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Show Oil OF ITS BANKS. ' Th? Tenteisee River Overflows Hi Banks, Iuutidaling the Cities Along IU . d Course Tho Raging Waters ' & PEOPLE DRIVES FROM HOMES- . . o Much Damage Done to Railroads and Man- 55 ufacturing Flantu A Pbenoiniual . RainfallSerious Leases. . z Nashville, Tenn., March 9. Tho O pheiioininal rise in tho river continue. M This morning the gauge read forty-six -( and a half feet. The riso since Friday M morning is twenty-five and a half feet. Q Much damage hag been done. From .a loOOto 2000 people bavo been driven W from their homes, floods in ware- houses and cellars suffered much dam H age. TjO The river is a vast nngry torrent ictf ' spreading n t r the low lauds. Nearly ;j all the lumber yards have been over- M ' flowed. At police headquarters many inquiries for shelter are made. Keports from all points on the rivor show it rising everywhere and tho fullness full-ness of the Ohio and Mississippi will prevent the Cumberland from running dow n as rapidly as it otherwise would. liKAC I1M THE HASCKIt I INK. Ciiattanoooa, Tenn., March 9. Th Tennessee river has reached the dan ger line, rising three inches an hour. F.xpeiieneed river mon predict that 'it will overllow much of tho city in low-lying low-lying places and cut off several railroads rail-roads and suspend operations of several sev-eral of the manufactories. The rainfall here fur thirty-six hours was three and a quarter inches and extends up the river and in cast Tennessee generally. The indications for nioro showers ara very prom ising. A ITTI.E GIRL DROWNED. Kno.wii.i.e, Tenn., March 9. Very heavy rains prevailed throughout this section yesterday and last night. All of the streams are out of their banks. . A 7-year-old colored girl was drowned, this morning by falling into a raging? creek. A colored man named Hunter was drowned yesterday. PTILL SLOWLY RISING. 1 Nashville, March4 0. The river continues to rise at tho rate of a quarter of an inch an hour, but it is expected it 'f will begin to recede this evening as reports re-ports received from up river point bbow the high water slowly falling. SHOW 1M THE NOKTII WEST. Tha 8ivar.it Storm of tha s.aon Frn! Dnmaged In Texas. Chicago. March 9. -Dispatches from numerous points throughout Minnesota, northern Iowa, central' Illinois, south- - era Wisconsin nnd eastern Nebraska ; " i-report i-report that the severest gnow storm if i ,V , the winter raged all day Sunday". r ' Trains are runuing behind time and in " many places none are moving.' Travel on the wagon roads at numerous points ' is wholly suspended and in the cities. street car traffic is more or less delayed. de-layed. Severe storms are reported in ' various parts of Texas. Snow and sloct have fallen and it is feared . fruit trees are badly damaged. Twa Suttl.r. l'erlnhad. Asni.AVn, Wis., March 9. Yesterday's Yester-day's blizzard was the worst of the season. sea-son. It is reported that two settlers on tho newly opened land of that section perished in tho storm. |