The Flood Situation

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 17, 1913

The Flood Situation

The flood waters that have caused such devastation in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, are now swelling the Mississippi to a most dangerous height. Cities of considerable importance along the Mississippi are now below the level of the turbid waters of the great river, but so far the levees have been holding, and the devastation that has been almost hourly expected has not occurred. Great inconvenience has been caused the people, however, on account of having to move from their threatened dwellings to higher ground. Disease has begun to appear in the devastated districts, and great fears are felt in Indiana and Ohio that epidemics will occur. One city already has an unprecedented number of smallpox cases, in spite of the fact that every precaution is being taken. In most sections visited by the flood the work of rehabilitation is going on rapidly; but the effect of the calamity in the two States which suffered worst will be felt for years.