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Show FLOOD' WATERS RISli-RAPIDLY ONE DEAD IN TEXAS; THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN ILLINOIS; RAINS CONTINUE i Only One Dozen Homes Above Water In Beardstown; Cold Adds To Misery; Many Perish Chicago Flood waters of the Illinois Il-linois and other rivers in the state had spread over nearly 200,000 square acres, according to reports received here. The Illoinis river was still ris- ing at its confluence with the Mississippi. Missis-sippi. The water was falling slowly ! in the upper reaches. At Beardstown, where the flood has inundated the city for two weeks, only a dozen homes stood above the water line. Nearly 4000 people are homeless home-less in Beardstown and the immediate vicinity. "Cold weather has caused much suffering. suf-fering. Scores of families are living in army tents which have been pitched on a piece of land that is still above water. The stage of water was within a fraction of twenty-six feet Sunday, the highest ever recorded. Mississippi is rising slowly, many acres of bottom lands and islands being be-ing flooded. Dallas, Texas One death, scores made homeless, heavy damages as yet uuestimated and many narrow escapes es-capes was the toll exacted by heavy rains, which, in at least two cities, was the heaviest in more than forty years history of the local weather bureaus. bu-reaus. The fatality occurred near Sherman, where E. W. Haynie, Jr., 16, was swept to his death when he and Ray Bible, 20, attempted to ford a swollen swol-len stream in an automobile. Wible swam to safety. |