Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1937 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JAN.

4500 HOMELESS

AS WATERS RISE

IN KNOX COUNTY

Record Height May Be

Reached, Say U. S. Officials.

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or getting worse, approximately 100 square miles would be under water soon. The Brevort Levee system is approximately 49 miles long and runs from Vincennes downstream along the Wabash to Mount Carmel, and upstream along the White River to Decker. It has been in existence for many years. Local officials said that even now the Congressional Budget Committee has allowed a $900,000 repair fund for it. to administer it. It’s original cost was said to be $500,000.

Water System Disrupted

The water system at Princeton near here, broke down last night and approximately 5000 residents today had only two days’ reserve supply between them and drinking boiled river water.

Posey County, at the junction of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers, was beginning to feel the full force of the floods. Approximately 35,000 acres in Posey County already were inundated and residents were preparing

for floods nearing, or perhaps equal- |

ling, the 1913 records. Charles W. Carr, national disaster relief director of the Red Cross and native of Mount Vernon, visited . there yesterday and arranged for use of empty boxcars to house homeless. The Posey County Red Cross chapter was supplying means of evacuation and food orders.

Schools Closed All Point Township schools were closed. At Griffin, isolated, except for railroad travel, 31 flood refugees

were quartered in one small house and 21 in another. Mt. Vernon, one of the highest points along the Ohio River, was cia by the floods and business proceeded as usual with flood refugees pouring into the city. A new stage of 47.7 feet was forecast for Evansville by the middle of next week as the Ohio River continued to rise. Flood stage at Evansville is 35 feet, but the city proper is well protected. The water had reached 45 feet at 7 a. m. today. The Green and Barren River valleys in Kentucky already were faced “with 1913 flood conditions, and threatened to establish new records. Heavy rains last night washed out Louisville & Nashville Railroad tracks near Slaughters, Ky. and about 12 cars on a passenger train from Evansville to Nashville ran off into shallow water today. Two women and a man were in--jured slightly. Swollen by rains during the last

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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-—Times Photo by Cotterman.

William Moore is right at home with dynamite. For 30 years he was an oil well “shooter” in Missouri. Here you see him placing dynamite for the first 100-pound charge when an attempt was made to blast the Power & Light Co. dam in White River here yesterday. It’s all in a day’s work for him. Mr. Moore's home is in Brownsburg.

rolled over the farms and villages from which they fled for their lives. The number of homeless mounted hourly. as the peak of a-flood feared the worst since 1913 swirled down the Ohio Valley bursting levees, swirling through village streets, isolating farms and cities. Estimated homeless: Indiana=—4500. Ohio-West . Virginia-Kentucky— 5000. Illinois—1000.

Another 3000 were. homeless in Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee.

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Terre Haute c.ceciocesessese Vincennes Mt. Carmel . New Harmony ecececcescosscsces

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Elliston ...

River High-Water Stages

River stages at strategic points in the last four days as reported today by the Weather Bureau here, were:

WABASH

Stage Stage Stage Stage Jan. 18 Jan. 19 Jan. 20 Jan. 21

29.2 21. 26.4

—Times Photo by Connaway.

TJp she goes! Here's the first 100 pout ds of dynamite doing its work on the Power & Light Co. dam yesterday.

Raging White River is shown here rush ing through a gap in the levee near Elnora, Daviess County. Despite efforts

of WPA workers, the levee broke down under the hammering.

STORE EMPLOYEES DINE apolis, Inc. sponsored by J. C, Perry & Co., was attended by 400

The third annual banquet of the persons in the Claypool Hotel last Quality Service Stores of Indian- | night.

tion meeting tonight in the Roberts Park M. E. Church. A retreat for Methodist ministers is to be held in ‘the church today at 2:30 p. m.

Eight persons are known dead. Tosioton ! : 29 ; 31.3

MISSIONARY TO SPEAK Dr. E. Stanley Jones, missionary,

is tp speak at a Methodist mobiliza-

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24 hours, the Whitewater River rose | Others may be missing in isolated rapidly near Richmond today, pass-| districts. A half million dollars the high stage reached last weck | worth of bridges, highways and and forcing families to evacuate|farm homes have been destroyed.

teers piled sandbags and bales of hay on smaller levees to protect

southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southeastern Missouri.

homes in Happy Hollow, north of the city. The water was over the flood gate at the city light plant, but no immediate danger was reported. Ten thousand five hundred women and children lived i cars, schoolhouses, Red Cr

rivers and a score of tributaries

In Cincinnati, U. S. Meteorologist W. C. Devereaux said the floods along the Ohio below Louisville, Ky., may last at least three weeks.

Residents Flee Hazleton

Rains which first sent the rivers over their banks more than a week ago continued today in the center of the worst-stricken area—northern Kentucky, southwestern Ohio,

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY

Methodist Ministers and Laymen, mass [ecting, Roberts Park M. E. Church, 7:30

p.m. Real Estate Board, Hotel Washington. noon. aIndiana Trotting and Racing Association, dinner, Claypool Hotel, night. Advertising Club of Indianapolis, luncheon, Columbia Club, no « Sigma Chi, Hen N oard of Trade,

luncheon,

n. O serioan Business Club, luncheon, Conoon.

lur.bia_ Club, Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. i Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,

"Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,

no diana Motor Traffic Association, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana Lumbermen’s Hardwood Association, annual meeting, Hotel Severin, all

day Exchange SID, luncheoni, Hotel Washington,

PR iy Ciub, luncheon, Columbia Club,

noon. Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Delta oyheta, luncheon,” Boarg of Trade, Delta Ta Delia, luncheon, Columbia Club,

Indians, Stamp Club, meeting, Moose Lodge ail Beta he a Pi, luncheon, Board of Trade,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

_ (These lists are trom official records at the County Courthouse. " The Times fs not responsible for any errors of names or addresses.)

W. Beck Jr., 20, of 5945 Rawles Su ; Darothy Lucille Hotchkins, 19, of 451 h St.

30 Charles E. Kidwell, 47, of 508 N. Ala-

bama St.; Nellie Mae Graves, 44, of 722 N. Al am Sty Ma gkos, 2 ak i. Ft. Harrison; tton, 17, o etcher Ave En Tones. 24, of 2625 N. Illinois gt Sally Francis Love, 20, of 1325 Oliver

‘Riadol h Bozic, 22, of 1242 N. Holmes Ave.; Sophie Mauser, 24, of 960 N. Haugh

thaniel Newell, 22, of 334 Douglass gl pn Lee Tyson, 15, of 334 Douglas

st: William F. Hamilton, 24, of N. Pennsylvania St.; Jean Catherine Stelett, £3460 N. Meridian Horace W. Graver, 31, oot 514 N. Gray St.; Clarice E. Delbauve, 28, of 802

milton Ave. Ha Walter Eugene Cale, 21, Danville. Ind.; Helene Frances Gowin, 20, of 2358 Gale

t: Arthur Johnson, 43, of 311 W. 9th St.; Bettie Peppers, 26, of 3002 Bethel Ave.

BIRTHS

Boys Joseph, Bernice Neff, at St. Francis. Raymond, Alberta Strack, at St. Francis. Nicholas, Mario Galuppo, at St. Francis. James, Marjory Calyton, at St. Francis. operas, Margaret Kasper, at St. Fran-

®Yincent, Florence Thompson, at St. Fran-

cis Gerald, Helen Maas, at St. Francis, Denzil, Dora Hurt, at St. Fran Joseph, Lucille Laver, at St. Fra Vernon, Willetta Harness, ag st ls: Ernest, Mary Benge, at St. Francis. Orville, Anna Wilkinson, at St. Francis. Harry, Isabelle Dobbs, at St. Francis. Lester, Eileen, Taylor. at 1448 Terrace

ve. Herbert, Naomi Banks, at 2418 Northwestern Ave. Raymond, ‘Eleanor Champ, at Methodist. Everett, Lois Taylor, at Methodist. Raymond, Theresa Keaton, at Methodist. John, Frances Lewis, at Methodist. Veraie, Ruth Harrell, at Methodist. Virgil, Mary Whitaker. at 217 E. 10th St. Girls

Rurt, Margaret Wurz, at St. Francis. Charles, Clara Wayman, at St. Francis. s Boin, at St. Francis.

Leroy, Dorothy Way. at St. Francis. Leland, Leona Holtman, at St. Francis. James, Roberta Kellum, at St. Francis. Elton, Geneva Joseph, at 562 S. Warman

Ave Harold Mary Miller, at 2621 E. Michigan S t. \ wes, Minnie Myers, at Methodist. Noel, Mary Burns, at Methodist.

DEATHS

Elizabeth Schaefer, 65, at Methodist, broncho-pneumon Joan Lee ver 1, at Methodist, lobar pneumon ar SE Ason, 10 months, at City, diphElla Sedwich, 65, at Methodist, thyrotoxicosis. Sadie Bruitt Jonsson, 46, at City, meningococcic meningit Thomas Hartley, 83, at City, lobar pneumonia. William H. Edmondson, 76, at 2518 Martindale Ave., actue myocarditis Virginia West, 43, "at 1632 N. Arsenal Ave., cerebral hemorrhage. Fred C. Schumacher, 44, at City, lobar pneumonia. John S. Mann, 3, at Methodist, pneumonia.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

—— United States Weather Bureau e..

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Rain this afternoon probably changing to snow tonight and tomorrow; somewhat colder tonight with lowest temperature about 253 colder tomorrow.

Sunrise ariearvd i 7:02 | Sunset ........ 4:51

TEMPERATURE —Jan. 21, 1936— na. om ...... 2 1p m, —Jan. 21, 1937—

ceeiee 37

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Snow north and rain or snow south - portion tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder extreme northeast and extreme southwest tonight; somewhat colder south portion tomorrow. Illinois — Probably snow central and north and rain turning to snow flurries extreme south tonight and tomorrow; colder extreme south portion.

Lower Michigan—Unsettled, snow probable in west and south portions late tonight and tomorrow and northeast tomorrow; somewhat colder east and central portions tonight.

Ohio—Rain and colder tonight and tomorrow, probably changing to snow tomorrow.

Kentucky—Heavy rain and colder tonight; tomdrrow rain probably changing to snow and colder

WEATHER IN OTHER_CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather.

Amarillo, Tex. ... Bismarck, N. D Boston Chicago .... Cincinnati Cleveland, O. Denver Dodge City. Kas. Helena. Mont. Jacksonville, Kansas City. Little Rock

The Ohio Valley flood scene was a great triangle with corners at Portsmouth, O., Vincennes, Ind. and Cairo, Ill., confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi. It embraced the southwestern corner of Ohio, the entire Ohio River boundary of Kentucky, fully one-fourth of Indiana and a slice of southeastern Illinois. Flood waters seeped into northwestern West Virginia, and were flowing off the southeastern section of Pennsylvania. Hundreds of thousands of acres of farm land lay under water.

Major Cities Protected

The major cities were protected by giant sea walls, on which sandbags were piled as the water crept to the top. Mounds of sandbags on top of the 60-foot sea wall at Portsmouth, O., held back nine feet of water. The main part of Cincinnati remained high and dry, but the Red

Cross ordered scores of families out of their homes fearing a crest 18 inches above levee tops. River-front factories and dwellings were threatened in Louisville.

At least 5000 CCC and WPA

workers, National Guardsmen and police patrols and uncounted volun-

smaller villages. y

Red Cross headquarters were established in Evansville. Six 36foot life-saving boats equipped with radios aided rescue work in Indiana and Illinois. The Red Cross set up precautionary relief headquarters in Memphis and Nashville, Tenn. "The Louisville. & Nashville and Illinois Central Railways left boxcars on side tracks throughout the flood area, to shelter réfugees. Shawneetown, Ill, was isolated and wholesale grocers planned to obtain food supplies by boat. Dozens of schoolhouses in southern Illinois and Indiana, abandoned when flooded highways made attendance impossible, were occupied by flood refugees. All southern traffic through Vincennes, Ind. including the main highway from Chicago to Miami, Fla., was cut off. Complete evacuation of Ashbyburg, Jewel City and Rumsey, Ky., was expected by early next week. Cairo, Ill, engineers assigned men to watch straining seawalls as the Ohio River crept within four feet of the disastrous 1927 flood level. . Peak of the Ohio River flood was not expected until next week. Relief workers studied the territory so they could warn residents to evacuate in time. :

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