Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1945 — Page 9
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Train and bus service was cut off to some communities. It was the worst Ohio river flood in eight years.
Nine Listed as Dead
Nine persons were dead, and only quick work by army engineers prevented further loss of life in the flood waters of another area: Between 25 and 30 soldiers were —gpilled into the flooded White river in Arkansas ‘when their boat capsized. The men wore lifejackets which enabled them to keep afloat until help came, They had been sent to the area to work on flood control.» g From the air, the flooded valley .presented a grotesque picture of life at a standstill. Entire communities were under water, Hundreds of freight cars stood idle. Cemeteries were watery wastes with a few
Louisville Braces to: Meet
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§ = Crest of Ohio River Flood, FLOOD DANGER
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e. A | All but .one railroad had ceased service to Louisville,
upstairs to escape the water spilling |into the city’s lower business district. . Some 0 families were evacuited from fthe area and others prepared to flee momentarily. A 475 crest was predicted by noon today. Backwaters settled in Cincinnati's industrial section, but the sprawling Wright engine . plant at nearby: Lockland and war industries in the Millcreek valley areas resumed production after a temporary tieup yesterday.
Loss Set at Million
Property damage in Cincinnati alone was more than $1,000,000 and losses from halted mine operations, war production and general businesses soared into untold millions. Cincinnati weather officials said
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Guard Dispatched to Aid| Families in Southern
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floodgates held firm. A Red Cross clubmobile from Indianapolis served food to refugees and relief workers. Fire destroyed the Lawrenceburg Register plant, ruining the newspaper's equipment and causing a loss estimated at $25,000. High water hampered the fire-fighting and prevented the city of Aurora from send-
water eddied in the valleys. |
the might of angry waters,
twisting and turning like a serpent.
Pilot Don Moschenross banked | left to head the plane up river.| Directly beneath lay the ‘Evansville race track, a deserted oval with water whirling where fans once milled about at tape time Bits of ‘wreckage. whipped down stream and minor debris littered the | false shore lines, There were no trees, roofs, barns, | chicken coops, animals or wreckage=|
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ing help. Highways and rail lines were closed and factories were forced to
close in the southeast Indiana area. Parts of the towns of Patriot, Flo-
clinging humans being swept in the {water's path.. Indiana had yet to | feel the flood's full wrath. { In fact, life went on'as usual in | some respects. Tugs nosed flat-
THE INDIANAPOLIS ‘TIMES = From 800 Feet Above Flood— ~ Angry River and Desolati
(Cotitinuéd From Page One) | poked up like mushrooms. :The|, . 2 Z {flood’s crest seems certain to drive formed bayou-like curves as back: | {he townspeople to higher ground.
It was a scene of desolation, and a dear pricé in '37 for its present
> | security, Now the residents are-out From 800 feet up the world below ‘of harm’s way. The town, in-the
was life in miniature, all except the | past few years, has been transports fat’ and sprawling Ohio, no -1ongar| oq to high land.
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the river hovered slightly below the
the rate of .3 feet an hour. conditions existed in the towns. Paducah, Ky, #nd adjacent In-| peceye work continued down-|They made slow progress against diana towns Vere warned 10 eX-|g 00m at. Madison, Jeffersonville, | the current. pect a 505 crest by Monday. Pa-|yey Ajnany, Canrelton, Evansville] Owensboro remained ducah, protected by a new flood- and Mt. Vernon.
The renewed threat to the lower 13,000 Workers Idle
Iriver towns was blamed partially
lon two crests moving down from /yeceded and opened many highways| house boat” moored io What once Wheeling; W. Va., and the “elbow” |ang roads to travel on the smaller| was the tree-lined bark of the Ohio of the Ohio around Portsmouth, O.|trinutaries. | The tamily was moving “lock, stock Crisis Passing in East | Portsmouth. appeared to have interrupted when high water pre- no Noah's ark. {passed the crisis. The downtown | vented many shipbuilders from| Yet another family, their home area was evacuated and state|reaching their jobs. The shipyards| entirely surrounded by waler for guardsmen kept a constant patrol released 13,000 workers temporarily hundreds of yards on all sides, aparound the 62-foot wall, which was because of hampered bus and rail parently refused to evacuate. Sev-sand-bagged to hold back the water. | service. {eral "boats were tied to the front | At Pittsburgh, the coast guard re-|{ About 800 river families were re- porch. They were sweating it out. [ported the river had fallen more moved from their homes in the; The sun broke through the cloud {than three feet below the 33.5 crest | Evansville area. Others and their|jgyers for the first time as I looked lof yesterday. 7 {property were rescued in adjoining| down on Grand View. ‘It was any- | The picture state-by-state: |Posey county and were ‘assisted at| thing but what the name implies. INDIANA — Three thousand fam-|Mt- Vernon, tl ilies fled ‘their homes in the’ path Backwater from -the Ohio and|g4er water and a fresh, rich brown
Farther east, near Rockport, -a
|of acres in Posey county. | soil coming from the farmland to
Wabash rivers. Lawrenceburg and | I'obinsport were completely isolated. | Elsewhe e; the weather butesy} the north, Aurora was three-fourths under|reported that the lower reaches ofl. mej Ctiy inhabitants learned : or [the east and west forks of White water. Flood levels at Jeflersonville| light] | their lesson in 1937. To guard {and Evansville reached 46 feet. river were near or slightly above against future disasters they built
; [flood stages OHIO—Water stood in the streets | ges. y wn, running i | Highest marks oh the Wabash a wall around the town, running it
lof a dozen waterfront towns. At] were at Mt. Carmel, where the!
(stream and the White river join,! : ated. Low sections of the Cincin-| . 4 2 10s : 5 f and downstream at New Harmony, | through i nad been closed. Ii
(nati ‘water{ronf and industrial dis-| { would take a lot more water to top trict were covered, Portsmouth res- : : y the wall. > 'idents ‘held back the water hin MINE FIRE ADVICE GIVEN But only a few minutes flying | sandbags after it topped the city's] SCRANTON — Facts about the time and I saw homes completely {62-foot floodwall. . Marietta was al- behavior and control of - anthra-| surrounded. Factories lay idle" No | most completely inundated. | KENTUCKY—Rail service almost|by the government, will provide ‘It was Cannelton and the streets suspended to Louisville where 1800" mining engineers: with life and along the-river were literally canals. | families moved to higher ground. A property saving information. {Ovens of the brick factory there
A flight by a civil air patrol plane Were dead-heading, en route to pick | 69-foot mark and was falling al/i,gicated, however, that no critical| Up new cargoes. Others were heav- |
ily laden with fron and sulphur.|
As the rains halted, surface water| “side Wheeler” tied up dlongside a|
At Evansville, shipyard work was and bathing suit.” Their home was]
{ Three-fourths of the town was un-|
of overflows from the Ohio and|Wabash rivers inundated thousands) ;ceq through the streets. It was,
into a hill backing the city. The] | least 14,000 persons had been evacu-| {flood wall was holding; gates,
{cite mine fires, published recently | smoke poured from their chimneys. |
Lester Samuels,” army medical corps, now on the surgical staff of] the regional hospital here, after
{service in the European theater. | compara- | | Farmers in the | tively dry, but the main highway| (wall, planned to put up’ its fl0od-|395 mile stretch of lowlands on the|to the Ohio from the north strug- United States in 1927 as & lecturer | {gates when the river reached 43 Ohio moved back to high ground. gled to keep above water. It thrust|of the British Empire Cancer Re-|
| feet. through the flood like a great pler [search foundation, and. remained]
The handsome, be-mustaehed | native of England, came to the]
here becoming an American citizen | He returned to England during
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47.5-foot level was predicted -today.! Some 3000 families were expected to (be evacuated as the crest moved
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| mately 5000 war workeérs kept from! their jobs. Point Pleasant, Pav«ers- | {burg and New Martinsville partialfly under water. Highway. trafic |stopped south and west of Wheel- | ting. Evacuation underway at Green- | briar. : i PENNSYLVANIA — Some 25,000 mine, mill and shipyards workers idle. ~Fioog apparently reached. its * height. . Waters at Pittsburgh stood | - po feight feet--above flood -stage. | ILLINOIS—A ~53-foot crest pre=. {dicted at Cairo, at the confluence {of the Ohio andsMississippi rivers. The city was considered safe, however, behind its new 60-foot wall. MISSISSIPPI — Tallahatchie, | Coldwater and Yazoo rivers receding. Tan ARKANSAS—Army engineers rsearch the White river for an un(determined number of soldiers be{lieved drowned when an assault boat carrying between 25 and 30 overturned. It was reported only | three were rescued. White river | istill threatening in north; Arkansas! {and Ouachita rivers subsiding. |
A. & P. Employees Back Red Cross |
The Red Cross drive in Marion county A. & P. Co. stores got its | sendoff last night with a program for A, & P. employees at the war memorial auditoriunt. Films in cennection with the drive were shown and two veterans of overseas service spoke on the service of the Red Cross to men at the front. John A. Lindgren Jr., vice presi- | | dent of A. & P. stores in this ter-“ ritory, said field captains of the solicitation group have pledges in excess of 50 per cent over last | year's subscriptions. f
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