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Show M MET" if ! RffEHSOVEHFLOW 1 , ,CF SUPPLIES REACH GRIF-1 GRIF-1 RF N VER PRECARIOUS ; F'route; gas car on rr. I . ,hrities Order Everybody To Keep j Away Except Workers; Eve. highway is inundated Entrance En-trance of Town Cut Off I Kvansville, Ind.-The village of Griffin swept by tornado and fi.e H t Wednesday with the loss of at east fiftv-eight lives, was practically isolated Monday by flood waters of the Wabash river and smaller streams. Entrance to the town was cut oft from three directions and a highway lending to the village from the fourth direction was covered by water. The Wabash is still rising and a rise in the Ohio will prevent the flood waters from draining away rapidly. rap-idly. Supplies for the few refugees ot the town's original population of 400 were being collected at Barrett's Station, Sta-tion, two miles east of Griffin, and taken to the desolated village on a gasoline handcar on the Illinois Central Cen-tral railroad. All persons except relief workers were forbidden by military authorities authori-ties to enter the town. Governor Jackson, who made a personal per-sonal inspection of the entire district, dis-trict, drove out of Griffin over a high way covered with one foot of water. The governor was considering calling call-ing a special session of the state legislature to appropriate funds for the rehabilitation of the stricken district. dis-trict. The list of known dead in southern south-ern Indiana stood at 109 and a systematic sys-tematic search of the ruins of Griffin was still in progress. Conditions were rapidly improving in the other towns in the "pocket" of southern Indiana which were struck by the tornado. Princeton, Owensville and Posey-vllle Posey-vllle have buried most of their dead. |