First Pictures From Portsmouth After Flood Wall Topped
Exclusive photographs show the moment water topped the flood wall in Portsmouth Ohio as Walter Bordas Central Press photographer captured images from upper hotel floors and boats. These are the first pictures released since the disaster with earlier images pre deluge.
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Portsmouth
Walter Bordas
Central Press
Exclusive Central Press
Ohio River Valley
Walter Bo Qhie
Coast Guard
Ohio
Mississippi River
Coast
Jersey City
N. J
State police aid Louisville flood relief with ambulances
Major Enoch B. Garey acting on Governor Nice orders sent two state police ambulances and seven patrolmen to Louisville Kentucky to assist in flood relief. The units carry candles lanterns and a portable radio transmitter operating on police wavelengths.
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Enoch B. Garey
Louisville
Relief Supplies For Flood Areas Sent Uncharged
Baltimore officials said emergency relief supplies consigned to the Red Cross for mid west flood areas will be shipped free of charge. The traffic executives association and 17 other railways require shipping documents and containers marked donated relief. A Pennsylvania Railroad train departed for Quantico Virginia to be loaded with boats pontoons and other emergency supplies before heading to the Indiana flood sector via Baltimore and Harrisburg.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio and
Pennsylvania
Red Cross
Mid-West
Traffic Executive Association of
Eastern Territory
Pennsylvania Railroad
Quantico
Indiana
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad Ships 40000 Gallons Drinking Water
The Pennsylvania Railroad shipped 40000 gallons of drinking water from Chicago for flood refugees in Cincinnati Ohio and Jeffersonville Indiana. City firemen loaded four tank cars three bound for Cincinnati onto a passenger train.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Chicago
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Chillicothe Street
Vincennes
Ind
Wabash
Harry W. Nice
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Standard Oil Company
Jeffersonville, Ind
Huntington
W. Va
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