WORST YET TO COME

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 345, 28 January 1937, Page 5

WORST YET TO COME

TOLL OF FLOODS NINE STATES AFFECTED. Worst Devastation In History Of the Nation. Press Association —-yopyriglit. Chicago, Jan. 26. ■fhe muddy Ohio, mouptains high, rolled relentlessly to the Mississippi, causing the worst devastation recorded in the history of the United States. Army engineers continue to sound the warning that the worst is yet to come. Already 150 persons are dead and nearly 600,000 are homeless. Towns and villages continue to disappear under the submerging flood which has spread over 2,000,000 acres in the Mississippi River basin.

Summary x>f Damage. A summary by States is as follows: — Kentucky: 300,000 homeless; four major cities affected. Ohio: 103,000 homeless; two major cities affected. Indiana: 70,000 homeless,; four major cities all in process of evacuation. Tennessee: 15,000 homeless; numerous small cities affected. Levees are weakening and are expected to break at many points. The Mississippi River is rising rapidly. Arkansas: 20,000 homeless. The eastern section is under martial law and the evacuation of 50,000 persons is under way. Missouri: 15,000 homeless. Scores are believed to have been trapped and probably drowned by The breaking of levees. Illinois: 25,000 homeless; eight small cities affected. West Virginia: 40,000 homeless; four major cities affected. Water covers more than half the area of all cities along the Ohio River shore. Pennsylvania: Conditions improving, rivers falling. Fire is raging iu the flooded industrial area of Louisville. The police dynamited the factory section in an attempt to isolate the. blaze. Smoking and the sale of cigarettes are banned throughout the city.