Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1916 — FLOOD DAMAGES INDIANA TOWNS [ARTICLE]

FLOOD DAMAGES INDIANA TOWNS

Fear Muncie Levee May Break—l,ooo Homeless at Marion—Tipton Cellars Inundated. Muncie, Ind., Jan. 31.—Aside from the possibility of a section of 100 feet of the levee protecting the north side of the city breaknig, ifis believed the flood danger has passed in Muncie. The river continued rising all morning but near noon reached a stationary period, and fell about four inches during the afternoon; however, it started rising again at two inches ah hour until 7 o’clock tonight when it started falling. The fall since has been at two inches an hour. City employes and the police are guarding the levee and a force of men w,ill be stationed all night at the threatened break, which has come as a result of the embankment being undermined by a low running current. It is believed at midnight that the levee will hold. It has not rained here since *7 o’clock this morning and the thermometer has fallen rapidly, now being at 30 degrees. Every district school in Tipton county is flooded. Many homes are untenable. Nearly every basement in Tipton is flooded.

E. W. Lang was down from Wheatfield today to procure veterinary advice about thessickness of eleven head of 'horses on his farm. Dr. Hansson, who saw the animals, stated that they had epizootoc, which is an influenza among horses and which has been quite common in some counties this winter. Pittson hard coal is the very best grade. It is sold by Hamilton & Kellner. While in Chicago last week Everett Halstead bought a Woods’ Mobilette roadster, a very neat little car that looks as though it could get over the road if anything could and he drove it down from Chicago. While narrow and small the" aramgement of the seats, the driver being just a little in front of the other passenger, makes it quite roomy. It is somewhat smalled than a Ford roadster and sells, we understand, for about the same.