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Show RIVERS ON A RAMPAGE Eastern Cities Fighting fVlad Flood Waters. ICE GORGES BREAKING UP Missouri and Iowa Bottoms Undor Water. Handsome Residences in Indiana Town Inundated Millions of Dollars Dol-lars of Property Endangered. Chicago, Jan. 21. Dispatches from river points in low'a, Indiana. Pennsylvania, OhJo.and other. Slates received tonight, forecust a repetition of tho disastrous floods of last year. Ice-go'rgcs ara RoInK cut at various poltiLs, and In some places Uie mad Hood waters have Invaded the cities and towns, causing- hundreds of thousands of dollars' damage. At Keokuk tho Indian Grove levee, on the Mississippi, sputh of the city, has given away, and the 'Lima, lnko levee has also broken, causing heavy losses to farmers having: land In -wheat. A gorc has formed, at the mouth .of the Dos . IWolnes river, and the water hacked Up over miles of lowlands In the Missouri and Iowa bottoms. At Muncle. Ind., the "White river Is out of bank, and several large bridges have been carried away. At Lopnnsport. Ind., the Ice bepan moving mov-ing out of the "Wabash river today, dolnpr much damngc to. property. The - water! overflowed I1 Htver avenue, tilling the collars and basements of the line residences resi-dences along that street. Riverside park was converted Into a lake, ami manv families left their homes, fearing their houses would be swept away. At Lafayette. Ind , the river has risen sixteen feet since midnight last nlsht. destroying all the small boats, flooding the lowlands nnd flJllns cellars. Peru, a suburb, is four f-et under water. At Dayton, O., an lee-frorpe housetop high has formed In the Miami river north of the city, nnd serious results are threatened. threat-ened. Sections of the Miami vallev south of the city are flooded. Meadvllle, Pa., Is in I he prasp of the worst flood In Its history. Tho entire fire .department has been called out to assist as-sist In saving propertv. At Pillsburp preparations are belnjr mn.ln f.-,- n lV..,.. ; l ..i i iui ,1 nuiv-ui in iiiv inns .inn a flood tomoiTow There are indications that both the Allegheny and Monongahcln will break up about the same time, and both rivers comlnp out at onco will endanger en-danger 'millions of dollars' worth o float-hip: float-hip: property. At Hamilton. O., the Miami river left Its bunks lo(!ay'aniI Is ilsinp rapidly. Tho water Inundated the.trnejcs of Urn Cincinnati. Cincin-nati. Dayton &.Totdo tr.-u llo.i road In two places, and thronph service frmi CInrln-nail CInrln-nail to Davton has leen nb.indond. The Cincinnati. Ilamllton .t Daviou railroad'n tlcpot at North Hamilton was cut off and abandoned During the dnv an ft e pnipe former In Mills ereeh at Snmlusky. O.. uml u bridge of the Iflp Four wax eanlel awa |