Evening star., 1933-03-20
NEW RAINS SWELL
OHIO VALLEY FLOOD
Eight Dead as Thousands
Flee From Waters in
Tri-State Area.
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Ihrig, 18. was killed by electrical dis
charge through the water
George Heideman. Henry Linnemaa
and John Balm were drowned at
Covington, KY. after a backwash car
ried their automobile into a creek.
And at Lawrenceburg. Ind. Charles
Stephen, IA. drew a bottle from the
stream drank Of its contents, and died
OF commissions.
Rescuers carried Mrs Anna Morgan
26, Negro, and her newborn child
from their flooded home on the river
front. but the child soon was dead Of
exposure.
Even If no more rain fell the Ohio
would be II feet above its flood stage
by night. Weather Bureau officials pre-
dicted. and still water-logged skies
spread threateningly over West Vir-
ginia, Kentucky. Ohio and Indiana. A
cold snap fingered in them, too. So
that snow may fall to cloak miles OF
misery.
Rain started it all. now drizzling
now coming in torrents, from the Great
Lakes to the blue grass region. Hamll-
ton. Ontario. had recorded 7.27 inches
this month before respite came early
Sunday. That fall was typical.
water huSneS SOutnWaru.
1t filled the Allegheny far up in
Western New York. and sent it roaring
through Western Pennsylvania 10 meet
q Monongahela swelled in West Vir-
ginia's mountains. Down the Ohio
River then water rushed south to meet
the Kanawha. the Scioto. the Musk
tngum, the Licking of Kentucky. the
Big and Little Miami Rivers of South
western Ohio and the White Water OF
Indiana.
Around Cincinnati was every evil
dence of their meeting
At Newport, KY, SO city blocks lay
under dingy waters and 1900 were
homeless. Covington, KY, next door,
Jared as badly.
In Cincinnati's East End, Little
Columbia. Marmet. Cumminsville and
Sedamsville were islands In flood.
Seven thousand bags Of sand were
massed to hold the river of the munich
pal airport and suburban Linwood.
Every house in California. KY. was
submerged. and 6 feet OF water coursed
through California. Ohio.
Nearly 500 people were rescued from
river camps about this gateway to the
South The youngest was 8 months
old, the oldest 80 years.
Walter Stratham alone saved 81 per
sons from their cottages. A woman
spent a night atop her cabin waving
q parlor lamp to draw attention.
Suburban Milford and nearby Batavia
were almost isolated So was suburban
Loveland. and, its normal supply cut
off. it relied on tank trucks for its
drinking water.
To some degree flood waters harassed
residents north to Pittsburgh and south
to Louisville. Adams, Pike, Jackson and
Scioto Counties in Southwestern and
South Central Ohio were cut OIL.
Water poured through Greenup. KY.
and. except for, a single high railroad
bridge. isolated the eastern section OF
May sville, KY. A hundred families were
driven to high ground there; 20 more IN
Ripley, Ohio: so in Athens, Ohio, and
scores in Parkersburg, w. Va; Ash
land. KY; Louisville. Evansville. Ind;
Gallipolis, Ohio. and Huntington, w. Va,
and their suburbs.
In all these places churches, lodge
halls and the homes OF friends re-
ceived a homeless horde. Boats were
poled along to carry more to safety.
Food went rapidly, 1000 sandwiches in
Cincinnati vanishing within an hour.
Highways were impossible. Trains felt
their way slowly over water-threatened
roadbeds A freight train spilled from
An undermined track near Cincinnati.
Rising waters drove four trunk lines
from their terminals into the new
SAL ,O00,O Union Treminal here 10 days
before its dedication.