PNEUMONIA & 'FLU

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 5

PNEUMONIA & 'FLU

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Down-Stream Cities Wait For Flood-Crest 800,000 HOMELESS

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(Eeceived January 28, 1.45 p.m.) • CHICAGO, Jan. 27. The known dead in the flood areas total 137 and the xiomBless are at least 830,000. The property damage . exceeded three hundred million dollars. An epidemic of inftuenza and pneumonia is ra-m-pant, particularly at Louisville, where the Health Commjssi^ner estimated that at least 200 have died from diseases attributable to the inundation. At Cincinnati the river is reeeding fraetionally inch by ineh from the high •tage of 79.99 feet reached yesterday. Evansville is under niartial law and awalts the crest of the flood, whieh is expected on Thursday or Friday. The 4 'Kew York Times" sent a reporter in an aeroplane which flew over 400 miles of flood coantry in eigjht States. He says: "Louisville is like a new Atlantic of cjark brown water as high as ihe eaves of the houses in three-fourQis of the city atea, rincinnati except in a few high spots seein planted in a chocolate sea. At Evansville, Indiana, where the river is normally a niile wide, it is 15 to 20 miles aeross. "In southern Indiana there is water as far" as the eye can reach with only the ice-capped hills prptruding. There was no sign on the hills of cattle or sheep, whieh must have been drowned when the flood swept niile after mlle of pustures. "Everywhere the sun glintsd on great stretches of water. There was little sign of life. Just a few boats; no smohe from factory or house chimneys The towns like great cities of Ihe flead." A summary by, States is as follows: — Kentucky: 300,000 homeless; fouj major cities affected. Ohio: 103,000 homeless; two major cities affeeted. Indiana: 70,000 homeless; four major cities all in process of evaeuation. Tennessee:, 15,000 homeless; numerous emall cities affected; levees weakening End expected to break at many points; Mississippi river rising rapidly.- - Arkansas: 20,000 homeless; eastern •ection under martial law; evaeuation of 50,000 under way. Miesouri; 15,000 homeless; scores be* lieved trapped and probably drowned due to tfle brfeaking of levees. Ulinois: 25,000 homeless; eight small cities affected. West Virginia: 40,000 homeless; four major cities affected; water cevers more than half the area and all cities along the Ohio river shore. • Pennsylyania: Conditions improving; rivers f alling.