Show TRAINS HAl HALTED n Of DY HI H Levies on Illinois River Are Broken One Death From Exposure Reported III Ill Oct 7 AP AI Train passenger service Into Into Int flooded by broken broke levees along the Illinois ls river wa way WIlS stopped today as the river stage stag reached the highest point on record 25 feet teet 8 Inches Weather Veather bureau burea officials had predicted that the rise would stop at 2 23 25 feet 2 Inches On One One death from pneumonia duo to exposure ex ex- exposure ex- ex has been repotted Numbing cool weather was added to the difficulties of c water covered vered streets and unheated homes th the first floors of ot which in many In Instances Instances instances In- In stances are arc flooded knee deep The Th only warmth available was that tha coming from electric ele h heaters aters Tents rents their thin walls a poor poo barrier to the tho cold housed many o otho of the tho residents driven from flooded story one-story houses The rhe water which continued d to rise today had made mad the use of furnaces Impossible an and ana homes taken over by the Salvation Army relief workers were wIthout heating facilities Freight s service providing suf sut- sufficient sufficient food for present needs was wa assured Unable to set get into th the city trains stop two miles outside and transfer goods to rowboats Pedestrians were scarce traffic being largely by boat Even tn the mall mail man made his rounds with th thaid the aid of ot oars Countless automobiles automobile were stranded many tops which had been washed away i ithe in inthe Inthe the strong current The Beardstown Star its news new staff weary from working almost almos night and day on n the flood story practically gave up up hope today Editor Shafer gazing at four tour feet fee teet of water in his composing room said he would attempt to save only his newsprint paper PEORIA Ill III Oct 7 AP AP- AP Scores of ot homes and barns ar are e completely submerged and acres of ot corn are under from eighteen to twenty feet ot of water water water-as a as the result of a break In a levee a at Banner Danner a few miles mUes below here a a. a 10 o'clock last night Farmers warned of ot the impending break fie fled for their lives jives saving much of their thel household effects though considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able livestock and and poultry was lost 1 Five lve men who were on the river rive riverside riverside side of ot the levee In a rowboat were caught in the break their boat being be beIng be- be ing sucked into the tho raging torrent torren and capsized They were carried for a quarter of a mile mUe and clung t ta to toa toa a barn top for four hours before being rescued In a half halt frozen condition condition con con- at 2 o'clock this morning by bya a man man- named Eaton |