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known number were believed
killed in rioting.
Evacuation of Paducah's
$4,000 citizens went forward
today. The entire city is under
water. A devastating con-
flagration was feared as thou
sands of gallons of gasoline
from uprooted storage tanks
floated on the flood waters. A
like situation prevailed at
Augusta, where 1,500 of the
1900 residents have fled.
An estimated 100000 persons
have been driven from their
homes in 33 Indiana counties.
An army of 10000 relief
workers toiled to complete
evacuation Of Evansville's 1922
900 citizens. One third of
Evansville is under water. The
stricken area is under strict
martial law, with Gov. M. Cliff
ford Townsend threatening to
confiscate private homes as bill
lets for the refugees, many of
them stricken by influenza and
pneumonia and scarlet and
typhoid fever.
Relief workers in Southern H.
linois estimated the homeless at
more than 10000. The men Of
Cairo toiled increasingly to
strengthen levees as relief work
ers evacuated the women, children
and infirn.
Residents Of Harrisburg, more
then % miles from the Ohio, were
evacuated as the torrential rivers
backwaters crept over the city.
Shawneetown was a water-logged
ghost town." completely deserted.
At Memphis the Mississippi,
taxed by the great volume Of
water poured into its channel by
the Ohio, rose to flood heights,
leading Col. Eugene S. Reybold,
district chief Of Army eginneers,
to predict:
"A super flood is on the way.
There will be 55 feet of water at
Memphis before the water now
pouring into the Mississippi
from the Ohio is carried off"
Tennessee listed it's flood fatal
tiles at 25, as evacuation Of river
towns was ordered.
Coast Guard cutters cruised the
streets of Huntington, West Vir-
ginia, evacuating marooned resi-
dents. Half of the business dis
trict of Parkersburg was reported
under water. At Wheeling. where
the heart OF the business district
is divided by the Ohio, water
eddied through the streets. The
last of the 10000 residents Of
Wheeling Island we're being evacu-
ated. The State counted it's home
less at 10000, the dead at 10.
The Ohio had reached a stage
Of 34.54 feet at Pittsburgh early
today, almost 10 feet above flood
level. City officials estimated the
homeless at 1900 There was one
known death. The yellow tide
flowed through the streets of
Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle"
Government engineers reported
the river slowly receding at
Sharpsburg, Etna and McKees
Rocks residents fled from the
flood waters.
Red Tape SIashed
The greatest army Of relief
workers ever modified was sent
into the stricken areas to Succor
the flood victims.
Slashing governmental red tape,
President Roosevelt ordered the
expenditure of all available funds,
the dispatch Of all available relief
workers into the flood swept
States.
Federal agencies and the Red
Cross worked hand in hand with
State and local relief organizations
in a concerted effort to meet the
grave situation and ameliorate the
suffering and misery.
The Army today announced the
appropriation of 100000 for the
immediate emergency construc-
tion Of refugee camps in the
flooded areas of the Midwest.
A company of Army engineers
also has been dispatched from
Fort Belvoir, Va, to Fort Benja-
min Harrison at Indianapolis.
The appropriation will be al
lotted to three corps areas, with
headquarters at Columbus, Ohio;
Chicago, and Omaha, Neb.
Food Rushed to Louisville