Evening star. [volume], April 28, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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FLOOD LEVELS OFF
IN OHIO VALLEY
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 further
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
•erious flood in 14 months was ex- I
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 this
week end, compared with a 52-foot
flood stage and an 80-foot top during
the record January inundation.
PITTSBURGH SEEKS PROTECTION.
Moves to Prevent Future Floods as
Waters Recede.
PITTSBURGH. April 28 i/PJ.—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.
City Council adopted a resolution
asking Congress to install storage
reservoirs throughout 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 $3,000,000 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.
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Flood
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when the rising waters threatened
their home. They got the sheep into
the scow, which they tied to a tree at
the foot of the island. Standing on
the Virginia shore, however, they could
see that the scow was about to break
loose.
Richard Jenkins told Officer K. L.
Burdette of the Montgomery County
police and Val Wilson, chief of the
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
6aid,
Young Jenkins and Athey managed
to climb onto the overturned boat,
ajnd 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 two
motor boats to White's Ferry, near
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 Washington 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
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Three persons, the engine
crew and a transient, were
killed ichen a Canadian Na
tional passenger train was
wrecked at Ingersoll, Ontario.
Two upper photos show the
train, some cars upended and
others almost submerged.
Lower picture show's 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.
i Cumberland to Harpers Ferry. W. Va. '
The crest of the flood, which yester
i day inundated Cumberland, Hancock,
Williamsport, Harpers Ferry. Point of
Rocks and other river settlements,
swept past Washington, where sand
; bag barricades were in readiness to
hold back the waters from water
| front 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
1 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, J
1 yesterday 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 i
County. |
Towns Appraise Damage.
Towns along the Rappahannock ap- ;
praised the flood damage, estimated to i
be greater than in many years be
i cause of the record-high levels reached
by the waters at their peak yesterday,
j Accurate estimates of the flood
damage, however, were not obtainable.
Gov. Harry W. Nice announced he
i 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- 1
j timated that amount would cover the
State’s entire loss. Damage at Cum- i
I
berland was set at about $100,000 by
the Chamber of Commerce,
Greater loss was feared if the fresh
water from the upper Potomac should
flood oyster beds in the lower Potomac
and tributaries. Thousands of bushels
of oysters and seedling oysters were
killed in last year's flood.
Maryland fishermen reported losses '
of about $20,000 in damage to trap nets
in the Potomac and Wicomico Rivers. '
A wharf was washed out at Rock Point,
in Charles County, and most of the
pier at Chesapeake Beach was de- 1
stroyed.
Richmond Damage $100,000.
Damage was severe at Fredricksburg,
Va., where homes in low areas were
partially submerged and the swift cu’
rent swept away more than a score of
gasoline storage tanks. The Standard
and Gulf oil companies both reported
damage in excess of $100,000 and the
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Damage at Richmond was counted in
excess of $100,000.
The loss of live stock was great, but
no estimate of the total could be se
emed today. Additional damage is ex
pected to result from the destruction
of newly planted crops.
Perhaps the heaviest damage was
suffered by roads throughout the two
States, where bridge sp«ns and ap- ;
proaches were swept aw'av and sec
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
Richmond - Fredericksburg 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 W'as expected to
keep the Scottsvtlle 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 its 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 w'ashed away and bridges
weakened.
Virginia Crop Loss $1,000,000.
Damage to crops was unestimated,
but the State as a whole was believed
to have suffered a loss of 81 OOO.OOG
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, but
the flood waters stopped operation of
the city gas plant temporarily, damaged
numerous water front plants and in
dustries located in low areas.
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President Sees Little to Be Gained
by Count.
President Roosevelt threw cold water
yesterday on proposals to take a
census of the unemployed.
He indicated a belief the count
would aad little information to data
already at hand.
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