Towns Empty as Flood Sweeps On
FEAR." THAT LOWER LEVEES MAY BURST CHICAGOT jan. 26. The muddy Ohio river, mountainous high, rolled relentlessly down to the Mississippi with the worst devastation recorded in the history of America. United States Army engineers continued to sound a warning that the worst is yet to come. Already 150 are dead and over 550,000 homeless. Towns and villages continued to disappear under the submerging element, which has spread over two million acres in the Mississipi river basin.
The wholesale evacuation of floo<&• besieged towns in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi sig* nified the greatest shifting of populations ever known in America.
In Pittsburgh anxious thousand? watched the flood slowly recede after spreading to the edge of the business district. Beyond Cairo the watery desolation exceeded 1927 condit’ons, raising f.he fears of the authorities whethet the grjat system of dykes and levees built along the lower reaches of the drainage system will survive. A super-flood is on its way, was the meteorological prediction.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 23, 28 January 1937, Page 7
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