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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.