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Show FLOODS CAUSE PRDPERTsf LOSS ! FIVE LIVES KNOWN TO BE LOST I IN INDIANA AND ILLINOIS : CITIES OVERNIGHT i I I i Terre Haute Coal Mines Idle; Rail-j Rail-j roads Tied up; Eight Inches I Of Rain; Utilities j Halted i j Chicago Five lives were known to have been lost and $2,000,000 worth of damage had been done at Terre ! Haute. Ir.d., and Jacksonville, 111., in j the third flood to sweep the central I we'st in ten days. i The storm vented its wrath in cen-', cen-', tral Illinois and east central Indiana, but dipped its currents across Iowa 1 and northwestern Missouri, j Terre Haute, Ind.. one of the heav iest sufferers in Wednesday night's i deluge, counted twenty-five coal mines j idle, five railroads all but inoperative, and many industries smitten in a i claud-birrst which brought more than ' six inches of rain to the 'city in the most serious immdai'ou since the dis- astrous flood of 1913. At Jacksonville, 111., water, light and power plants were put out of commission, commis-sion, a dam burst and inhabitants of the city were driven to' the second stories of their homes. Throughout central Illinois Septem-I Septem-I ber rainfall approximated eleven inches in nine days, approaching rainfall rain-fall record for the entire month. The Wabash river was at flood stage at Lafayette, Ind. The Davis gardens at Terre Haute, largest greenhouse gardens in the world, were inundated by backwaters of Honey creek. |