1937 Portsmouth, Ohio Flood ... thx Sarah R!

1937 Portsmouth, Ohio Flood updated Jan. 13, 2012       The Ohio river began a rise in middle January with a large volume of rainfall in the West Virginia and Pennsylvania hills. By January 19 the river rose to  55 feet with a crest of near 60 feet forecast for Jan. 21.
      Early on Jan 21, with heavy rain throughout the entire Ohio valley and its tributaries Portsmouth knew a flood was inevitable.  By 5 a.m. Jan. 22 the water began entering the city, backing up through the sewers whose valves had been opened to permit recession of the water after the flood and lapping over the floodwall.
      A total of 13 inches fell during 21 days in January four times the normal amount. On Jan. 27 a crest of 74.23 inches was reached.
      Damages totaling more than $16,000,000 was wrought to the flood in greater Portsmouth.  The loss to private homes, garages and contents was estimated  at $3,943,000.  Damage to municipal and school buildings in Portsmouth and New Boston was estimated at $316,200.  Loss to merchandise, equipment and buildings of Portsmouth and New Boston utilities, manufactures and merchants was placed at $7,202,000.  Churches were damaged to the extent of a $100,000. 
      One person was drowned. Eight thousand people were rescued by boat. At one point there was 34,248 refugees from the flood.
Many of the pictures are from the February 28, 1937 souvenir section of the Portsmouth Times loaned to me by George Barlow (owner of Family Woodworks LLC, Piketon, OH).

7th and Finley Street during flood

1937 Flood Falters Drug Store Portsmouth

1937 flood city manager Frank Sheehan & deputy of WPA

Boat on 2nd street during 1937 flood

Glockner Chevrolet Company located on 2nd Street Joe Hannah photo

On Grant Bridge looking north up Chillicothe Street Joe Hannah photo

Wreck house and debris in the hard hit Front-Mill street sector

The receding floodwaters left debris piled up as though a hurricane had stuck

Food at the Coliseum at the state fairgrounds in Columbus being ready for shipment to Portsmouth

Tom Manning, NBC radio announcer, broadcasting from a row boat at Seventh and Chillicothe streets.

People scarring to the Hilltop as the water rose higher in their homes.  They carried groceries, clothing and babies, such as these people.

Flood waters carried the Proctorville sign more than 50 miles downstream and left it at door step of Isaac Moore, 407 Broadway street.

Flooded Oil Tanks

Portsmouth a typical couple getting food and shelter at Hilltop school

Chillicothe street looking north

Looking west on Third Street from Chillicothe Street

N&W tracts on the Scioto River levee

A typical lineup at Kinney's Lane spring waiting for drinking water.

Washington Hotel

Floodwaters spoiled U. S. Grant school gym, scene of Portsmouth High school basketball games

Flood damages typical in the North End

The normal placid Ohio River

A thick carpet of mud left in the Bigelow M. E. Church

Damages left on Hayport road

WPA workers and CCC enrollees helped hurry along the cleanup of flood area streets after the flood left. Location Gallia and Offner.

Some of the debris dug and shoveled out of the basement of The Times building

L to R: Joe Graham, Paul Holton, and Orville Fields with police radio station WPGI L to R: Harold Saylor and Bill Gammon moving the police radio station WPGI from the basement of city hall to a higher story. Paul Wagner & Mrs. Marie Vandergrift looking out the window at WPAY WPAY signed on in 1935.

Harold Saylor (left) and Dr. H. E. Feyler broadcasting over Saylor's home radio

Mrs. Marie Vandergrift at WPAY window

WPA workers putting sand bags on the Scioto River levee

WPA workers laying out sandbags to dry out

The new post office on the right and note the United Brethren church on the left now gone and is part of the Kroger parking lot.

WPA worker is being handed a child thought the window

Chillicothe Street looking south

Looking north on Market Street

Looking at East side of Market Street

1937 flood at the N & W overpass

2nd Street looking east

Looking East on Gallia Street

Gallia Street

1937 Flood at the N & W depot

1937 flood by the Via Duck and N& W station

1937 flood Second Street Bridge to West Portsmouth

View of Portsmouth 1937 flood from the Ohio River

Some of the advertisers found in the souvenir addition are as follows: Sears, 3rd & Chillicothe Streets; Kobackers's; Security Central National Bank; J. C. Penny Co.; Montgomery Ward; Atlas Fashion; The Portsmouth Banking Co. 6th & Chillicothe streets.; The Cussings & Fearn Co. 831 Gallia Street; Kay Jewelry Co. 817 Gallia Street; Stewart's corner of Vinton & Young Streets; Sheets Furniture, 526-28 Stewart Street; Scioto Motors 1510-18 Gallia Street; Bake Shop, 6th & Chillicothe; The Ohio Power Co where you could get Electric Ranges and Water heaters with a low down payment of $1.98 for the range and $1.22 for the heater plus tax; The Southern Ohio Maytag Co., 934 Gallia; Portsmouth Gas Co. 8th and Chillicothe streets; Bragdon's, Portsmouth Thrift Center; Sutter's 1023-25 Gallia Street; Lewis Furniture Co.; Chabot's Super Service 9th & Offnere Sts. & at Damarin Hill Station; Glockner Chevrolet Co. 2nd & Chillicothe Streets; Compton Engraving & Printing; Drs. Bennett & Babcock; Household Finance Corp 211 Masonic Temple; The Midland Grocery Co.; Collins, 322 Chillicothe St; L. C. Davis Showroom where they has the Nash LaFayette '400', Ambassador Six & Ambassador Eight on display 1618-1622 Gallia; Kroger stores; Wolff 320 Chillicothe street; Summers & Son 906 Gallia Street; Ideal Milk Co. Walker's Family Shoe Store 420 Chillicothe Street; Stewart's Drugs 904 Gallia Street & 4th & Chillicothe Streets; People's store 308 Chillicothe Street; Artwil Dress Shop 418 Chillicothe Street; Universal Auto Co. see them for the new Ford V-8 1112-30 Gallia Street; Knose Chevrolet Sales, 5607 Gallia; J. F. Carr, Cash For Old God, 813 Gallia; J.D. Williams Retail Dept. Williams Mfg. C. Bldg. Gallia at Campbell; Schaffer, 216 Market Street. Gallenstein Auto Sales 1014 Gallia St. at John; Hopkins Bros. 212 Washington St., Zuhars Oldsmobile Co., Gallia at Lincoln; and Keystone Press Co. 840-42 Forth St.;
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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Egypt Looks to Dissolve Muslim Brotherhood After Sweeping Arrests

Saturday, 17 Aug 2013 06:18 AM

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CAIRO — Egyptian authorities rounded up more than 1,000 Islamists and began considering legally dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood as the party defiantly called for a week of nationwide protests starting on Saturday. Among those arrested was the brother of al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The move came after Friday's death toll in protests added another 173 people killed to the more than 600 slain earlier in the week. More than 1,300 have been wounded in clashes around the country with almost half of the injured from central Cairo violence alone.

Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Bablawi proposed Saturday the legal dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood and the idea is being studied by the government, a spokesman for the government said. The proposal was made to Egypt's ministry of social affairs, which licenses non-governmental organizations, spokesman Sherif Shawky said.

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Shortly after, Egyptian police exchanged gunfire with supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi who were holed up inside a Cairo mosque that has been a center of the protests, an Agence France Presse correspondent reported. The reporter said gunmen inside the mosque were trading fire with police outside.

The correspondent said police stormed the Fath mosque and security forces fired tear gas. In the process, they managed to drag outside seven or eight men and were then confronted by angry neighborhood residents who attacked them with sticks and iron bars. Police fired in the air in a bid to disperse the mob.

The clashes push Egypt ever closer to anarchy. The Brotherhood announced a series of daily rallies over the next six days, starting on Saturday.

The interior ministry said more than 1,000 Muslim Brotherhood "elements" had been arrested, accusing members of Morsi's movement of committing acts of terrorism during the clashes.

Among those arrested was Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of al-Qaida head Ayman al-Zawahri, a security source told Agence France Presse. The brother was arrested in his home district of Giza, adjacent to the capital, the source said.

The Brotherhood, which ruled Egypt for a year until the army removed Morsi on July 3, urged its supporters back onto the streets to denounce the military takeover and the subsequent crackdown on followers of the nation's first freely-elected president.
"Our rejection of the coup regime has become an Islamic, national and ethical obligation that we can never abandon," said the Brotherhood, which has accused the military of plotting the downfall of Morsi last month to regain the levers of power.
Many Western allies have denounced the killings, including the United States, but Saudi Arabia threw its weight behind the army-backed government on Friday, accusing its old foe the Muslim Brotherhood of trying to destabilize Egypt.
Violence erupted across Egypt after the Brotherhood, which has deep roots in the provinces, called for a "Day of Rage." Automatic gunfire echoed around the capital throughout Friday afternoon, army helicopters swooped over the roof tops and at least one office block was set ablaze, lighting up the night sky long after the violence had subsided.
"We will not leave the squares. And we will not be silent over our rights, ever," said Cairo resident Abdullah Abdul Fattah, adding that he was not a Brotherhood voter.
"We are here because of our brothers who died," he said.

 Among the dead was a son of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, who was killed in Cairo in Friday's violence. Ammar Badie, 38, died after being shot during a protest in Ramses Square, the Muslim Brotherhood said on its Facebook page. The whereabouts of Mohamed Badie, who is the Islamist movement's General Guide and facing official charges for inciting violence, are unknown.

An interim cabinet, installed by the army after it removed Morsi during rallies against his often chaotic rule, has refused to back down. It has authorized police to use live ammunition to defend themselves and state installations.
After weeks of futile, political mediation, police moved on Wednesday to clear two Brotherhood protest sit-ins in Cairo. Almost 600 people, most of them Islamists, were killed in the mayhem. With no compromise in sight, the most populous Arab nation —  which is often seen as leading events in the entire region — looks increasingly polarized and angry.
"Egypt fighting terrorism," said a new logo plastered on state television, reflecting tougher language in the local media that was once reserved for militant groups such as al- Qaida.
The government said in a statement it was confronting the "Muslim Brotherhood's terrorist plan."
Undermining Brotherhood pledges of peaceful resistance, armed men were seen firing from the ranks of pro-Morsi supporters in Cairo on Friday. A security official said at least 24 policemen had died over the past 24 hours, and 15 police stations attacked.
The Brotherhood suggested the gunmen had been planted by the security forces, saying it remained committed to non-violence.
Witnesses also said Morsi backers had ransacked a Catholic church and set fire to an Anglican church in the city of Malawi. The Brotherhood, which has been accused of inciting anti-Christian sentiment, denies targeting churches.
Christians make up roughly 10 percent of Egypt's 84-million population and the Coptic Church authority issued a statement on Friday saying it "strongly supports the Egyptian police and armed forces."
The streets of Cairo fell quiet after nightfall, with the government warning the dusk-to-dawn curfew would be vigorously enforced. Neighborhood watch schemes sprouted up, and residents stopped and searched cars driving past their communities.
Egypt has lurched from one crisis to another since the downfall of the autocratic Hosni Mubarak in 2011, dealing repeated blows to the economy, particularly tourism.

Mubarak faces trial on charges of complicity in the deaths of protesters in 2011, but the chaos sweeping the country even postponed court proceedings in his case Saturday. The adjournment meant that Mubarak's next court date will coincide with the beginning of another trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders.

Meanwhile, the world community continues to respond to the unrest.
The European Union asked its states to consider "appropriate measures" to take in reaction to the violence, while Germany said it was reconsidering its ties.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro recalled his ambassador to Cairo on Friday and called for Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi to be reinstated. Maduro accused the United States and Israel of being behind Morsi's ouster as well as revolts in other countries such as Syria.

The Venezuelan government has maintained close relations with Middle Eastern countries, particularly Iran. It was also a close partner of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi who was killed in a popular revolt in 2011.

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