The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-23
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 (Continued from Page l.) of the city-except the flooded dis trict-although the water was not expected to reach the higher points until some time today. Supplies were slightly curtailed, however, but rapidly were approaching their nor nal volume.
 Ohio River Keeps On
 Cincinnati, O., March 23-(UP)-- The swollen Ohio river, most of its destructive work completed, concen- trated tis flood force in the vicinity of Portsmouth, O., today and sent hundreds more from their homer along t.e Ohio-Kentuclsy banks Tributaries, aggravated by rain, poured their muddy streams into the river between here and Hunt ington, w. Va, but caused no marked rise. At Portsmouth, which is protected by a three-mile flood wall, the river was expected to reach a 60-fot crest sometime today. The wall will keep out up to 6l feet of water. Nevertheless, WPA and American Legion forces maintained a watch along the wall day and night.
 The river went to 59 feet at Hunt ington-eight feet over flood stage and stopped. It was expected to start receding today. The 3,C.1 flood refugees of the West Virginia city were being well cared for and the rest of the city went about its normal business.
 Towns Had Prepared
 Parts of more than score of river towns were under water today but all had been prepared for the last four days.
 Among the places partly under water were Gallipolis, Ironton, Rip ley and Manchester, Ohio; Point Pleasant and Huntington, West Vir- ginia; Ashland, Catlettsburg, Augus- ta and Maysville, Ky.
 Several of Cincinnati's Ohio and Kentucky suburbs were partly un- der water and the homeless were being cared for at 10 relief stations. The river rose slowly and the stage stood at about 56 feet today, four feet above flood stage. It was ex- pected to rise another foot or two by Tuesday.
 Tn the upper portion of the river, near Marietta and Parkersburg, the water fell from the city streets and business was resumed as rapidly as the mud and debris could be cleaned. away.
 Penn. InOculates
 Harrisburg,P Pa :, March 23-(UP) Flood contaminated drinking wa ter and milk drove thousands of personst oeme rgency field clinics today for innoculation against dis eases threatening greater loss of life than the floods that spread them.
 Dr. Edith MacBride- Dexter. state secretary of health, forbade sale of haw milk anywhere in the flood zone and urged consumers to boil even pasteurized milk 20 minutes.
 Sunbury, city of 15,000 through whose streets the Susequehanna ri- yer ran IS feet deep, was closely quarantined. Victims of scarlet fe- yer and measles were evacuated to country quarantine camps. People Are Advised
 Drinking water was shipped to many communities in gasoline tank trucks. Residents of the entire flood zone were urged by newspa- | pers, radio speakers and placards to boil all water 30 minutes.
 National guardsmen kept thous- ands of families from leaving refu- gee camps for homes emerged from the flood waters but still filled with mud and debris. The houses must be cleaned and fumigated before their occupants will be allowed to reoccupy them.
 Johnstown, most heavily stricken city of the state, made heroic pro- gress toward rehabilitation. Ap- proximately half of 15,000 persons who had lived in hillside camps since last Tuesday scraped and swept mud and drying pools of wa ter toward the Conemaugh river and Stony Creek today in a big cleanup drive.
 Other States Affected
 Chicago, March g CUP) - Swollen by week end rains, the Missouri river and tributaries ap- preached flood stage in the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska today. The Ohio passed flood stages in Indiana. | The muddy Missouri poured over lowlands near Omaha when the river rose 5.4 feet in two days. A near cloudburst Sunday added to the threat with IT inch of rain falling in short time.
 Blair and Plattsmouth, Neb., re- ported the Missouri at its highest stage of the season.
 CCC recruits and bridge men worked all day Sunday to save the approach to the South Omaha bridge. They piled hundreds of sand bags on an embankment on the Iowa side of the river.
 Ice gorges in the upper Missouri in the Bismarck, N. D.. area broke up. lessening the flood danger. Flood warnings had been issued when the river rose two feet in four hours.
 Farmers in lowlands near North Mankatao. Minn., evacuated their homes and herded livestock into the hills when the Minnesota river con- tinued to rise. The river has been out of it's banks for several days. An