Show NATIONAL flood and disaster pouring the greatest volume cf water in history over the ohio valley the ohio river rose steadily higher and higher probably reaching its peak wednesday night or thursday morning from pittsburgh to where th the ohio joins the mississippi was the path of disaster which drove persons from their homes and i brought about great destruction am amounting cities to in the cities of cincinnati ohio and louisville kentucky and numerable small towns between the cause of the flood was given to the unceasing unseasonable rain I 1 throughout the midwest at a ti time me ewhen when that section would greatly have preferred snow falling thermometers mo meters wednesday night gave hope that a freeze would halt the runoff run off that swelled the chios tributaries tributa ries As the ohio retained its so 80 foot level wednesday the army wednesday prepared to evacuate all residents within 50 miles of the mississippi river from where the ohio joins it to new orleans thirty five thousand motor trucks were mobilized to carry out this great exodus should it become esary army engineers fear beci th that the th e billion dollar levees flung up along the lower mississippi will not take care of the water when the raging ohio dumps its crest into the mississippi levees are being strengthened and new ones being set up in the lower mississippi valley where the army has set up potential exodus machinery including ships equipped with cots blankets food etc the two laige lai go cities of the lower mississippi valley new oreland and memphis are watchful watchfully lv waiting and pr praying y that the levees will told hold in louisville and other strick stricken cn cities disease i ic the peril that now stalks the vicinity pneumonia ia and influenza are said to be breaking out and have already caused some deaths all the flood area is under martial law and looters footers are shot outright |