The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-19
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 storage tanks of a filling station were set on fire and soon flames lighting the city for miles, were leaping up from where had been pylons.
 At the same time another fire was raging on the Alleghany river front. two blocks from the Fort Pitt Hotel. Streets were flooded and the over- worked fire department, harrased by one fire after another since flood waters began creeping into the Golden Triangle yesterday morning, could not reach it.
 Two Block Plant Ablaze
 The two square block plant of the Waverly Oil Company, 8 few miles up the Allegheny still was ablaze, shooting flames into the sky. It had been burning for 24 hours with firemen all but helpless in their efforts to check the inferno.
 The stage of the swollen rivers was falling rapidly as their flood crests entered the Ohio and ragged on down the Valley, flooding Wheel ing, w. Va, Stuebenville and Mar ietta, O., and threatening other cit- ies and towns further on.
 Pittsburgh, gripped by its worst catastrophe of generations, not only was courageous but light-hearted. Even while relief authorities cared for approximately 5000 homeless and the military established an iron rule that, though not formal state of martial law, was martial law in effect; while communications were all but non-eXistent, transportation paralyzed, electric and gas service cut off, the city prepared to return itself to normal. Authorities hoped that the flooded sections would be entirely dry by night. Hundreds of men will be employed cleaning up the debris and repairing damage that was estimated to approximate $20 0,000,000.
 Newspaper Had Grit
 An example of the courage with which the city maintained itself superior to disaster was the success of the Pittsburgh Press in getting out its editions. Driven from its own plant yesterday, it moved to the plant of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Driven out there, 1t went to the plant of the Pittsburgh Sum Telegraph. Today it printed its edi- tions in the plant of the Washing ton, Pa, Observer and Reporter, 40 miles from Pittsburgh.
 The Post Gazette, a morning newspaper, by strenuous work pub- lished one edition today. The Sum- Telegraph planned to put out its editions today in newspaper plant at Greensburgh, Pa.
 Mayor William McNair marShalled every resource of the city to fight the menace of epidemic that arises always with flood and to succor the suffering and the needy.
 Property Damage
 Authoritative estimates placed property damage at $12,000,00O, but many persons familiar with the Golden Triangle" district insisted it might reach $20,000,0OO. The black streets filled with water-a black ness broken only by the flashlights and lanterns of emergency workers /, in skiffs and motor boats-offered a profitable field for the criminally inclined-hence the stern military guard.
 Five were known dead in Pitts burgh. No new deaths had been re- ported since noon yesterday and au- thorities believed that would be the ultimate toll
 Approximately 5000 persons lost their homes and were being cared for at emergency relief stations and in private homes. Several thousand persons had been removed from the flooded districts and those that re- mained did so voluntarily, being largely private watchmen over retail establishments and the reg ular guards of banks and business buildings.