Floods

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Flood Features. Soldiers, using new, fast amphibious jeeps which look like big water bugs, made many rescues.

> Sam Hider, employed at the Oklahoma Ordnance Works at Pryor, Okla., drove away from his home near Salina, Okla., 15 miles away, at 7:15 a.m. He expected to be on the job at 8 a.m. He arrived 24 hours later. Cut off by the raging Grand River, he detoured 297 miles through Arkansas and Missouri to reach his job. Another ordnance worker started for his job on a horse, switched to an auto, then to a boat, finally arrived by shuttle-bus.

> The Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") Railroad's crack Texas Special left St. Louis Monday night, reached San Antonio four days later. It had wandered through four states to find a dry-land route.

> Farmers in Indiana spent their days fishing for carp carried into their flooded fields from the swollen Kankakee River. Near Springfield, Ill., farmers sat on their porches, caught fish.

> When floodwaters swept livestock from farms near Muskogee, Okla., Muskogee residents stood on bridges, lifted live, squealing pigs from the water.