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Show SPRING FRESHETS CAUSE DEATH. Many People Known to Have Perished In the South. Tho annual spring freshet, which yearly does damngo to railroads and crops, and, nt times, inflicts loss ol llfo, hn8 loft this season's Impression on many parts of tho south aftor two days' rains, with an accompaniment of high winds. Six persons werj drowned whllo trying to cross tho Ohio near Hickman, Ky., tho swift current carrying car-rying their boat Into somo driftwood, and flvo persons wero hurt In n tornado which passed over Hickory Level, Ga, Tho damago to railroad property Is largo nnd tho Inconvenience to thu public consdorablc. Cloudbursts are reported ln Kentucky and Tennessee, nnd It Is feared thero has been some loss of llfo in tho affected regions. In Middlesboro, Ky., every houso In tho lower section of tho placo was flooded and every merchant suffered unmago to stock. Tho valley of Yol. low Creek was flooded for sovora) hours from mountain to mountain. |