| Show thousands ti r h Flee Mississippi Flood ee Plug if i Be sled sled Out Outi i ted Press Ft f ny engineers and the Red red persons to floodway Tuesday ency plans went into ef- ef light fight the biggest II threat In 13 years trucks from Charles- Charles trolled to the extreme 4 jot t f the floodway situated New Madrid and Birds They were to pick up of f that tha t area where a levee plug mayI may I lout libut ut Muddy r river vcr wathen wathen wathen wa- wa then flow into the low lowi i LIf Ii This This will relieve the thein in rd n the river dikes down- down dway is acres I L l Made de It Rise swollen swollen tributaries of ver river have made it rise its Us levees hash h and the thc Ohio rivers k g Tuesday Sweating bagged in southern In- In to keep their ii above the lapping river rivers s 4 times Ind flood fight- fight Innes ed d from the Uie Wabash wall to establish a sec- sec J defense against the fr frUK r. r UK nl kal ral blocks parallel with i sandbag barrier was wasn n up at distances 40 r It iback back from the foot 29 k tickling over and seep seep- h lh h the wall was filling between the wall and er Army engineers auld serve to equalize I e against the wall and i collapse II Tr t. t reached 2808 feet orning lorning and was laS still t crest rest is not expected y tt Vast e r ast Lake Lalie Lalier t residents ts on high ked ted out on what ap- ap fee ile be a 8 vast lake A great Iff f water stretched out Vincennes across to here where the Illinois banka bank Hi Hii a i i iare are homeless some homeless some rt red in boxcars boxcars in in mana ana ana and Arkansas Fare r are from the banks I h the Little Wabash the P-the ois is 3 shore of the Ohio I 7 Column Columns 3 Army Will Evacuate From Path of Mississippi Continued from Page One The Ohio river continued a steady rise in southern Illinois I More rain is expected Wednesday I in the Ohio valley vaHey At Rosiclare I Ill water coveted covered Front street and 40 business houses closed or their stocks were moved to higher her grounds About of the 2000 residents were homeless Old Shawneetown Ill was Iso iso- Truck boat and automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile relays took food and mail into the town Snowshoed residents of northern north north- ern Michigan plodded around in 28 inches of fresh snow Dense fog clouds and drizzle covered most of Texas but temperatures there were from the upper to the Elsewhere in the nation rain and snow now plagued northern California California Cali Cali- fornia an and d the downpour is expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex to reach as far south as the San Joaquin valley alley of central Cali Cali- fornia Intermittent snows continued continued continued con con- in the snow-blanketed snow Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- northwest Colder weather swept into parts of the southland Below z zero ro cold still sUll held northern border states stat in its grip Winds Whip Winds up to 65 63 miles an hour whipped rain and snow across across' acro across s I northern California last night in inthe i the he third successive storm in a little ittle more than a week The downpour was expected to continue con con- mue Tuesday and Wednesday Planes dropped food to livestock I marooned in the Bald mountain area of northern California I In the Pacific northwest the weather veather bureau forecast more intermittent intermittent in- in j snows for at least another another another an an- other 48 hours The snowstorm I started with a inch 20 cover rover blown in by a blizzard last Friday As the subnormal weather continued buses and trains neared regular schedule and schools began to re reopen re- re open Property damage ran into millions of oC dollars and at least 11 persons arc known dead as a dir direct ct I result of the cold wind and snow |
