MISSISSIPPI’S BURDEN
Flood Waters of Ohio (Received February 5. 10.30 p.m.) New York, February 5. 'The Mississippi River, absorbing tiie enormous Hood waters of the Ohio, carried its record load through the delta country to-night under the vigilance of river men. who predicted a safe passage to the Gulf of. Mexico. Army engineers, 120,000 work-weary defenders mid thousands of refugees shared the view that the worst is over upon hearing of the drop in the level of the Ohio and the upper Mississippi. Flood waters receded .02 of a foot at Cairo for the first time since the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, when it reached a record stage of 59.52 ft.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 9
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