Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 9 | Storm Kills 4; Many Homeless

I I STORM KillS 4 MA MANY Y HOMR HOMELESS Continued from page 1 1 suit of the swollen en rivers and other smaller streams in the affected d area Three were re resulting re- re suiting from automobile ac sc- sc At Pine D Bluff r. r Ark two men were drowned when hen their cai cal turned over oyer Into a small smal stream A similar accident cost a Columbus lIs Miss man his life Exposure from wading In a I creek was the cause df di dia f fI a I fourth death a man from Selmar Selmar Sel- Sel mar Tenn enn More than fifty blocks In Nashville Nashville Nash Nash- ash ash- ville were inundate by the backwater backwater back baek- water ater from th th 1 Cumberland river which runs S 8 shaped through the tue city The rhe crest crat Cst of the lood is ex expected ex- ex to be reached tomorrow barring further rains in the tho head hend- lands Estimates of the probable number of people who would be driven from their hom homes s the river rl r r attain the expected fifty fifty- three feet teet increased to while buildings which would be flooded would pass paEs the 1000 nark Swollen streams In 11 Mississippi ha had sent hundreds away from homes Dama highways livestock livestock live live- Ive- Ive stock stoc ind md crops there Is expected to exceed RELIEF SENT Families marooned near near Columbus Columbus Columbus Colum Colum- bus Miss were vere WEre aided by relief crews in motor launches and nod un unconfirmed unconfirmed un- un confirmed reports were that several sev sev- eral had drowned Wet West Point Goodman and J eral other ther Mississippi Mississippi sippi towns reported heavy damage from foo floods s Continuous Continuous- general genera rains over ores par pari J of ad brought the tle water in number of reams s to record breaking heights There was heavy damage to highways livestock and crops The The rivers river in Tennessee have caused considerably more area to tobe tobe tobe be flooded than In any other single state it was believed Roads in InI I r r- lions th lowlands lia hay hav v. v been abandoned and water was standing In some places at It several f et feet deep Chattanooga Clarksville me and other cities and towns along the Cumberland prepared to combat the floods foods Tenn renn was without lights a. a d tier oilier ler wires were affected Reports Report from m f Kentucky towns townsand townsand townsand and cities cites located on swollen v were sere ere that much property damage was done but that no deaths had b been en reported in the state as a result resul of flood food condi condI- tons Relief work vork in all al four states slates was reported as progressing though In some places the high water had made except by rowboat rowboat rowboat row- row boat some Isolated spots where families were marooned With lh the exception of Virginia the Carolinas and Florida rain was forecast for fOI every every Southern state stute before tomorrow night