FLOODS IN U.S.

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30390, 14 March 1964, Page 16

FLOODS IN U.S.

13,000 Lose Homes (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CHICAGO, March 11. River towns became ghost towns in the flood-ravaged Ohio river valley today. The number of homeless is more than 13,000, British United Press reported. Flood waters, caused by record rains, drove people from their homes in seven eastern and mid-western States.

Twenty-two deaths were blamed on three days cf rain, snows and tornadoes across much of the eastern one-third of the country. At Louisville, Kentucky, the most afflicated major city, thousands of people were leaving suburban homes as the Ohio river approached its third-highest crest of the century. The Red Cross estimated that 15,000 persons would be out of their homes in the Louisville area by early on Friday. The total of Kentucy homeless was 5000 today. Ohio’s count of homeless rose to 4000 as 750 persons left their homes to the flood waiter along an Ohio river strip from Steuenville to Marietta. The Ohio death toll stands at eight. Two women are missing and presumed dead after their car rolled into a creek near Zanesville. Governor Welsh, of Indiana, asked President Johnson to declare 15 countries as Federal disaster areas.