Evening star., 1926-12-27
Forecast of Rain Presages
Greater Peril as Loss Scars
Toward Million.
CITIES WITHOUT LIGHTS,
TRAIN SERVICE CRIPPLED
Families Marooned, Miners Out of
Work, Highways Blocked,
Crest Due Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.


MEMPHIS, Tenn, December N.-
With thousands already driven from
their homes by floods and property
damage estimated in the hundreds of
thousands of dollars, Tennessee, Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Kentucky to-
day were preparing o/meet an even
greater emergency. General rains were
forecast.
Nashville, Tenn, with more than so
blocks inundated and $500 people
driven from their homes, was prob
ably the most severely hit point in the
area affected by the floods.
Four were known dead as a result
of the swollen rivers and other smaller
streams in the affected area. Three
were drownings resulting directly from
automobile accidents. At Pine Bluff,
Ark, two men were drowned when
their car turned over into a small
stream. A similar accident cost Co
lumbus, Miss, man his life. Exposure
from wading in a creek was the cause
of fourth death, a man from Selmar,
Tenn.
Fifty Blocks Inundated.
More than SO blocks in Nashville
were inundated by the backWater
from the Cumberland River, which
runs "S' shaped through the city.
The crest of the flood there is eX-
pected to be reached tomorrow, bar
ring further rains in the headlands.
Estimates of the probable number of
people who would be driven from
their homes, should the river attain
the expected SO feet, increased to
A 0O0 vyhiIa hl,ildinUc uhinh xx-p1,ld ha
flooded would pass the 1000 mark.
Swollen streams in Mississippi had
sent hundreds away from their homes.
More than a hundred had vacated
their dwellings, in and near Aberdeen
last night as the waters from the
Tombigbee River inundated a section
of the town. Damage to highways,
live stock and crops there is expected
to exceed 100000.
Families marooned near Columbia,
Miss, were, aided by relief crews in
motor launches, and unconfirmed re-
ports were that several had drowned.
West Point, Goodman and several
other Mississippi towns reported
heavy damage from floods.
Streams at Record Height.
Continuous general rains over parts
of Arkansas had brought the water
levels in numbers of streams to rec
ord rd-breaking heights. There was
heavy damage TO highways, live stock
and crops.
The rivers in Tennessee have
caused considerably more area to be
flooded than in any other single
State, it was believed. Roads in
many sections of the lowlands have
been abandoned and water was stand
ing in some places several feet deep.
Chattanooga, Clarksyille and other
cities and towns along the Cumber-
land prepared to combat the floods.
Hartsville, Tenn, was without lights
and other wires were affected.
Reports from Kentucky towns and
cities located on swollen streams were
that much property damage was done,
but that no deaths had been reported
in the State as a result of flood con-
ditions. The upper Cumberland had
attained a record height of Is years
at Glasgow.
Relief work in all four States was
reported progressing, though In some
places the high water had made in
accessible, except by rowboat. SOM.
isolated spots where families were
marooned.
With the exception of Virginia, the
Carolinas and Florida. rain was fore
cast for every Southern State before
tomorrow night.