Show flU FLOODS CAUSE GAUSE CAUSES PROPERTY LOSS S i FIVE lV LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST LOSTIN IN INDIANA AND ILLINOIS II CITIES OVERNIGHT Mines Idle RaIlroads RaIl Rall Railroads Rail Rail- Terre Terre Haute Coal roads Tied up Eight Inches Of Rain Utilities S Halted were known t to tc Five Chicago Five lives Chicago nave been lost and worth orth of damage had been been done at Terre ferre Jacksonville Ill III Ini inthe in inthe Haute Ind md and i the third flood to sweep the tho central I II west est est in ten days das I The storm vented Its wrath in central cen cen- 1 central Indiana ti-al ti Illinois and east I Iowa currents across i but lipped dipped its and northwestern Missouri 1 I Terre Haute Ind md one of the hear lest sufferers In Wednesday nights night's twenty five coal mines deluge counted I idle five railroads all but Inoperative industries smitten in a and md many I which brought more than burst claud six Inches of rain to tho the city in the most serious inundation since the tho disI disastrous disastrous dis dis- flood of or 1 1913 13 I At Jacksonville Ill water light and power plants were put out of commission commission commis commis- of ot burst and inhabitants sion slon a dam second the city were driven to the stories of their homes Throughout central Illinois September Septem Septem- ber her rain rainfall fall approximated eleven cleven Inches in nine days approaching rainfall rainfall rain rain- fall Call record for the entire month The Wabash river was Vas at flood stage at Lafayette Ind md The Davis gardens at Terre Haute largest greenhouse gardens In the world were wei-e Inundated by backwaters of Honey creek |