Northeastern States Suffer From
Furious Floods With Many Dead
And Property Damage in Billions
By the Associated Press
Furious floods ripped at the
northeastern states for the second
day in a row Saturday, with 104
known dead and property damage
estimated in the billions.
It was the worst such catastro
phe ever to hit the region.
Rivers, bloated with record
breaking rains, rolled out of their
banks across seven states, leaving
thousands homeless, roads in
shambles, and whole communities
debris-covered ruins.
As the mopup of mud and
wreckage began in battered New
York and New England towns to
the north, the stampeding Dele
ware and its tributaries still flung
terror and tumult in areas farther
south.
Pennsylvania took the worst
beating, with 51 known dead, and
at least 70 missing from water
buried camps and homes.
As civil defense organizations,
Red Cross and the armed forces
threw emergency units into high
gear, an indication of the extent
of the misery came in this single
report of supplies sent by the
Army overnight:
Two hundred cots and blankets
and two amphibious “Ducks” to
Trenton, N.J.; 500 cots and 1,000
blankets airlifted to Hartford,
Conn.; 2,000 sandbags to Arling
ton, Mass.; electric generator to
Torrington, Conn.; 200 mattresses
and blankets to Camden, N.J.
Many towns were without pow
er, and water supplies were
spoiled. Communications were hit
or-miss in much of the region.
New reports of dams crumbling
under the force of swollen streams
added to the swelling total of
property damage.
The collapse of the Rice City
Dam in North Uxbridge, Mass.,
sent a five-foot wall of water
charging down the Blackstone
River toward Woonsocket, R.I.,
already devastated by earlier
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floods.
As the rising Deleware River
swirled over its banks in Trenton,
capital of New Jarsey, five fire
companies pumped water from
the basement of the State House
in an effort to forestall damage
to the building and its valuable
records.
At Seymour, Conn., flood vic
tims watched the angry Nauka
tuck River undermine a cemetery,
unending tombstones and digging
out concrete vaults and coffins,
j Cemetery workers carried corpses
from broken coffins.
Bridge after bridge was report
ed washed out. Dams burst and
torrents of water tore mercilessly
at buildings and anything else in
the way. Hazardous rescues were
routine.
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“Old Faceful.”
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expected power to splatter the
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Airport authorities have finally
put up a warning sign with local
color. Old Faithful, the geyser of
Yellowstone Park, is but 70 mi}es
to the northeast.
The sign on the fountain reads:
“Oold Faceful.”
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Demo Nat’] ead
Takes Final Fling
At Administration
Wouldn’t Blame Alaska
For Having Its Own
Boston Tea Party
KETCHIKAN, Alaska, W)—Na
tional Democratic Chairman Paul
Butler flew to San Francisco after
a two-weeks Alaska tour, but not
without taking a final fling at the
Eisenhower Administration.
He told a Ketchikan meeting
last night:
“I wouldn’t blame Alaskans for
having their own Boston Tea Par
ty if administration retrenchment
policies continue much longer.”
He also forecast of this fall’s
forthcoming Alaska Constitution
al Convention that “Alaskans will
finally issue their own declara
tion of independence.”
His 14-day Alaska visit was his
longest to any one area since he
took the party post last January.
Arriving in San Francisco yes
terday, he told interviewers Alas
ka is “ready and entitled to state
hood.” Butler said failure of the
Eisenhower Administration to ex
ert leadership accounted for de
feat of the Alaska and Hawaii
statehood measures in the last
Congress.
Butler predicted the Democrats
will recapture the White House
next year regardless of whether
President Eisenhower runs again
or not.
He said he based his optimism
over 1956 on “the failures, mis
takes and confusion of the Eisen
hower Administration, which are
becoming apparent to the Ameri
can people—even through the
‘paper curtain’ of the pro-admin
istration press.”
Butler said he hopes Vice Pres
ident Nixon is on the GOP ticket
again next year. “He’s one of the
least popular Vice Presidents
we’ve had,” Butler said, “and
we’ll focus our big guns on him if
he’s on the ticket.”
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