Evening star. [volume], January 26, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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RELIEF RUSHED AS FLOOD WATERS CONTINUE ON RAMPAGE
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Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio as he set forth in boots and slicker on a boat
tour of Cincinnati to personally inspect flood conditions.
(All Photos by A. P. and Wide World.)
An air view of Louisville, now under military rule, where 20,000 persons remain to be removed to higher ground from the low
lying inundated residential districts. In some sections only the tops of the homes are visible.
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Unmanned houseboat floating down one of Cincinnati’s main thorough
fares.
Hip-booted rescue worker and refugee and his
son take a much needed rest in improvised shelter.
They were routed from home in Evansville, Ind.,
by water.
Fuse plug levee of the Birds Point-New Madrid, Mo., floodway, dynamited
by United States engineers in the hope release of the Mississippi waters would
ease pressure on the Cairo, III., levee.
Thousands have fled Paducah, Ky., flood-beleaguered city of 34,000. Water, 4 to 9 feet, covers nearly
all of city and rescue workers toil day and night to save marooned families.
Refugees, woe etched on their faces and everything lost to angry Hood waters, leave rortsmouth. I tie 9
mother holds 2-week-old baby. Other eight children are behind them. |
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Row boats with radio units cruising flooded Portsmouth, Ohio, reporting
danger spots to rescue workers and National Guardm
Cat marooned on a second-etory window ledge
of a house in Portsmouth* Ohio*
Harry Hopkins (left) and Senator Barkley of Kentucky at Hood-relief i
meeting* Stress of working night and day shows in the faces of both men. I