others were injured. In Lonoka child was killed.
 Telegraph and telephone wires through the storm swept section, how ever. are prostrated and the full er. tent of the storm damage Is not vet known. In Mississippi considerable damage was done to property.
 Near Greenville several substantial were wrecked and a number of the smaller buildings were demoI- ished.
 At New Alhany a number of buiId-