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Show HOOSiER STATE IS OtlEJGH SEA NEARLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND THOU-SAND PERSONS ARE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. Seven Known to Have Been Drowned, While the Property Loss is Estimated Esti-mated at $200,000,000, Every Brook and Creek Taking Toll, Indianapolis, Ind. With a hundred homeless, a number dead and property prop-erty loss of $20,000,000, Indiana is experiencing ex-periencing the worst flood of its history. his-tory. The entire state practically is one huge sea, and every brook, creek and river is taking its toll of damage. Public service corporations of the entire state are helpless, railroads and traction lines having canceled nearly all trains. Many cities are without fire protection and without light, v . Dwellers along streams are devoting devot-ing their labors to rescuing those trapped in their homes and to removing remov-ing furniture and merchandise to higher ground. Seven are known to have been drowned, two at Lafayette, three at Newcastle and one at Frankfort Frank-fort and one at Rushville. The appalling swiftness with which the' waters have arisen caught the entire en-tire state unprepared. Streams that were brooks Easter morning have become be-come raging torrents. Persons who retired apparently safe at home Monday Mon-day night,, on Tuesday morning were rescued from second-story windows by boats. Conservative estimates Tuesday night place the number driven from their homes at close to 100,000 and the property loss, it is said, will reach the twenty million mark. These figures fig-ures are made up from reports received re-ceived from towns and villages and do not Include the probable great loss to farmers. Rescue work is being carried on by volunteers, police, firemen and the state militia and every place where there is a dry home it has been thrown open to the flood refugees. Indianapolis is in, the grip of it3 worst flood. Street cars stopped running run-ning at noon Tuesday, at which time the water and gas plants were forced 'to suspend. Two electric plants are operating, but may be compelled to close down. Seven thousand persons were driven driv-en from their homes here by the overflow from White river, .Eagle creek and Pleasant run. They are being cared for -by charitable institutions institu-tions and in private homes. The militia mil-itia is patrolling the flooded district, aiding the police. Parts of Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Richmond, Marion, Terre Haute, Muncie, Rushville, Kokomo, Peru, Connorsville, Petersburg, New Castle, Frankfort, Anderson, Tipton, Nobles-ville, Nobles-ville, Hartford City, Elwood, Bloom-ington, Bloom-ington, Shelbyville, Logansport, Portland Port-land and innumerable smaller towns are under water, with many of the residents driven from their homes and others living on upper floors. |
