Show Devastating Flood Threatens Indiana VINCENNES Ind md Jan l i Jo UP Prayers of or women and unflinching ing InS toll toil of or their stood be between between between be- be tween southern Indiana and dl disaster disaster ts ter toda today as ns the tho rampaging Wabash abash river raced southward In its flimsy harness s of DC levees top topped with sand and ba bas bars I The Tho mo most t devastating dO flood in the history of or the tho state estate threatened momentarily mo mo- as tho the angry yellow waters waters wa wa- ll te-rs te surged l up beyond yon tho the foot 24 level of the flood lood of or 1913 A level pl of or 26 feet wa was predicted Half tho elt city including th the tho business g section and most of or Knox Ino county would be under water at tt t that hovel lovel A Aa a vast t Inland sea Mil shallow hallo as yet stretched back from the tho r river er across thousands of or acres s of ot farm falm lands hands The flood floo lapped at window sills of or deserted de homes home Farmers were In flight their families and a a. few ot or their belongings heaped d In automobiles automo automo- hues biles or Ol wagons a ons RELIEF STATION Relief Relict headquarters had been es established es- es In a hl high bight h section of oC Vin- Vin Red fled Cro Cross workers police pollee national guardsmen an and citizen volunteers vol voh- who responded to fo a a. call b by Mayor fa or J J. J W 0 had been mobilized mob mob- d to carr cary caVry on rescue and relief work should the dikes give Ivo way The flood peril was was' Imminent In lesser er throughout thin the valleys of the tho thea a Wabash ach tho the White tho the Ohio and tributary streams of ot Western Tennessee eastern Arkansas and northern eni Mississippi Southeastern Illinois was cut oft off from Indiana and Kentucky b by the flood No o ferries dared tho tIm swollen Wabash abali or the A government o r cua boat boal was at anchor near ill rood ready to steam to any point where rescue work was as mule made ss i At Terro TErre Haute Ind the tho Wabash abash was rl rising rising- rising again in wg In ln after temporary relief when tho the Lyford leveo went out Scores of oC families at nt Terre Haute and at Ta on tho thio west bank were driven Iriven from Crom their h homes mes Armies s of or men patrolled the tho levees and m railroad and traction Unction system way of he heaping sandbags against tho the push of or the tho flood SCHOOLS CLOSED Berne Berne- in Adams county count was W tinder under un un- der a foot of or water Schools the district wore were closed i boats were not available available- to get et tho the children to tho the s. s Tho The Wabash famous in song sorg a as a 1 stream of ot moonlight on and l romance also Is notorious as a a. giant of or de destruction destruction de- de hI in In 1913 when hen It ii overwhelmed helmed batTlers barriers at the 24 4 foot Coot level lc it spread destruction over most of or southern Indiana A serious levee break brenk now would probably result In far more serious devastation de it wa was said as the sudden onslaught ht of oC tho the floodwaters caught the territory lerr unprepared Telephone operators sat at their switchboards tOda today warning residents resi resi- dents of or threatened thre districts to evacuate evac c at nt once Tho The operators were ere i w warned to be rea ready to flash Clash a final warning In event of or a break brcak In the thel l levees The full fur fury of or the flood nood was expected to strike points lower lowey down the Mississippi valley today todar Al Alrea Already Already Al- Al rea ready y hundreds have abandoned their homes and sought shelter on elevated lands Dama Damage e to crop crOM and loss of oC stock already alread has mounted Into hun hundreds reds of thousands of or dollars |