The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1913, Page 2

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, 3 We OHDDHHHDHHHHHDHODHHHDHHOHODHHDHGHHDHHHHHHHHHHHDOS BDHHOHOHDODGHOHHGHD OOHHDOHHGHHIGH9HHHSSO: ® to Columbus from Dayton this afternoon at 2 o’elocks a “Deaths may run as high as two thousand. Prop- erty loss $10,000,000. River four miles wide. Difficulty to get anywhere near centre of city. Water up to second story of Phillips House. Worst calamity in the country since Gatveston.” "AL DEAD NOW PUT AT 38,671. Bales and bales of contradictory reports are coming out of the dev. territory, but there is a general idea in all despatches that the worst not been told. From sources the closest to official it may be stated | deed. that the loss of life in the floods Im the two States totals 8,671. As fast ene community puts its estimate of the dead down another comes in with reports of increases. < Morning reports from Dayton were to the effect that all fires had been f ee by the flood and rain. This afternoon the chief operator of the telephone system at Dayton sent a message to Gov. Cox at Colum! stating that the Russell apartment house in West Third street, in which seores of refegees had taken refuge, was on fire and that the people whe | nome sought safety therein were jumping into the water to be swept away hy the foree of the flood, © Gwe hundred bedies had been recovered in Dayton at noon by men patrolling the fleeded districts in beats, Frantic appeals are being sent . out from the stricken city for pure drinking water. Typhold, according to authorities lurks in the food, and the Water supply plants of all and towns in the feoded districts have been elther disabled or de- streyed. The Ohio Legislature increased the appropriation for the: rellet fund from 0250,000 to $500,000 this afternoon. NEW REPORTS SHOW MORE DEATBS. * j q Tiffin, O., leaped into the news this afternoon with a report that fifty were drowned there, includieg Mayor Kaeppell and Chief of Police jyers. Am unconfirmed report reached Delaware, 0., this afternoon that the village of Stratford, five miles below the town, had been wiped out with leas of 200 lives. Piqua, 0. where 640 are reported dead had not been by wire or otherwise up to 4 o'clock this afternoon, The weather has turned very cold. A drissling ralu which prevailed throughout the flooded districts In Indiana Ohio turned into snow this The storm assumed the threatening proportions of a blilssard ‘im Central Indiana was moving East. It in belleved that a fwilt prevail all throwgh the flooded country in both Ohio and In fore night. Only the larger cities have been heard from, and no one will attempt all avatlable boats were immediately loaded with provisions and sent into the clty under great difficulty, but it waa soon found the supply wan insufficient, Mayor Gootz, who had been informed of confilcting reports about the loss of life, said he accepted the report from the Fellet party as official, “The mesnages stated definitely that at leapt 00 were drowned,” he sald, “I can't conceive that those in charge of the relief party would greatly overes- iishicd ah Pon from Firet Page.) yas badly damaged by a break tn the jevee, but the pein force of the storm spent on Me nekt village, Brook- ‘The easteand west forks of the rer meet below the town. The rise of th branches cau them to meet tn the town. Many persons had no chance jo escape end at least forty were rowned, Survivors tell of seeing beds | mate the lo § ith children in them ewept down the |5,000 HUDDLED IN PARK WITH. itreets to the river, OUT SHELTE Connersville is completely cut off and ‘ord came from persona at Blooming rove and Everton, north of Brook- ‘Mle, to which appeals have been made. Five large wagon bridx. the Bir four Railroad oridge, depot and a pa- «mill were destroyed. Fifty summer itewater River, south of ¢, foundations and embling in churches, where religious services are being held. jone of the bodies has been recovered, The town of Metamora, north of Brookville, and the towns of Codar rove and New Trenton, south of Brookville, have Geen awept off the map by the flood, according to information Information was telephoned to Mayor Goetz thin afternoon by Patrick A. ee, Comptroller of South Bend, who was in charge of the frat relief party. Mr, Joyee maid that five thou sons were huddled without 4 park on w till; that @ sinu.) court- house ia crowded with 1,00 survivors, the hospital with 1,000 more and that three hundred children are imprisoned in @ echoolhouse, No fires allowed to be lighted, and the women and chil- dren are suffering intensely from the cold and dampness, Twelve bodies were recovered !n one house in the southern part of Peru this afternoon, This was t to indicate which reached here this afternoon, that the loss of life in that section of the gynsuer PARTIES HELD MILES|“!tY was great. Dwellings there were completely submerged before the occu- pants could escape, A report reached here this afternoon that a Peru furniture factory in which everal hundred persons had taken ahel- ter had been undermined by the water and a large portion of it had collapsed, carrying with it many persons, Two hundred and twenty-five persons inured or cued and are to be taken at once to Plymouth, Ind, The prospect at daylight was distress- ing. Currents of muddy water from ten to twenty feet deep were racing through the main. streets at twenty miles an hour, All night long, while thé cit; vee Ld darkness, because of ‘aa re) OUT OF PERU. e latest report from Peru was tele- to Mayor Goetz by the rellet y sent from South Bend, which reached the outskirts of Peru. It ‘Btated that only two feet of the upper parts of the houses in the submerged ~ldistricts eould be seen; that the court- shquae, the hospital and some factory {vulidiogs were crowded with survivors Yip need of food. Gov. Ralston had been ‘Banked to seng supplies from Fort Wayne. f The‘ specia! relief interurban ¢rain \Whick eft South Bend at 1 A. M. reached & point several miles from Peru at 7, ‘ut, owing to the dullure-of wire com- munition, could ont set out word enrtier. ' ‘Indiana and Ohi ©9950050 which were entirely An idea of the loss of life in rural communities may be gained from fragmentary reports from Delaware County, 0. in which the tewa of Dela- MAROH 26 1913. ame. “etek oe aii er ee OOOO OOOO OOOO 000 0000000000000000000000ORK PDDHODDODDHDHDDHHDHHDHHOGHS DQOHHHDHOHGDDHHOOGDHHOHDODGHODDHHODHHDOGHHODHHOODHSOOHSIAGONO« HDODDGOODIGO. about 208, George F. Burba, secertary to Gov. Cox, sent the following | to estimate the loss of life in the rural districts and small towns, most of retected from the flood. ae is located, The loss of life in Delaware proper is reported at 19, but mber of dead in the reraj districts Let the total for the county GREAT OIL PIPE LINES BROKEN. A new horror has been added to the situation in the Indiana broken by the food and natural gas mains have been torn apart. 5: ural gas ai Miles and miles of water are covered with a coating of off. The weather {fs bitterly cold and there is danger that refugees in starting fires will ignite the ofl and spread Games all over miles of foeded district. This danger alse applics to the off districts in Pennsylvania and Southwestern New York, which are flooded, Gov. Cox has ordered out the entire militia of the State of Ohio. The Legislature of the State has appropriated 925,000 to a relief fund. Gov. Cox has called on President Wilson and om the Governors of all Westers States for immediate ald. In his appeal he aske for 50,000 tents for the homeless. LIGHTING PLANTS ARE DESTROYED. In all cities and towns in Ohio and Indiana reached by the flood the lighting systems have been destroyed and the supply of drinking water has been cut As the waters recede pestilence must follow unless ex: traordinary preventive measures are taken. In Indiana, there has been loss of life in West Indianapolis and Peru estimated at 300 lives. Brookville was destroyed by thé bursting of the Whitewater River levee and Connersville was hard hit. Thou- sands are homeless in Terre Haute, Richmond (in which town twenty- two bridges have been washed away), Wabash, Logansport and a score of smaller towns, Sixty trains are stalled west of Indianapolis. The whole militia force of the State has been put in action by the Governor, but is help- less because of the difficulties of transportation. Gov, Ralston gave out an official estimate of the property damage of the State, placing it at $25,000,000, The United States Life Saving Station at Louisville has been ordered to hurry its entire crew equipped with power-boats and life-saving ap- paratus to Cincinnati with orders to work up the Miami Valley toward Dayton for rescue work. The Pennsylvania Senate to-day unanimously adopted a resolution providing for the forwarding of $50,000 to the flood sufferers of Ohio. The Chicago Association of Commerce, through its executive com- mittee, this afternoon wired am offer of $100,000 for the relief of flood sufferers to the National Red Cross Society, SNOW AFTER FLOOD MAY ADD 10 O45 DEATH ROLLIN INDIANA CITES AND TOWNS women and children, and in some in- During the day many reports of stances families, lay flat where they soe of life were received, but mone of these has been verified because wire service ly ner Among those known to have been drowned are two at La- had crawled to the roofs of their homes it to bring’ relief. the court house and lodge buildings, which are located in the only four blocks of the city not under water. HUNDREDS OF HOUSES SWEPT AWAY AT WABASH. At Fort Wayne four children, inmates of the Allen County Orphans’ Home, were drowned to-day by the capalzing of| @ bout while an attempt was made to fuyette, three at Newcastle, one at Frankfort and one at Rushville, Conservative estimates place the num: der driven from their homes at near 200,000, and the property loss, it is sald, Will reach the $20,000,000 mark, These figures are mate up trom reports re- ceived from towne and villages and do Not include the probable gi transfer them from the flood-bound | farmers, home to the county Infirmary. They| State police, patrolling the were Kgther Cramer, fourteen; Alice] Kokomo, notified persons whose home Madden, fourteen; Arda Wood, fifteen and Kittle Wise, seven years old. Three other eocupante of the boat were res- were threatened to move to higher ground, More than 1,500 are homeless, The water and gas plants are tnun dated. The city is without light and} without fire protection, and the prop erty loss is mo hen 61,000,000, —~— 150 PERSONS DEAD IN OHIO CAPITAL; NEW FLOOD ) WARNING. ‘ansport reports its railroad tlon 4 feet deep in water, and all bridges washed away, There are sixty traing full of passen- Gers stalled to the west of Indianapolls, Marion, Ellwood, Lafayette, Rush- ville, Kokomo, Muncie, Anderson, Tip- ton, Noblesville, Shelbyville all report bridges gone, railroad tracks washed COLUMBUS, O., March 26.—At least away and power, light and water plants disabled. 160 pegsons were drowned in Columbus Terre Haute, already torn apart and | @* & rBsult of the flooded Scioto River, in mourning after the tornado of Mon- day, 18 marooned from a!d coming from other cities, with five hundred homes under water. Both Pennsylvania railroad bridges at Richmond are washed away, twenty according to reports to-day after a partial restoration of telephone com- jon with the west Many persons are missing, Numerous persons who are consid- ered conservative assert that they saw 4 Ohio to-day. Immense pipe lines have been! Waters Ar highway bridges are gone and a hun-| scores of bodies float down atream and dred families have lost thelr homes. ee 4 of persons carried away in thelr 201 Elana repre si sissam.o | Thowe known to be dead are: William A, Bexton, probation officer. HMwin D, Daniel. Albert Gore, mail carrier, Mr, and Mra. E. M. Hayes, Mrs, George Cook and baby Mrs. L. H. Mack and three children Mr, and Mra. George Eckert seven children, Gov. Cox to-day made a requisition on the Federal War Department for wy 006 tents, a million rations, medical yeh eur, os Bae, Syne. He alzo ent pon and Beoceinsa, of In the Stat He sald he was undertake an estimate of the The city council was called.to epecial session by Mayor Shank and will alt Gay and night to make emergency ap- propriations for caring for the 10,00) Persons who are known to be homeless. Public ice corporations of the en- tire State are helpless. Railroads and anus lines have cancelled nearly ali reins, Many cities are witheut fire gro- a borden 806 DONS aR » w io Are Swept by Deadly Rush of Waters PANORAMIC VIEW OF FLOOD-DEVASTATED CITY OF DAYTON ® PHBDHOTGOE GOODOHOSGHSIOOD HORROR GROWS AT DAYTON; 2,000 NOW REPORTED DEAD e Receding, 80,000 Are Homeless in That City. DAYTON, ©., March %.—~The arrival} >Y t Of outsiers in Dayton and investiga- tions they have conducted have served to put @ damper on the optimistic ef- fort of local men to make the flood ap- pear lesm disastrous than the fret re- ports indicated. The Dayton authori- tles—or auch of them as wera able to Go anything—reported at noon that the dead would not number more than 200. It eppeara late this afternoon that the original estimate of 2,000 may be resohed in fact. The flood reached parts of the city that had been thought secure, especlaty the Riverdale and North Dayton eections. Filmsy tene- ments occupied by foreigners who re- fused to heed warnings to flee were’ swept away with thelr occupant Bodies have Geen found miles a from the points at which the flood must have first encountered them. LOSS OF LIFE NEAR DAYTON IS VERY HEAVY. ‘The lose of life in the territory ad- facent to Dayton, especially in the Miamt River Valley, a farming section, was very heavy. Th districts are not included in the estl- mate of Dayton's dead. The high buildings in the business district in which thousands have been marooned ailnce yesterday, or Only one building has ee 80 as can be observed from vantage ground outside the flood zone. A temporary morgue has been estab- Mshed in the western part of the city re being taken there, The ues, but in the form of « and the we ie very cold. The entire city government is ma- rooned In the City Hall, and the only coherent relief work has been done un- der the direction of President Patterson of the National Cash Register Company, who m of his whole plant a hospital and relief station. The report that St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital with 600 patients was swept away in the flood cannot 'be confirmed. It is believed the hospital is safe, but it is entirely surrounded by the flood. Dayton has no gas, no electric light, no drinking water. Intermittent tele- phone messages from outside tell of re- Het hastening to the ald of the stricken elty, but the railroads are useless for miles out. The olty officials issued an appeal for food, clothing, medicine, doctors and nurses this morning, 78,000 REPORTED HOMELESS IN DAYTON. “Dayt doesn't need mon the mess in effect, “but she needs erything else. Of her population of 25,000 probably 75,000 are homeless and many thousands are destitute, The horror and desola dark night in Dayton ascribed, The flooded district 1s cut off from higher ground by a mass of water as awift and dangerous as the Niagara whirlpool, It 1s hoped that this channel can be crossed by boats this afternoon, Until then the number of lives that were sacrificed during the night of the flood cannot be definitely figured, Dayton will be famine stricken within twenty-four hours unless food suppilcs from outside arrive. The wholesale and retail grocery districts are under water, T g care of the destitute and gathe: ering up the podles of the dead will & task calling for the ald of thousands of volunteers from other places. The Soldiers’ Home !s above water and is caring for thousands of refugees. ‘The Algonquin Hotel and the Hotel At- . A. Bullding and City and theatres in the business section, though flooded below, are jammed tn thelr upper sections by persons who were unable to escape from the district when the levee broke and the flood came yesterday afternoon, MANY PERSONS MAROONED ON HOUSE TOPS, It Is Impossible to communicate with this inundated section even by tele- phone from the point where these dis- patches are being wr! The roofs of the tallest buildings ai crowded with people making al) sorts of wigwag aay collapsed as yet. Danger ?rom fire appears to be past, although there were several big fires during last night. Despite the danger in the flood be- tween high ground and the flooded dis- trict brave men in small boats mani factured by the National Cash Re ter Co,, in the woodworking department scores, ventured out and ac- complished many daring and amazing rescues. And aome of the would-be rescuers lost their ives when their frail craft were capsized or were dashed against buildifge and broken to Pp Und the leadership of Frederick Patterson, @ gang of man chopped a hole through a rocf in the flood and fire district and save a family o} r They tried to get to a raft tha: bors ® man and four women that whirled Uke @ spool in the id waters, Then suddenly th ft was sucked up In the darkness and another chapter was add- @d to the tragic doubt that now exists @s to the number of dead. STORY TOLD BY A GALLANT RESCUER. Here is the story of George H. Schae- fer, a rescuer who went out into the flood with a ekiff and saved a woman antl baby. “A house that had been torn from its foundation came floating up behind us." sald Shaefer. ‘The woman was frightened, 1 told her there was no danger. 1 “Suddenly ashe stood up and jumped over with her baby In her arms. She went straight down and never came up again.” ‘Then there was the horror that Bill Riley, salesman for the National Cash Register Company, saw himself: “We saw a very old woman standing at the window of @ house waiting for rescue.” said Riley. “We rowed up to her, Suddenly the house parted and the woman was engulfed, It was the we aaw of her.” Then there was the man who, nearly rencued, had stepped into the skiff and then walked back into his home which a@ short time later floated away with him. “And the story of the color J mothe who was being rowed to safety with her two bables when the skiff strick @ tree and the little craft capsized so that the bables were drowned and the mother was cued by Robert Burvham, the owner of the skiff, only to die before she reached the hospital. GUIDED A DOZEN PERSONS OVER A SWAYING WIRE, John Scott; ascended a telegraph pole and guided many across a cable to places of safety. “Bcott had guided a dozen persons across the swaying bridges of wire when an explosion that started @ fire oo curred, The shock knooked Scott from the pole and he fell into a tree, “The last I saw of him he was trying to get into the window of an abandoned house by way of one of the branches of the tree,” sald Frank Stevens, a fel- low employe of Scott. “The house was In the path of the fire. “What {s your na registrars who received th the National Cash Register plant, of a the asked hard mid o health pf ot at and y Joved ottte The fost of _manulacture, Fr ot Voltas Maes! ich Special for Wednesday VAN LAND CHOCOLATE | COCOANUT #—escecaingly | popular Deca’ ood 4 wee goed! Bot BOX Wednesday’ TED Bae D CANDIES—tw elsewhere at POUND BOX ILLNESS COSTS MORE THAN THE ENTIRE BUDGET The Waste Caused By Curable Disease Would Defray All Government Expenses, DODHDOHGHDODHDI|OGHODIDIGGHODODOSHS: MARVELLOUS RESULTS Says William Kane After He Has Used One Bottle of the New Nerve Tonic. The U. S. Government Bureau recently showed igure Dace proved that the financial through sickness in the United States yearly far exceeded the amount required to run all the Government offices, including the Army and Navy. This is a state fairs largely due to the prevalence nervous debility, for if a man only half the amount of work wher hall his earnings must be deemed « financial loss to the countr, (O00 00000000 00 0000000000000 slender young person in men’s clothes. ‘Norma Thuma,’ was the reply. they asked, I'm a girl,’ was the answer. “Bhe had donned male attire in order to cross the perilous span of wires unhampered by skirts, “She came in with Ralph Myers, his wife and their little baby. Myers had climbed a telephone wire, pole first. He let down a rope to his wife, who tled it to a meal sack which contained their baby, three months old. Myers pulled tho rope with its precious bur- den up and then let ft down again to aid his wife to ascend. With the meal sack over his shoulder and his wife behind him, Myers, holding on to two thin wires, walked along a cable a full block before he reached safety. “J. J. Munsell, the employment agent of the National Cash Register Com- pany, reached the works staggered with horror. In’ his flight from his own home he had seen a man with his wife and three children clinging to the roof of a house which was surrounded by thirty feet of rushing water and was on fire through the breaking of jthe natural gas pipes above. As the i . fed by the outroaring fountains began to close in the little group, the man shot his wife and then the three children. As the last of them rolled through the smoke and fire into the water he shot himself and fell across the peak of the roof.” Mrs. James Cassidy and her baby were among the rescued. Mrs. Cassidy was grief-stricken over the report of the death of her husband by drowning. Even as she was being registered there was brought into rescue headquarters @ man who ‘had to be held up and who was very wet of, 31 Em St., Richmond Hil, stated: I was all run down and my nerves were in such a condition that I thought I would have to ae up wotk, I had tried several different tonics without results, and I was advised to take neh Vita, and I did so, I have not used « bottle, but the results are marv and I feel like a different man.” Mr. Kane is a suff bility, which may be indicated by many different symptoms, among which are sleeplessness, after any ex- uscep' bility to disease, chronic es, dull pains in the he or a genet down ona Vita can be o! any of the US vf drug storey in New York “Storm Hero” Umbrella Stylish and Everlasting; the Correct Umbrella fore Lady or Gentleman. “Jim! Jim!" suddenly shrieked the oa woman, ‘That's you, Jim, isn't it? A new ene if the wind b i You aren't dead, Jim! Say you aren't Cost $s] .00 Upward dead!" "Jim" had been rescued from drown- ON SALE EVERYWHERE ing. ‘The return of James Cassidy was Miller Bros. & Co. the one bit of joy in the awful gloom Manufacturers at ther ue headquarters where gath- ered the victims of flood, fire and | 362 Brosdway, New York famine, BAY STATE HELP i eeeeeldeteaiaihaiebeiaee atime aieieemeiaeaenaiaatae “The Habit HEALTHFUL” WORLD FAMOUS | ‘o) + ANTISEPTIC MOUTH WASH i FOR OHIO SUFFERERS BOSTON, Mass., March 26.—Gov, telegraphed Gov. Cox of Ohio and Gov. Ralston of Indiana to-day expressing sympathy and stating that the Mass; Foss chusetts Branch of the Red Cross and private citizens had opened a fund for the relief of flood sufferers in thelr States. Mayor Fitaseraid wired Gov. Cox PRICE 50 CENTS ~) “Boston stands ready to furnish| At Al Draggisteand Department Store: money, clothing, food, and anything GEO. BORGFELDT & CO, you want, Advise us tmmediately what| New Werke most needed.” THINK THIS OVER Is there aay beverage that costs you | LIPTON’S|: 8 per cup than| St manent, unnatural, neit! ELIMINATE THE RISK hildren te sacred. It Is too easily lost and too ser, os pital ty your aver te protect yourself and veur | jubstitutes wholesome 4 CLEANING ANDY ad A th y ual to ™ ended’ by daugerous results ‘PLAY Kaus te t] Oltering lie TEA |Soid in airtight tins only Contrary to reports the HOTEL VICTORIA Broadway and 27th St, will continue in business, Special rate after April 1, 1913; Rooms with bath ... 82.00 Boome without bath 600 OO! WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS (Trad Comets Altered, LA REISE CONE ha NaTines Ries : atte for Thursday | D300 Flin ke ee, North of Thrary: second. Moor. Thursday 's Offering Cc LATE COV 4 NUT aut confection 39c Rh bho HELP | WANTED—FEMALE, OPPENHEIM. COLLINS & CO., deotre. gerrione. ot ‘eapertinced feud tromien ‘in dielr eult department LOST, FOUND AND REWARD: