Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1937, Page 5

FLODDLEVELSF N OHID VALEY Crest Moves on Marietta as | Cincinnati Prepares for Light Rise. By the Associated Press. MARIETTA, Ohio, April 28.—The debris-cluttered Ohio River's flood | crest, unencouraged by any rurmerI Spring rainfall, moved slowly today | on this city of 15,000 residents after leveling off at Martins Ferry, Steuben- ville and East Liverpool, farther up the Upper Ohio Valley. The upper valley's third and least- serious flood in 14 months was ex- | pected to cause the Ohio to climb 3 or 4 feet over flood stage of 36 feet | here, but the city's business district— under 8 feet of water in January—ap- parently was not endangered. Far downstream at Cincinnati, the | Ohio rose slowly from 29 feet as a light | drizzle continued to fall and “Flood | Forecaster” W. C. Devereaux stood by predictions of a 40-foot crest by U\IS‘ week end, compared with a 52-foot flood stage and an 80-foot top during the record January inundation. PITTSBURGH SEEKS PROTECTION. L Moves to Prevent Future Floods as | Waters Reccde, | PITTSBURGH, April 28 (#).—Pitts- | burgh raised its voice today for Federal | protection from floods as the most serious threat from high water since the inundation of St. Patrick’s day, 1936, retreated rapidly. v Counc adopted a resolution asking Cor to install storage reservoirs roughout the extensive Allegheny and Monongahela River | basins so that “flood control may be- come a reality in as short a time as humanly possible.” DAMAGE re: 000,000 IN ONTARIO. Flood Waters of Thames Begin Re-| ceding at London. | LONDON, Ontario, April 28 (Cana- dian Press).—Flood waters of the Thames River receded today. leaving a coat of slime over a broad section of London. Authorities estimated damage at $3,000.000. Five THE EVENING Deaths Mark STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, Flood Train Wreck i Richmond - Fredericksburg APRIL. 28, 1937. tions of the roadway were washed out. Traffic which was cut off by high | water at more than a score of points in Maryland and Virginia yesterday was mostly restored. The Virginia Highway Department predicted that virtually all main ar- teries of traffic, including the Rich- mond-Washington highway, would be open today. Route 1 from Fredericksburg to Washington was open after waters of the Rappahannock subsided at Fal- | mouth, and it was expected that the section would be passable today if water from the North Anna River near Doswell continued to recede. The Shenandoah Valley pike was reopened to traffic and a fill on Route 460 which was washed out between Farmville and Burkeville was opened to one-way traffic yesterday. Many secondary roads remained blocked and a half dozen highways converging at Culpeper were impass- able because of washed-out fills. Route 3 Is Closed. ‘With three spans of the bridge over the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg gone, route 3, leading from Freredicks- burg to the Colonial Beach ferry, was closed, and a 200-foot washout of a | fill north of Columbia was expected to | keep the Scottsville road blocked until | tomorrow. Route 6, from Richmond to Colum- bia, was reopened yesterday, and all roads in the Gloucester-Mathews sec- tion were reported open. | Including the four missing young persons, who were believed to have perished in the Robinson River, the flood death toll stood at eight. Fredericksburg Digs Out. Fredericksburg, heaviest sufferer in the State when the Rappahanock loosed 1ts 45-foot flood—highest in | history—on the city’s 7,000, turned to | rehabilitating homes, water front | plants and wharves as the water went down. Property damage was set at | $500,000 Hundreds of tourists, stranded when | the city was virtually cut off from outside highway communication, be- gan to move out Despite the severity of the flood, causing an estimated half-million dol- lars’ damage, no loss of life was re- ported. Over the eastern, northern and central portions of the State evidences of the high water were plainly evi- dent. Debris was strewn high along | river banks, highway fills partially or | entirely washed away and bridges weakened. Virginia Crop Loss $1,000,000. Damage to crops was unestimated but the State as a whole was believed | | symptoms to have suffered a loss of $1,000,000 or more as the result of the week end rainfall. Richmond, one of the last points to feel the full effects of the 48-hour | rain over the week end, threw up earthen dikes to hold a 27-foot crest | reached early yesterday afternoon, out | the flood waters stopped operation of the city gas plant temporarily, damaged numerous water front plants and in- dustries located in low areas. SRR R R JOBS CENSUS OPPOSED President Sees Little to Be Gained | by Count. President Roosevelt, threw cold water | yesterday on proposals to take a census of the unemployed. He would add little information to data already at hand. 1f You Suffer With Kidney Trouble Headache. unusual thirst are t to kidney trouble. For over 30 years physicians have en- dorsed Mountain Valley Mineral Water | 3 direct from famous Hot Springs_Arkansas, Phone MEt. 1062 for free booklet today. 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Two upper photos show the train, some cars upended and WARRIOR'S SHAVE! Among the Germanic tribes of long ago, young men were rewarded when they had slain their first enemy, by being allowed to shave. Richard Jenkins told Officer K. L. Burdette of the Montgomery County police and Val Wilson of t Rockville Rescue Squad, that he and Athey got in a row boat with his father to go over to the island and secure the | scow. As they reached it an eddy swung them against th» scow, over turning the skiff. All three were | plunged into the flooded stream, he ! said Young Jenkins and Athev managed to climb onto the overturned boat, and then to reach a tree nearby. Climbing up to a safe distance above the water, they were unable to find any trace of the elder Jenkins, they said The rescue squad portaged motor boats to White's Ferry, Poolesville, early this morning and rescued the pair. They were taken to the home of C. S. Butler, at White's Ferry, where food and dry clothing warmed them after their night's or- deal. A rescue squad from the Washing- ton Navy Yard, headed by Chief Car- penter F. Jackson, went to Great Falls with a breeches gun to shoot a line out into the river should Jenkins appear, but he had not been sighted early today. No other flood casualties were re- ported during the night, although waters were high along the river and several families left their homes or were evacuated late yesterday and to- day. Meanwhile, workers for the Ameri- can Red Cross left Washingtou to aid sufferers in stricken areas in Mary- land and Virginia, as many hundreds | were left homeless and destitute by the receding flood waters. Upper Waters Falling. Miss Catherine Ferrell took charge in Culpeper and Orange Counties, | both hard hit, while Ray Aton went to Fredericksburg and Miss Ella Bell to Columbia. Heavy rain during the night mo- mentarily threatened another rise in some sections, but further flood threats appeared dissipated in the face of steadily receding levels from ' two near \ . i others almost bmerged. Lower picture shows boatmen trying to locate the body of Dr. J. H. McDonald, who was drowned when his car was swept off the road while he was driving to the scene —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. - Cumberland to Harpers Fe: The crest of the flood. w day inundated Cumberland, Hancock, Willlamsport, Ha Ferry, Point of Rocks and othe: ver settlements, swept past Washington, where sand- bag barricades were in readiness to hold back the waters from water- ront parks and beauty spots Carrier’s Body Recovered. Searching parties from Orange and Culpeper continued to drag the Rob- inson River for the car in which four young persons from Culpeper were be- lieved to have been drowned when their car plunged into the water at the end of a bridge where the ap- proach had been washed away. Two seat covers of the car were found yes- terday. Searchers recovered the body of Leslie O'Bryant, 26-year-old Rich- | mond newspaper motor route carrier, | vesterday from subsiding water near | Maidens, where a roadway over a dam had collapsed. | State police said Linwood Goode, colored, about 65, was drowned when his car dropped into a bridge approach | washout at Salem Creek, Amelia County. Towns Appraise Damage. [ Towns along the Rappahannock ap- | praised the flood damage, estimated to | be greater than in many years be- | . W. Va. | cause of the record-high levels reached by the waters at their peak yesterday. Accurate estimates of the flood damage, however, were not obtainable. Gov. Harry W. Nice announced he expected to ask the special session of | the Legislature at Annapolis to con- | sider a $500,000 bond issue for flood repair work, stating that experts es- timated that amount would cover the State’s entire loss. Damage at Cum- | D. J. KAUFMAN., Inc. - 1005 Pa. 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