Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-07-16 | Page 1 | 200 Lose Homes in Flood

LOSE HOMES IN fLOOD FLOODWaters Waters in Many Sections Within Few Inches of High Water Mark of 1913 Falling Falling Falling Fall Fall- Heavy l Rains ing Bridges and Viaducts Viaducts Viaducts Via Via- ducts Swept Away COLUMBUS O. O July 1 16 Swollen by torrential rains rains' that have fallen throughout the last ten days many points in central Ohio were menaced today by floods that threatened to approach the magnitude of ot the great flood ol loj March 1913 w when whon an more more than five hundred d persons were drowned and property er y damage aggregating man runny many million dollars resulted Ott Ottawa wa river today flooded Lima driving families to the higher portions portions por por- of t tho city and tearing out bridges and viaducts Since midnight the river has haa risen six inches an ar hour and at 7 a 1 a. a m. m was within fifteen fifteen fit fit- teen inches of ot high water mark oi ci 1913 More rore than ihan ban two hundred homes arunder arc ar under water Every policeman and fireman n in the city was kept on n dut duty all ll night aiding In rescue work Near Elide Ellda farmers report the water was higher than in the big flood nood of ot 1913 Crops ps have been damaged damaged damaged dam dam- aged heavily One woman woman died from tram burns received received re re- re- re when gas BUS in the cellar exploded exploded ex ex- ex- ex from a lamp she sho carried Rising Rising Ris RIs- In ing waters put out outgas gas under a a. water h heater at ter rand r and nd she w went t to Investigate KANSAS CITY July 16 Kansas Kansas City today faced a serious flood situ situ- ati ri riAt At noon the tho Missouri river here had reached twenty seven feet teet the high water mark of oC last Jast month The river was and should there bo be continued rains the weather bureau announced that the river probably would go to thirty feet teet Should the thirty-foot thirty stage tage be reached the big packing wholesale district in the bottoms probably would be inundated Railroad service I both east and west is badly crippled More heavy rains In the Kansas watershed district early today sent Bent two of ot the tributaries the Blue and the tho Republican out of oC their banks