The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-10-08
In lhe Middle West Cause Desolation al
Great Aouey Loss
MANY HOMES FLOODED
The Southern Railway Tracks We're
Washed Away.-Peorle Driven
From Their Homes.-Relief Expe-
ditions Organizcd.-Business En-.
terprises in Danger.
terprises in Danger.


A dispatch from Louisville, Ky,
says the downpour of rain which
soaked Kentucky, Ohio and Southern
Indiana during las Tuesday ao;s
Wednesday, continued on Thursday
in many sections of the above name;t
States and has extended southwark
into Tennessee, Arkansas and Missis-
sippi.
irhe Ohio is rising rapidly from
Cincinnati down, owing to the fools
being poured in by the Licking and
! Kentucky rivers. Railroad traffic in
several sections.of the South Is hanl-
pered owing to washout, and there
has been considerable damage to
farm lands. Two trains ran into
washouts in Southern. Indiana and
Western2Kentucky, but there was no
loss of life.
All lowlands in the vicinity of
Louisville have been submerged for
twenty-four hours and there has been
great delay to interurban and city
railway traffic.
Among the heavy rainfalls report
ed in the South in the past "a hours
are: Covington, Tenn, $40; Calves
ton, Tex, $50; Petersburg, Tenn,
$40; Newport, Ark, sos; Browns
vile, Tenn, 6; Milan, Tenn, $40;
Paducah, Ky, S; Wynne, Ark, 4.6O;
Louisville, KY, 4.54.
One hundred homes are reported
submerged near Boonville, Ind, and
their inhabitants forced to seek shall
ter on higher ground.
Relief expeditions are being orgaI-.
ized to aid the destitute families.
Enterprise and Eureaka, in Spencer
county, Indiana, are completely sub
merged and Bullock and Dayville are
almost inundated i.
Hundreds of bridges have been
swept. away and the rural mail car
riers are only able to make por-
tion Of their routes. These carriers
report that they were unable to find
roads of any kind and that they faced
a raging sea which was sweeping
Everything before it. Many of the
carriers had miraculous escapes.
The tracks Of the Southern railway
between Evansville and Boonville,
a distance of II miles have been
washed away. The interurban lines
between Evansville and Rockport, al
so Evansville and Boonville, have
suspended operations.
All along the line of the Southern
railway in Southern Indiana wash
outs are being reported Reports
hav bee nreceived from Jasper that
three washouts have tied up the
Louisville and Nashville division Of
the Huttingburg and Evansville
branch.
From Tell City, Ind, reports have
been received that the river is rising
rapidly and theatens to food the
business houses along the river.
Residents of Scuffletown, KY,
have been forced to abandon their
homes and cross the river to New
burg which is located on the bluff.
A report from Hazleton, Ind, says
that the White river is rising rapidly
and that many homes are flooded
and thousands of acres of unharvest-
ed corn have been swept away.
The total damage for St. Louis
will exceed s1,00Q,000.
Train No. 145 for St. Louis, leav-
ing Louisville, Henderson and St.
Louis route Thursday night ran into
q landslide a few miles east of HaW-
esville, KY, but was tagged before
any serious damage was done. The
| train with all its passengers was
compelled to back to Cloverport.
1t mas been raining at Owensboro
for 48 hours and records show q
downfall of seven inches, which is
the heaviest in the history OF the
city.
Every stream in the Green River
district was out Of its banks and
rain was still falling in torrents at
midnight Thursday.
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