Evening star. [volume], March 21, 1936, Page A-6, Image 6

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Three Eastern States Still Inundated—Death Toll Rises
Main street in Marietta, Ohio, at retidentt used boats to carry on batinett o«« Me OkwRum
flooded the town. .^ ^
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Air view of Hartford, Conn., in the path of the Connecticut River, where terror-stricken residents
were plunged into darkness when waters crippled the power plant. ~~vride World Photo*
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Air view of the Connecticut State Prison at Wethersfield, Conn., as flood
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Member of the Coast Guard crew carrying a j {
woman from her water-surrounded home in Wilkes
Barre, Pa., to a rescue boat. a. p. wirtphou,.
The raging Blackstone River tore through the brick wall of this building
of the Windie Manufacturing Co. in Millbury, Mass.
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This boat cruised the streets of Hartford, Conn., removing flood victims
from second-story windows. Half the city was under water from the raging
Connecticut River. -copyright a. p. wirephoto.
Thelma Stockwell abandoned her home in
Kingston, Pa., as the flood waters of the Susque
hanna neared the second floor.
—Copyright A. P. Wlrephoto.
Murky flood waters coursed 6 to 18 feet deep over three-quarters of Sun
bary, Pa., a city of 12,000. More than 4,000 were reported homeless and
hundreds marooned.
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A pole and a basket serve as a food contact with a supply boat on stricken
Whetling IdanJ, W.Va. . -axmW a t. •»«>
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Men whoae homes along the canal on the
Potomac above Key Bridge were washed away by
the flood set up emergency camps: Iifc» Jfoose. a
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(/,,„* a ladder bridge to thwart the Motion by flood water» in the retim
dentiaFiection of Wheeling I,land, W. Va, a. p. M
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