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Show ' ' " ' ' i j f ) f ... ; j y;sj',. j '-''''--' . CINCINNATI FIRE CHIEF BABNEY HOUSTON DIRECTS HIS MEN He braves oil-covered flood waters In combating: flames Flood-Borne Oil Fire Roars Through Stricken Cincinnati " CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 25 (P) Greater Cincinnati's 750,000 residents were faced today with a grave water famine. : . tor, hurling two boat loads of firemen fire-men Into the water. Barrels of oil and sagging gasoline gaso-line tanks fsd the flames. At ons Urns 240,000 gallons of gasoline were ablaze. Dense clouds of smoke rolled up to the skyline, pisrosd by the high flames. Then, just as the flames were being brought under control last night a 200,000 gallon gasoline stor-sgs stor-sgs tank broke loose near the village vil-lage of North Bend, west of here, and burst into fire ss it floated down the Ohio. It fired three homes, five garages and two autoe. Fumes arising from tho tank whan it was toppled by (lod debris, were ignited by stoves within the homes, causing them to catch fire. Forty persons were rescued, res-cued, but lost everything except the clothing they wore. A few minutes later, polios reported re-ported that four more gasoline tanks had broken loose Bear Cincinnati Cin-cinnati and warned all boats to be on the lookout for them. - - - Fire Chief Barney Houston appealed ap-pealed to all persons living along the river below Cincinnati to put out their fires Immediately, warning that Inflammabla oil was floating downstream. With it arose a new. threat to the health of a city one-seventh one-seventh flooded, in capricious paradox, by an Ohio river swollen 28 feet above flood stage. The possibility thst water would be available only 19 or 20 minutes a day followed curtailment of the flow to only a few hours out of every 24. Fire still burned at mid day In the Mill Creek district where an oU fed blase along a three mile front destroyed $1,600,000 to $2100,-000 $2100,-000 In property Sunday. Firs officials, however, expressed confidence It was under control. A fire at tbe do luxe Riverview apartments, which caused the sounding of a general alarm, was declared under control an hour later. The general alarm was sounded to provide the SO00 (set of hose needed to reach the flooded river water below the hill oa which tbe building la located. Only food stores, drug stores and sating places operated as the river roes to an unprecedented mark within a foot of the SO foot crest predicted officially for tonight or tomorrow. Ton coast guard boats, each with a capacity of 20 persona, rescued huadreds of persons still In such danger spots aa the tope of floating float-ing buildings, rooftops and, in some esses, as attics of two-story houses. Sunday's fire was caused when a trolley wlrs fell la gasoUne fleeting on tho debris laden waters. Wind and current carried flames through the Mill Creek Industrial district. The blase extended three miles and wss a mile wide. - A 00,000 gallon tank of gasoline exploded at the height of the dlsas- |