Show SWOLLEN RIVER REACHES ACMES CREST WILKES-BARRE WILKES Pa April 5 UP The The The second flood crest In a week surged down the heavily populated Susquehanna valley Friday Fri Fri- day With headwaters of the stream still rising observers predicted the new cr crest st would go within three feet of last Mondays Monday's flood levels North of the New York line the river fed by recent rains and melting melting melting melt melt- ing snow went up three feet over overnight night and was expected to rise three to four feet more more Just below below below be be- low the New York York Pennsylvania Pennsylvania border Sayre reported a rise of two feet At where lowlands were awash wash for a a. second time the river went up three and a half feet to toa toa toa a a foot stage M Mondays Monday's crest there was slightly over 23 feet In Wilkes Wilkes-B Wilkes Barre where p populous near-by near communities were hard hit earlier this this' week lowlands were were ere underwater under water again with the stream still rising at 25 4 feet The river had gone up almost three feet and anda a cre crest t of was expected by Saturday last Monday the river hit lilt a a high mark of feet Downstream as a the valley widened widened widened wid wid- ened l less ss rise was reported Although there was no no- alarm residents throughout the valley watched the rise anxiously They recalled that during the destructive 1936 flood a second crest surpassed the first by several feet feet after after a lapse of six days One hundred and twenty persons who had been driven out here were quarantined in a church for several several several sev sev- eral ho hours rs Thursday until authorities authorities authorities ties determined that an ill ma man n among them was not suffering from spinal meningitis which has taken 26 lives live's this year |