Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1913 — Rensselaer People Are Marooned at Cincinnati. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer People Are Marooned at Cincinnati.

Joe Halligan received a letter Wednesday from his sisters, Mrs. A. E. Delouest and Miss Maggie Halligan, stating that they were in Cincinnati and might be there until the. first of next week. They left Oeala, Fla., for Rensselaer on March 23rd, a week ago last Sunday, -and arrived at Cincinnati on Tuesday, March 25th. That was the day of the flood, and they have been unable to get out and are informed that they will ’ just have to wait patiently until such time as the roads are repaired to permit the operation of trains. John E. Alter, of Union township, is also there, and a letter sent to his son, Leslie, states that it may be a month before he can get home. The letter was written Sunday and at that time the water was stilt rising rapidly'in the Ohio river at Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Parks and daughter, Alice, who had been in Manchester, Tenn., since December, encountered great difficulties in reaching home. They were on the road for several days and finally reached home by way of Danville, 111. Sylvester Hatton and daughter reached here Tuesday evening after about the same experience. They had left Alabama a week before.