CITY ENDANGERED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22643, 3 February 1937, Page 13

CITY ENDANGERED

FLOOD IN ILLINOIS

A SECOND EVACUATION REPAIRING THE DYKES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received February 2, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 1 Lashed by wind .and a swift current, waves broke over the lower rampart of the 60ft. concrete sea wall at Cairo, Illinois, at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and hammered ominously at the frail 3ft. superstructure hurriedly raised over it.

All women and children were ordered to leave the city immediately. This is tho second evacuation, as sonic inhabitants drifted back when it was reported that no immediate danger was impending.

More than 4500 workmen, in day and night shifts, are repairing weak spots in the dykes. As a single exit has been left open to these workmen to escape at the last minute in the event of flight being necessary, hundreds of boats are standing by.

The bodies of five men who were on the steel barge which sank at New Madrid, Missouri, yesterday were recovered to-day with grappling hooks. Thirty others are missing.

Admiral C. T. Grayson announced that the Red Cross is only a few hundred dollars short of its goal of 10,000,000 dollars for the relief of flood sufferers. However, he urges that contributions continue in view of the fact that relief cost 17,000,000 dollars in the 1927 floods, which affected only half as many people as the present disaster. v The United States Ambassador to Britain, Mr. R. W. Bingham, has arrived in New York en route to his home at Louisville where he will assist in the work of rehabilitation.