COLLAPSE FEARED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 13, 30 January 1937, Page 5

COLLAPSE FEARED

-Press Aesn.-

800 Persotis Marooned in Hotel KENTUCKIANS IN FLIGHT

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(Received 30, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 28. A new crisis is developing at LouisViile whefe the Kaiifamn Stfaus and Co.'s department stores, a four-storey huilding, are reported near coiiapse. other larget buildings With the same foundatioais hre feared alSo to be weakehing. MetCbfoldgiSts say the rains responsible for the flood are the gteatest evCr recofded ilx so Shoft a time over sUCh a large area. The average rainfall in the entire Ohio valley for 26 days has been 16 inches. Johnsonville, Tennessee,i had thd Jiighest recording of 23.11 inches, which is 2611 tons of watef per acre. Louisville had the highest of the larger cities, 18.58 inches. The Seeretary of Agriculture, Mr. Walla&e, said the rains had been so heavy that no flood contfol projects cbuld have prevented the inundation. Offieials in Louisville have tightened cCnsorship on the news regarding the number of dead and continue to insist that the fataiities are few. Two Asuociated JBresS phdtiographers discdVered boats unloading cargoes of dead near a pontoon bridge. When they took flash bulb pictures, the polico aild soldiers drove them away and threatened to smash their eamerhs. There is no way of determining hoW many bodies the boats contained. One army o^cial confided that 40 bodies hdd been carried aeross the bridge during the day. The same photogfaphefs got pictures of one trench at the cemetery in the highlands , cbntaiiiing 150 casketS.- It is learned that fingerpiiiits of many of the uhidentified dead have been taken

in the ldentity. later. nearing Paducah, Kentucky, from whieh it is estimated 15,000 have been evacuatea. Eight hundfed &fe marooned in an hotel. Many are believed dead, but it is impossible to hunt for bodies due ttf the rising river.