Evening star., 1938-02-07
FLOODS RECED|NG
IN MIDWEST AREA
Many Unable to Return to
Homes Yet in Wisconsin,
Michigan and Ontario.
Ey the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Feb. 7.-Swollen streams
that flooded highways, homes and
many thousands of acres in North
Central States and Western Ontario
receded today as unreasonable rains
ceased and falling temperatures
checked the melting of ice and snow.
In the wake of the flood waters
were broken dams. water filled base
ments and washed-out bridges and
highways.
Michigan and Wisconsin bore the
brunt of the flood which caused dam
age estimated in the hundreds Of
thousands of dollars
Huge ice cakes still were strewn
over SebeWaing. Mich, a city of 1850
population on Saginaw Bay. Scores Of
. families were unable to reach their
: homes in the flooded basin of the
I Clinton River, near Mount Clemens,
. Mich.
= 125 Driven From Homes.
: Halt of Vassar, Mich, vas without
, gas or telephone service. Two bridges
, were washed out there. Dynamiting
. OF an ice jam in the Pine River a..
4 Alma, Mich, averted serious flood
: menace. One hundred and twenty
: f1ve persons who were driven from
: their dwellings in suburban Detroit
!. by the Rouge River returned to their
: homes.
; In Wisconsin, flood waters were
) receding rapidly, but at BrowntoUn,
/, Wis. water still stood feet deep on
: some highways and railroad service
: between Browntown and Platteville
: was Cancelled
! The Pecatonica River still was high
: at Darlington, Wis, where Main
: street was inundated yesterday and
rowboats were used to ferry mer-
!. chandlse from the first floors of l8
. stores. Temperatures were falling in
: Wisconsin, but the sky was overcast.
! In Western Ontario, the Thames
. River was falling. abating a food
: menace at London, Ontario Five
: hundred persons fled their homes yes
{ terday when the river rose to within
! feet of the top of breakwater, but
! They were able to return today. Low
, lands still were flooded, but danger
. OF a recurrence of damaging floods
3 that occurred last year seemed to
, have passed.
Damage Near 100000.
Near Mount Clemens, Mich. Van
Wallace, %, former Notre Dame Uni
versity student who has been para
lyzed for years because of a broken
neck, watched with relief the recess
sion OF the Clinton River flood waters.
Friends made preparations last night
TO remove him in a rowboat when
water surrounded his home, but he
was not removed.
officials at Sebewaing said the food
damage might reach s30O.0oo Sixty
per cent Of the city was under water
When water crept into Sebewaine's
main streets. merchants put up plank
Ing before their windows for protec-
ton. Many residents, with base.
ments flooded resorted to candle light
and oil lamps after turning off cleo
tr1cal switches in fear of short cir
cults. Furnace fires were ex-
tlnguished.
The Childsdale Dam, north of
Grand Rapids. Mich, gave way last
night. Dwellers along Grand River,
also north Of Grand Rapids. LETT
their homes.
Rescuers Remove Several.
Rescuers in rowboats removed
scores OF persons from flooded homes
IN Southern and Central Wisconsin
yesterday. Red Cross workers and
Coast Guardsmen in Racine took -
persons. including eight children, from
q cottage. Five families had eyacu-
ated their homes in the same vi
cinity.
An estimated 10 square miles of
1srm land in Wisconsin were under
water and 10 highways in Eastern
racine County were closed. The
Fox and White Rivers coursed across
q 2-mile strip for about - miles on
each side Of Burlington. The Kicka-
POO River surged over the north and
south portions of the town of Cav,
Mills.