Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1937 — Page 5

| WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 1987 _

LAY PLANS FOR ‘MASS MOVE IN © MISS, VALLEY

500,000 to Be Evacuated if Levees Go, Army _ Officers Say.

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would be eager to co-operate with Army officials in charge of evacuation program, and that no emergency authority would be needed to carry on the campaign.

Worry Apparent

Army apprehension that the lower river levees might not be able to withstand the tremendous pressure of advancing floods was indicated in an earlier bulletin issued by the War Department, saying:

“It is probable that the levee system of the Lower Mississippi will undergo a severe rain from the flood water now p._uring into the * Mississippi from the Lower Ohio. Present indications are that the system will withstand the strain. “However, solely as a precautionary measure the Army is taking the necessary steps to meet any emergency. In an extreme case there is a possibility, at present considered somewhat remote, that a considerable part of the population in the areas adjacent to some sections of ‘the lower river may have to be evacuated to higher ground.

“The War Department has issued instructions to corps area commanders of the Fourth, Seventh and Eighth Corps Areas to prepare plans for organizing troops and for cooperating with local authorities to .meet such a situation should it arise. should become necessary, all Federal agencies will be promptly mobilized under the direction of designated authority. “Recent reports reaching the War Department this morning as to the flood situation in the vicinity of Cairo are more encouraging than for several days and warrant a strong hope that danger of a major disaster in the Lower Mississippi may be averted.”

Crest Rolls to Cairo

The Ohio's crest rolled toward Cairo, where engineers hoped a three-foot bulkhea~ erected atop the 60-foot flood 1 would save

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water main broke, threatening a water shortage. Adj. Gen. Emil F. Marx ordered two National Guard companies into Ironton when he received reports of looting. Nurses, bearing serum, hastened to combat an,outbreak of scarlet fever. City Manager Frank Sheehan of Portsmouth,” O., where 500 homes were swept away and $6,000,000 damage wrought by the flood, asked residents still in the city to leave and remain away until utility and sanitation services could be restored. The city offered transportation and gasoline. free as an inducement.

St. Francis Rises

The St. Francis River flood rose to new levels. Truman, Ark., was inundated when a levee broke. The Red Cross supervised evacuation of 3000 persons. At Marked Tree, Ark., 3500 were homeless. Nurses and physicians were rushed to the area from Memphis. Army engineers under the direction of Col. Eugene Reybold worked to bolster levees from Cairo to Natchez, Miss. They prepared for a possible stage of 55 feet at Memphis, where the previous record stage was 46.6 in 1913, The greatest danger was in the Mellwood, Ark., area where a break was expected within the next 24 hours. The region was under martial law.

War Department

Rushes Plans

By United Press The War Department, with President Roosevelt's approval, rushed

plans today for the mass evacuation

if necessary of nearly half a million inhabitants of danger areas slong the rising Mississippi River between Cairo, Ill, and New Orleans,

La. Admiral Carey Grayson of the Red Cross announced in Washington that the number of refugees in the flood had passed the million mark. Engineers feared that more thousands would be added as the crest turns the corner from the Ohio into the Mississippi at Cairo, 111. The authenticated death toll stood at 113 at noon. With the Ohio River pouring millions of tons of water into the Mississippi at Cairo, Army engineers feared the 1500-mile levee system built at a cost of a billion dollars after the 1927 disaster would not be able to withstand the unprecedented pressure.

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