Show flOOD WATERS RISING RAPIDlY ONE DEAD IN TEXAS THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN ILLINOIS RAINS CONTINUE UE Only One Dozen Homes Above Water In Beardstown Cold A Adds ds T To Misery Many Perish Chicago Flood Chicago Flood waters of the Il n. Illinois and other rivers in the the state had spread over nearly square acres according to reports received here The river was still rising rising rising ris ris- ris- ris ing at its confluence with the sippi The water was falling slowly in the upper reaches At B where the flotd has the city for Cor two weeks only a dozen homes stood ab above ve the tho water line Une Nearly people are homeless homeless home home- less in Beardstown and the immediate vicinity Cold weather has caused much suf sut fering Cring Scores of families are living I In army tents which have been pitched on a piece of land that is still above water The stage of waiter was yas within i ia a fraction of twenty six feet feet Sunday I Ithe the highest ever recorded Mississippi Is rising slowly lowly many acres of bottom lands and islands being being be be- ing flooded Dallas Texas Texas One One death scores made homeless heavy damages as yet and many narrow es escapes exacted b heavy capes rapes was the toll by rains which in at at least two cities clUes was the heaviest in more than forty years history of the local weather bu bu- reans The fatality occurred near Sherman where E. E W. W Haynie Jr 16 was swept to his death when he and andRay andRay andRay Ray Bible 20 attempted 20 to ford a swollen swollen len stream stream-in in an automobile Wible swam to safety |