Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — Receives Letter Describing Logansport Sister’s Predicament. [ARTICLE]

Receives Letter Describing Logansport Sister’s Predicament.

Mrs. William Coldwell, living bn South Weston street, in receipt of a letter from her sister, Mrs. M. E. Fonts, of Logansport, who with her paraletfc husband was rescued from their home during the recent flood in a motor boat which came to their door. Mr. and Mrs. Fouts had taken refuge on the diping table when the boat came, the water then being two feet deep il\ the house. Mrs. Fouts got to the boat by walking on chairs, but as Mr. Fouts is an invalid it is supposed the men carried him to it. The water continued to raise until it reached the ceiling and all of their furniture was destroyed. They have taken temporary refuge in the home of a friend and go to a nearby church for food and to the school house for clothing. In her mental agony Mrs. Fouts wrote that she did not know where they would go unless it was to “Longcliffe.” Rev. Norman Carr, pastor of the Marion Avenue Baptist church, of Aurora, 111., wrote his sister, Mrs. J. P. Green, that on the evening of the 23rd a cyclone passed over their city but was so high up.it did no harm there, but between Aurora and Chicago it struck ground and did much damage to property.