Wilmington News-Journal from Wilmington, Ohio • 1

Wilmington' Ohio ThursddyJanuory fg418 Pager 5 a 4 ns zz i zz zv 1 lY yY JVHSnndustrialArts Department "Wood St Residences Greenhou Loz a 7 i 1 jTv AZj 4 41 LOOD WATERS SWAMP CLINTON COUNTY 1 7S7 41 i Iz A''' VOLUNTEER snJSJk the target of the flood as jdk Rough Going at Lincoln andLorish (RM sRSS7 S' JMSS raSrS 2 ex tftAxAMAfet Wood St Residence MV U1V 4 0VIMV WW4V4 than 2 million dollars the cityen families though the worst wassUU ginecr said to come Drownings were being re In Newark the Licking Elver ported lu (Wggssssr worst rainstorms in recent years Wednesday was counting its prop erty damage in thousands of dollars today as clean up and salvage crews labored to restore normalcy Hardest hit in the county was the village of New Burlington where hundreds were evacuated as flood waters closed in Rescue workers were busy until dawn and nine families had to be rescued by out board boats In 'Wilmington damage was high at Swindler's lorists Wilmington high school and many residences built In low lying areas Telephone service has been cur tailed 'and many routes including mington went to the rescue of the nearby Warren county village of Morrow Wednesday night The ma jor portion of the town was under water with extremely heavy dam age Many families had to be res cued from their homes by boat The Dayton Power Light serv ice department received 101 callsin Wilmington asking for help Gas heaters and furnaces gave trouble when water rising in basements doused the flames Three or four transformer sectiohs were out meaning power failure in a number of local homes ernor Michael DiSalle was unable to get to his office because of flood ed Alum creek which blocked East Columbus regents from getting downtown Since the rain has stopped au thorities looked for some relief as the rivers and streams that caused all the floods began to re cede The crisis in Mt Vernon the com munity of 16000 about 35 failles northeast of Columbus ended early this morning as the Kokosing Riv er receded'i Mayor Philip Mauger eased the restriction he' had im posed i when the river bursted througn Its dikes and drove' 3000 persons from their homes The may' return today Dam age in the city may amount to more (Phota by Iddla Howard) WHS Parking Lot' erflowed' leaving persons homeless Near Springfield on a patch of high ground surrounded by flood waters 18 "persons" includ ing five would be rescuers were stranded ih automobiles Eighteen men were perched on top of auto mobiles at a NewarkPlant It took hours before workers could get to them Gov DiSalle surveyed the dam age in Mt" Vernon He said he was sure the city would qualify for ed eral disaster aid After the power was restored there and the Ko kosing River receded after hai(ig received 24 Inches in 5W hours Mayor Mauger declared the flood under control hope the worst is he said or some other Property New Burlingt oh it Hard Clinton county hit by one of the unteer ire Dump brldce three mlles O' THE MANAGEMENT Intends to rent the shoe type skates for 35 cents while admission to the rink Will be 50 cents or those skaters with their own skatel only the lat ter price will be charged The rink will be open through Thursdays from 5 10 in ridays aqd Saturdays from 5 to 11:30 record turntable will be im 1 Ohio counted an undetermined number of dead and damage inXha millions today as cold weather in half of a century Some of the brought a respite for its worst flood thousands of evacuees begain going back to their slit covered homes being housed in school? and other But thousands of others were still emergency quarters Mt Vernon the hardest hit of the Central Ohio cities Is out of the crisis with Some water and debris remaining to trouble most of Its 16000 residents There was some easing of the flood waters In other communities hit by the eluge of water includ East Columbus AT PORT WILLIAM School Administrator Wiley Manker re ported that the ork )ridge millidam has condemned to all traffic ex cept for pedestrians buses made attempts to pick up children drivers found several bridges im passable in the 'district Manker closed the school for the day Roads are badly 'damaged by swollen streams In the Chester township area and Kingman chool among those closed Sheriff oote termed the? New Burlington community as the hardest hit in the county Resi dents at Clarksville told oote that the water in the Vernon township community was the highest in the history of the village The Clarks ville Vernon township school' was closed today Adams was also closed 5 7 qanfefe THE CREEK MUI Mansfield Bucyrus Hamilton Newton alls Dayton and Springfield At least three? persons are 'known to have drowned possibly 10 others died in flood waters or accidents due to the flood conditions There was no way estimate the damage but most officials a greed it would run into millions It may take days to determine in dol lars the damage done 'Near Maysville in central Ohio Where a big gas main broke1 Wed nesday night phio uel Gas Co crews from 12 surrounding com munities worked all night trying to restore service alljng tempera tures made the situation more dif ficult Water on bridges and blocked highways snarled trans portation In most cities some of which were virtually isolated Gov 1 er The Union township rural truck was on standby duty at Mor row today and the Sabina pumper was in its place at the Wilmington fire department About 75 100 residents were forced out of homes0? They were housed at Little Miami high school local firemen reported A mong those still marooned is a family with seven children al though no one seems in immediate danger firemen said Local men loaning boats for res cue work at New Burlington includ ed Donald Babb the Rev John Morris pastor of the Presbyter ian church and Sgt Thomas White of the Wilmington Police At the Wflpington high school buildinerthb industrial arts auar at least four ifet of water poured intq the area Machinery was covered along with motors textbooks and desks Some of the motors were sal vaged when some 30 youths and in structors removed their shoes plunged into the rushing water and made the rescue Salvage crews worked all night Damage could not be estimated un til the machinery and motors are dried out 1 The north parking lot at the school was practically a total loss with a three foot gulley in its cen ter The athletic field appeared to have survived but the north end of the tract was badly washed out AT 4Vi to 5 feet of water entered the seven greenhouses covering growing flowers and plants The stock base ment was filled to the rafters the floral designing room was under and water reached the top step of the salesroom Officials of the company said it was impossible to estimate the a mount of loss Crews worked throughout the night in setting up oil salamanders to supply heat for the plants Business was being con ducted as usual with some limi tations Thursday I ire department crews spent the night in Wilmington pumping out basements and moving furniture out of danger for local residents By midnight at the ra dio headquarters six pages of ra dio log were filled in communica tion with other communities on the situation Normally 'only a single page is filled in the same length of time radio operators said JOHN'YOUNG JR manager of Cowan Lake State Park said that water went two to three feet over normal spillway' level covering the beach area tearing out docks Large quantities 1 of' Jebria were dumped into the lake i 2g Xef AT NEW BURLINGTON ap proximately 400 were driven from their homes by the "advancing flood All but nine families es caped before the Water level pre vented travel on foot or by car' Harry Hague tn Wilmington fire chief representing the local Red Cross chapter and Thomas Evers of the Greep county chap ter' the local Civil Defense truck the Department with three of its outboards Herbert Conner Clinton county game pro tector Clinton county Sheriff loyd oote and Corporal Bruce rye of the State Highway Patrol were on hand to assist in the res cues and maintain order in the vil lage Rescued by boat were jMr and Mrs Alva' Dodge and fpur chil dren Velma Ewing and her daughter Edith Mrand Mrs Robert Supinger MiC? Mrs Hugh Seal and' two children Mrs Lowell Picket and two children Barbara and Roger Thomas and Roberta Stiles Later the Del beH and James Wallace families'' and the Harold erguson family with a total of 'll children were evacuated by boat It was reported that a house was washed away in New Burling ton Tom manager of the Wilmington branch General Telephone Co said that the house took down phone lines as it went downstream Long distance cir cuits were dead other areas too and only emergency calls were being placed He said that operations were reduced to 10 per cent of normal capacity Returning to Morrow this morn ng were three local men who played a major roll in the evacua tion of that community Wednes day night urther rescue work was requested from Craig Phil lips John Powell and Kenneth Nunn The three were bucking the rapid currents with Phillips 17 foot 130 horsepower inboard boat The rescue operations saved nine marooned citizens In cluded in this group were Mayor Maggand three others' stranded at the municipal building A NDW SUPERMARKET the bank a drug store and many real were heavily damaged Underwater was the Morrow Vol pllfied for music and vending ma chines will dispense snacks and soft driaks Damron Ohio ListsiDamdge ln Millions lood Victims Return ToHomes (By tte Aimuted pre) Mansfield Lima Wooster Canton ernor Michael DiSalle was un Roller Rink Slated or Wilmington The Ross Rolla Rink Is sched uled to open for business eb 2 at Its Sugartree St address it was learned 'J 't According to ROss Damron Wilmington Route 5 the skating area will consist maple floor measuring 36 by 70 feet Remodeling on the building located on the site of the old Elam ord Sales Inc is being com pleted by red Daughtery owner of the Wilmington Laundry bridge three miles west of Wil mington on Route 73 has been re ported as dangerous One side caved in after a loaded tractor and semi trailer attempted to pass over it late Wednesday Rpute 22 was closed to automo bile traffic today just east of the Clinton county line at the Rattle snake Creek bridge Some trucks were getting through but cur rents were reported too' fast for cars Nearly a quarter mile of the road was inundated and covered with Urge Amounts of debris washed off' surrounding fields Underwater is nearby Washing which for a time was practically isolated' The highway patrol had reports that Gardner? Park was under 10 feet of water in Courthouse It was reported that Columbus was equally isolated fay high watexp Route 68 to Springfield was de opened today the Patrol said Route' 22 to Cincinnati is blocked at Mor row but Routes 68 28 and 50 are open to Cincinnati Route 50 bypass is closed' Wilmington basketball game scheduled at Central State Wednesday night was postponed and Coach red Ralzk said today it would be played' at Central State tonight 'Hie first program in the Wilmington College Library lecture series scheduled for Wed nesday night with Miss Louise Soelberg WG dance instructor was also postponed yi Adams vs Clarksville and King man vs Jefferson elementary bas ketball games scheduled for tonight were cancelled' and will not' be played since they do not effect the outcome of the league standlngi alter "Nichols county superin tendent of schools said today Martinsville will still play at New Vienna apd Ranchester will be at Sabina Drawing for the elemen tary tournament will be held at 10 4 riday at the courthouse I 7 In Sabina Wednesday night ther? were three different on Route 22 that were under water although later in the night the water level went down consider ably Communities that escaped' some 3 of the precipitation and the result ing floods were Blanchester Mid land and New? Vienna However flooded basements and other water damage were widespread f1 A Al 4 I MRS! ETHEL' HAYES offi cial weather observer had 1 a breakdown of the situation that started the big flood On Monday the snow amounted to 48 inches of water and precipitation was 148 Tuesday During the 24 hour period from Wednesday' 8 to Thursday at the same time 343 inches' of rain fell The tern perature reached high of de grees melting tbe accumulated snow The mercury tumbled today to 10 degrees at 8 a a 54 de gree drop in less than 24 hours Unofficial observations at Clint on County Air orce Base showed that winds reached a maximum soeedof 55 miles ner lur at Wednesday At 2:56 the wind had hit a high qf 52 Jnph During the night from 8:30 until 2 a today wind reached gusts over 40 mpb At 'noon today tbe wind was a steady with gusts up to 35 vi 1 1 i 1 11 IL1 HOCKING RIVER RISES ATHENS Ohio (AP The Hock ing River rose two feet over th 17 foot flood stage today and was expected to go higher as Al experienced its worst flood years ew fey TielWeathCT: T'' Partly 'and Bl BB Ill lll I fl A IIIllW I EVERYBODY'S inSv? 01 iAjivxri iixj i yy ij fv ia I 'marketplae 10 above riday partly' J' vz War JB1 i cloudy with snow flurries 1 f' i'i i 2 i ifi ft '1 If '9 JrZ Ont Hundred Twenty irst Year zXf Wilmington Ohio ThursddyJanuary l2 1959 'i A I 'A a i 4 xt a ifc JrLrfDH pl 'I Cf 5is A kJ 1 S'i 'Z cs JL i 1 1 5w tT 1 TU'rV Mr ZTJ 7 Lft XJ 4 'i 7 'Zs iZZvi Zll 7 7X sWr' Z1 MZy ZzZ' TJSW zz zz ZZTZz A ZX zZ'aZ ZZ iZZ Jb'UZ fzTZ? i iJ kA rkL 4 4 ZbB vr iz fl A i JR a AJ 1 1st I KE CUm4m Ada uz Seven Cenft: IUIIIIIJRII nuniiu JIM ltliiiiiiln'rlr 'iilililll i iiiii i Wul iMi iliwmiiiifiiiiMMm i'i 'i a BBi mm I xx illl 11 i a'5 Ji jv 4 a IMBeB $1 1 if' 44 jZv 1 4 fflnnl xZ iii yrZ few AMaa il'd I A 'ff'J I 11 9 Xi I 1 1 7 tl a i rl Ijl zl 11 IB Ll I 1 i 4 1 1 ill IB i'B 'I a I 11 fl BM KT I 4 ol IW RrtWnv 'z seven sum roans aMKtoarz roads and tB W'TfzX'HflHHHHHHHIaHHflMUBKi BbBBBJR Wkjf 4 1 auz SBbL vBBaBaMI i'i 4 '4rti xSWft i ZZV A l' 4 I 1 4 bHM xzx? 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