Show COLD CO L D CAUSES SUFFERING IN FLOOD AREAS Death Toll Reaches 19 New Districts Inundated I By Associated Press With 19 known dead suffering suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing in the various floo flood ray aged sec sections the of th the northeastern northeast northeast- ern em United States and Canada was vas intensified today by increased increased in in- creased cold while e rising Waters waters waters wa wa- inundated new areas and cri crippled pled traffic and cation Officials fixed the the death death toll taU with the finding of four bodies in a ahome ahome ahome home In Kingston Pa across the Susquehanna river from Wilkes Barre Need for tor relief Is acute acuto In the Wilkes Barre zone and the coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard ordered held in readiness to move there thero If it ne needed ded seven Am fun Amphibian planes and ten powered surf surfboats surfboats surfboats boats with food tood and medical supplies sup aup- plies i t t f r New New devastation on was wrought by New England rivers especially the in New Hampshire and the Connecticut In Connecticut In New Jersey residents along the Passaic river were warned by by- officials officials of of- to tobe he be ready to abandon their homes it if the rise continues Held pr Prisoners onen The swollen Hudson river however however how bow ever held five men prisoners on a newly formed Island at Rensselaer N. N Y where they barricaded themselves themselves themselves them them- selves in a small building the office of ot the American Soil company plant They nailed boards against the doors caulked the cracks and awaited the rivers river's next move which may send them scurrying to the tho top of the oil all tanks to await rescue The five were left In the middle of the Ice-choked Ice river yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- to keep fires fires' going in a boiler room Two executives were removed earlier by elate troopers in a boat Today's addition to th the o list of dead caine came from froin Upton Mass where John Prentiss 50 was found drowned in his automobile feet from a bridge that had been swept away last night by the tho Vest West river At Toronto Canada Canad lowered temperatures tern tem stopped the mad push of Continued on Par Page Two Column Five COLD GOLD STRIKES FLOOD AREAS Continued from morn Pago One lea Ice anc and permitted water to to re recede ed from waterlogged dwellings Trucks were able to make food deliveries forestalling for the present at Jea least threat of a food shortage hortage Three hundred persons rescued from flooded homes bomes' bomes yesterday returned to them today Worried officials In in Massachusetts sells were heartened by the forecast of colder weather while they watched the Merrimac river inch upward rd every hour Ice in the river started breaking today while government government gov gov- planes were held in readiness readiness readi- readi ness at Salem Unless the temperature tempera tempera- ture drops rapidly officials fear Cear the the- river may reach the level of disastrous flood Hundreds of families have been driven from their homes along the Merrimac from Plymouth N. N H. H to Lawrence Mass Mas At the rate of the rivers river's rise today fl flood od stages would come como at midnight tonight Many schools and factories have shut down while telephone and telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph service in parts of the New England states has been interrupted Automobiles have been barred from many roads where whore bridges have crumbled at nt the surge of the flood and lowland roadways covered Tho The Delaware and rivers rivers riv riv- ers receded d at Philadelphia At Kingston N. N Y a fleet of tugs and barges and a foot lOO-foot yacht were jammed in an an lee Ice pack The earlier toll of ot dead Included two in New Hampshire and one each in Massachusetts Vermont Maine Malno New York New Jersey Ontario Ontario On On- tario tarlo and Quebec Most of the threatened middle west was saved temporarily from flood danger by colder weather and arid falling snow but families were forced from their homes in western Iowa |