Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-28 | Page 1 | And Ruin Wake of High in South

Am AND RUIN Rm 1 r m WA WAKE f Of HIGH I NATERS IN SOUTH Lerty Pr Property perty Damage Is Estimated Esti Esti- mated d at Over Million Four Southern States i tt RAILROADS CRIPPLED fl I early City Blocks in ini i Nashville Under W Water ter Homes Are Deserted m R MEMPHIS lE Tenn Tonn Dec 8 AP AP- AP li een persons were known today t ha e i e perished in floods in three J thern states Approximately pers persons ns were homeless In kansas kanas Mississippi Tennessee 1 I Property damage estimated at more than a mil mil- ri n dollars Six were reported dead kansas five in Mississippi and ando o f I p Tennessee as direct results 1 e flood Three thousand were i en en from their homes In Nash Nash- le when hen the Cumberland river r product of thousands of acres n co tp JI ere being transferred from ed Q JK Q of ut Kentucky and inas Inina In- In L ina a as al a I. result Jesuit of flood stage beached beached be- be ached In the Ohio river nver Much gathered corn has been ruined by byod byod byod od waters In fn these two states iN N IN FOR FORECAST CAST CASTIn lain In was vas a forecast for every enry state tOda today and while the thet t Lets era rs of m many nany n of the smaller sams had begun to recede isbn ision was felt In Iii some sections r th the aspect of further down- down The forecast for tomorrow generally air i jf- jf rain n service has lias been crippled ne schedules ae pave have e been caned caned can- can ed while others have been b bv the necessity of man many oUrs o oi s. s This Is Is' Is especially true In and Mississippi he brunt of the flo floods ds In jn Arkan- Arkan had iad passed today lIc s along long the Ohio river in and and- nd Indiana were Just Inning to be badly flooded Ala- Ala aa 1 was hit by floods in tn some ions but property dama damage e was wasas las as great as in Sn neighboring eSt 69 OPS OOpS DAMAGED lie le he gr greatest property damage Fin Nashville where nearly a adr adr adred dr dred d city blocks were flooded hundreds of business bouses homes omes deserted Great damage caused by crops crops' in outlying llory lory ost of the deaths reported have haveR R r I Continued on page 6 6 DEATH AND RUIN II IN WAn VAKE Of HI HIGH H VATERS IN i SOUTH Continued from page 1 been due to highway traffic accidents acci acci- dents The Mississippi river will be affected affected affected af af- af- af by the floods along Its tributaries tribu- tribu experts say but not to any appreciable degree unless unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented dented downpours occur within the next few days JACKSON Miss Dec 28 AP AP- AP Central Mississippi l rivers were were becoming becoming be pe- coming raging ragin torrents today as astons astons astons tons of water from m the north swelled by heavy local rains ca caused s d many to leave their banks and anc threatened heavy crop and highway damage The Pearl river was at 17 feet in Jackson and slowly rising Rain continued Intermittently No damage has been sustained near Jackson but serious property damage might result from a continued continued con con- rise of Df the streams Illinois Central trains from tho the north are re being detoured over the Yazoo Mississippi Valley railroad because of washouts north of Canton and near Durant The Yalobusha river at Grenada a and the Big Dig Black river north of here were reported out of their banks and causing property damage that will exceed