Evening star. [volume], January 28, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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FLOOD WRECKS BUILDING; 6 FORCED TO LEAP INTO WATER
? The main streets of Louisville, choked by Ohio River flood, are being
spanned with Army pontoon sidewalks like this one along Baxter avenue, per
mitting refugees to reach evacuation boats.
Refugees of all ages from flooded areas of Indiana crowded into a tempo*
vary home in Evansville, Itid.
Scene at Salvation Army, First and F Streets, today, as workers packed clothes for Hood sufferers.
In the photo are Adjt. and Mrs. Albert E. Baldwin and Mrs. Cecil Dodge, secretary. The Red Cross
is using the Army’s receiving and shipping depot to handle relief gifts of Washingtonians. The Army
kas placed all equipment and personnel at the disposal of. the Red Cross* —Star Staff, BJhotq*
Where invading waters brought panic to pris
oners in Frankfort, Ky., penitentiary. A total of
2,900 convicts were evacuated.
Fatigued by a long tussle with Hood waters, a
mother and her year-old baby find thelter in a
Wheeling, W. Va., camp.
|5 ' Business is at a standstill in this business section of Carrollton, Ky., with
water of the Ohio nearing top of second stories.
'■ This house in fronton, Ohio, collapsed after a gas explosion indirectly
caused by flood waters which cover nine-tenths of the city. Six persons,
unhurt, were forced into water6 feet deep, where they were rescued.
These two boys, and a little furniture salvaged from their home, core waiting
patiently on the levee near New Madrid, Mo., while their parents go for help.
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Refugees from flooded Dyess Colony at Little
Rock, Ark., who were married in refugee camp.
James B. Seitz, 18, and Ruth Matlock, IS.
Dramatic scene at Cairo, III., showing men, women and children whose homes have been inundated
boarding a freight train, bound for higher ground. An improvised gangplank has been thrown to the car
door to aid refugees, many of them loaded down with meager possessions• Cold and snow are adding to
thtdzgligjit* _____ —Copyright A. P. Wjrephoto,