The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-20
Flood Homeless Are
 Quarter Of Million
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(Continued tainted by flood waters. .
 City health authorities enforced urgent measures to prevent out break of disease with the receding irundation.
 The water shortage threatened the city.
 Meanwhile, the muddy flood wa ters of the Ohio River and its two mighty tributaries, the Monogahe- Ia and the Allegheny, moved down. stream, leaving in their wake 43 dead in Allegheny County, 50,000 dependent on Red Cross relief, and damage of $25,0OO,000 in the "Gol- den Triangle" the rich business dis trict of the nations leading steel city.
 Orders To Destroy Food Howard c. Patton, superintendent of the city food inspection bureau, who ordered the destruction of flood d-contaminated food, said the measure was preventive.
 Patton said there was no danger of food shortage. Thirty-five car- loads of fresh produce were pushed on an emergency track this norn- ing and sold quickly. AS they were emptied, other produce trains re- placed them. Pittsburgh normally uses about 2l0 carloads of produce daily.
 The waters of the three rivers gradually receded from the triangle, site of practically all the headquar- ters of Western Pennsylvania's coal, steel and banking interests.
 Today even the Blockhouse, once known as Fort Duquesne and after as Fort Pitt, the citys best known historical building, was free of the flood. .The Blockhouse is situated at the lowest portion of the city, directly on the point.
 5000 Need Relief The Red Cross was the authority for the statement that 50,000 were dependent on relief.
 The retreat of the waters afford- cd especial relief for firemen. for they had been forced to fight a dozen blazes under almost impos- sible conditions.
 Fire hydrants in some cases had been standing in 20 feet of water, inaccessible when flames broke out.
 Department stores, theater, busi- ness houses and the Pittsburg stock eXchange-all closed when muddy waters poured into their ground floors-prepared to reopen. The city was quiet, national guardsmen aiding police. | Ohio River Still Wild
 Marietta, O., March 20-(UP)- The Ohio River, a turbulent yellow torrent laden with uprooted trees, the bodies of farm animals, the de- bris of wrecked cities and towns and countryside, tore through the Ma rietta business district today and threatened to spread over the en- tire city. !; Along it's valley from its source at Pittsburgh 1t had left Q frightful toll of death and destruction. Nine- ty-flve miles to the northeast, Wheeling, w. Va, and its surround ing industrial district still were un- der water and at least 9 were dead. Further on, the river had wrecked a half dozen river towns, including Steubenville, O., and Wellsville, w. Va. Pittsburgh was coming slowly out of the destruction caused by its tributaries, the Allegheny and tho Monongahela, which in their tor- rental descent from the mountains had taken 43 lives.
 | 65 Is Death Toll
 This death total-65-for the Ohio and its tributaries, was believed to be only beginning. Ahead of its raging flood crest was one of the most populous and wealthy river valleys in the world-scores of ci- ties and towns and rich farming and industrial districts.
 Added to the cost in human life, was a property damage that al- ready approximated $50,000, ,OO0-- $2O,O0O, 900 in Pittsburgh and $10.- O0O,O0 in the Wheeling district alone-and intense and widespread suffering. An estimated 5000 per- sons had been made homeless and many were suffering from exposure and other privations.
 At 3 a. m. the Ohio had covered the entire Marietta business section to Q depth of nine feet and was ris- ing relentlessly. The first floors oi almost all buildings were under wa- ter entirely and some second floors had been invaded. Because there had been ample warning. only . comparative few persons had been marooned and row boats poked around looking for them. Hundreds Of homeless and fled to the hilli behind the city.
 | Jehnstewn Fears Sickness
 Johnstown, Ja., March 20--(UP)
 Attempting to fight back history Johnatown today faced c threat 0l diptheria.
 \ Mayer Daniel Shields appealed t< the ned Gross from antl-toxin @. i, Rrim fO flahl the 0iRonaa.