Evening star., 1937-01-23
Tank Cars Get
Loose From
Moorings.
WATERS SWEEP
EIGHT STATES
100000 Are Home.
less as Relief Is
Speeded.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON-Ch Cary T
Grayson marshals 3,700 Red Cross
chapters in campaign for 100000
to aid 100000 homeless or needy in
eight States hardest hit by floods
Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois. Tennes-
see, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and
West Virginia.
CINCINNATI-Ohio River rise stops
at record crest Of 1877 feet, 1.6 above
previous all-time high. predicted
Estimates of Ohio flood homeless
range from $4,000 to $4,000.
PITTSBURGH-Co weather eases
flood fears. Pennsylvania homeless
total 4,500; West Virginia, 10000.
LOUISvILLE-Red Cross says Ken
tucky flood refugees may number
$4,000 at peak.
JNDIANAPOLIS-Red Cross estimates
$4,000 flooded out in Indiana, pre-
diets $4,000 when river crests
reached.
EASHVILLE-Weak levees cause
exodus of $500 near Tiptonville.
Total of 4,500 homesless in Middle
Tennessee.
ST. LOUIS-Number of homeless in
Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas rises
to $4,000. Bottom lands dwellers
driven to ridges in Southern Illinois.
Ohio River stage near 60-foot safety
level at ShaWneetoWn, Ill.
By tie Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. Ohio, January 23.-
More than $4,000 Ohioans made
homeless by record Ohio River flood
faced hunger and bitter cold today
and the threats of fire and disease.
While the river swirled past Gin
cinnati 1913 feet deep-20 feet above
flood stage-that city's fire chief
warned of the danger of more than a
million gallons of gasoline floating on
three miles of the Millcreek bottoms.
The Cincinnati area strove nightly
to care for 56,50o refugees. while the
Portsmouth district, 100 miles up
stream. reported 10000 of its 10000
residents homeless.
A milk and food shortage threat
ened in industrial Portsmouth. half
covered with water to a depth as
great as ii feet.
Damage there was officially set at
S1,00O,O00, while Cincinnati's loss was
forecast at s5,000,0O0.
In scores of other villages and cities
along 200 miles of the Ohio in this
State the story was much the same.
In Cincinnati the unofficial word
went out to shoot the looters." Off,
cials were bound to conserve the food
supply-cut of by flood-wreeked
transportation facilities.
Increasing the suffering Of the
homeless were temperatures below 20
in much of the flooded area.
Warning Is Sounded.
Fire Chief Barney J. Houston
warned that the Millcreek Bottom
from its mouth at the Ohio River for
3 miles north to the Cumminsville Sec
ton Of Cincinnati was in danger of
bursting into floating fire.
He appealed by radio to citizens to
take extraordinary precautions with
cigarettes, matches and all kinds Of
flame.
Houston reported more than mil
lion gallons of gasoline, kerosene and
fuel oil floating on the water, sending
heavy fumes over the surface.
Railroad tank cars had broken away
from their moorings and released the
fuel, he reported.
Fire headquarters reported 10000
gallon tank of gasoline at the plant Of
the Gulf Refining Co. turned over and
spilled its contents.
Acting Marshal Louis Purcell re-
ported the gasoline spreading in and
around flooded buildings. He threw
q Gordon of firemen, police and vol
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