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7rwT Twt LAST EDITION ONE CENT PLAY SAFE -BOIL DRINKING WATER THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL 5, NO. 97 Chicago, Friday, January 21, 1916 398 ILLINOIS IS SWAMPED Chicago and vicinity are swamped. Twelve hours of continual down pour and usual January thaw have, done millions in property damage, brought peril to life and health and inconvenienced living. Illinois, Fox, Vermillion, Calumet and Chicago rivers overflowed and spread out over acres of farm lands when ice floes blocked their passage. Heaviest damage was done in La Salle,' Joliet, Ottawa, Rock Island, South Chicago and Cicero. Phone exchanges were put out .of business all along the line. Cicero is an island. Water is five feet deep at Lombard. Railroad traffic between Rock Island and Chicago abandoned. Afraid of bridge at Tisldlwa. Steve Brunatto, 18, slipped into Vermilion river at La Salle. Body recovered. Damage at South Chica go $200,000. Basements at North western university flooded. May suspend sessions. Joliet residence section under six feet of water. Loss near a million. Police and fire de partments made many thrilling res cues. ar service-stopped, THE NEWS ATTACKED A bitter" attack on the Daily News, based on the much-advertised "Par ney Bertsche" articles, has been, launched by Hearst's Chicago Even ing American. The campaign, as usual, is through the mails to pro fessional men and women. A letter, signed personally by Harrison M. Parker, publisher of the American, raps the News boldly for bringing the experiences of Barney Bertsche, crook, to the fireside read ers of the paper. A sample Bertsche story, which tells of purse-snatching and pick pocket expeditions taken by the no torious con man, is quoted by the American in its letter. An advertise ment of the Daily News, announcing the Bertsche series, and editorials from the American in contrast with, swindling -adventures of Bertsche, are enclosed. The American admits it is a "yel low" paper. But it claims that it would not print stuff as raw as the Bertsche articles. It calls to the at tention of the reader of the letter themral effect a&vea&g$a-pt- a, MAuaioi H.tMttM-11.