Levee Break Forces 150 to Flee Town
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A second levee along the rain-swollen Rock River broke near the town of Hillsdale, Ill., sending as many as 150 area residents scrambling for higher ground. Some people fled through water that reached the cabs of their four-wheel-drive vehicles, said Fire Chief K.B. Melton of rural Erie, about 10 miles from Hillsdale in the northwestern part of the state. The levee was too far gone to be reinforced with sandbags, he said.
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