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Red Cross to Mydrs Reports Casualties —George
Aid State If Tarbell, Prominent Ithaca Law-
yer Succumbs — Lives Lost as
Called Upon Cars Are Swept from Highway
At Buttermilk — Rain Record
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w,a a�m� Angry waters roaring into Ithaca and
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��f6 a °.a..e. „°m thW ,,,h,�its surrounding communities last night took
eight lives and damage estimated to exceed
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"°'°•`• �` hid fe. ao/h • - two million dollars.
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Thi "ammo) aw.°"www w,d The record rainfall of the past 24 hours
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�f. u.mw waw,,.u•,., n s<",. deluged city streets, forced hundreds from
.4 r';°'"";,v•^m^their homes, ruined streets and made a
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'°`h`w °""•" 'shambles of the business districts in Myers
wva..<:.. e" w" d. J and Trumansbur
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"fthe ily »" •'�•°»,w.:,.,°...,.<" As the flood waters receded late this
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,ac,utioap. a"` N"' "^` x^"'•^ ^•�'� afternoon, a public confidence in the
few f, ruhwn �.
"'^''n" wiu h•." t.., •• a .�..... 'staunchness of dams east of the city was re-
--- verb m , f "mh, ua w a.0 Stored.
< Many persons were still unaccounted
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°�•,•I•°.e°. _ •..,.-.>`;for at noon. Memorial Hospital treated 15
people who were admitted as a result of the
flood. Eroded fields, blocked and gutted
• w °^^• " highways. long stretches of railway track
.l t'� elalltl n ° «w raw° were missing and every road leading in and
,w • „ aw, , „ ,,, 1. ,,., out of Ithaca was a danger to motorists.
8 REPORTED DEAD
r"'a'°""""•"'`""� Raging waters treated life cheaply.
WPA AdministratorsThe dead:
i George S. Tarbell, attorney promi-
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Meet at Albany to t in the civic life of this community,
Consider Problems, died from exposure and exhaustion. He
„a•°,._,e, _n tried to salvage valuables from his west
•• ,-, shore cottage threatened by the waters.
Lillian Giroux of Trumansburg was
�%`: •t .:. - ...'; carried away by the flood which raged
through that village.
John Solomon, 55, and his two sons,
;ij„�'•- Nicholas, 13, and George, 17, along with
Jack Isaacs la, fell to a watery grave
- - when the bridge across Salmon Creek on
- , Myers' main street collapsed at 6:30
a m.
Alice Ferris of Sheldrake was
• drowned when the car in which she was
riding gave way before a raring stream
--'- that crossed the Ithaca -Elmira road
near Buttermilk Falls- One unidentified
motorist suffered a like fate near Floral
Tobacco Magnate's Avenue Extension.
Wedding Cod $1J:5 Heroic rescues reduce!'l the flood's toll,
At !Hears. a R►owp of men threw rood and
°�••.•• �••«.••'.r.r•«I tMde Revs savior Hen" NowaW
and .lohn /:corer. I /-t earrAd bol a, standing
on the bridge when it collapsed.
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