Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-30
FLOODED RIVERS CAU2
DEATH AND SUFFERn|
Millions Lost by Ice Floes
Monongahela-Ohio Claim
Several Lives
COAL BARGES WRECKr1
Raging Waters Destroy Vast Qu,.|
titles of Property in b
Middle West
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iIIl'SBCRGH. Jan. IA
damage Of half million dollar
been done and property worth MINI
is menaced by the immense foo. ~.
are on their way down the Mononsa ~.
River Reports carly today wers ~.
the foe had been stopped by n porvs
Brownsville, fifty miles ur the ~.
and that efforts were being m,s.
dynamite the ice
More Than a score nf barres ~.
OF them loaded with coal, are CIV
and hopes Of saving them have NJ.
given up. os
Ter feet of water covers the Ri.
more x Ohio tracks at Rroun..s"'
lhousands of acres above tha 80
are inundated and several of tho s,r.'asI|
are under water. At Morgantown NJ
va, gorge extends for five min,
backing up the water into tho ,.rs
Lia 'iroad traffic is dcmuralized
shipping in the llrbDf here is n, a.
mercy of the foes. With the AIlsg.,a
River frozen tight, boats have no ~.
TO go to escape the danger. The IN.
"will be swept as clean as a wh,su'
according to tho local rorecaster
CINCINNATI. Jan "A
Two known dead, two remarked ~.
and millions of dollars property dar.s
was the toll today Of floods which ~
.Went OHIO, Kentucky. Tennessee Nv
west Virginia in the last fortv.eishl
hours, as the result Of ice gorges a.
ming streams and then breaking }
Mrs. a, =. Bais and \yilliam c,..J
were the first victims. drowning
Logan, w. Va. according TO messas,J
from that point.
An ice gorge in the rnio R,v.r 49,,
New Richmond, twenty miles from bs,.
broke early today aad the river ros'.
ten feet. Other gorges in the r,v..
below this point are expected IN NJ
broken by the force of the released oooS)
Increased damage and further loss n
life is feared.
Points affected by the flood sx,s,x
from Pittsburgh down the Ohio Rivas
to Gallipolis, Ironton ana Portsrou,S|
o.. thence to paducah. Nv, and az ~
down as Cairo. at the junction OF th1
Ohio and Mississippi. Dayton, O. M
sceno Of Ohio'S worst flood a few YEAR
ago, is not in danger
Last reports were that Morgantowh
w. Va, was flooded when an ice CORN
" ''N' ~ 'iC NioIOllEultld lkNpr
terday. The town is still cut off from
communication.
The Tennessee. Cumberland, Ohm
kanawha1 Monongahela and the BIr
Sandy rivers are raging and town
along their route are threatened
Bridges and railroad tracks have been
washed out. towns and small village.
isolated, and in some cases even sub.
merged.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. Jan. 30.
River vessels worth more than mil
lion dollars have been swept past thl
city--a total loss-in the rush of wata
and ice following the breaking up d
ice gorges along the Ohio River. IN
| largest part of this loss was at Paducah
ny. Vessels worth millions of dollar
are anchored in the mouth of the Cred
River, and should the ice gorge 4
Rochester, Ky, break they would
lost. The river is rising and river md
. fear that the ice will break up befcf'
night. sweeping vessels and river prop
erty before the food
CAIRO, ILL.,, Jan. 80.
| Steamboats, and barges valued at NIL
! lions Of dollars are either lost or IN
periled along the Ohio River today b
| ice foes that have blocked the rive
from Cairo to Columbus. Scores OF YES
sells are in the path Of huge ice gorc
! which began moving down the rive
early today.
Many of the largest boats on the rive
| already have been destroyed or ar
caught in the foes and in peril OF de
struction. Blrges loaded with coal an
with Government supplies have oeel
swept away by the flood. =.
The river here is still rising rapihl'
end is near the 36-foot mark.
Mountain roads throughout the iloooe'
district have been washed out ara !
is estimated fifty towns are inundateo
The Ohio. Monongahela, Guyon an
other rivers are swelcd 10 flood prvpoI
tions. Vast areas in southern liiinen
at Kentucky, West virginia anu ~"
nessee are in the flood district
At Paducah fourteen steamboats, wen
swept from their moorinss and at ie,s
five Of that number were crhshen
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