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TROOPS NOW IN DAYTON FOR RESCUE WORK; 10,000 DEAD, SAYS GOVERNOR’S SECRETARY eit RECS ON ONE r =. Circulation 9 Open to All.” ENT. , Covrriaht, 1918, by The Preve Co. (The New bial Wert). NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAROH 27, | “ Circulation Books Open to All,” | Weather—Clearing Te-Night) Friday Clear; Colder, AL 1913, Garrison Heads g0 to the Ohio flood district if his Army Officers and if He Finds President Is Needed In Flood Sec- tion the Latter Will Go WASHINGTON, March 27.—President Wilson has determined to ~ SECRETARY OF WAR STARTS *FOR OHIO 10 DIRECT ADD; WILSON PLANS 10 FOLLOW Staff of Leading presence there can do any good. It ‘was announced at the White House to-day that the President would await word from Secretary Garrison after he arrived in the flood district and decide then if he will'join the aid party. Secretary Garrison left Washington to-day for the flood district to take personal charge of the relief measures being conducted by the army and to personally represent President Wilson, Major-Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff of the Army, and a dozen | other army officers, including officers of the Quartermaster’s Corps, plan is to begin operations from Chillicothe, O. . Quartermaster-General Aleshire and Major Rhodes, President Wil- ton's personal aide, also will be in the party. While a special train was being made up Secretary Garrison had a final conference witn President accompanied Secretary Garrison, The whole party left here at 3 o'clock | © this afternoon on a special train over the Chesapeake and Ohio. The| Wilson in the White House offices. of Indiana: eWorld to-day wired $1,000 to Gov. com of Ohio for use in aid of the flood wafferers. The Mayor this morning recetved the following contributions. ‘The Mayor fn his appeals for funds requested that the contributions be sent either to him or to Jacob H. Sohifft, Treasurer of the American Red Cross, or direct to the American Red Cross at No. 10) East ‘Twenty-second street. The contribu- tions sent to the Mayor will be turned over to Mr. Schieff as fast as received: Avérew Carnes! $10,000 J. P. Morgan & Co. Phelps, Dodge & C Diew. Russell Sage. Kuhn, Loeb & Co. ‘Alex, Smith Cochran a GALES DUE TO STRIKE NEW YORK, WEATHER MAN HERE DECLARES. There was daily weather forecust issued from the New York branch of the United States Weather Bureau to-day. The floods and storms in the Middle West have so disorganized the telegraph ‘service that accurate data on which to base local predictions could not be had. ‘Observer James H. Scarr, head of the local bureau, said a storm was Oeiine across northern New York in a northwesterly direction. There were indications of @ heavy dlow in Pittsburgh, There was snow through the Ohio Valley. Mr, Scarr said he thought the city would be hit by a succession of southerly gales in the next few days, turning finally into @ northwester which would bring fine weather in its wake. These big winds must In no event be allowed to frighten timid or imaginative persons into the be- Hef that they are the forerunners of tornadoes like those of the Middle West, he said, The theast wind of last night left ord on tho instruments of @1 miles an hour, continuing for sev- eral minutes. no regular ——_—— Tun worn. bat tech BUREAU, Secretary Garrison said as he left the White House that everything possible was being done by the Government in the way of relief, and that army engineers will be ordered to look after the situation at points| below the flood area where high waters are threateneing. President Wilson has telegraphed Governors Cox of Ohio and Haiston “I have directed the Secretary of War to proceed at once to the flood @istrict with the necesssry staff to extend every possible assistance to the eufferers more promptly than would be possible if they had to overcome the present imperfect means of communication with Washington.” New York Responds to Relief Cail With Contributions to Funds Jameq Speyer & Bons.. Edward 8. Harkness. R. G. Dun & Co.. ‘The Centaur Company Abraham & Straus, Robert W. DeFore: Louls N. Kram J. Bertschmann West & Flint Morris K. Kai Charles B, Schelienber Louis Steckler , ry Wollman Clarence 8. Nathai Eugene Blanc From D. and D, (cash). aid fn relieving dirtress of the flood sufferers was indicated by the many contributions reecived to-day at the American Red Cross branch office, No. 106 East Twenty-second street. Checks, postal orders and cash were received through the mails and handed in at the office, while those in charge were kept busy answering inquiries (over the telephone from persons destr! to contribute, Most of the early con- tributions were small amounts, but the to swell the total to a large sum. Mys. Willam K, Draper of No, Fast the New York County Chapter, declared that only money contributions will be received at this time, This probably will 11 Thirty-sixth street, secretary of (Continued on Eighth Page.) BETTER WEATHER PREDICTED FOR THE FLOOD DISTRICTS, WASHINGTON, March 27.—Weather Bureau forecasts to-day gave hope of cessation of rain and snow in the flood districts of Ohio and Indiana and higher temperatures, Loulsville reported the river stage as 83.6—a rine of eleven feet in twenty-four hours, and still rising. On the Missis- sipp!, Memphis reported 926 and Vicks- burg Hoth slight rises since yester- day. Eagerness of New York citizens to| First Photograph Showing Flooded District On the Outskirts of Columbus, Where Many Died $0900060000000000890080000000090000SOS0OS5088800080 088006 FLOOD THAT HIT COLUMBUS WORSE THAN AT DAYTON; 1,000 NOW REPORTED DEA Thrilling Rescue of Fifteen Per- sons, Riding in Auto Ahead of Rushing Waters. COLUMBUS, March 27.—A loss of from six hundred to one city, which has been out of touch by telephone since Tuesday evening. hundred. their lives. wiped out. Many pergons are still beyond the reach of the rescuers, freeze, lose their grip and drop tuto the water, roots of buildings which cannot be reached. nan was found hanging in a tree, He had frozen during the night, plant of the Sun Manufacturing Company, where they have been for two days without food or heat. One boat, which got within hailing distance and was stopped by the bwirling current, was informéd that conditions there were terrible, The break in the levee near Central avenue washed everything before {t, According to refugees from that section there {8 not a house standing op Glenwood avenue, and many of the parallel streets are almost completely denuded of buildings. REFUGEES IN INSANE ASYLUM. OO) COOOS: OOo 22 PAGES [OCOCO. QOS! Fire Chief of Ohio’s Capital Make a |: thousands lives has just been reported from the western section of this From a hilltop former Mayor George S. Marshall got a message through | io his law partner saying that he had been in charge of relief work inj the isolated section and that his lowest estimate of the dead was one thousand. Reporters of the Columbus Despatch reached their paper over | the same wire and their estimates ranged from “over a thousand” to six It had been assumed by the authorities that the dwellers in the low jvalley west of the city had all escaped to the hillside, The survivors say that ‘hundreds of houses were struck by the first rush of the flood and i river before the people in them had F oie Taehae 16 Pim aemenl oetemuiee (DER RAD. into the peop! a chance for| The section between Central avenue and Sandusky street was almost The cold wave which struck the section last night caused many to| ‘WASHINGTON, March %7.—Within fif- Bodies can be seen on thu ‘At the corner of Glenwood and Thomas avenues, the lifeless form of 9 Relief work to-day was directed toward rescuing 250 from the marooned | py On the hilltop are the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane and tne Mount Carmel Hospital. Every inch of floor space is occupied by referees, Loss of life at Galveston a1. et EO Loss of life at J ohnstown in 1889 - - - 4,000 any of them injured or stricken with fever, sleeping on blankets laid on ie hard floors. Four children were born in a school house, which has been set aside as a maternity hospital, in which twenty or more women ex- pecting to become mothers are housed. Pfehreaeah Chief mage escaped from the hollow to the hill in his fire depart- At the risk of his own life he took with him fifteen per- basse igeias as could cling to the machine. He says he saw at least hundred men, women and children swept eway for whom he could do Gov. Cox, who has worked day and night since the first of the flood, te beginning to show signs of the frightful strain under which he has been. After iseuing a proclamation far ten days of legal holidaye in order to pro- tect the signers of legal financial papers and obligations and a new appeal to the country for money by telegraph rather than slow moving supplies, he refused to allow John I, Miller, Superintendent of Public Works, to enter be office. OFFICIAL ASLEEP AT TIME OF DANGER. He said that in all bis own activities he had not found that Miller was doing anything or that he realized his obligation to the people of the { State; especially, the Governor sald, he was angered on learning that all through last night's fight to prevent the dam at Lewiston, above Piqua |and Dayton, from going out, Miller was asleep in a hotel here. State Public Works Department over Miller's head, . All of Columbus, which has so far escaped the storm, was thrown into a frantic panic to-day by a false report that the storage reservoir six miles northwest of the city had burst, Police automobiles were sent flying up and down tho streets, spreading the alarm. People ran wildly about the streets for two hours, unt! special editions of the newspapers, distributed free, calmed them, The Governor has appointed a State Relief Commission to administer the quarter of a million dollar emergency appropriation which was voted | by tho Legislature yesterday. NAVY DEPARTMENT JOINS IN RELIEF FOR SUFFERERS’ Se the last twenty-four hours in the Ohio flooded districts, and for whom grave fearn were felt, was heard from to-~day on his way eastward from Akron, ptt A 300 HEROES REPAIR teen hours the Navy Department wil! BREAK IN DAM AND despatch to the flooded Ohio district a SAVE MAN WN: ‘medical unit" of three surgeons, twen- oe B MANY TOWNS. ty assistants and all necessary med! FORT WAYNE, Ind, March 2.~A supplies and rations for 500,00 pei small panic which hit this town when This announcement was ma & rumor was recetved that the reserve Assistant Secretary the reservoir of the Navy! at Celina, 0., had broken, was ted Franklin Roosevelt. The medical staf! oy « telephone message from st ae in charge of Capt. D. P. Hall and Capt.) 9. phrew hundred men, who had tolled Sheldon Evans, !s being recruited to-| under pressure, had succeeded in galn- day in Philadelphia and Washington. ‘The rations are being rushed ready for shipment to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. —————— SECRETARY BRYAN SAFE; 1S ON HIS WAY EAST. |ing control of a crumbling portion of the reservoir walls sixty fect in width Later the men in charge of the con- servation work at the dam contirmed the report that the break was under contro}. These rumors of a break at St Mary's came in a inessage tothe local Weather WASHINGTON, March 27.—Secretary| Bureau, Residents of the low lying dis- Bryan, who has been out of communi-| tricts here were warned and fled to cetion with the State Deyartment for! higher ground Highway Commissioner James R. Marker has been put !n charge of the}” DAYTON AGAIN AFIRE; EXPLOSIONS BRING ~NEW TERRORS 10 GIY = 4 Children, L Led by Pas- tors, March From Bellefontaine and Do Heroic Work in Sav- ing Lewiston Dam. LATEST ESTIMATE PUTS THE LOSS OF LIFE AT 3,000 Secretary of the Governor of OhioSays 10,000 May Be Dead at Dayton, but Others Say 1,000. Dayton, 0. was again put on the map of the United States this after- noon when troops ef the State militia entered the city and epened the way tor the arrival of feed and other relief supplies. The fleed danger is over in Dayton, apparently. Only the horrible aftermath of the disaster Is to be dreaded; but other points in Ohio are going through experiences scarcely less tragic than those which have afflicted Dayton. The fire in the business section of Dayton, which had died out at neon to all appearances, broke out again with renewed fury late this afternoen, long before the rescue parties had reached that part of the city. Watchers on the roof of the National Cash Register Building, a mile away from the fire, say they saw and heard numerous explosions, The blase is believed to have reached a paint and ofl warehouse, Columbus, 0., reports that from 600 to 1,000 are dead there, the preb- abfiities being that the latter figure is the closest to the correct total, Zanesville, Q. is,iu the grip of a flood that fe wrecking the elty. Reports frem other places which have been overshadowed by the Dayton tragedy ure bringing to light a disaster which, in extent of territery covered and ‘q|!0ss of life and property, ranks with the mest appalling im the history of the country. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAVE DAM. Many contradictory reports have been sent out during the day about *Ithe Lewiston Reservoir, seventy miles above Dayton. The dam holding this reservoir is intact, thanks to the herole work of the pastors, the men, women and children of the churches of Bellefontaine and other towns in the endangered district, who have been working like beavers to strengthen the walls. As to the question of how many have been drowned im the whele flooded district of Ohio and Indiana, the estimate of about 8,000 te the closest that can be made, but it is likely to prove but a fraction of the total Columbus furnishes an example of how what was considered re- Mable figures may be increased by investigation. Hundreds of small towns and villages in the sone of the floods have not been heard from at all in the centres from which meagre news is filtering. These places have not been considered im figuring the loss of life. One district alone, the Miami Valley from Dayton down to the Ohio River, contains scores of small villages, besides several large towns, such as Hamilton, Middletown, Miamisburg, Franklin and Carrollton, Undoubt- edly, in the estimation of persons who know the territory and have re- ported to Gov. Cox at Columbus, the loss of life in this district will exceed that in Dayton. The bodies of scores who were drowned im Dayton will be found down this valley. TOWN OF MALTA DESTROYED. One little place, unheard of as being touched by the flood until to. day, s Malta, a town of 400 on the Muskingum River, across from Crookes. ville, 0, Malta has been completely destroyed. Not a trace remains of the village, and a yellow, foaming stream rushes over the alte & cccupled. Nobody in the vicinity has seen anybody from Malta, and the supposition is that all were drowned, although of course they may have fled to the higher ground, The dam holding the east side of the Grand Reservoir at St, Mary's, 0, in the western part of the State, partially gave way to-day. The break was repaired, but the situation is eritical. The Grand Reservoir is said to be the largest artificial lake im the world, and if the dam gives way Decatur and Fort Wayne, Ind. and many other places along the St. Mary's Biver in Ohfo and Indiana will be flooded once more Troops are reported to have entered Dayton this afternoon and the mill. tia Is now sald to be in charge of the rescue work Net until all in danger have been taken to places of safety will anything like a reliable estimate on the number of dead be possible, Pestilence is appearing in Indianapolis, Ind, where the feed has enb- ]