Flood news across the region

HEAVY SNOWS COVER TOWNS IN FLOOD BELT

Blizzard Intensifies Confusion In Stricken Communities. Pittsburgh In Darkness

LOSS AT MILLIONS

Homeless Thousands in Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia Towns Face Privations

BY JOSEPH SNYDER

HEAVY SNOWS COVER TOWNS IN FLOOD BELT

(Continued from page one.) valleys of the Ohio, Monongahela and Allegany rivers as Red Cross workers and other rescuers dug through, heavy debris, ever fearful new victims might be found to add to the staggering toll.

Ravaging Waters Bring Deaths to 169 And Property Damage to $270,000,000

HOMELESS TOLL IN DISASTER IS OVER 221,500

If Loss In Wages, and Business Together With Relief Are Counted May Reach Over Billion

PITTSBURGH LOOMS AS HEAVIEST LOSER

Sections Below Pennsylvania City Become More Alarmed As Angry Ohio Races On

BY DALE HARBISON

The unruly rivers roared fresh threats at people and property last night.

Gov. Nice Makes Personal Inspection Of Flood Areas

Arrives At Point Of Rocks To Find Water Ten Feet Deep In Streets; Issues Formal Statement Calling On State Legislature To Take Emergency Action; Asks $3,200,000 Bond Issue

Point of Rocks, Md., March 20 —Scenes of utter desolation greeted Gov. Harry W. Nice in Western Maryland today as the executive, accompanied only by a state trooper, arrived unexpectedly for an inspection tour of the flood-stricken Potomac valley.

STATES AND CITIES LOOK FOR HELP ON DAMAGE REPAIRS

Millions Wanted To Aid in Rehabilitation of Stricken Sections

DEATH LIST GROWS AS RIVERS RECEDE

Loss Estimated at More Than $500,000,000 with $425,000 Homeless

The flood crest of the Ohio river moved westward toward the Mississippi, Monday night; carrying destruction and suffering, into new areas, as a dozen flood-torn eastern states struggled with an immense rehabilitation task.

FLOODS CAUSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DAMAGE; MANY DEAD

Cumberland, Hancock and Other Maryland Towns Are Inundated Causing Much Suffering and Property Damage; Bridges Are Washed Away

Troops Guard Cumberland; Food Shortage Is Feared

A sudden spring thaw, accompanied by rains and storms spread destructive flood waters over vast areas of the East on Tuesday and yesterday.

FLOOD WATERS POUNDING EDGE OF WASHINGTON

National Capital in Danger As Rampaging Potomac River Continues Steady Rise

CREST LATE TODAY

Workers Stacking Sandbags to Protect Government Buildings and Historic Shrines

Washington, March 19. — Rapidly rising waters pounded at the edges of the Capital today as the Weather Bureau predicted the crest of the Potomac river flood would reach the city at 6 p. m. (EST).

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.

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.

SPANS SWEPT AWAY BY SURGING WATER; SECTIONS HARD HIT

Hancock and Shepherdstown Bridges Are Wrecked— Williamsport Section Suffers Heavy Damage in Record Flood

WILLIAMSPORT—The Potomac river was believed to have reached its peak at midnight after rising to a new high of 49.6 feet above normal or four feet above the Johnstown flood stage in 1889. Town in darkness. Scores of families were homeless and the Red Cross and Salvation Army set up temporary rehabilitation headquarters. Hagerstown pumping station above Williamsport believed flooded.