Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-06 | Page 1 | Floods Menace River Sections

FLOODS MENACE RIVER SECTIONS j 1 Ohio Valley Mississippi Delta Delta Del Del- ta Threatened by New Outbreaks B By United Press ness Mild winter weather today brought new flood threats to residents of the thc Ohio river valle valley and the Mississippi I delta region Levees of the upper upper Mississippi L delta strained for weeks by the unseasonably unseasonably un seasonably earl early high water broke north of oC Greenwood Miss The break which occurred in the Tallahatchie river levee le inundated thousands of acres of or rich farm land DANGER TO RESIDE RESIDENTS TS Engineers feared danger to unprotected unprotected residential sections of Greenwood Greenwood Green Green- wood 25 miles mUes awa away Residents of or orthe the flooded area were assisted to places of safety by rescue workers In other sections of oC Mississippi and Louisiana danger abated as waters halted their rise Crest of oC the flooded Red river at Alexandria was believed past Conditions also improved at Monroe La La where the Red Cross is caring for refugees In the Ohio valley conditions were more serious At Evansville lle Ind md the river was seven se feet above flood leveL Streets were turned to rivers basements basement and sj c the tri sta lt d d or of 1 1 lr v l r r. r tucky anti and Ohio driven lA li L I ici CI homes X N 1 More tn th iu H 1000 persons were homeless home home- less Cold added to their suffering but it was hoped Sloped the river levels would drop with low lower r temperatures HIGHWAYS INUNDATED Schools were were- closed in some sections sec see ions and traffic hindered as water splashed over roads Heavy rains in the northern Ohio I valley alley flooded the Kanawha river at al Charleston W. oW Va blocking highways highways high high- ways to the cast east and west Brid Bridges es were cre washed awa away Ohio tributaries were near flood levels at several points Two deaths near Newport K KyM Ky were reported when a bridge gave Cave way over a swollen creek