The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-13

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 Two New Jersey Dead
 Two persons died in floods sweep ing northern New Jersey where road and rail transportation had been disrupted in several areas. Row. boats were being uged to rescue scores of householder. rnarooned on the roofs and upper hoors of their homes. Tn the southern part of the state the Delaware and other rivers were rising rapidly and threateningly.
 The Delaware and Lehigh rivers menaced a large portion of astern Pennsylvania. Easton, which is be- tween the two, had the flood wa ters of both in its streets, at places to 8 depth of IS feet. In central Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna had left her banks, cutting off highways on each bank north of Harrisburg
 Rivers Exceeding Harrisburg, Pa, March 13-(UP) Threats of disastrous floods in low-lying sections of Pennsylvania diminished today as rivers and streams, carried over their banks by rain, melted snow and ice, began to recede.
 Temperatures of below freezing helped curb the rising waters. It appeared that all rivers had reached their peaks and that no further damage would be caused.
 The Susquehanna, Delaware, Le- high, Lackawanna, Juniata and Schuylkill rivers in eastern and central Pennsylvania, and the Ohio, Allegheny and Connemaugh in western Pennsylvania were falling.
 Serious conditions still prevailed, however, in some central and east ern sections.
 The Susquehanna at Harrisburg reached 21 feet and then came to a stand.
 Flood Miles Wide Airlines pilots described the southeastern third of the state as Q soggy swamp, laced by four yellow ribbons miles wide in spots and hundreds of narrower strips where mountain fed brooks had escaped their banks.
 Thirty cross-state highways were under water, the highway depart- ment reported. Travel was possible on only few secondary roads. Trains travelled at creeping paces across the lowlands below the Alle- ghenies, feeling at every foot for weakened roadbeds.
 The most spectacular rise of water struck at Easton, city of 34,000 population at the junction of the Lehigh and the Deleware. Sixty families { evacuated homes along Easton's Lehigh drive and police feared that ice foes weighing sev- eral tons each would wreck many buildings. Phillipsburg, N. J, across the Delaware, was threatened with dangerous health conditions by sewage backed into basements and streets.
 20 Feet Deep
 Water swirled 20 feet deep in sev- eral villages akross the Delaware from Trenton, N. J., where the leg islature adjourned in mid-session yesterday to permit senators to move their motor cars from the floods path. At New Hope, Pa, 30 miles from Philadelphia, rescue squads removed 20 families from roof tops in rowboats.
 John Henry Lewis, Negro light heavyweight boxing champion, took his last workout for New York championship fight tonight by man. ming 8 boat for two hours of rescue work.
 Muddy water stood several inches deep in Wormleysburg, opposite Harrisburg on the Susquehanna, at dawn. Hundreds of Harrisburg base ments were flooded. Weather bureau forecasters said that rise of six inches over the existing l9-foot stage would creat critical conditions for 100 miles or more upstream.
 Towns already partially under water, included Winfield, Williams port, Steelton, Allentown, Bethle- hem.
 Authorities at Wilkes-Barre ex- pected the Susquehanna to go Il feet above flood level. Police pre- pared for a catastrophe.
 Ice Is Filing Up
 Albany, March 13-(UP)-TonS of ice, released when jams in the up- per Hudson and the Mohawk rivers broke yesterday, piled up today near Castleton, creating graJe threat to the safety of communities along the lower Hudson.
 In the southern tier of New York counties which bore the brunt of last July's floods, conditions re- mained uncertain with ice jams forming and breaking.
 The condition along the lower Hudson was made more serious by the ice not having gone out today. If the vast store of water being im- pounded by the Castleton jam is re- leased suddenly villages and towns along the riverfront probably will be flooded.
 The Castleton jam backed up wa- ter as far north as Albany, which was inundated along the river front to depth of two to three feet. The river was more than foot above flood stage.