Show I 1 THREE TOWNS TOS OUT BY flOODS Black River Falls Pails Hatfield and North Bend in Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin Destroyed and Scores of Farm Hou Houses es Swept Away A THOUSANDS HOMELESS BUT NO LIVES LOST River Cuts New Channel Di Directly Di- Di I Through Heart of Black River Falls and Town Can Never Be Rebuilt V WATERS ATERS NOW RECEDING Ily By International News NewN Service I. CJ IU gu FALLS FALIS Wi Oct 7 B With the he to of or hock FallS und North lien practically with cres of farm houe swept H nay It 1 is IN till Impolitic tonight to verify erU rumors rumor of or of life In Ia the JUver valley anti anil the remarkable spectacle niK N is lr presented of thousand of people home home- ie wl nUh h not nut the IU lois t of or a single life Thin ChIH evening C t the water of HInc JUnek river rl to recede anti It I I. I left fel felt that the von unit t I Is I. over o In Is ex cx- cx presed d however Iio that on un n the brink of the flood floud ma may topple on over ocr r. r i three Fifty-three business buildings out o of sixty-one sixty in Black River IU Falls have hav disappeared as have thirty residences The town of North Bend north o of oC I hero is entirely destroyed Damage e to crops of oC the surrounding country will be immense The water in al all directions is covered with floating carcasses carcasses' of chickens hogs bogs sheep cattIe cattie cat cat- tie tlc and horses The Tho loss Joss to mack Black River flyer Falls alonis alone alon is estimated at J th the theLa theLa La Crosso Power company the tho breakIng breaking break break- In Ing of who whoso Q dam darn at hatfield ld caused tho the destruction of ot practically everything everything every ever thing it In h the valley will lose at least leas I I Thousand are arp homeless in tho hills ix n fled fid d. d before the tho great reat flood floor W in Food Is scarce tarco and starvation sU threatens as the tho transportation of foot food supplies 1 Is Isa isa a question With which to b be reckoned Miles of ot railroad track have havo been hen washed awi away Milwaukee La Jn Crosse Cross i and n neighboring l towns are arranging to ship food tood and clothing as soon as I Ican It Itcan itcan can can be brought into the dis dig Black River Falls never can be bo re rebuilt rebuilt re- re built hullt in Its present location Tho The new channel of or the river runs directly through jh the tho heart of tho the town Mayor McGillivray says sas It will be some da days s 's before the tho flood lood has re receded receded receded re- re ceded sufficiently to permit an nn examInation examination exam exam- of or Ute the ruins Ho lie added that tha the need of ot relief rolle is Is' imperative Tho The giant g wall vali of or wat water r which swep swept the town was ten feet In height when I It reached here herc and continued to gathe gath- gath e A n. n 1 I I |