Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-03-12 | Page 3 | Flood Waters Rise in Kentucky Valley

FLOOD WATERS WATERS' RISE IN KENTUCKY VALLEY LOUISVILLE K Ky March 12 P P The Lower Ohio River Rl valley drenched by heavy rains counted pro property properly losses over o a wide area today today to to- day as swollen streams continued to torise torise rise Forecast of colder weather with rains moving movin eastward from the affected af af- area brought hopes that the flood water would not become more mor menacing Rains totaling Inches since Sunday at Paducah inundated highways high ways Wl'S and md lowlands At Nortonville 15 families am lies were driven from their homes by high water waler and 20 tam lam un had to find new shelter in Earl Earl- ington Coal mines in the vicinity o or of Madisonville where rainfall of or 66 inches broke a record of or 48 years years' standing had to suspend operations Owensboro reported 67 inch inches o orain ofrain or of rain in 24 hours A wind rain and electrical storm of oC cloudburst proportions at Hickman Hickman Hickman Hick Hick- man on the Mississippi river took tool the home of oC a sharecropper from its iLc foundations