The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-07
DAMAGING FLOODS
 IN SEVERAL STATES Kentucky and Tennessee Seem
 to Suffer Most THE RAINFALL IS HEAVY Railroads Are Put Ont of Business in Many Places and Crop Damage Is
 Severe in the Mississippi
 Valley
THE RAINFALL IS HEAVY

Louisville, October 6.-Deluged in some places by the heaviest rain in 40 years a wide stretch of country l extending from eastern Texas, north eastward across the northern portions of Louisiana and Mississippi and over sections of Arkansas, Tennessee, Ken lucky. southern Indiana and Ohio. al- most to Pittsburg, Pa.. is tonight al most an inland sea. While the rain continues in the northernmost part of | the great area the storm has prac- tically ceased in the southwest to give place to a cold wave which has dropped temperatures from 25 to 40 degrees in the past 12 hours. Two lives are known to have been lost,s Mrs. A K. Burchfi field and her grandson, drowned in a rapidly rising stream near Overs burg, Tenn. Washouts on railroads In some sections of Kentucky and Ten nessee are numerous; many trains are off scehdule; the delivery of mail by rural route has been abandoned in some quarters and there has been much | damage to farm lands and corn in | the shock.
 
 | the past 24 hours are: Kentucky-Louisville 4.54 inches, Paducah 5.0s
 Ohio-Cincinnati Az.
 Indiana-Madison 4.40, Indianapolis 2.s4
 Illinois-Cairo APO. Missouri-St. Louis 2.S2.
 ennessee-Memphis ALA, Arlington S.2o. Bolivar 2.9o, Brownsville 6. Gov ington $40, Dyersburg $40, Milan 5.2O
 Arkansas-Brinkley 2.60, Dardanelle $40 Helena sos, Newport COS, Wynne 460
 Mississippi-Corinth9 9.SO, Greenwood 2.6O.
 Texas-Galveston 6.62.
 The tracks of the Southern railway between Evansville and Bonneville, a dis tance of r miles, have been washed away. The interurban lines between Evansville and Rockport, also Evansville and Boone vile, have suspended operations. All along the line of the Southern railroad In southern Indiana washouts are being reported Reports have been received from Jasper that three- washouts have tied up the Louisville and Evansville d- vision of the Huntingburg and Evans vile branch.
 From Tell City, Ind reports have been received that the river is rising rapidly and threatens to flood the business houses along the river.
 Residents of one or more Scuffletown, ky, homes have been forced to abandon them and cross the river to Newburg. which is located on a bluff.
 report from Hazelton Ind, says that the White river is rising rapidly and that many homes are flooded and thousands of acres of unharvested corn have been swept away.
 The total damage in figures will exceed | $1, ,OO0. coo
 Train No 145 for St Louis, leaving | Louisville over the Louisville, Tender son and St. Louis route last night, ran | into a landslide a few miles east of Hawesville. Ky. but was Jagged before any serious damage was done The train, with all its passengers, was compelled to back to Cloverport.
 It has been raining at Greensboro for 4S hours and records show a downfall of seven inches, which is the heaviest in the history of the city.
 Every stream in the Green river dis trict was out of It's banks and the rain was still falling in torrents at midnight.