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Show STORM IN DIXIE LAND Rain and Sleet Falling From the Ohio River to New Orleans. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 8. With rain and sleet falling over nearly every mile of country from the Ohio river to New Orleans, the usual avenues of wire communication which have been demoralized de-moralized since Sunday, today went from bad to worse. Nearly every branch of commercial life felt the Interruption In-terruption and the prospects for better conditions are not promising. Cloudy weather, with rain, sleet or snow prevails from the Dakotas to the Gulf of Mexico, where, with warmer weather, a heavy rain has been failing for forty-eight hours. A storm area Is moving over the central gulf region. The indications are for warm rains over the entire districts south of the Ohio during the next thirty-six hours, which It Is expected, will raise all streams and rivers and start the Ice which has held many of them In a tight clasp for several sev-eral weeks. |