Evening star., 1948-02-14
Floods
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ings were either destroyed or dam
aged.
The second of the twisters struck
10 miles south of Monticello, Miss,
but only two houses were destroyed.
The danger of tornadoes was les
sened by the cold wave spreading
over the region.
The area around ShelbyVille In
mid Tennessee apparently was one
of the hardest hit by floods. The
Duck River was running amok.
Shelbyville City Manager R. Bailey
Jackson said 100 families already
had been evacuated and that water
now covered one-fourth Of the city.
National Guard Alerted.
At Nashville, Adjt, Gen. Milton
Butler alerted the National Guard
to stand by for emergency duty.
He estimated more than 450 families
already homeless in the State.
Down river at Columbia, the flood
waters rose to 48 feet, highest since
1920. The city was split in half as
water rippled feet over the bridge
in the middle. Approximately $50
families have been removed from
their homes. .-.
Lowlanders of Murfreesboro, Fa-
yetteviue, Lancaster, Carthage, Leb-
anon and other cities in the area
were also driven from their homes
Five passenger trains, including
the Nashville, Chattanooga and ST.
Louis crack Georgian" were held
ur by flood waters over the tracks
Knoxville, on the Tennessee River
reported 88 families removed from
surrounded communities with one
aged woman injured when water
washed away the foundations from
her log cabin.
Drainage bitches Flooded.
Nashville, built on hills, reported
even drainage bitches flooding. A
postman, j. H. Gilmore, "a, had te
leap into one to rescue an 1l-year-
old boy from drowning.
In Kentucky the entire COM
munity of Oneida, with a popula-
ton of 500, was ordered abandoned
as waters poured in from three
swollen mountain creeks.
The Red Gross estimated hum
dreds of lowland dwellers had been
forced to flee in Eastern Kentucky
AS in Tennessee, many highways
throughout Kentucky were under
water.
Neighboring west Virginia report
ed food waters tapping in the
streets of many towns, with 80 fam
lilies at Logan forced to flee. In
the central part of the State, Weston
had 27 inches. of water on the main
street.
The Guyandotte river, normally 3
feet, reached 228 feet at Logan
near midnight last night.
Miners Son Drowned.
Five-year-old Eldon Marshall Ad-
kins, jr., son of a miner, was
drowned near the little town OF
Ethel, w. Va, when he fell into one
of the swollen streams.
The West Virginia floods had lit
tie chance to recede in a steady
rainfall. Washington headquarters
of the Red Cross sent relief di-
rector for the hundreds of homeless
In the southwestern part Of the
State.
U. S. route 10 to Clarksburg was
blocked. Yuma, one-half mile
from Charleston, was virtually
stranded and residents moved into
the school house on higher ground
The western edge of the State
watched the Ohio River anXlously
as it edged toward flood level.
Alabama Lowlands Flooded.
Northern Alabama, through h
which the broad Tennessee flows
had some lowlands flooded, but ap-
peared In no danger.
Crowder, Miss, just south o1
Memphis, was under Is inches o1
water with about 80 families re.
moved to higher ground.
Farther south in MISSISSIPPI
waters strained at levees near Tu'
pelo and Vicksburg, while at Co
lumbus and Aberdeen hundreds
were reported menaced by the rag
ing waters of the Tombigbee River
A break in a drainage canal neal
Marks, Miss, poured water over
5-mile-square area, though Isl
families in the danger area refused
to leave unless the danger increased
Arkansas reported some lowland'
flooded by the Ouachita River. bu1
none forced to leave home.
Georgia reported some streams
out of banks and roads Throughout
the State impossible because o.
mud, but no immediate danger from
floods. The situation in South
Carolina was nearly similar.
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