The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-03
TO PRISON 3 YEARS LASHED To A SEA
That Is Wind Creates Tossing
Mr..
English Suffragette Pay Only Left on
Penalty. Shawneetown Roofops.
FOR NCITING DISORDERS EVERY HOUR BRINGS TROUBLE
She Preached Pracced High Water
LawIessness. Add Disaster.
Emmeline Made Rambling Worry Situation Paducah
Defense. Kentucky.
Only 100 Persons Left on
Shawneetown Rooftops.
EVERY HOUR BRINGS TROUBLE
High Water and Broken LeyeeS
Add to Disaster.
Worry of Situation at Paducah.
Kentucky.

s =SnaWneetOWn, lis, April 3.-(Ry
boat to Dekoven. KY. ALI that is left
of Shawneetown is the few substan-
tial brick and stone buildings behind
the main levee and they are considered
unsafe. Less than 100 persons out of
5000 remain and they are perched in
the second and third stories. A strong
wind rising at 10 o'clock Wednesday
completed the destruction begun by
the opening of the south levee.
The water within the levee was up
to the IS foot level of the Ohio river.
The As miles an hour gale dashed the
broad Ohio into rolling, tossing sea,
until breakers dashed over the already
submerged levees. Before the churn-
frame buildings fell to pieces and the
more substantial structures were
shaken.
A break in the northern levee also
added to the danger, the full force of
the Ohio striking the north levee. A
rift in the embankment rapidly en-
larged and soon a swift current was
rushing through the residence section,
carrying all before it, By night the
Ohio was raging sea.
Cairo, Ills, April 3.-With the high
est flood waters in the Ohio river
passing Cairo, the city is at a state of
expectancy never before experienced
here. The river gauge this morning
stood at 544 and rising, a stage three
tenths of an inch higher than any
previous record.
Nearl-- every hour brought reports
of trouble in other cities, the veriff-
cation OF which were impossible frc-n
this isolated town.
One of the most thrilling of the
stories to reach here was brought by
Captain S. A. Martins regimental
quartermaster and Captain H. A
Jameson, of the Sixth Missouri Ma
a section of levee@ which broke, away
at Bird Point, Mo, just below here
and brought here in a launch. Thirty
six of their men, they said, are now on
the levee section, which is 200 yards
long and 10 feet wide and floating
Mum, of the naval reserves tonight
started out to rescue the Missouri SOL
diers. 8
Rescue Marooned Militiamen.
Cairo, April 3-Thirty- six members
of the Missouri National Guard who
We're marooned on a section of the
levee at Birds Point, Mo-, last night
were taken off earfySfpday by the ten
der of the Illinois,
Sunshine for Cairo.
Cairo April 3.-A1though rain and
wind had been predicted for Cairo, the
sun rose again clear today and every
thing gave promise that another clear,
preparing against the possibility of a
flood into the town There was little
change in the gauge today, the water
standing about the same position as at
midnight. The official reading was
$40 80
The reason given by the local fore |
caster was that the small levees were |
continuing to give way both the |
Missouri and Kentucky sides.
Soldiers and naval reserves held |
themselves in readiness for rescue |
work during the day. one of the first |
acts of the reserves being to return to T
Missouri with 40 soldiers of the Mis- |
souri, National guard who were rescued |
from a dangerous levee position near
Bird Point. The soldiers were report
ed to have been IT.. a serious plight
when rescued. Caseyville, KY, was
reported here today to have suffered T
from the flood. The town is near /
Paducah, KY, April 3.-The flood /
here is growing worse hourly. /
At Z o'clock last night first floors of
every wholesale house and many re- T
has risen foot and half, going
to stage of 52,2 feet, and the forecast
is four feet more of water. Should /
this occur, only five blocks in the city /
Will be out of water.
Eau Claire, Wis, April 3.-Hun-
dreds of acres of lowlands are mum
dated by the continued rise of the
Chippewa river. The most serious
is at Cobban, % miles north.
Five hundred persons last night took
refuge in the high lands. Today the
water had reached the tops of houses.
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