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Show MILLS CLOSED AS A RESULT OF A FLOOD PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 7. The effect of last night's heavy rainfall, which was driven by a thlrty-six-mlle gale, 8re in evidence today in all sections of the city and environs. The most serious seri-ous result is the swollen condition of Schuylkill river, which Is seventeen feet above normal at Manayunk, a suburb Fourteen mills are closed as a result of the flood and 4000 hands are Idle. The water, dammed up by the Ice, backed up and overflowed into the basements and first floors of the factories fac-tories and mills which 11ns the banks of the river. -. - f . a. |