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Show Mil 111:11 NEW DISASTERS LOOM WITH MOUNTING RIVERS DeathToll C!imbs; Towns Evacuated; Aid Sought . By Associated Press ' The White House announced today congress would be asked to assume relief costs in the nation's flood area, where at least ten states counted a mounting list of some 60 known dead and half a million homeless. - Poepoaing riven, iiinoimlillo, fed by heavy nine la their siuisiis aad tribcrtariee, aaahod threats of bow disasters toward nrnj ornraualttee. With the metropolises of Ctncin. neti aad Louisville heaviest sufferers, suf-ferers, the Red Cross asked the nation to contribute 14,000,000 at once (or relief, augmented by appropriations ap-propriations from various legislatures. legis-latures. Major Kiss . Hooded rivers continued to feed the Mississippi in its course toward the gulf, raising (can of a major riae southward of Memphis, Tana should the rains persist Record river stages studded the rampaging Ohio ail along its eourse from Weet Virginia through Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky to Illinois. The Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, vrhioh joined to form tie Ohio, were rlaing again, (cd from their noun --tela --tela watenhede la Pennsylvania, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee oounted heavy losses from rising tributaries of both the Ohio and the MiaalsslppL - Minor floods threatened threat-ened other states. Cincinnati 700,000 residents were -gripped by a water famine and a new threat to their health. Authorises Authori-ses (oared water might be available only IS or SO minutes each day, with pumpa inoperative and the reservoir reser-voir supply dwindling. Flood dam age was estimated at t5.000.00a, Fellows Fire. This menace followed In the Wake of a 1.500,000 flre, the worst In Cincinnati's Cin-cinnati's history. Biasing oil tanks made the danger of a new fin ever present. Flames broke out again this morning, but were subdued by firemen. With 100,000 already homeless at Louisville, authorities requested all who could to evacuate the city as the river roee, and discussed with army officials the desirability of martial law. Meteorologist J. L. Kendall predicted aa "unprecedented" "unprecedent-ed" level of M feet by tomorrow night . Electricity wss cut off. Hundreds Hun-dreds were marooned la sections surrounded by water. The known figure of (0 dead throughout the flood area, did not count IS convicts reported killed la rioting In tbe Kentucky state reformatory re-formatory at Frankfort, where river waters filtered through the cell blocks. Fire, pestilence, food aad water shortages, aad power shutoffs tot-lowed tot-lowed in the wake of the mounting waters in many cities. , National guardsmen, the army aad navy, other governmental agencies and the Red Cross rushed relief Into the devastated areas. .- Thousands Mara east Tales of acute suffering were told. Countless thousands were marooned in their homes. Refuses camps hsld hungry thousands more, many of them cold and sick. Health clinics were set up and vaccines (Oonuaaea ee Face Twe) (Column Su Famine, Fire and Pestilence Stalk Flood Ravaged Section lng distress. Tha White House said congress would be asked for a flood relief appropriation as aeon as needs wara determined. lasuee (Ml Rear Admiral CaryT. Grsyion Issued a call aiTsTOO chapters to double their relief quotas. He previously pre-viously had asked for 11,000.000, which waa In addition to $1,000,000 already allotted from regular die-aster die-aster relief funds. President Roosevelt ordered all available government aid Into the disaster sons after a Bun day night conference, placing tha army, navy, coast guard, works progress administration admin-istration and civilian conservation corps on a 34-hour basis to help the Red Cross evacuate refugees and aid the homeless. Martial law was In force throughout through-out the flood belt of eouthern Indiana. In-diana. Governor M. Clifford Town-send Town-send directed relief authorities to commandeer trains and trucks to transport about 56,000 refugee! to cities aa far north as Indianapolis. (Oasuase ree Peas Oae rushed Into the flood areas to forestall fore-stall dangers of epidemics. 4ta Homeless A rising river stage left fully 18,-000 18,-000 homeless and hungry at Portsmouth.- At Pomer oy, Ohio, the MOO residents were without power or gas. Bellaire and Bridgeport were virtually isolated. Governor Martin L. Davey called special legislative session at Columbus to appropriate S190.000 for flood relief. Fully 4900 W P A workmen already were on the Job. rire also menaced Augusta, Ky aa an ail drum burst The town waa almost deserted. Refugeea streamed from Paducah aa water ross through the business area. From 13,000 to 20,000 of the city's 14.000 residents were expected to be evacuated by nightfall. Covington and Newport, Ky reported re-ported food shortages and virtual isolation. , -t . Memphis, Tenn, got word that three small gapa had been made Predicts treat Director W. J. Moxom of the government gov-ernment weather bureau's flood forecasting service said It might be ten days or two weeks before the Ohio's crest met the Mississippi river at Cairo, IlL Ha said emergency emer-gency flood conditions might continue con-tinue for a month and that if lower Mississippi tributaries reached flood stage eoincidentally "things would be pretty bad for the lowlands. The known flood dead by states: Arkansas, I; Illinois, 1; Kentucky, (; Missouri, 1; Mississippi, 1; Ohio, 11; Missouri, 11; Mississippi, 1; Ohio, 11; Tennessee, 9; West Virginia, T; Pennsylvania, 1; 8outh Carolina, 1. Total. 80. The Kentucky total did not include the estimated number of prisoners dead In the Frankfort riot which would make the nation's na-tion's total 75. Unconfirmed waa another an-other report that four persons were dead at Lawrenceburg, Ind. I |