Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-01
ALL ABLE-BODIED MEN
FORCED INTO STRUGGLE
Policemen and Militia Hunt Out
Laggards and Put Them
to Work.
CREST IS STILL TO COME
Cincinnati and Louisville Believed
to Have Passed Crisis-Many
SMALL Towns Under Water.
Help Is Needed.

CAIRO. ILL.,. April Flood
conditions here today along the
Ono river levee are declared bv
the oldest citizens to be the most
desperate III their time. The
water Is rising at the rate of about
one foot day. and now stands two
feet and eight inches from the
top OF the concrete wall built az
the levee.
While this situation is not en-
couraglng, the reports of the
weather bureau here of up-river
and tributary conditions were
enough to cause further alarm.
No reports came OF receding
waters as far away as Cincin-
natl, while some tributaries were
reported rising.
1t is generally believed that
the high stage will not be reached
today and probably not before
Wednesday night or Thursday.
The rise of the river is much
faster than last year.
| The city is sending its women
and children out on every train.
Two baggage cars were filled
with trunks this morning and
enough remained to fill another.
Higher Than City Streets.
The water is rising much more rapidly
than yesterday and the demand for more
workingmen became urgent. At o'clock
the gauge read 5S.5 and was creeping up.
The surface of the Ohio now stands about
one foot higher than the High street
levee, which is the main thoroughfare OF
| the town.
| In case of break the flood waters
| would not rise TO more than one two
feet in the buildings on the street, but all
| Of the town back of this street becomes
gradually lower and most of the houses
would be completely submerged.
| large subway. which was the only
passageway from Cairo into the drainage
district, has been blocked to save the
city. The place was boarded up and
dozens of carloads OF sandbags placed to
hold 1t secure.
Secretary Garrison Returning.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 1.-Saying
| that he had accomplished al the good he
could in the flood district, Secretary of
War Garrison left Cincinnati for WASH
ington early today. Owing to the high
water the Secretary will be compelled to
take a circuitous route to reach WASH
ington. He will go by way Of Knoxville.
Tenn. Bristol and Lynchburg, Va.
The Ohio river here rose two-tenths OF
a foot during the night. and early today
the stage was 69.S feet. Weather Fore
caster pevereaux said he expected the
| river to rise another tenth, after which IL
probably would recede. The fall. he said
would be slow at first because Of the.
large amount Of water above.
Up-rfver points report the river either
stationary or falling slowly.
Extending Federal Relief. /,
LOUISVILLE, KY, April Little anx-
iety was felt over the few inches OF adj
ditional rise predicted for the river be-
| fore the crest of the flood reaches here
late today or early tomorrow. with q
stage of forty five feet.
Maj James A. Logan jr.. of the quar-
| termaster's department and Lieut. Simon
B. Buckner. jr.. and sixteen men who ar
rived here last night from Hamilton,
Ohio, expected to have their federal re-
| lief work well under way at lower river
points before the final swell reaches that
section.
New Richmond Flooded.
NEW RICHMOND, Ohio, April 1.-The
entire town Of New Richmond was under
water today. The people have taken up
quarters on the hills surrounding the
town Provisions have been received
from Batavia, and there is no suffering.
No one has been reported dead or miss
ing Fifty houses have been washed
from their foundations at Moscow, near
New Richmond.
I,AwRENCEBURG Ind, April An
fnspection made today shows that seventy
homes of persons in good circumstances
have been practically destroyed by the
food here.
Relief work is being conducted SYSTEM
atically. and there is no suffering.
MOUNT VERNON. H.. April 1.-The
leyee at Shawneeton was intact at .
o'clock this morning. and conditions there
were not threatening. according to news
received here tNday.
Special Flood Bulletin.
The weather bureau today issued the
following special flood bulletin:
The Ohio river at Cincinnati Tuesday
morning was at a stage OF s9.S feet.
1913 feet above food stage. It will
probably remain at about this stage
during the next twenty-foqr hours.
and then begin to slowly fall. Al
Louisville the river Tuesday morning