River’s Flooding Halts Train Service
From Times Wire Reports
Bloated by melting snow and rain across the Upper Midwest, the Mississippi River rose out of its banks and strained against dikes in four states, stopping Amtrak trains and chasing hundreds of people from their homes.
Contractors in Minnesota rushed to shore up a weakened earthen dam on a tributary of the Mississippi.
Hundreds of people had left their homes in low-lying riverside areas of Wisconsin and Iowa, and volunteers and prison inmates sandbagged homes along the Mississippi at Hampton, Ill.
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