Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-03-27
RAGING RIVERS
SWEEP INDIANA
Flood Conditions Prevail in
ROOSier State Towns.
HUNDREDS MADE HOMELESS

Rise to Highest Stage Known in
Twenty Years, Covering Farms and
Cities and Putting Industries of All
Kinds Out of Business.
indianapolis, Ind, March 26.-Fif-
teen hundred families in indianapolis
nave been forced to leave their
homes by the high waters, caused by
Incessant rains. White river, Eagle
creek and Pleasant run are rising at
the rate of six inches an hour. Only
one of the thirteen interurban lines
is running and traffic on the steam
roads is at standstill.
The water company has warned it's
patrons to draw emergency supplies
OF water as the company expects to
be put out of business by the flood.
The plant of the Indianapolis Gas
company is under water, and the
pressure has gone out of the mains.
Keep People Off Bridges.
Governor Ralston, at the request of
Mayor Shank, called out one of the
local militia companies to assist the
police in patrolling the districts about
the bridges and prevent people from
getting on the bridges.
Reports from nearly every section
of Indiana show the entire state is in
the grip of the worst flood in years,
and in many places the high waters
of 1883 have been surpassed.
Thousands of acres of land in every
river valley are flooded. Thousands
of homes are surrounded and owners
have fed to higher land.
Rescuers carried out the residents
in boats, and it is feared that when
the more remote districts are heard
from the death list will be increased.
Five Thousand Are Homeless.
Flood conditions throughout the
state are the worst in thirty years,
and it is estimated more than 5000
families have been forced to leave
their homes. So far four deaths by
drowning have been reported and sew
eral are said to be missing and may
have been swept away with their
homes.
A levee along White river, in Broad
Ripple, suburb of Indianapolis, went
out, driving 300 families from their
homes and washing out a mile of rail
road tracks. Only the roofs of some
of the houses in the suburb are visi-
BILE.
Fort Wayne in Darkness.
Fort Wayne, at the junction of the
st. Mary, st. Joseph and Maumee
rivers, was flooded. The electric
light plant was submerged and the
town is without light. The three
pumping stations there we're put out
of commission, and the town is with
out fire protection and the water sup
ply Is threatened. The rivers have
reached stages higher than in twenty
years.
At Kokomo, Wildcat creek has over
flowed the southern part of the town
and a company of Indiana National
Guardsmen patrolled the submerged
section in boats. There the electric
light plant was flooded and the town
is without lights.
Loss of Life at ConnersViIIe.
Governor Ralston received a frantic
appeal for aid from Connersville, Ind,
where it was said that the White Wa
ter river had broken over it's banks
with a great loss of life. The rail
road station has been carried away
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Bridge CoIIapses at Lafayette.
Lafayette, Ind, March &c. - At 2
%. m. two spans of the river bridge
went out with a roar, carrying sever
al persons with them. Boats below
the bridge succeeded in rescuing all
but two unidentified men.
One of the unidentified men has
been identified as L. P. Woolery of In
dianapoIis, who is a student at Pur-
due university. His body was recov-
cred
West Lafayette, where Purdue uni
versity is, is cut off from this side by
the breaking of one of the levees and
the submerging of the other levee,
which is expected to break at any mo-
ment.
$5OO.O0O Loss at Peru.
Indianapolis, Ind, March 26.-The
flood loss at Peru is estimated at
100000. The water is deep in many
streets, The factory district is food
ed. The winter quarters of the Wal
lace circus are under six feet of wa
ter.
The business district and the south
and west sides of Logansport are I'M
der water. The moving vans are IN
able to handle all the persons who are
trying to move out of the danger zone
and the firemen of the city are lend
ing aid. The electric light and water
plants are endangered.
Alton Industry Closes Down.
Alton, H., March &c. = The Wood
river here is flooded and the Equita-
BILE Powder works, which employs 500
men, had to close down. The men