Floods--Maryland

AS FLOOD WATERS RECEDE AT JOHNSTOWN, PA.

Grim work of the flood becomes evident at Johnstown, Pa., as the waters recede after the second most disastrous flood in the city's history. Top photo shows the body of an unfortunate victim drowned when caught in the surging waters. Below are some of the debris left in the streets of the city by the receding flood.

RESCUE CREWS PLOD THROUGH KNEE DEEP MUD

Uncovering Hourly New Evidence Of Startling Loss Of Life In Pittsburgh Area

LOSSES MOUNTING

Bodies Being Recovered Almost Hourly in Sharpsburg; Heavy Toll In McKees Rocks

Pittsburgh, Mar. 20—Flood deaths in this steel metropolis mounted suddenly to 45 today as thousands of workers, worried by threats of disease and water shortage, began cleaning up debris-laden streets and buildings.

FIRE ADDS TO DISTRESS IN WILLIAMSPORT

Five Persons Perish In Pennsylvania City As Record River Torrents Sweep Through

10 BUILDINGS BURN

Flames Sweep Two Streets, Razing Dwelling, Apartment and Eight Business Houses

Williamsport, Pa., Mar. 20—Flood waters that isolated Williamsport from the outside world for two days abated enough today to let through first direct word of the city's desolation from record river torrents and fire which took at least five lives.

PITTSBURGH IS BEGINNING TASK OF REBUILDING

Great Flood Rolls Back Leaving Six Known Dead And $25,000,000 Damage

UNDER MILITIA

Mayor Proclaims Holiday; Business Areas Deserted; City Still In Darkness

Pittsburgh, Pa., March 19 America's steel capital threw all its resources into relief and rehabilitation work today as a great flood rolled back, leaving six known dead and damage of more than $25,000,000.

Fourteen Believed Dead In Johnstown Flood Area

Other Thousands, Isolated and Suffering Await In Cheerless Refuge Places, For City's Second Great Upheaval of Water In Half Century To Subside

Johnstown, Pa., March 18. Isolated and suffering thousands waited in cheerless refuge places today for Johnstown's second great flood in a half century to subside so outside help could come in.

Ridgeley, West Virginia, Under Water As Seen From An Airplane

West Virginia town can be seen at left with towpath and the filled in canal at the right. The Cumberland ballpark is shown in the upper right hand of the photograph.

WEST VIRGINIANS WARNED AS FLOODS RECEDE

Vaccine and Serums Sent into Affected Areas of State

Receding flood waters throughout the Mountain State brought a warning for the health department today that the coming period provided the greatest menace to health.

The department, reporting no epidemics, assigned a dozen field men to checking water supplies in the affected areas, directed additional precautions and rushed new supplies of vaccine and antityphoid serum to the eastern and northern panhandles.

FLOOD LEAVES 17 DEAD THRU W. VA. SECTIONS

Thousands Are Homeless While Uncounted Millions In Damages To Property Is Reported

MANY CITIES AND HAMLETS INUNDATED,

Diphtheria And Smallpox Vaccines Being Rushed to Health Department Officials By Relief

Charleston, W. Va„ Mar. 21 —The ravaging Ohio river rolled on south today, leaving in its wake thousands of West Virginians homeless, at least 17 dead and uncounted millions of dollars property damage.

Airplane view of the raging Potomac which inundated shore buildings in Paw Paw, Morgan County, W. Va

THIRTEEN DEAD IN WHEELING AS WATERS SURGE

Nine Persons Drowned And Four Are Killed In Explosion Of Gas In Building

ISLAND INUNDATED

Seven Feet Of Water In Main Street; Tabernacle Swept Away; Hundreds Homeless

Wheeling, W. Va., March 19. —Thousands fled to the highlands for safety from inundated homes and buildings in this industrial city of 70,000 today after the Ohio river's devastating flood waters had poured over their banks and put parts of the business district under ten feet of water.