Show Illinois Town TOW Turns to Boats I Chicago Flood Chicago Flood waters which rose Tuesday in Illinois while they receded in adjacent states centered their wrath at Beardstown Ill which watched its last path to the outside world slowly vanish yanIsh under the rising ris ris- ris- ris lag ing tide of the Illinois river With more than a hundred square blocks by water and more than titan a hundred families homeless as the result re reo re- re suIt sult of the bursting of at levees along the Illinois river and Lost creek the city was In the midst of or two advancing overflows with water four feet deIn de deep dep p in some main streets and residents livIng living liv liv- ing lug and doing business on the floors of structures J |