The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-14
MONTGOMERY HAS RESUMED NORMAL
 APPEARANCE NOW
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and six inches leeway remains before the big Corliss engine now effective is put out of service The water reached two boilers yesterday and warning was sent out to power users today at noon that the current might go off at any moment At o'clock tonight the river is still held at bay.
 Provision for policing the city should the power go off has been made by Chief of Police Doherty, who has sworn in. number of extra policemen and Company c, Alabama National Guard,
 will do patrol duty on the streets. If the crest of the river is reached
 tonight it is believed the light plant will
 escape, says F. c. Wilson, district man.
 ager of the Alabama Power company.
 The river stood at 557 at 6 D. m., but
 will reach 565, it is predicted by Weather
 Observer Smythe This crest is expece-
 ed to reach Selma late Saturday night
 or Sunday.
 The Cahaba river is rapidly subsiding
 as the Alabama continues to rise, and
 gives to Selma an open road to the
 west, with trains put in operation Sat
 urday afternoon to Akron, Meridian and
 Mobile A bad washout at Sardis, nine
 miles south of Selma, annulled the Pen sacola train Saturday morning.
 The Alabama river gauge stood at 55.4 at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. At 1230 D. m, the gauge registered 55.6 and at late hour this afternoon continued
 to rise. Weather Observer Smythes
 forecast of 56.5 will probably be reached
 here by Sunday morning it is thought.
 All dirt roads leading into the city
 excepting the Summerfield road, are
 waterbound.
 With the opening of the Maplesville-
 Montgomery line of the Mobile and Ohio
 this morning, solid car load of mail
 was routed out of Selma over this line.
 The relief committee continued actively
 at work today removing many iamlhes
 from their threatened homes in Easf
 Selma. City wagons, under direction or
 Robert Browning moved forty famllles
 Friday and Saturday to places of safety.
 With only one stone of it's big masonry
 pier showing above the water line, the traffic bridge over the Alabama river was closed at o'clock this morning by
 Sheriff Stanfill The south end or ,ne bridge is blocked by water several rect deep. Selma is safe on her water sup ply from artesian wells. which are Tn no way threatened by high water. COAL FAMINE THREATENED Mobile. December 13.-( (Special)-- Both the Louisville and Nashville and the Mobile and Ohio railroads Will to- night break through the coroon or high water WHlCH tHr " N@'S -~S cred Mobiles communication with the north and east and is now threatening Ithe city with a coal famine Service over the Southern railway line 70 Selma was resumed this afternoon, when . passenger train left the union station at,4 o'clock. running success fully over the route recently inundated by flood waters.
 'e FIRST TRAIN LEAVES Meridian, Miss, December 15.-(spe- cial.1--Mobile and Ohio passenger train No. 8, the first train to run south of Meridian through to Mobile since Monday night because of the floods following heavy rains of Sunday and Monday. entailing a property loss ex- pected to reach into millions in this section, left Meridian five hourss late tonight with the hope of reaching it's destination without mishap.
 Superintendent c. A. Pigford states the water has fallen all along the route and that washouts have been re- paired to an extent that will permit of the passage of trains on slow schedule. With this announcement traffic on all railroads in and out of Meridian has been resumed and in the next day or | so it is expected regular schedules may be maintained. although it will take some time to rebuild roadbeds and put the damaged roads in normal con- dition.
 APPEAL FOR AID
 Atlanta, December 13.-A mass meet
 ing of citizens for tomorrow was