Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 26, 1913, Page 1

VOL. LV.—NO. 73 NORWICH, CONN., PRICE TWO CENTS FOUR STATES DEVASTA Loss of Life at Dayton, 0., Variously Estimated From 2000 to 5000---City a Seething River Three Miles Wide HOSPITAL WITH 600 PATIENTS SWEPT AWAY School Building Housing 400 Pupils Entirely Submerged— * Over a Dozen Fires Add to Horror of Situation—Im- possible to Use Boats—City Now Threatened With Famine—Other Cities and Towns in Ohio, Indiana, II- linois and Missouri Report Loss of Life and Heavy Prop- erty Damage—Call For 200 Coffins at Peru, I nd.— Bridges Swept Away in Pennsylvania But No Fatalities Reported—Unprecedented Area Covered by Deluge— Three Days of Rain and Downpour Continues. Known to have lost their lives and 30 to 50 others are missing. Terre Hautc, swept by a disastrous tornado last Sunday, today was partly inundated, Dayten, O, March 25.—Dayton, ex- night seethicg ficod of water from eight to twenty by the sudden rise ef the Des Peres river. Broad Ripple, Ind.s One te%} of rallroad track washed ouf. oungstown, O.: Feurteen thousand men are idle by reason of the closing dewn of the mills and factories. flood is the worst that this city has experienced in many years. FOUR STATES FLOODED. Unprecedented Area Covered—Hun- TED BY FLODDS—THOUSANDS PERISH | MANY DEAD IN OHIO. thousand | Biggest Fleod In State’s Histery and | Turkish the Raifi"Continues. Columbus, O., March of dollars and literally cutting off oity and more than a half dozen dreds of Lives Lost—Property Loss othfia towns from the rest of the orld. in Millions. . Chicago, March 25.—] rnprecedented in area, tornadoes and rains of the last threg :{h'- days, teday swept four states of th Mississippi valley, causing a life that may reach into the hu and damage to property amountinf to many millions of dollars. Ohlo and Indiana, and, to a less.r Jdegree, Illinois and Missouri, felt the brunt of the disaster. Losses Will Reach Millions. From Indiana came reports of one hundred thousand homeless through- out Indiana and a property loss of $20,000,000 in cities, towns and villages alone. This does not include the loss- es to farmers. The loss of life, while not so great as in Ohio, has not yet keen estimated. The climax of the flood in Ohie was reached at Dayton. Governor Cox of Ohio received a message at Columbus from Phoneton, | six miles from Dayton, saying 23| TLodies had been swept into the Great Miami river. They were supposed to W This, the capfial city of the state, ost | bractically isolated because of the®de- T.;’l‘{{,‘:.,i:;“‘me struction of telograph snd telephone and the washine out of bridges, makes lmf)osni’bla operation of loss of | Teilway trains, also is partially inun- ndreds’| 8ated, in darkness and without gas, because of the stage of swollen Sciotu river, which has caused a wall of water to separate the east and west Pportions of the city. merous fires and t: There were nu- ousands were ren- dered homeless. Meantime the rain which began Sunday night continueés, at times moi- erate and at other times in torrents The fact that the water already has destroyed several bridges and broken a levee gives cause for the alarm that other levees may break and furthe: damage result. Train Swims Into Colunbus. Columbus, O., March 25.—Flood gatss were closed against all trains coming in or going out of Columbus tonigut or. all roads except the Norfolk and Western. A train on that road practi- | cally swam/ into the union station at 2 . m., after having crept along through { The hand was cut from a Cabled Paragraphs More Revolution in China. Ame}:. China, March 25.—Renewed evolutionary disturbances browe out today at Chao-An, in the southernmost part of the provinece of Fu-Kien. Fighting Way to Adrianopl Sofla, Bulgaria, March 25.—The advanced positions and all the fortified points to the east of the for- tress of Adrianople wete captured by 25.—Leaviag | the Bulgarian bes, The | death and destruction In its wake,what - OB Sy aparsing, is said to be the bisgest flood in the history of u:fia stm&- slvlvept O‘Mo kg;igiv. g a of the lives of probably | Viscount liundreds of persomns, entailing a loss D s it Inth the il | oous of lions this Field Marshal Wolseley Dead. London, March 25.—Field Marshal Wolseley, one of the most modern British soldiers, died toeigy at Mentone, France, in his 80th King’s Body Taken to Athens. Salonikl, March 25.—The coffin con- taining the body of the late King George of Greece, who was assassin- ated on March 18, was taken aboard e Troyal yacht Amphitrite, today, which subsequently left for Athens. Nine Months for Filipino Spy. Manila, March 25.—Gansico, the Fil- ipino who was recently arrested on a charge of steating military plans of the Corregidor fortifications, to be sent to Japan, was found guilty today and sentenced to serve nine months in pris- on. Hand Mummified Without Chemicals. Paris, March —A severed hand mummified simply by the application of human magnetic currents without chemicals was shown today to the members of the second intermational congress of experimental gsycholog}n 5 ody in the public morgue and was subjected daily for 55 days to magnetic influences. The hand appeared much like the hand of an Egyptian mummy. It had lost three- eighths of its weight by evaporation DEPTH OF 30 TO 4C FEET. Tolegraph Operator Reports Half of Dayton Under Water. Indianapolts, 1Ind, March 25.—A Western ion telegraph operator at Brookville, Ohioc, tonight estabished communication with the Associated Press office here. He said: “Practically half of Dayton is under water from 80 to 40 feet. At the low- est estimate 200 lives have been lost. The city is without electric lights, street car service or water service. It 1s impossible to estimate the damage. There is much suffering and the people are in need of food and clothing. All bridges have been swept away.” SNOWFALL AT OMAHA. | Work of Rescuers Handicapped by It —Baby Found in Ruins of a Homs Alive and Uninjured. Omaha,' Neb.,, March 26.—Groups of men aided and encouraged by women angd children labored incessantly today among the ruins of homes and other buildings. Added to last night's death list of 162 were 16 bodles recoversd fie{le under the ruined Idlewild pool all. i A thorough search in the wreckage {of the Diamond moving pioture the- | atre failed to reveal-any hodies and it lis the opinion of searchers that all who were trapped in that building have been found. Sixteen bodies al- ready have been removed from these ruins. In one house a negro family of seven were killed. Today when search- ers were digging in the ruins they dis- covered a negro baby, alive and un- injured. A heavy beam had fallen in such a way that it protected the child. Since last night the total number of missing persons has materially in- creased. Relatives of persons living within the area stricken by the tor- ado began to arrive in Omaha last inight and the influx of anxious ones have come from Sidney, Shelby coun- ty. igh waters for most the run from during t Portsmouth to Columbus. g the process. continued today. From many of them interfered with the removing of strick- came orts of mi ng friends or rel- en families. The death list will re- Leet. Any attempt to estimate the loss of Scores Dead at Delaware. life is hopeless. It is sure to run into | main at 20, while the list of injured| = Scores Dead at Delaware. | '\, . o5 = . p.en a2t Davion, | ——m—m7m— 7 —— g : the hamdreds and very likely into the | aggregates 250. At Delaware scores are reported | ‘/ater o ln. ot Bavion. s B jatives. This, it is said, will swell the cusands. The erty S8 W At Dayton, O., wh T ivers, | @ isstng. Otto, a ham- SLTES R | its foundation by the flood. Two | 952 e it e Suenou e Siven | deadiand iy IRIGHER. man to arrive tonight | other children of the same family fell | The heavy snow that fell steadily total millions of dollars. the Miami, Millwat d_Mad, and ., was said to be de- 1, Millwater an acd | det of 100" petuons, v = 12 miles east of here, verif into the water and were drowned, ac- | 2ll day made rescue work particularly The ficoded district comprises a another siream, known as Wolf creck, |stroyed. H X = 5 2 f aen 5 circle within a radius of 1 conjoin, there was loss of life, accord- | Many cities and towns, _including | Port that the water is 30 feet deep in | cording toe the report. jdificult. Only portions of the ruips snile and a half, and in no place is the { ig to reports, and destruction of prop- | Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Richmond | the business center of the city ano| Another repor® which lacks some of | Of some buildings within which persons less than six feet deep. In Ma'm | erty. For the most part the city lies | Marion, Muncie, Kokoma, Connersville | running like a mill race. He asserts | the features of verification contained | ir¢ known fo have been Kkilled have > ? “& hundred persons have been drowned. | in that of the loss_of the children is' ’®en removed. on’a level flat with the four streams | apnd Logansport, are partly flooded and ot : Peru’s Mayor Calls for Coffins. that from seven Yo seventeen were, -\ body identified by papers in the water is twenty feet meeting almost in its heart. The |frantic appeals for aid were sent forta Fires Add to Horror. afl'anms are protected by levees 25 feci | by the residents. The known deatn| Togansport, Ind., March 25—11.10 p. | d:;;wned after nightfall. ‘f’;"«'l;etj‘ s ‘[’}f}fe;’,’ F?"k gamua?;:, c‘m p hig] The levee otecting the Miami | Jist i laces totalled 15. oad 7 = 7 < | Thousands of persons, separated fr §oSROE = oday Irom e top e £ B 2, thote e = m=_The mayor at Peru, over the 1o0S | 1 ombers of their famiites tonisht, are|°f ® high tree in Bemis. park. distance telephone, says: | e river broke about ¢ o’clock this mora- At Lafayette a huge bridge broke frantic because they are unable to get Rkeightened by more than a dozen fires | ing and the flood was augmented b, | away, carrving at least two persons to “Tell Governor Ralston that i = which can ba:‘- in t‘:? flooded dis- | the rapidly rising waters of olhf:r death. The lgm there ends to mil- | 200 to 400 killed on south side. into communication with their homes. | DOROTHY AINSWORTH trict, mflm reach of fire fighters. | streams. (The situation was mado | jions. want provisions, clothing and coffins” | Hundreds of fathers, sons, brothers, BEFORE GRAND JURY Most the businsss houses d | worse by the breaking of the Laramle Twenty Bridges Destroyed. Bl i Complotaly leolated. sisters and gaughters left their homes > = wearty all of the residences have oo reservoir, 50 miles above Dayton. ? P ¥ on, the west side of the city this morn- pant= Downtown the offices are filled At 3 p. m. a young woman telephoae Richmond is in du-knetes andrtwegt)_' Ycincinna[i' March 25.—Up to 11 !ing for work before the Scioto river ! Step-Daughter of Admiral aEton Gives With men unable to get home and the | operator at Dayton was in direct com. | bridges in Wayne county were de- | oclock nothing could be learned as to | had reached a flood stage. i Testimony. the flood situation in Middletown, O Wringing their hands, weeping and | wyper foons and some of the roofs ‘unicati Govi , - - | stroyed. - of the residences are helpless women &h& Fr TR e At Rushville half a mnfillion dollars | Al telephone and telegraph wires are | appealing vainly for help, scores of | Plymouth, Mass, Marck 25.—For snd children. Eamdreds of bouses. | ghe said she was the last person we- [ Of damage was done in the business | jown and there was absolutely no wav | girls are crowing as close to - | four hours today Dorothy Ainsworth Substantial bulifings in the residencs | maining in the exchange building aod | ahd residence district. of ascertaining just what had occurred | fer's odge In the Garimess tonient og| was cxamined before a grama. s @imtricts, mamy of them with helpless | that theme wae seven feet of water in At Kokomo the property lass was |fn that city. The last report received | state troops on duty and policemen will | Which Is to determine whether her @ocrremts, have been swept away. the main strest. As she was talking | estimated at a million Jollars and ?00 early in the afternoon stated that the | allow them, but it is doubtful if they | Mother shall be tried for the murder Yieapital Washed Away. she said the Leonard building, across P;mugnl-ra-r; living "Q,‘_‘?‘ mflfl#;:: situation was critical. Fifteen persons | wil be able to cross the stream to their | Of her stepfather, Rear Admiral Jo- roe o the sireet, co Many persons | © o S e ilar were reported missing. home district by morning. seph G. Eaton. When the young wo- nzmber of drowned camnot e | wepe beiioved to have be i he | were reported from Anderson, Marion, S e man, who is still in her esrtimated wntll the fiood subsides. by e been In the T ton Noblesville and Peru. S Tt s T T S e e e e e St Hiizabetl's hospital, with 698 pa- | “2130E at the time B T e TWELVE DEAD AT HAMILTON. |are Homeless on the west.side and that decidealy stiscitig teyped (egm e — ), are ving on e secon: loors » =3 Pt et Thn “Duiling wni | Cotmmma site. sutered casrmious | TOTAL OF $1400.000 * | Residents Spend Night in Large Build- | of their homes. : S e Syt =z mly about 10 per cent. of the street | corridor, omething of an fo be in -% o aer = from the flood Raiivaad trai- OFFERED TO OMAHA ings of the Town. prii ) e I R et ST 58y be tun. - > - B o i il B of Assistance Come from All | Hamifon, O, March 25— Twelve | T2ilToads and interurban lines are tied Loyal to Mother and Admiral. . m‘ il - Fire P Tk enders nce . , 0. £ up. Throughout tH toriety tl Threatened by Famine. Zodoy Sars and gor x time threntensd Parts of Country. ipersond ate known to Shave been!™Biwc loas by resson of the flood 18| atiended. the Bakon femio sias ho fl;dfldfln HEht %m were put mtmnmummmmnm- e h 25— For the |SCOTe moTe are dead as the result of | °Stimated at millions of dolla.\rs. adn‘&mr; Ss;ug}den_ ;i;mh by lpolgoning Omaba, .. Marc] oy the flood of the Miami river thet RS on March 8, the girl has remained loyal fotal Savkness, coupied with a Tvdn- | Shis o repad 1o tho abpeals Tor 2s- rst tims since” the disastrous tornado | pwept H,m‘,’mondt,;m‘”r}n: Eive 1o t,j; INDIANA A HUGE SEA. both to her mother and the memory — Conditions roseag iy The Benlo of Ot [inther “toex ing t od ThHous D ST Sanaat Lt she ‘mfl‘m. agded tho horriis o at o Fort m_b“' “M‘“b aoaat in 1ves | o r roats tonight to a depih of fram | Seven Dead and Thousands Homeless | hag been known to admit regarding Famine alss becams an immedizte m”"' mmmm mthe """’m and doflars.fl ‘When a resume was made [ ¢hrae to gix feet, in Hoosier State. Mrs. Eaton was she might be the vic- fl' . 3 many years. In ewery part of the state i&a‘fmflonamefl%mt ‘,hume h}‘tobefl Shg"k and B, Outellost (. | ¢ e ;‘a'g ‘;i;‘;fi'g‘%“““’"f'w’“‘ehzd;f"g’ she SID: and grocery reported ¢ 5 their Jtves while tryi to save others. ‘ndianapolis, Ind., arc . — Wi ed as a loving husband and Bouses are In the submerged district | yong A¢ Lefayette two epans of a | WLLOE to admit Tonight the residents are gathered in | tens of thousands of homeless, seven | father. wnd at midnight it was said there Was | pgaon went out. Two At Least* 250 Dead. the principal bufldinsg of the town. |dead and a property loss of several Told About Second Will. £ot_enouzgh bread to last the SUrvivors | g nd West Lafayette, whers Purdue Not 3 2 200 lives were snuffed | COmmunication with the outside world | million dollars, Indiana tonight is ex- Three years ago when he was day. Tonight three t‘hnuxas‘:d umiversity is located, was cut off late the vicintty of the city | IS limited to a single telephone wire | Periencing the worst flood in its his- | weighted down with domestic troubles, bomeless persons were housed in 140 | g the sftermoon ooty i find and not less tham fifty persons | {hat reaches only to Cincinnati. The | tory. The entire state practically is|the admiral told a friend that but for Xational Cash Regisier by the force of the wabers of towns were killed. | tOWR is in total darkness. one huge sea. KEvery brook, creek and | his affection for Dorothy and the City Withou! Water, the Wabash river. The river is two five hundred were Injured. - river is taking its toll of damage. Pub- | knowledge that the feeling was recip- o B I on ex. |miles wide and 3 Eight of these died in local hospitals MAROONED IN TREE-TOPS lic service corporations of the entire |rocated, he would end his life. 2 mm”":“‘u” f'c!m"m Zming the Gay. =2 i 2 state are helpless. Railroads and trac- | Some of those conversant with the plosion com~ | 1,500 Indianapolis Families Homeless. = -~ R R ot Dl Ohlo, | tion lines have cancelled nearly all | case believe that the attitude of Miss ARy, SEsdents "o Saware. % | trains. Many ecities are without fire | Ainsworth has made her an import- fowm block. The breaking of the Tarleton reser- voir, which supplies the drinking wa- fez, left the city wvithout r, and declared there was banks and thai there had ensued great Jess of life. - wm Gn:flt be Cloudburst at Cincinnati. learned the The entire business district of Rush- At Wyoming the south | vyjls gnd part of the residence side, where the Maticval Begit- | 55 ynder water. One person is reported 7000C Ars Homsiess. Generous Tenders of Money. ed structures. So far as money might | persons reported dead—swept away in | relieve conditions were perfect. Ten- derg of sums aggregating a million were in the hands of the ci when the day ende Work of Refief Bureau. The greatest work today was that of organizing a systematic relief bu- reau with seven branch stations in the territory covered by the tornado. These stretched over a strip seven miles long and those in charge of relief stations banded out material assistance to all comers who were able to show they were in need of aid. 2,000 TO 3,000 DEAD. Water Up to Third Story of Hotei—400 Sought Refuge Thera—Ninteen Swept Away by Flood—Over 400 Families Homeless. Delaware, Ohio, March 25.—With 19 the flooded Olentangy rivér— many others missing, and between 300 and 400 families homeless, this town of about 10,000 inhabitants tonight 1s practically cut off from surrpunding territory. The flooded condition of the town makes rescue and relief work dif- | ficult. Scores of persons are marooned in trees or on house tops. Would-be res- cuers are shotting words of encourage- | ment to them while making futile ef- foris at rescue. A wall of water seven feet high is rushing through the main section of the city. The five bridges ccnnecting the east and maln sections have been washed away, and therefore accurate estimates as to the number of dead and the damage done is impossible at present. Eastern Delaware reports the follow- - ot fhat the boats no longer were abls to make way against it, men and women crept along the cables to safety. Oth- &vs, Jess daring, sfw darkness fall and gave up hope of rescue. Those willing to risk thelr lives in attempt to rescue found themseives felpless in face of the water. Sewenty thousand of Dayton’s populstion, it 1s reporied, are homeless. Three Babies Borm Last Night The National Cash Register company ant, on a hill, offers the only haven n the south end, Three women be- came mothers in the halls of its office pufidings tomight{, Main etreet, near Apple, was one of the concentration points, In the woodworking department of e National Cash Register company ts were being turned out at the of ten an hour and these wera (o where the waters had cross- Main strest in a sort of gully. Hundreds of Reacues, Byt the waters crept up and the ptrength of ihe current was far oo gitrong for the erude -unts, glthough they were ths best that could be mads $1 8 burry, Frip after trip was made and hun- @reds of ihe refugess were taken from ghis gtretch of houses, THREZ DAYS OF RAIN, ¥ Plood Bweops from Missouri River to Allegheny Meuntains, /mnd rainstoFms pf terrifis i iaas;p for s, vast areas of the midgle ree day q&im, frem the Misseuri river te fhs Allegheny mountai; A Ll tains, ?& are im- imlomd, MAnRy PeTSOns ave baeel g = and eROFMOUS Property Ohis, Indisma and parts of Iilinsis @nd Missouri saffered most severeiy. e B e v “amytw’ eifp in a axe, on, Esluntbus Youngstown jn Obig K ail these cifies there was s ] iess of Jife, accordiag {o reports avail- abie, and in each city the property less was heavy. . Lives Lost at Delaware and. Daytor. In Deiswars, Oy 1) BoTRIRS @79 and many families in the western part eariy today which started the Ohio river rising rapidly and flooded many of the sireets. Families in the low- lands below Milford were warned In time and fled to higher ground before the sweep of waters reached that Big Bridge at Middietown Swept Away A big dam a short distance north of Akron, O. burst this afternoon and horsemen were hurried throughout tha valley in different directions to warn the populace of the impending danger. H. of farmers, with their fam’- 1 fled to higher ground. he great bridge over the Miami river ai Middletown, O., went out this afternoon, Fifteen persouns were re- ported missing, Several houses were seen to be floating down the river, ‘which was 3 raging torrent. A 60 Mile Wind. Bweeping up the Ohie valley from the west, the third storm in ten days devastated different sections hetween Loyisville and Cincinnati in Kentuecky and in extensive districts in Illinois, southwestern Ohio and Indians. At Leaisvills the wind reached a veloeity of 60 miles an heur, A number of persons were reported killed at Makamda, 1il. The report could net be cenfirmed, A freight train was blown off the tracks of the [iinois Ceatral railread and twe of the crew wm injured, X her cities affeéted by the floed and sterm are; Other Cities Affected, Lima, O.: Fieeded by the Ottawa river, Mea miles of trains held up t e by wasi ¢ at Middle Peint. pringfield, O.: Mad river and Buek eregk poth out of their bamks and sev- eral hundr heuses fleoded. any facteries compelled to close, Lasuse, O.: Tnypdated. Many per- soms meless and much suffering re- rted. ”w..'g Liberty, ©.: Mad river over- supning its banks here. Fort Wayne, Ind.: Si. Foseph, Mau- mee and SL Mary rivers on a rampage. Tewn without lights and water famine threatened. Highest water in 20 ks arion, Ind.: Five hundred persous forced to flep for their Tives. Eliwood, Ind.: 'Phree hundred per- sog homeless. . Louis, Mo.: One person drowned ing drowned: XK. M. Meiching, Mrs. Meiching and seven Melching children, Mrs. Silas Smith, three Smith children, Mrs, Sam Jones, Miss Hsther Jones, three unknown women and an un- known man. As darkness gathered, weeping wom- en and children lined the east bank of the river, waving handkerchiefs to their loved ones on the roofs of houses and trees in the swirling river. In one trec six people are clinging to the branches, and repeated efforts to throw them a rope failed. Four persons were thrown into the river when the Big Four bridge gave river when the Big Four bridge recued and Ralph Reigs, a printer, who caught on a tree after being carried 200 yards downstiream, is stil] maroon- ed_there. Just as the bridge was swept out a man clinging to the roof of a house which was being swept downstream waved his shirt at the people on the shore and then was lost to view as the house crumpled when it struck the bridge. Several bufldings of Ohio Wesleyan university are inundated. One baby, not yet identified, was res- eded ps it floated downstream. An- other baby was seen In midstream, but could not be recoyered. Eilas Smith, whose wife and chil- Hre pain eentinues mnd the waters| drea wers drowned, grasped the roof of are still rising. & heuge ag it floal downstream, end The Unien railread bridge th ad- | drifted safely into a lumber yard, mits all exeept one of the raflre: in.| By slimbing inte & tres, Rev. Bu- to the eity was dymamited this after- | Eene Bush, pastor of Gracs church, neen, but the effeet was not feit te any | Tescued twe babies and several aduits, marked degree, Taking a repe with him, the minister fastened himself te the tree and threw the loese end te a man who was with several women and ehildren, beif‘alg ear- 5 e. All were Eully That Number Drowned at Poru,| heos wopmer ™ o7 & hous Ind—Others on Hilltep, The Olentangy river at this peint ——— nermaliy is nothing mere than a ereel, Indianapelis, Ind., March 25—Pwo hundred or mere are drowned at Peru, Ind., according te a message received by Gov. Ralston from that place to- night. The govermor's informant, named Baier, asked that 200 coffins and food and clothing be seni at ence. +Phis probably :gl ‘be the last mes- sage you will get from Peru,” said the man. Two hundred or more are drowned and the remainder of the residents are xmvaoiennhi!!,mfigimmgc!&-;:e; of & house ihat had peen term School Children Drowned. Dayton, O., March 25.—(By phone via Xenia)—Dayton is tonight nothing less than a seething river three miles | wide, a mile and a half on each side of Main street, its primcipal thorough- fare, while it is estimated that from 2,060 to 5,000 people have perished., Gloom reigms supreme. The Algon- quin hotel is subinerged in water up to its third story .and above this level in the downtown district office build- ings, hotels and business houses are places of refuge. A school building that was known to have housed not less than 400 school children shortly before teh waters rused in that direetion is entirely sub- merged, and as far as can be ascer- tained all of the little ones met a wa- tery grave, * Thousands of thogs who wers for- tfunats enough to have escaped the first rush the waters ave being fed tonight on short rations, and sppeals for 1p are being sent out by many of the leading men of the eity, Three trainloads of foodstuffs have arrrived from Xenia, but as yet thers has besa ne chance te deliver them, and suffering from hunger as well as exposuwe is bound te ecour within the next few heurs, CALL FOR 200 COPFFINS, wide. 4 16,000 HOMELESS, 15,086 Mere Are Livirg en Second Floors of Houses at Calumbus. bein; swollen Seioto river just as darkmess was gathering late teday, a man, wem- but in many places it is a half mile | despateBer for the protection and without light. Dwellers along streams today devot- ed their labors to rescuing those trap- ped in their homes and to removing furniture and merchandise to higher ground. During the day many reports of loss of life were received. Sevan persons are known to have been drowned, two at Lafayette, three at Newcastle,one at Frankfort and one at Rushvlille. Canservative estimates tonight place the number of persons driven from their homes at near 100,000. The prop- erty loss it is sald will reach ihe twen- ty million dollar mark. Hartford People at Dayton. Hartford, Conn., March 25—Quite a number of former Hartford residents are now living in Dayton. When the government stamped envelope com- pany removed from here to Daytom, & few years ago, many of the employes went along with the conceru. PENNSYLVANIA GETS IT. ies Reported, But Situation is Growing Serious. Pittsburg, Pa., March 25,—With a continued heavy rainfall over a wide No Fatal territory of northern and western Pennsylvania, the flood situation at many points is growing serious to- night. No fatalitles have been report- ed, but heavy property damage has already resulted. Ofl City, Bradford, Warren, Titusville, Greenville, Now- castle, Sharon and the lowlands of this city and vicinity are battling with flood water. A number of buildings and dwellings collapsed at various places today. Many points are without light, water. transportation lines and gas. A score of bridges throughout the state weTe swept away by swollen streams. The dam at Spartansbure broke late today, sending a great wall of water towards Ofl City. Tonight the Alle- gheny river at Ofl City had reached 18 feot and was rising a foot an hour. A large proportion of Oil City is un- der water. The dam at Spartamsburg is the same which let go and caused the disastrous flood amd fire in 1892. Sections of Bradford are under wa- ter and hundreds of families home- less. At Greenville over 500 persons are homeless, At Sharon the greatest flood in the Listory of the oity is being experi- enced, Over 10,000 persons have been threwn out af employment and the propert yloss 18 enermous. The entire town is inundated. Startling Report Unoconfirmed. COineinnati, Mareh 35.—At 11 o'clock tonight the repert that 1,000 persons had been drowned at Hamilten eould not be eenfirmed, A pewspaper eorre- spendent at Familten stated that hemes whieh weuld shelter more than a thansflnd pergans were aubmerged, put nothing eeuld be learned of thelr fate until daylight, = Terrible Less of Life at Peru. Fort Wayne, ind, Mareh 85.—fThe abash railroad e e Flolumbus, Ohie, Mareh 27.—While e fafarmntion, swepl down' the chamnel of the|Peru, Caffins hre baing and a child were rescued frem the| be semt eut as seom as a traia eanbe stated at 12 eo'clack midnight that he had mse‘:;eldxf eenfirmatian of a term- life at Beru, Aeecording o 50 ave dead in Bauth ipment hy ew dext: aa.gn of provisians will ayne and a ea: ant witness. She has said that about six monthg before the admiral’'s death he Intimated to her that he had made a second will in which she was the chief beneficlary. The only will known to exist is said to divide the small estate between the widow and the two daughters by her former marriage, the older of whom is Mrs. June Keyes, Undertaker Testifies. Both Mrs. Eaton and Mrs. Keyes have expressed the opinion that the admiral was not mentally sound. Although the case has been before the grand jury for two days, it was late this afternoon before the frst witness who could testify as to the actual death of the admiral was called. This was E. B. Sparrel, an under- taker, who was preparing the body for burfal when his work was interrupted by an order from Dr. James Frame, who had attended the admiral several hours before death. Rumors of Probable Second Arrest. The eleven witnesses who had pre- ceded him were people more or less familiar with the family affairs of the Eatons. Sparrel was followed by Mrs. June Keyes, who was still in the jury room when an adjournment was taken until tomorrow. Rumors that a second arrest was impending received neither official conflrmation nor denial today, and the report that a commission would be appointed to pass upon the sanity of Mrs. Eaton continued a matter of spec. ulation. Family Short of Money. Through arrangements made that Mrs. Keyes might receive at once the fees due her as a witness, it became known today that with their other trouble the Eaton family are embar- rassed just now by the lack of ready funds. The small estate of the ad- miral is tied up pending the probate of the will which will be delayed un- til the investigation of his death is concluded. OBITUARY. Frank H. Hatthorn. Saratoga, N. Y., March 25—Frank H. Hatthorn, owner of the Grand Union hotel and Jlessee of the New York Mineral Springs reservation here, died today, aged 68 years. Steamers Reported by Wirsless. Fastnety March 25.—Steamer Cam- f‘.nla, New York for Queenstown and 'verpool, 805 miles west at 11 p. m., 24th, Due Queenstown § p. m. today. Sissconsett, Mass., March 25— Steamer Adriatic, Naples for New York, signalled 390 mtles east of San- Hook at 11.30 &. m. Dock 1 p. m. ‘ednesday. =3 Steamship Arrivals. Naples, Mareh 33 —Arrived, steamer Tealla, New York. Madeira, Mareh 3 —Arrived, steam er Cgnaple, Bosten for Naplex areh §i.—Arrived, steamer ork for Antwerp, March _ 25. — Arrived, steamer Caronia, New York for Naples Gl Maroh 86 —Arrived, steam - er C. nfi\ New Yeork. Friegte, 93 —Arrived, steamer =] ew Yark, Bremen, Mareh 24.—Arrived, steam- %K’e, isf, New Yeark; 25th, Kalser elm H, New Ya:i, el e SR CONDENSED DESPATCH : “ON PAGE AT THARER