Show SEVERE FLOODS K RAISE HAVOC IN WISCONSIN Hundreds cds Are Home Homeless l in i Oc Oconto onto r hen Ri River er Over Over- flows vs Banks ft i t i-t i Oconto WI WK li iJ 17 tor homes factories mills and lumberyards lumberyards lumber yards arc are flood flooded cd and thousand 1 Of if hn been dollars dollars' worth of or property river ever ever- destroyed b by the Oconto flowing Its banks It was estimated today tod that perl persons ons homo home I less steadily I The Tho river has been rising of or Ice Ico for far two d days s 's and a congestion and und Togs S has kept tho the water from following Its natural course Dynamite Dyna Vynn- mite finite Is la being used to clear the ob- ob 8 Dispatches from Milwaukee cc state that floods have hae stopped train movements movements move move- ments mouth In to western Wisconsin 1 ine Milwaukee Milwaukee- river Is out of Its banks hanks and trains are being detoured to the north Railroad l Tr Traffic I Ceases in In l l Li Detroit March 17 Abnormal rainfall rainfall rain rain- fall during the he past forty eight hours hour caused au ed a tL su suspension of railroad traffic traffic tra fic fie In to parts of today In the Saginaw river valley alley the 1 Pere ere onetta quetta wa was forced to abandon Its Bad Had Axe branch and tho the I Islington Ludington ton lino line because of numerous washouts Inthe In Inthe Inthe the western part of the state traffic Indiana railroad rail rail- on un the Grand Gran Rapids C toad road was Interrupted when several hundred yards ards o of trat tra kage was washed awa away The Michigan Central also lost a few small bridges south of Bea Beaver Vel Lake Laet Property damage Is said to be small aside t from that sustained b by tho the rail raU- roads Fair weather predicted for tor to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow was expected d to relieve the situation Uon in some localities ur Four deaths were due to he flood Near ear Saginaw a it farmer Carmer and us his two small sons were drowned when their buggy Uh fell Cell Into a flooded creek and another man lost his life in the Pinnebog Pinnebog Pinne- Pinne bog bog- river I |