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SEE 60-FOOT FLOOD CREST CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 18. With an Ohio River flood crest of sixty feet predicted for tomorrow, residents and business men along the river front today prepared to evacuate their homes and factories. A sixty-foot stage would send the mighty Ohio swirling over its banks here. Flood stage is fifty-two feet, but a "level up to the sixty-foot mark does but little damage to river front houses and factories. Meanwhile, United States meteorologist W. C. Devereaux revealed that already the rainfall record for April has been broken with the month little more than half gone and 7.14 inches of rain already fallen .04 above the all-time April highs. Terming the raging torrents as a "flash flood," Devereaux cited conditions along the Ohio to prove his contention. Steubenville and East Liverpool reported no flood danger, while Marietta, down the river only a short distance, anticipated a thirty-three foot stage, three feet under flood level. At Ironton, the river was rising five inches an hour, while at Cincinnati the stream rose almost a foot an hour. l
