The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-17
THE ALABAMA
 STILL RISING A 37-Foot Flood Ex- pected Today. TIE WATER IS RISING RAPIDLY The Lowlands Opposite the City
 Arc Inundated, Great auantitis. of pr,hwood, Timber. show that the Flood I. Dofng
 Dsmass Along Its ,.
 Course.
THE WATER IS RISING RAPIDLY

Swollen by the rains of the past ten days. the Alabama River has in many places burst the bounds of It's banks Yesterday morning the first of the hood waters lapped the edge of the north bank at Montgomery, and long before evening the water had spread across the lowlands within the big bend at the city All of the Autauga County farm land within plain sight of Montgomery will probably be inun- dated by noon today in case the rise continues as it has.
 The bodies of three cows. borne swiftly by the Montgomery landing by the flood yesterday was evidence that damage from the flood is beginning to be wrought. And besides the cows there were piles and masses of drift wood and fimbers. all telling of the fierce and the ravages of the river. E The flood reached the thirty-twopfoot stage yesterday afternoon, with the prospects of thirty-fve feet by this morning. This height of the waters Is greater than any which has been reach led since last February, one year ago today. exactly. Then it went thirty six feet, on February 16. 1908, and 3e.s feet on February IS. It may be that even this figure will be topped tonight or Thursday morning.
  has become swollen during the last few days, with the extraordinary vol urnes Of the CooaA and TRllapoosa sweeping into its channel. and aided in it's growth by rainfall upon It's own surface, the river has risen That the Alabama River can become grand at times is easily gathered from survey of the waters as they now rush past the city. For the river. with it's stretch from the foot of the bluff on the Montgomery side, far, Tar across the fields of Autauga County, which lie within the bend, is good to look upon, though fraught with a sort of terror as the potency of the swollen stream for damage is borne upon the onlooker.
 No Damage Here. The water. on the Montgomery side. stretches we'll upon the banks and Tar up the many sIoughs and ditchcs whlc1 run into the stream from the city. But it will take an almost unprecedented growth Of the rivers volume to send fhe waters upon the Montgomery bank. and such a consummation to the nood is not expected.
 The water had become stationary afs ter the rains of last week on Sunday. but the rain of Sunday night and Mon- day started again the swell. The Was ters of the Coosa and Alabama con tinued to rise yesterday. steadily: The rains of Monday night were fairly heavy over the entire water shed, and the reports received at the local omce of the weather Bureau were such as 70 raise the previous estimates Of the stage to be reached.
 It is now thought that the river will. reach about thirty-flve feet or more at Montgomery tonight or Thursday morning, and that q stage of about thirty-seven feet may be reached at Selma At wetumpka the river had reached thirty-hve feet by o'clock yesterday afternoon. with prospect of it's going four or five feet higher. Al the same hour it stood S1.2 feet ct Montgomery and still rising up the river as far as Rome, iGa.~
 With the rain and the rise of the river has come Q cold spell, one, of the eoldest The cold wave began to drift in over this section yesterday morn- ing. and a biting northerly wind pre- vailed all day The temperature will, according to the forecast, fall several degrees below freezing by this morn ing. probably being as low as 2S or 26 degrees.