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.
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.
Army Of Workers Removing Mud And Debris As Military Patrols Entire Business Area
BANKS, THEATRES CONTINUE CLOSED
$250,000 Bond Issue To Repair Damage Discussed By City Council This Morning
A steady drop in the Potomac River and Wills Creek continued today, and at noon the river was less than six feet above normal.
Death Toll Mounts As Swirling Waters Move Into New Territories
Pestilence and Shortages of Food and Water Intensifies Terror, Destitution and Misery
PROPERTY DAMAGES MOUNT TO TENS OF MILLION OF DOLLARS
Nation’s Capital Preparing for Rise of Potomac River; Sandbag Walls Thrown Up Around Washington Monuments and Lincoln Memorial
BY H. H. HIPPELHEUSER
The worst floods in eastern United States history moved menacingly down into western Virginia and Ohio today, claiming a reported death toll of at least 71.
THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND.
Relief Is Rushed To Flooded Areas
Dr. R. H. Riley Takes Charge of Health Situation in Potomac Valley-—Red Cross and Other Agencies Cooperate
Baltimore, March, 19 -Relief was rushed tonight into the floodstricken Potomac valley as the river, having claimed four lives in its mighty rush from Cumberland, bore down on Washington.
WILLIAMSPORT JAMMED WITH THOUSANDS TO VIEW POTOMAC
Traffic Conditions So Heavy That Autoists Detoured through Town—Local Officers Assist in Traffic
With Williamsport crowded with automobiles congesting every available parking space, large forces of policemen last night prohibited any additional traffic through the town.
From early morning to late at night, the Williamsport pike was jammed with traffic bearing persons anxious to witness the flood spectacle.
Williamsport And Hancock Still Buried Under Water
Flood Receding Only Slightly; Towns Without Light; Persons Able To Reach Only Second Stories of Inundated Homes In Boats; Property Losses Will Run Into Thousands of Dollars
Hagerstown, Md., March 19. — Flood conditions at Williamsport were reported as but slightly improved this morning. The Potomac has receded two feet since midnight when the 'crest of 49.8 feet was reached, over five feet higher than the Johnstown flood of 1889. Continued decline of water is expected.
Cat Rescued From Flood
An act of humanity was performed at Williamsport this morning when Luther Silvers and Newton McAllister rescued a cat from a tree standing out in the flood below the canal bridge.
The cat had taken refuge in the tree as the waters rose and was only a few feet above the rising flood when the rescuers reached it in a boat.
Company B Off To Cumberland