Tragedy Follows Flood in Louisville

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 32, 8 February 1937, Page 7

Tragedy Follows Flood in Louisville

1 Gas Explosions Wreck Big Buildings RIVERS RETURNING TO NORMAL United Press Association—By Ulectrlc Telegraph. —Copyr ieh t. Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 6. Two gas explosions and a fire due to the effects of the flood destroyed two three-storey buildings in the heart of the business section. It is believed six are dead in the wreckage. The known injured number 12. Rescuers are unable to search the ruins until gas which had accumulated in the building after the flood from a damaged main has cleared away. The loss is estimated at 50,000 dollars. The upper floors comprised small apartments in which there were many flood refugees and several were injured in jumping from the second floor windows before the walls crumbled. Two similar explosions in 24 hours razed a business building and a factory. No one was killed, but the Joss is estimated at 300.000 dollars. Mr. Hopkins, representing the President, visited Louisville and left for Cincinattl to continue his flood tour. The water is falling at Cairo. Lower Mississippi river points are still endangered and the dynamiting of several levees is being considered. LEVEES HOLDING MISSISSIPPI Received Sunday, 10.30 p.m. MEMPHIS, Feb. 0. The levees are holding along tho swollen Mississippi, but a dysentery epidemic is reported among levee workers resulting in an order to chlorinate all wells. The crest of the flood has reached Memphis. The Ohio is falling steadily. Seven bodies were removed from the explosion which wrecked the Louisville buildings and three others are believed to have been buried among tho debris FLOODS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. SNOWBOUND IN NORTH-WEST. Received Sunday, 11.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 7. Steady raiu melted the snow on the mountains threatening floods in Southern California. An earth slide blocked one railway and water covered the tracks of another in several places. A cinema company consisting of 35 persons, including Judith Allen, Gene Autrey and Smiley Brunette, is marooned in the town of Kernville where the • flood covered a bridge upon which workers are piling sandbogs. In an effort to save 800 who are marooned in the town of Woodlake the evacuation of the town and lowlands nearby has been ordered. Six are dead through sub-zero weather in North Dakota. Scores of motorists are marooned as the result of snowstorms throughut the , north-west. One hundred and sixty Minnesota High School students are marooned in a country schoolhonse.