The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-27

Pittsburgh and Charlotte, N. G.
Flood waters receded in Pitts
burgh and were stationary or near
ly so in Ohio. Engineers said the
Ohio had dropped two-tenths of a
foot at Cincinnati but that slight
rise might again be expected.
Regulation hospitals in Louisville
reported an excess above normal OF
$500 patients. Almost 1000 pa
tients were in emergency hospitals
established at evacuation stations
and in schools and churches. The
cjty's 900 physicians and 300 nurses
and 100 junior and senior medical
students were drafted to battle dis
ease.
Hospitals Crowded
Portsmouth, o., reported its three
hospitals crowded with influenza,
whooping cough and chicken pox
patients.
A scarlet fever quarantine was
established at Cannelton, Ind. Ma
tional guardsmen reporter 1t was
impossible to estimate accurately
how many persons were being
treated.
Communication lines to Jeffer-
sonville and Speed, Ind, were brok-
en-, but influenza cpidemics were
reported. Lewisport, Ind, had 300
refugees in its school house, many
of them Ill.
Two influenza deaths were re-
ported from Shawneetown, III.
Scattered reports Of looting
brought appeals from New Albany
and Aurora, in, Southern Indiana,
for additional national guardsmen.
WPA Administrator Harry L.
Hopkins said $4,000 federal relief
workers were in the flood area.
Seven thousand resettlement adj
ministration employees were ordered
to relief duty.
Faces Flood Crest
Water shortage existed in Evans
vile, Ind. Food, medicine, fuel and
clothing were on sale but all other
business activities were suspended.
The city faced Its greatest flood
crest IN history.
Pa;ucah. KY. was cut off COM
pletely except for sketchy messages
clearing through amateur radio sta
tions. Serums and other medicines
were dropped from airplanes into
the stricken city. Fourteen were
reported drowned when rescue
barge capsized in the rushing wa
tiers.
Cincinnati residents obtained
drinking water from newly tapped
artesian wells. Regular supplies
had dwindled. What remained was
rationed. Residents were warned
TO boil all water before using 1t.
Mayor Miller OF Louisville broad
cast his appeal for police reinforce
ments after a disagreement with
Brig. Gen. William x. Naylor, COM
mandant of the fifth corps area,
over whether 600 federal troops
could be moved into the city.
The troops were placed at the
disposal Of Louisville's mayor by
Gen. Malin Craig. chief OF staff, at
Washington. Naylor had contend
ed he could not act unless President
Roosevelt declared that a state Of
insurrection" existed.
Martial Law Declared
Martial law declared in six Ar
kansas counties to expedite evacua-
ton of IS 900 men, women and chill
dren. Workers abandoned hope of
saving Mississippi tributary levees
in Arkansas.
An army Of workers with brooms
and shovels followed receding flood
waters back to the rivers edges at
Pittsburgh. The flood had spread
film of mud and debris over city
streets and highways.
Fire hazard was reported at
Portsmouth, O., when floating gaso-
line tanks spread a film of the in
flammable fluid over the flood wa
tiers. Five hundred and forty-siX
men, women and children who had
been marooned SO hours in school
building were transported to Col
umbus and given shelter in church.
eS.
Twenty-Five carloads of food were
ordered into hunger-ridden COM
munities. Quantities of eggs, can
ned milk and meats were shipped
by rail and truck into the flood
zone. Railroad tank cars carrying
water were ordered out Of Indian
apolis to Evansville.
The airport at Louisville was
opened yesterday for the first time
since the floods began. A score of
planes, carrying medicines and 9TH
err supplies, landed on the muddy
field Yesterday