Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-07-05 | Page 1 | Flood Town

I cord icord Flood lales Town Residents Evacuate rand Tower Then heft Levee Breaks TOWER TO IlL Dl July 5 W UP Wils ils Is Ii southern Illinois river town completely Isolated Saturday the worst flood In Its flood flood- led cd cd history could be reached from the out out- out only by amphibian plane or Food milk and other were being supplied d by boat boa er r r. the supervision of the coas coast L The flood waters reached it t to story second-story windows in places e Mississippi river rI gauge last it t showed a reading of feet leet sh was 7 of a foot above theotis the ious otis OUi high mark recorded InThe in The expected i water crater to rise rIre a little higher hl her receding Residents Safe te e e townspeople who had bat bat- against invasion by turgid river had to give up fight light Thursday night when Jr r I. hastily erected barricade of gs gi was breached by the mud- mud h waters vaters The business district most of the residential area quickly flooded as water watered cd ed through the foot 30 break all residents reached high und wind safely The only casualty year old Billy Clutts who fared a broken ankle when his hise ic e C was Inundated e 0 homeless numbering about were being sheltered in tents two schoolhouses located on ground Something in the lure ure of a Fourth of July rally held Friday night under the cUon of Mrs L. L K Jackson Cross canteen chairman Plans ro re discussed for building a per- per nent levee along the waterfront i well as for beautifying the town buto was paid Mayor MaOr Jesse ammer rammer for his strenuous efforts ing rig ng the fight against the flood i Immunization Started jt 4 Previously th the t town w has tu turned d proposals for a levee because became e residents felt It would obstruct e vl view w of the river and spoil then's the wits wit's ns n's riverfront park The state department of health as U conducting an on anti and program Upstream from Grand Tower the ther ver ter r was reported falling after iving ving reached ach th the highest level Inre in are re than years in some places in the mile 75 stretch been ben be- be en n Grand Tower and St. St Louis ere re reported holding including C one protecting Dupe Dupo whose nl rallied to save it after it doom doomed d. d