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Show WISCONSIN FLOODS IMPERILHUNDREDS RIVERS OVERFLOW BANKS AND THOUSANDS ARE DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property Prop-erty Destroyed and Many Lives In Jeopardy as Result of Swollen Streams. Oconto, Wis. Hundreds of homes, factories, mills and lumber yards are flooded and thousands of dollars' worth of property has been destroyed by the Oconto river overflowing its banks. It is estimated that 5000 persons per-sons are homeless. The river has been rising steadily for two days and a congestion of ice and logs has kept the water from fol-' lowing its natural course. Dynamite is being used to clear the obstructions. Dispatches from Milwaukee state that floods have. stopped train movements move-ments in western Wisconsin. The Milwaukee river is out of its hanks and trains are being detoured to the north. Abnormal rainstorms caused a suspension sus-pension of railroad traffic in parts of Michigan on Monday. Property damage is said to be small aside from that sustained by the railroads. rail-roads. Four deaths were due to the flood, Near Saginaw a farmer and his two small sons were drowned when their buggy fell into a flooded creek and another man lost his life in the Pin-nebog Pin-nebog river. |