Show I I I FlOOD WATERS I RISING RAPIDLY O ONE E DEAD IN TEXAS THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN ILLINOIS RAINS CONTINUE Only One Dozen Homes Above Water ok In Beardstown Cold Adds To Misery Many Perish 0 Chicago Flood Chicago Flood waters of the 11 11 and antI other rivers In tile the state had spread nd over oyer nearly squar square acres according to reports received here bere The river was still rising risIng rising ris ris- ris- ris ing at its Ita confluence with the l sippi The Tine water was falling slowly In the upper tipper reaches At Beardstown where the flood lood has inundated the cil city for two weeks only I a dozen homes stood above the water line Une Nearly people are homeless homeless homeless home home- less in Beardstown and arid the immediate vicinity Cold weather has caused much suf sill f faring Scores of oC families are living In army tents which have been pitched I Ion on a piece of or land that is still a above ove water Tl The e stage of or water was within a fraction of twenty six feet Ceet Sund Sunday Y the tine highest ever eyer recorded Mississippi l is rising slowly many acres o of bottom lands and islands beIng beIng being be be- ing flooded Dallas Texas Texas One One death scores made homeless her heavy damages as yet ot and man many narrow narrow escapes es- es es escapes capes was the toll exacted by heavy rains which in at least two cities was the heaviest in more than forty years history of or the tine local weather lu The fatality occurred near Sherman where here E. E W. W Haynie Jr 16 was ws swept to his death when he and andR andRay andRay R Ray Bible 20 attempted to ford ford a swollen swollen len stream hi in an an automobile Wible Yible swam to safety |