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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1937)
Thursday, February 11, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON, OREGON. When Church Is Flooded Home Takes Its Place Ohio and Mississippi V alleys Devastated by Flood 4 1$ Wl lit* OELLP 9 ITT ‘ I - te 1—Flood refugees load their possessions aboard a truck prior to fleeing to higher ground. 2—Cat is ma rooned on a second story window ledge as Ohio river flood waters rise. 3—Flood sufferers at Portsmouth, Ohio, are fed by boatmen who row about streets, handing bread to refugees above the water line. His church filled with water. Father John Dillon of St. Stroz Catholic church of Cincinnati holds services in the home of Edgar Pharo.. As many of his parishioners who were able attended the services. Tank Cars of Drinking Water for Flood Sufferers Flood Threatened Live Stock Saved by Coast Guard . Te * . ■ 1 W ,A . y 7 ! un 2k Members of the U. S. Coast Guard shown evacuating live stock and farm residents near Cairo, Ill. Her Coast Guard men are shown taking possession of cows found on a railroad right of way which is higher tha the ground from which the flood had driven them. ..... HIGH AND DRY Prevent Pestilence in Flood Areas Tank cars, normally milk cars, are shown being loaded with water in Chicago and started southward to the flood scourged sufferers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys where water was so contaminated that it was unsafe for human consumption. Coast Guard Rescues Flood Victims EVACUATION AREA CAIRO 7 , si ARK MPHIS MISS. I ve ,* PPtA’w ORLEANS High and dry is Emil Dallalio as he perches atop a light pole in a flooded Cincinnati street. The wa ter was 20 feet deep. As the Ohio river receded leaving death and des olation in its wake, refugees began returning to their homes. She was a good little trooper, even when driven from her home by the raging Ohio, but the inoculation needle brings tears from Evelyn Jean Hartung as Dr. Reece M. Pedicord, Wheeling, W. Va., health commit sioner gives her anti-typhoid serum injection. OLD MAN RIVER’S” FOE Flood victims in coast guard boats shown arriving at Jeffersonville, Ind., across the river from Louisville, Ky., where they were placed on refugee trains and taken to safety further north. Floods on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers were the worst in the history of the country. More than 1,000,000 people were made homeless by the treacherous waters that rose over retaining walls, inundated cities and towns and covered rich farm areas. Damage of property exceeded half a billion dollars. Map showing 100-mile wide strip along the Mississippi river irons Cairo, Ill., to New Orleans which the War department ordered evacu ated of all people in the most dis- astrous flood in the nation’s history. Largest peace time removal of civilians in history, the project was conceived to save the lives of more than 500,000 people. Orphans of the Flood Find Refuge HEADS FLOOD RELIEF Exhausted Refugees Find Relief • +1 r > Secretary of War Harry Wood ring, under whose orders army en gineers and detachments of the regular military service worked to maintain the levee system along the Ohio and Mississippi to combat the raging flood waters. Secretary Woodring ordered the army to evac uate all persons from the Missis- sippi valley extending from Cairo, Ill, to New Orleans for M miles on either side of the river. A father and his children, pictured in a refugee train as it left Ports mouth, Ohio, for haven and safety. They sleep the sleep of exhaustion, as did the majority who escaped the terrors of the great flood. Refugee children from the flooded districts of northern and eastern Arkansas are shown asleep on the floor of a railroad station following their rescue. With millions of acres of farm land under water and count less cities inundated, the Ohio and Mississippi valleys experienced the meet devastating flood in history. Harry L. Hopkins, WPA admin istrator who has directed the work of more than 50,000 federal relief workers in the flood area. Besides rescue and first aid work, the toilers have begun the task of rehabilita tion—a job which it is estimated will confront Ohio and Mississippi river cities for several months to come.
