Show DIREFUL AT SHAWNE SHAWNEE shawneetown ET OWN TOWN I if of life sill ill irl lerty coil on jecture ill it roning rowing 1 wrt I rat hid gesay ill april 1 shawnee to town n ito pt is threatened will total mon mort may be loit beton befort inot hr day has hundreds of people hive not bet et been rescind froin from houses in which thea the wire in lit prisoner othir sare are still in ili the trie tri e tops and arid hilll ri or art ablat on the aaste vaste of the torrelt I 1 ate reports say the entire leveo will ill at and ever frame housein house in town Is f gertain tr bt 1 dashed to pieces wind 18 1 blowing thirty flip miles an hour with rain that cuts like glass great fear ear Is c expressed tor for the rescue foret now in shawneetown Shawnee town as nothing can resist the power of the tile baies dashing ten tell feet high under the impetus of the gale if jhc does not the tile entire town Is doomed as well ell as most of the tire who liast not yet reached the hilltops hlll top ildi his in formation cornes conies by telephone hont from the temporary station on the hillsides alst of Shannee town I 1 here Is no means of estimating the number drowned all the relief work Is devote I 1 to rescuing people from froin the tops of trees brick houses and high knolls the loss of life la Is largely among colored people whose light frame structures gave N a at the time time tittle when the wall of water struck tham giring giving them no change to cs es cap cape about 5 clock last evening the levee on the tile north bile bl ie of town gae gai e away a 1 a y at the north end of maratt street mar near the court house an open ing ten feet wide a as at first made but it quickly spread to twenty and a wall of water cater ten or fifteen feet high poured through the tile main street sweeping ewi everything before it about fatt fifty small frame houses along the line of the alveo to the tire south were crushed like tos and none of the occupants most of whom were poor colored folks escape escaped those living in the more substantial houses managed to climb to second and third stories where they clung for hour houm through the chilly night houses in the tile me western ibern part of the town did not at once feel the ef of ft fact et of the flood and arid residents made burrit it steps for most of them fleeing to the top of the levee ci on the so south uth side of tire town A large num ber also reached the tile little hill which are a mile from town an I 1 from there saw aw s their property crumble lu in the i muddy waters aters N when daylight came this morning the streets were full of water to a depth of ten or twelve feet only the most substantial buildings la in the central business district remain i standing water Is everywhere |