Louisville, KY Flood, Jan 1907 - Still Raining, Thousands Homeless

Still Raining.

Louisville, Ky., Jan. 19. – The flood situation at Louisville and throughout all eastern Kentucky grows more threatening with each hour. There has been no cessation of the general rains, and even if there should be no further rainfall the Ohio and its tributaries will continue to rise for two days. Five hundred families in Louisville are homeless.

The Newark Advocate, Newark, OH 19 Jan 1907

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Thousands Homeless.

Louisville, Ky., Jan. 21. – With the Ohio river maintaining a steady rise of an inch an hour, Kentucky streams contributing their volumes from the mountain regions, a high wind blowing up stream all day, damaging shipping and preventing the rapid passing of the current, Louisville faces a flood situation which promises to equal, before the crest is passed, the stage of 1884, the greatest flood ever known to the city. Thousands of people are homeless and are housed in school buildings, warehouses and other structures. Factories in this city, Jeffersonville and New Albany are closed, throwing hundreds of people out of work; stocks of merchandise in the business houses along the river front are ruined, much lumber has been washed away and many small houses with their contents toppled over into the water. A conservative estimate of the damage done, with the crest of the flood yet two days off, is a quarter of a million dollars.

The Newark Advocate, Newark, OH 21 Jan 1907