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Show SPRING FRESHETS CAUSE DEATH, j Many People Known to Have Perished in the South. The annual spring freshet, which yearly does damage to railroads and crops, and, at times, inflicts loss of life, has left this season's impression on many parts of the south after two days' rains, with an accompaniment ol high winds. Six persons were drowned while trying to cross the Ohio near Hickman, Ky., the swift current carrying car-rying their boat into some driftwood, and five persons were hurt in a tornado which passed over Hickory Level, Ga. The damage to railroad property is large and the inconvenience to the public consderable. Cloudbursts are reported in Kentucky, and Tennessee, and it is feared there has been some loss of life in the affected regions. In Middlesboro, Ky., every house in the lower section of the place was flooded and every merchant suffered I amage to stock. The valley of Yellow Yel-low Creek was flooded for several ' hours from mountain to mountain. |