Worst of Floods Over
WATERS ON WAY TO OCEAN. I United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 100.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. The Mississippi in absorbing the enormous flood waters of the Ohio, carried its record load through the Delta country to-night under the vigilance of river men who predicted a safe passage to the Gulf of Mexico Army. Engineers nud 120,000 work-weary defenders and thousands of refugees, shared tho view that tho worst is over upon hearing of the drops at stages in the Ohio and upper Mississippi. The flood waters receded .02 of a foot at Cairo for the first time since the confluence of tho Ohio and Mississippi rivers reached the record of 59.52* feet.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 5
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