. The railway library . The Ohio Floods of 1913 237. 238 The Railway Library Governor Cox, of Ohio, in the early days of the flood, gave out astatement to the effect that the disaster would prove to be a greaterone than the San Francisco earthquake. This was regarded, in somequarters, as one of the wild reports emanating from the flooded dis-trict. It has proved more than literally true. It should be borne inmind, too, that there was no insurance against the losses occasionedby the flood. Even after the abolition of temporary relief some16,000 families required financial relief in order to ret
. The railway library . The Ohio Floods of 1913 237. 238 The Railway Library Governor Cox, of Ohio, in the early days of the flood, gave out astatement to the effect that the disaster would prove to be a greaterone than the San Francisco earthquake. This was regarded, in somequarters, as one of the wild reports emanating from the flooded dis-trict. It has proved more than literally true. It should be borne inmind, too, that there was no insurance against the losses occasionedby the flood. Even after the abolition of temporary relief some16,000 families required financial relief in order to return to house-keeping. Generally speaking, there fell on this Ohio watershed, in less thanthree days, more than three months normal rainfall. And it camewhen the ground was thoroughly soaked and every river and streamfilled to its limit. The only wonder is that the damage and the lossof life were as small as they were. Governor Cox says that in Ohioalone the population affected numbered a million and a quarter souls,and that the direct money loss wa
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