Show Flood Waters Threaten Levee on Ohio River HARRISBURG ill III Jan Jan 29 United Unit Unit- ed Press Press Flood conditions rt nt Shawneetown Ill III were threatenIng threaten threaten- In Ing th the Ohio river levee le today according according ac- ac cording to reports here toda today The gauge was seven forty and the river till rIsing rapidlY River RI men expected a a. stage of nine forty to fifty feet In the disastrous flood or of 1919 the river rOSe to feet before before be- be fore the level broke bloke Cl l land nd for fOI twenty miles around Harrisburg two twenty miles distant distant dis- dis tant was affected A government g boat was patrolling the river between Shawneetown and Golconda today hourly reports reports re- re ports and ready o give gl aid at the levee Conditions here were Improved State roads flooded earlier In the week were wele open to traffic Long Long- distance telephone service was still sUlI unavailable |