FLOODS STILL BATTERING

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 350, 3 February 1937, Page 5

FLOODS STILL BATTERING

THREAT IN WEST

SNOW THAWING

Crest Of Flood On River Ten

Miles Wide.

Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1.30 p.m.) Montreal, February 2.

Thle ,authorities at Cairo pre now ,ag'hast at the possibility of a. 63-foot sea-wall being undermined. Miniature geysers have appeared in the Btreets. Emergency squads dumped thousands of sandbags into the holes and the city has been evaciftted with the exception of ten able-bodied men, 6000 of whom are working day and night to maintain the wall.

New York, February 2.

Lashed by wind and a swift current, waves broke over the 60-foot concrete flood wall at Cairo to-day and hammered the omniously frail threefoot superstructure hurriedly raised over, the wall.

Fewer than’2oo persons.' remain at Paducah, Kentucky, whereas the normal population is 30,000. The crest of the flood arrived on a river 10 miles wide. The flood is believed to have entered every one of the 8000 residences. Fersonjs? remaining are so few that troops abandoned tba town.

7000 Reported Dead. Police Superintendent Fallow, Boston, received with Th Credulity a" telegram from Lieutenant Waitt asserting that 7000 were dead in the Louisville area. Lieutenant Waitt waJ* sent to Louisville a week ago in command of a group of Boston policemen. Meanwhile, the forecast of warmer temperatures and thow brought the threat of goods in western Otegon, where Portland is burled in the heaviest snowstorm in history. Snow blocks the highways in the States of Washington and Oregon and in the mountains of northern California and the two main roads of Utah. The

coastal area was warned that a new Itorm would blow from the Pacific

to-night. Sixteen inches of snow at Portland paralysed business, closed schools and marooned trams to-day. It is estimated that 50,000 persons' arc snowbound in Oregon alone. One electric train reached Spokane', "Washington, four days late.

Temperatures are again" at freeizng point in the southern California clt-