The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-19
OHIO, POTOMAC
MENACE CITIES:
WHEELING HIT
Hundreds of Workmen Throw Up Emergency
Levee Within Half Mile of White House;
Rivers Dropping at Pittsburgh.
By United Press


More than 100 persons were dead 100000 homeless and
the toll mounting hourly roaring swept onward
today through IA states from Maine to Virginia and west
ward to Ohio.
The United Press this afternoon had tabulated 100
deaths New reports added to the toll constantly Some
places still cut off from communication Others were
beginning to feel the effect of the surgng rivers that
swept homes and factories to destruction
President Roosevelt postponed his vacation trip to
Florida and called upon the nation to raise 100000
medae for Red Cross relief He said 100000 persons
homeless this afternoon and the number might greater
by tomorrow.
Even he issued his appeal, steam shovels and 5000
working fevershy to throw up dixie within half
mile of the White House to keep back the rampaging
Potomac The famous Cherry trees along the Tidal Basin
already under water and officials feared the flood might
reach the government buildings in downtown Wash
ington.
Sixteen dead and scores unaccounted for in Wheel
ing, W. Va industrial city of 100000 which caught the full
force OF the Ohio River flood as its churnng yellow debris
laden waters swept down from Pittsburgh Two bridges
over the Ohio feared in danger of collapse and
closed.
Twenty thousand were estimated homeless in the
Wheeling Steubenvle and other flooded cities
feared typhoid epdemcs Wellsburg o. under water
Steel plants closed throughout the great industrial
region
Cities down the Ohio Valley prepared for the worst.
The crest expected to reach Cincinnati early week.
Flood waters fast draining out of Pittsburghs
Golden Triangle business district. Johnstown Pa.
cred with silt set about repairing yesterdays damage
Troops duty in Johnstown Pittsburgh and many
other points
Renewed rains brought new danger to Bnghamton.
N y which flooded by the Susquehanna and Chenango
Rivers and it's water supply cut off, The Susquehanna
out of it's banks all through central Pennsylvania flooding
scores of cities and towns
Philadelphia began to feel the flood when the Delaware
and Schuyki, rising rapidly, overfowed low sections.
In Tho COnnoc Vale
lands and industrial cities from Vermont to southern Con-
nectcut flooded Breaking of dam loosed 15foot
wall of water in the Blackstone Valley Hartford Conn.,
faced imminent power failure
At p. m. the situation in principal flood areas was:
PENNSYLVANIA dead. Water swiftly re-
cedng from Pittsburgh leaving untold damage Nearby Nc
KEGS Rocks Ohio River under water Johnstown Dig
gng out of mud and debris Situation in western Pennsy
vania generally improving Wilkes Barre Columbia Maria
eta, HOLLYWOOD and of other central Pennsylvania
towns Susquehanna River flooded and still rising
Delaware and Schuylll rising in East. Philadelphia low
lands under water.
WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWESTERN OHIO
Sixteen dead in Wheeling w. Va three others in nearby
Ohio Full force of Ohio River flood sweeping Wheeling
Much of city under water Two main bridges unsafe and
closed Steubenve o., has three of typhoid. Steel
mills and other large industries in trstate district closed
Cities farther down Ohio Valley epared for floods later this
week and next week.
NEW ENGLAND-T twenty-five dead. Connecticut VAL
ley flooded from Vermont through Greenfield Northampton,
Hoyoke and Springfield, Mass and into Connecticut
Water at Hartford Conn., to doors of telephone Office
power failure feared Hundreds driven out of West Hart
ford Seventy United States sailors and much Coast Guard
equipment sent to Northampton to aid Workers
labor to protect Hoyoke and Springfield industries Some
sections already under water Dam breaks near Uxbrdge
Mass releasing 15foot wall of into Blackstone Valley
in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island Easements
flooded in Haverh Mass Merrmack River threatens
exceed record peak Heavy rains indicate New England
floods may be tomorrow
NEW YORK-Rain brings peril to Binghamton,
already flooded by Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers Work
desperately to restore water supply Other in south
central section of state flooded Hudson mandates low
tons of Troy and other river towns.
MARYLAND VIRGINIA AND DISTRICT OF COLUMN
BARaging Potomac receding in Cumberland sweeps low
lands farther down the valley and rising rapidly national
capital Washington arports waterfront buildings and tidal
basin with its famous cherry trees flooded.