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Show HOOSIER STATE IS OIEJIGH SEA l NEARLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND THOU-SAND PERSONS ARF DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. Ssvon 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 la taking its toll of damage. Public service corporations of the entire state are helpless, railroads and traction linea having canceled nearly all trains. Many cities are without fire protection and without light. Dwellers along streams are devoting devot-ing their labors to rescuing those trapped in their homes and to rcmov-ing rcmov-ing furniture and merchandise to higher ground. Seven are known to bave been drowned, two at Lafayette, three at Newcastle and one at Frankfort Frank-fort and one at Ktnhvllle. 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 secondstory 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 reporU 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 mllltla and every place where there is a dry home It has been thrown open to the flood refugees. Indianapolis Is In the grip of Its 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 mllltla mll-ltla Is patrolling the flooded district aiding the police. Parts of Fort Wayne. Lafayette, Richmond, Marlot Teire Haute, Muncle. Ruabvllle, Kokomo, Peru, Connorsvllle, Petersburg. New Castle, Frankfort, Anderson, Tipton, Nobles-vllle, Nobles-vllle, Hartford City, El wood. Bloom-ington, Bloom-ington, Shelbyvllle, 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. |
