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Show FLOODS GAUSE PROPERTY LOSS i FIVE LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST IN INDIANA AND ILLINOIS CITIES OVERNIGHT Terre Haute Coal Mines Idle; Railroads Rail-roads Tied ui.; Eight Inches Of Rain; Utilities Halted Chicago Five lives were kno.u u Cave been lost and $2,000,000 worth o damage had been done at Terre Haute, Ind., and Jacksonville, III., in the third flood to sweep the central west in ten days. The storm vented its wrath in central cen-tral Illinois' and east central Indiana: but dipped its currents across Iowa and northwestern Missouri. Terre Haute, Ind., one of the heav iest sufferers in Wednesday night's deluge, counted twenty-five coal mines idle, five railroads all but inoperative, and many industries smitten in a claud-burst which brought more than six inches of rain to the city Ir the most serious inundation since the disastrous dis-astrous flood of 1913. At Jacksonville, III., water, light and power plants were put out of commission, commis-sion, a dam burst and inhabitants of the city were driven to the second stories of their homes. Throughout central Illinois September Septem-ber rainfall approximated eleven inches in nine days, approaching rainfall rain-fall record for the entire month. ' The Wabash river was at flood stage at Lafayette, Ind. The' Davis gardens at Terre Haute, largest greenhouse gardens in the world, wer.e inundated by backwaters of Honey, creek. |