Show CREST Of flOOD i i I Louisville People Shivering in Expectancy That Scenes of I 1884 Will Be Duplicated OlO IS S STEADILY RISING i 4 II IIi i I GREAT GREAr DAMAGE REPORTED H ALONG L NG THE Ky Icy JAn the Ohio pouring Us Its flood southward ng a rise or of an Inch KentuckY contrIbuting SI from tile tho mountain regions J s wI d blowing up stream nIl day shipping and preventing the theor theof or of current Louisville to toa a flood which prom I s equal before the crest Is passed of the greate t flood ever everto to Ute the elt city Thousands of people are housed In school and other tories In this city Jefferson sitt New Albany are closed throw or of people out ot of work stocks e In thE business houses 1 tM river front are ruined much ber been b washed awa away and many I II bEe and th their lr contents toppled r er in 1510 tile th water A conservative estl esti I lAte of LAO dAmage done with the tho crest I of the Iod yet two days das off Is a Quarter of III a dollars ollar Street ears cars In several everal ot 1 city art are entirely stopped I on nearly all the tho railroads ate re from three to ten hours late FIrst Time in Years lAte 1 the back bach water from Pur r Otis its way out ont of its ami WitS WS soon spread j ig otIC the t This is within a few IC c R a reSidence section II man since that part of the 4 was ft I TIlle Th WAter is within two feet of thO tl St station which Js Is the tle ter sf eC tile Central Southern Ohio Southwestern Big Your IUNI A Ohio The fhe tracks of f ue the Central the I and Southern railways ii ae e still two of water watern II n Rt at cutoff the r wate wai to center were e on dut duty to watch for a break I Tb levee th pres pressure ure but at da UtI tIel Increasing flood drove the from their positions and the to pour over the embankment die of hom homes known as The uThe J and 1440 houses houss oc ocI I tI that Ion of oC Loul Louisville known ns as he PoW Poat Pot Per th mot most part they thoy are aro the I he It m men n and people Inured to lii all sods C Poorer Classes Driven Out II day tk M Ur poured over oer the thc a foot Coot df IPp fp and Quickly Its ts evi transformed It largo large ma Writ of oC the ier re Into i inlAnd isa o l a venue avenue m street t et toe t th club l is under water which In some places is en ent t n go t the h Dining the a force or of police luen II was soRt to i point within three g 1 of oC the noot area where they op RH II earing a loss of lit houll the at the tho cutoff way war The scene In Shippingport In the west rn end tId ot of tit th elf dt i one of desolation tM the the not to t the first and second floors but In te Inta S to th chimneys Thou Nt hands of people abandoned their hones jn n 1 section two 10 dO days go and the m l were tre unable to take taka any of their of f with will them as a na to bouL and fant men to effect the Last nights WInd toppled vet iveral houses and the waters to lay nil them with their contents dun down m Suffering from Cold W Tb weather Is causing much sul suf I f among the people who are being In hi public school Ware other The city I have haft the situation well In hand and are all fl the suf who are unable to Cor themselves S a The weather bureau offers little HUle hope lOpe I tw two days the statement of Dis I lilt Walse reading The nv ft will continue to r rifle e steadIly for the to hours and Win will probably reach rach a stage ut at I andR and a stage at Ind Monday The crest or of the t t be determined exactly as I rains have fallen over Lne water i bb Liu the past hours which kit iy further augment the flood wn Ware It Is believed the cre crest t will be Wr feet teet at Loul Louisville and win bo be reached Tuesday morning The l 11 at last sixty feet and the river hi no now at and Ift |