Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-02-28 | Page 13 | Three Southern States Facing Flood Dangers

u au tuna SOUTHERN STA IrS I f A IN f nOOD DAN DANGERS fRS I T ATLANTA Ga s 8 AP- AP While hIle mf dle Georgia raced faced the prospect o ot its worst vorst flood In seve sev- sev e l cars continued heavy rains In Inthe the area area and In eastern Alabama nd northwest Florida sounded an note noto for residents of f low low- rids drained by streams that Inne in ne cases have e gone above flood ge At Macon Ga city Oo-leed Oo ut the night J 1 3 f sandbags on the levees of the river which earlY to today a risen to 46 feet 66 feet above stage Spreading over n a wide a. a the high waters threatened wIand homes r Police rescued one woman who was trapped In In her J flooded home From Macon northward for a a- a tanco tance or of twenty mIles flood waters from the O Ocmulgee and Oconee riv nv- ers ers- were we're ver up to the tracks of the railway and trains were cautiously t l At Columbus i In II ft manufacturing plant a al l lock block ot of the main maln street was was- forced to suspend operations The nah river was expected to develop H. H stage of twenty nine to thirty one one feet tod today with iL a. subsequent flood hg ot of lowlands b low Augusta A was Issued for br outIL Alaba a by P. P N Smyth United States meteorologist Train service between Pine Apple arid Ala had been halted halt halt- ed d by streams that went 0 t of oC oCth th ir r I anks eat Gadsden Ala In highways s 's and lowlands t Ati Troy Tro Ala AIa r Emmett Slaughter 19 I. I plantation worker was killed S during a thunderstorm rm de five fhe houses houes