Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1920 — HIGH WATER DOES DAMAGE [ARTICLE]

HIGH WATER DOES DAMAGE

Continued Rains Raise Rivers Above the Danger Point. The continued rains for the past several days have raised the rivers In various parts of the state to a point where considerable damage la being done, it is said, and unless a change comes at once and the rains let up the damage will be immense. Rain fell here the greater part of the day Sunday and Monday, and again Monday night we got several very heavy showers. These rains, following those of last week, have practloally flooded the east part of the city and ‘.brought the river here out of its banks, and it was still rising rapidly yesterday noon. Both the Burke grade north of town and the grade at Water Valley, over the old Jackson highway, are closed to travel because of high water. Many fields are covered with water and oats that have been sown on the lower ground are generally ruined and it will be necessary to sow the fields over again when the ground drys out. At Lafayette the Wabash river has risen to a point where the traction cars have quit running to the Soldiers’ home and Battle Ground, and residents of the city fear a repetition of the damage, wrought by the floods of 1913, as the river was still rising yesterday at a rapid rate. According to the weather bureau more showers were to come yesterday and today. As The Democart went to press more rain was falling.