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Show FLOODS LEAVE MANY HOMELESS Relief Offered Harassed Refugees of Indiana and Illinois By JAMES D KIM. ALLEN International News Service CHICAGO, April 1G. With hund- n l . r families already homeless and flood waters In Illinois and Indiana threatening to rise to even greattr heights, relief agenda! tonight were working cner.ccrneally to aid the har- rasssd refugees and prevent further bxeaka in the levees. In lillnois, Where the IlllnoLs rlvfr' was rising rapidlj at several places, the flood was regarded as the worst in 50 ears the worst In fact, that! Illinois hat ever experienced It was estimated that upward of $1.50" 'i ii (Tup and property damage dam-age has been done. INDIANA STREAMS RISE In In. liana the proyerty damage I w.ls i)"t near so heavy, but the situation situa-tion presented a serious menace to life and property. BeveraJ streams, ln-cludlng ln-cludlng the W.ibiuh river, were at the danger point this evening and the i r i - sis was not expected until Sunday morning Levees along the Illinois river which 1 had been BWept away by recent floods 1 were belli;; rebuilt at several cities un- der the direction Of Adjutant General Carlos E. Mlm 1; Agents fI the central district of the Ke,l Cros- were sent to many sections. LOSS OF MI LI-ION s Three hundred families were driven from their homes In east I'eoria. :c- j : rdlng to reports received here and I there was great fear thul the levee Mu re mii;.' break, reieuslng a 20-t.,.t , wall of water Automobiles tractors i wagons and other available vehicles wen- pr .s.sed into 8er ice tu transport the retugces and their belongings from j the danger one. Many of the refugees refu-gees were housed In the public schools tonight. At Beardstown, five hundred ram- Hies were sheltered In tenth outside the City. The pity was under water and ; cut off frum communication. i The water in the wells has bceome polltfted, accentuating the seriousness of the situation. j Naples was under three and one-half one-half feet of water and the entire pop- I nl.atlon had moved to higher ground. Tents have been sent poitt haste from I the capltol at Springfield Trains Into Pekln, which Is flooded, are stalled ; outside the city. Farmers In the Cairo district estl- I mate that the crop damage Is more ; than J1.o00.n00 and farther up the lilt- j nols river the damage also has been exceedingly heavy. FARMS I N DER WATER ATHENS, Ohio. April 15. Flood waters of the Hocklnx river are ex- pected li begin to fall during the ; night, but not for 36 hours later will j the full extent of the damage done In the second flood of the year te , know n Railroad servlco to the north j and youth over the K. and M , and the Ilorklng Valley cannot be resumed un- I til late Sunday The tracks are now j under more than fivo feet of water in places. . Farming lands for more than 50 : mllis ire under water from near Ivin- I caster to the Ohio river and had the I Ohio been at a higher utae, the low- er Hocking valley would have suf- j fered the worst damage in many I years. The Sunday Creek valley, con- taming the mining towns of (llouche-- j tar, Trimble ind Jacksonville reports the streams falling after flooding sev- eral hundred homes. In Athens the ( water was In at least 100 residences If 00 |