The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1913, Page 2

i. | : THE EVENING WORLD, sited to a considerable degree. Because of the scarcity of provisions, the Governor has decided te place the city ander martial law. Paeumenia, wheeping cough and measies prevails among the refagees, and typhoid fe @ menace the physicians dread. Terre Hante, Ind. Is without light, drinking water or street car ser- vice. This condition prevails ia nearly all the cities and towns in the flood fone. Snow added to the terrors of the elements to-day. Hundreds of re! gees are being taken out of the Hickory street school, The weather fe bit. ter cold,‘adding to the suffering of those who have been trapped in the top of thelr homes since the levees broke, Fire Is sweeping al watown district of the city. The flames are leaping hundreds of feet into the alr. It fs believed that y lives were lost in the Gre, but the waters cov. ering the flooded business district are still too deep te allow investigators te approach. Parts of the dooded section were explored last night by men im cances, DYNAMITE TO CHECK FLAMES. The Acting Mayor of Dayton has announced that be will order bulldings Ja the path of the dames blown up with dynamite, The water Is slowly re- ceding and there should be come relief afforded to-day to 65,000 persons marooned in the flood. Rellef trains are approaching the stricken city and life-saving corps from Louisville, Ky., and Toledo, 0. are on the way equipped with Lifebonts that will live in the rushing torrents that sweep through the streets of the elty. Seven bodies have been recovered in Zanesville, 0. and several han- dred persons are missing. Probably dred are dead. Six bodies have been recovered in Akron, 0. bot many are missing, Piqua, in the valley above Dayton, is entirely cat off from the rest ef the world. It is reported that only the reofe of the houses im the lower part of the city are showing, but Piqua had warning and it is hoped the loss of life there will ‘will not reach the 200 mark. A snowstorm of blizsard proportions ls covering the flooded district to- day and the temperature is down to freezing. Although there is plenty of relief at hand and offers of help are pouring in from all sides it is imposs!- ble to reach the places where help is needcd most because of the ost complete paralysis inflicted by the foods on the railroads and interurban trolley lines. Indiana and Ohio are literally networked with these trelley systems, but mene of them fs operating except a line out of Clacin- nati and a cars out of Indlanapelis. Cities along the Ohio River are preparing for one of the greatest floods fu history. Cincinnati Is already feeling the effects of the advance of the flood in the submersion of the lower parts of the city. Wheeling, W. Va. is industrially paralyzed by the flood. Operators in Dayton telephone stations who have stood Bepiess| at their posts, steadfastly confident of rescue, saw the fire bringing their doom to-day and one calmly telephoned to Columbus and Cincinnati: “Good-by. This is about the last you will hear from me. 1 am going to try to swim out.” At Franklin, O., conditions similar to Dayton’s prevail. is flooded. There are many dead and fires are raging. At Lawrenceburg, O., the town was saved by dynamiting the Balti- more & Ohio bridge, releasing the Greater Miami's pent-up waters. Floods are killing people and destroying much property in Penn- sylvania and West Virginia. At Sharon, Pa., twenty are dead and prop- erty valued at $2,000,000 has been wiped out. The State constabulary is in control. Portions of Pittsburgh are under water, several thousands have been driven from their homes and lights have failed in many sections of the The place city. One hundred thousand men are idle through suspension of industry, | PAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR FUEL. |ton this afternoon and communication Floods have done big damage in Northern New York. The Missis- sippi Valley fears a terrible deluge. Only one railroad—the Lake Shore and Michigan Southem—is open between New York and Chicago. Such trains as other roads are operating are sent via the Lake Shore's tracks. Railroad losses by flood are estimated at $50,000,000 in property destroyed and suspension of chal) acl CASH REGISTER CO. [MARTIAL LAW PUTS HEAD APPEALS FOR) STOP 10 LOOTING AID IN SAVING LIVES Wire Received Here Tells of Rescue Work From Firm’s Factory. | Marooned Firemen and Police Seize Houses of Rich to Shelter Women. INDIANAPOLIS, March 27.—Reports of looting In Weat Indianapoile caused National Cash Register Company from) Gov. Ralston to declare martial law John H, Patterson, President of thej there and to send a company of -nilliia company, in charge of the relief work | that part of the city, whe: in Dayton, 0.: | Of life yeuterday was heaviest. Dayton, ©., March 2%, 1912. | “Situation here desperate. Ali people . except on outskirts imprisoned by water. ‘They have had no food, no drinking water, no light, no heat for two days. We have had no house-to-house com- munication by telep r two days. Dayton water works ped two days ago, “iFire raging for twenty-four hours in centre of city and now spreading, Becke! Hotel burned. Weather sudden- ly cokt with strong wind and snow. Water current too strong for rowboate and rafts. Need help! Can reach us to-day from nearby cites. Help should be in form of motordoats and people 4o run them, We need gvod rowboats. We need troops for protection and help. Fire engines, motor trucks and automo- Viles are needed. also provisions, clo- thing and medical supplies. “Our factory is eafe, has its own power, heat, electricity and water plant, "We and private houses are caring for Many people, but they are only a od part of the sufferers. We cannot reach centre), northeastern, northern or weat- ern parts of the city. Consequently cannot answer any of the tele! ms of inquiry about wafety of people that are coming in. Rutlroads reaching Dayton wrectically al) out of use, “John L. Peterson.”. ' The following telegram was received this afternoon at the local offices of the ice Of uniformed employees in the rn part of the city indicates that no such diMculty will arise there. In an teolated part of eastern Indien- ‘polis three marooned firemen and two Policemen have seized the government And are administe % and apportioning the food supply id finding quarters for women and Ghildron at the expense of men. Not even thelr es ere known in this city, the only news of their fron ru coming from important individuals who @re worrled because the five do not recognise the Mimity and importance of the complainants. One of the stories which came in was that of @ banker who had been turn out of his own home to make room for four or five women with babies. The two policemen were men from the Cen- tral Office in Indianapolis, who had Deen carried away by a boat doing relief work and wreoked on the islet which ‘they are governing, FAMINE AND CONTAGION MEN. ACE SURVIVORS, Famine and contagion are threatened nd in other cities. Prices of food. have been raised to almost in- Accessible figures by the merchants by the flood. Gov. Ralston has started out a board with military authority to arrest deal- ers who are using the com:non calamity i AT NOAMPOLS = it, commandeer-| #08 Ne} the White R whowe stocks have not been demolished! !1Y THURSDAY, MAROH 27, 1918.' Flames in Dayton 100 Feet High in Blizzard To- First Picture of Disastrous Floods in Ohio; Submerged Buildings on Outskirts of Columbus (Copyright, Cleveland News Bureau.) [> C0 C00 DOOD O00 00000000000 00099909090608001 for profit. Te says that men mean enough to do such @ thing must have also done other things which are out- side of the law and he will hold them amtil he learns their records, Just Le fore the supply of bread gave out day the pric cents a loaf. From @ word to-de there are Nitty bodies of 4 list of @ hundrel missing. The water ‘have been no serious fire: the olty which suffered most pyeeed and the day before is still out of reach by the rescue committees, Ldeut.-Gov. O'Nelll, the head of the Peru general committee, has heard of soveral safes in wrecked butldings which were dynamited last night by men who pretended to be rescuers. He will ask for the establishment of martial Jaw and for added troops if these tories are confirmed, The snowfall at depth of three inche Logansport sends word that only one life was known to have been lost there. Five bridges were destroyed and 1,000 homes ruined. The city ts under martial law and is patrolled by the cadets of Culver University. SURVIVORS MAROONED THREE has reached the Roports from flooded cities in the Wabash Valley are that survivors have Deen for three days without food, fuel or Grinking water. Diseases arising from anitary conditions and the exposure of the flood victimes threaten to claim a greater toll than the waters, Five ‘women rescued and taken to Tomlin- @on Hall are suffering from pneu- monia, and whooping cough and measies have been discovered among the refugees, Those suffering from contagious diseases were removed and inspectors from the city Board of Health, alded by nurses detailed from various hos- Ditala, set to work to prevent expo: e refugees to ntagion and of the other sick, Tomlinson Hall refugees were sup- Piied with 600 mattres: and 250 from the army supplies at TROOPS TO AID RESCUERS ARE CALLED FOR AT LOGANSPORT. By indirect telephone routes Gov, Ralston to-day received an urgent call from Log to ald in janaport had been cut off from ri Mable communication with the outside world since Tuesday evening. Reports give no details of loss of life, but the continuance of the high waters is adding hourly to the heavy property losses, and the snowstorm and bitter cold of last night caused the refuge suffering and th and in @ terrible plight, ns were reported to ha’ gone Ini from thi ano hun; No further details have been received from the flooded region along White- water River, in Franklin County, The latest estimate was that seventeen per- drowned at Brookville and that the loss of life at Witemore, C lar Grove and New Trenton, thr 11 towns in Franklin County, which wiped out, was unknown, Vandalia Railroad bridge over here went down to- day with @ crash, carrying with it ten it the to hold it in pi At Terra Hi Ment and tra tion facilities paralyzed, The riv ws at thirty-one feet six inches and bu ed] ness has been abandoned, The electriz light plant and the eased operations. Street oars stopped entirely, Four thousand persons are homeless as the result of the food, which {s steadily opreading. pe Naty SOUTHWEST SWEPT BY BIG SNOWSTORM. DALLAS, plant have Tex., March 77.—An un- snowstorm terday moving rap- jous damiasse is exp temperature barely touched. ¢ tus point. OCOOD000QQ000 000000000000. euth | nayton, nto and} Pay GDBBOIGOOOOODOHIOOOSS OODINODODO TROOPS REACH AND TAKE FULL CONTROL; FLOODS ARE Governor’s Secreta i Be Dead, but Most Estimates Put Loss of Life at 1,000. DAYTON, ©., Maren 7.—Militla companies from Columbus and Cleve- land and two lifesaving corps from To- ledo and Loulsville, Ky., reached Das+ was opened before noon for the first time in three days, but the weather Is) very cold and the suffering of the thou- sands of starving refugees is intensl- fled by the weather conditions, Goy. Cox's secretary, Mr. Burba, who has been here since yesterday, and has received reports from nearly all the men who have tried to pene- Into the flooded sections of the city, says he believes the dead will num- ber more than 1,000 and he would not urprised if 10,000 bodies are re- covered. Local observers ¢o not think the drowned will number more than 1,000, but how many lost their livos after the flood penned them in and the flames swept over the business district last night !s @ matter for conjecture only, FLOOD DANGER SEEMS PAST IN DAYTON. Every effort ig being made te oring fan adequate number of soldiers and a ‘The danger from flood appears to have passed, and the fires have burned th selves out. Although the first efforts of the rescuers will be to save those im- perilied but still alive, the work of se- curing the bodies of the dead hae been prosecuted all day and the temporary morgue in the United Brethren Church 1s already crowded with corpses, most ‘ot which are those of women and chil- dren. AB goon as the flood subsides below Dayton the water here will recede as idly it rose. Many who had been marooned in the tall dulldings in the Dusiness district were able to wade out of thelr prisons late this afternoon and make their way to high ground, As the water went down the force of the cur- rent in the streets lessened and ‘boats were utilized in the work of taking girls and women from the upper floors of blocks. barton is practically without @ food eu except for what has teen tiga in from the outside. The great need is for foud, medicine, doctors, nurses and drinking water, Arrange- ments are being made for the trane- poration of water into the city in tank care, but it will be doled out sparingly for the present. THE NORTH SIDE 18 STILL IN- ACCESSIBLE, ‘The crowded north side of the river where it js feared there may be thous- ands of foreigners dead and dying to still far beyond reach, No one speaks of it, the immediate need is of the known survivors calling for every at: fenile If the downtown ts re! y night, It may permit the city author- me to get together with the militia, ard the rellef committees and make some organized attempt to give aid to covered! the North Sido to-mbrrow, Except for a solitary branch of the Lebanon and Cincinnati, the railroad over which a single train can as the| creep cautiously at a time, the rail- trees: | road communication has not been re- wiored. Jt takes twelve hours for a» fed | potatoes and vexetables to prevent im- GOHGOOHDDOHHDHHTOHODHHOHODOOHHOHSHS: @ODOOOOHODOTOOOOD of gallons of water into the Ohio and the Licking, on the Kentucky side, do- ing lkewise, the river during the night raised to 57.7 feet at this point and was increasing at the rate of two inches an hour, DAYTON twenty-five miles delow this city, fearing that the back water from the Great Miam! would flood ind Ohio track dyna- water the town's burden for the time being. Unconfirmed reports state that four per- sons were drowned there last night. 10,000 MADE. HOMELESS NEAR MARTING FERRY. MARTINS FERRY, March 7 (By telephone to Cleveland).—Practically the entire Ohio River Valley is flooded to- day, with the water still rising. Half of Martins Ferry is under water ahd parts of Bellaire, Bridgeport, Wells- ville, Denwood and East Liverpool are submerged. Fully 10,000 persons wil be homeles: fear Martins Ferry by nightfall, Al train to come up over this line from | ready 3,000 have been driven from the!r Cinainnat!, a distance of only @ little | homes and hundreds of others are mov- over fifty miles, ing. Mayor Hunt of Cincinnats has been| A house with two urged to see that a train load of sup-| root swept by Martins Ferry carly to- Piles be kept constantly on the move|day. Another house followed, split in on this toad. An effort also ts being | two pieces, with elght persons clinging made here to induce all who are able| to It. and who can find outside places of ref- uge to leave the city as fast as the train service will permit, WOMEN AND CHILDREN SAVE, LEWISTOWN DAM. The Lewistown Dam, seventy miles North of Dayton, is holding, and if there 1s no more rain little danger may be apprehended from that source A despatch from Bellefontaine, the near- eat large town to Lewistown reservo! states that the pastors of the churches of that vicinity called thelr congrega- tions together and emphasized the urgent need of assistance, and aided by children and men of endangered nearby | villages, scores of workers tolled all! night and continued their efforts to-day to repair the threatened breaks in the reservoir banks, Needless suffering was caused by the announcement of the breaking of t! reservoir when men rushed through the uptown streets shouting: W the reservoir has broken.’ NOW RECEDING ry Says 10,000 May n clinging to the —_——— U.S. LIFESAVERS. READY FOR CALL. WASHINGTON, March 27.—Secretary McAdoo to-day placed all the United States Life Saving Stations in the vicin- ity of the flooded districts at the dis- posal of Gov. Cox of Ohio and Gov. Ral- aton of Indiana, ordering the crews to respond immediately and directly to the sone gathered their babies and belong- ings in thelr arms and many fled for the National Cush Register Company's office building, crushing into that already overcrowded structure. Others etruok out for the hills, ‘The reservoir contains 17,000 acres of water space, and it was pointed out that the flood district is estimated at several Million acres, eo the worst possibl fect of ite breaking would 6e to retard |' the rescued, and could not cause a rise of more than one foot. The waters al- ready are seven feet lower than the high water mark of Monday night. An effort was made to drive some of the panic-stricken back to their homes, ‘wut in the main they etoed helpless on the streets, Firet alarms of the breaking of the reservoir were spread by a policeman who was posted on thi ge of the food district. There were othere quick to take up the cry, and soon of men and women crowded the streets. Not until John H. Patterson had ad- dressed the frightened throng, wes any semblance of order restored. Mr. Pat- tereon has been appointed military aide in the southeast district of the city with full control under martial law. He has ordered every available motor car and truck to scour the farme south of the city and confiscate all available food supplies. While the farmers in this vicinity have contributed so heavily their bine are believed to be nearly empty, it !8 hoped to’ obtain enough At your Club or all Dealers Plain or Cork Tip 25 Cente in U. S. A. ‘The Gurbrag Co., New York, “at Bellaire, L. 1, March 36, Jove a" of the late of, Marry Colun Frnerel from bie, late res Fegidence, Fri: mediate starvation here, CINCINNATI, ©., March 27,—The continued reine of the lest twenty-four hours completely cianged the complex-) +O8T, FOUND ott Ce situation In this city inet Pin rienced | river men, Cincinnat! is threatened with Ped Pa one of the most severe floods im her) =F history. Pa A HELI With the Muskingum, Seloto an ? = the two Miamis pouring their millions visions vere wanted end errand girls, Lidion, 166 B, é4th ot, requests of the State The lighthouse tem near Louiaville, capable of navigating the swollen Mvers, and with relief ac- commodations for 900 persons, hag been ordered into the flooded district by Sec- retary Redfield, All lighthouse service employees of .the fourteenth district have been ordered to take available small boats and do retlet work. —_—_— THOUSANDS MAROONED IN WEST VIRGINIA, WHEELING, W. Va, March 27.~The Ohio River passed forty-seven fect this morning and fifty-five feet is expected before nightfall. Practically the entire city is néw under water and 15,000 per- sons are marooned in thelr homes. Bridgeport and Martins Ferry, 0., op- posite here, are similarly affected. The greatest danger 1s from There have been eral small fir and there ts fear of a conflagration, Benwood, W. Va., is submerged, and 6,090 are homelens in Rellaire. meeeeioanene FLOOD SMASHES ILLINOIS LEVER VANDALIA, Ili, March Okaw River levee, sixteen m: south of here, broke in four places last night, and sixty thousand acres of farming land are under one to eight feet of wa- ter, Water ts pouring over the Na- tional road east of Vandalia for a mile. cotta FLOOD IN MARYLAND. Bix Force of Men Work to Save Reservoir From Breaking. BALTIMORE, March nartly heavy rains have ern Maryland and serious flood condi- tions are threatened in that section. Much damage was réported to-day at Hagerstown and throughout the com- try, ‘The streets of Wittiamsport, Md., were flooded, the water reaching the doors of residences and factories, A 100,000,00-callon reservotr at Edge- mom threatened to break, but a bie force of men strengthene:’ the weakened wells and it 1s belleved th danger has been averted. cutives, Golden Rod, 7.—The Ma B ALBANY, Maret. he Senate to-day passed the Murtagh hydro-elec- tric bill designed to pledge the State to a plan of developing electrical energy from the superfuous waters of i; barge canal. The vote was 38 to A MOVEMENT T0 PROLONG LIVES. 1S GREAT NEED Legislatures Are Waking Up to the Need of Correct Vital Statistics. CAUSE IS IMPORTANT Since Without This Exact Knowledge Disease Can Never Be ys Sagiate : The various Legislatures Ms & Hh. sf waking up to the im; henge) ing perfect vital stat naar owing fe Una how many what they eee is now Coan The most important thing of all 5s ts es out thé original cause of death. na doctor states that his patient ¥ dea ‘of kidney disease, this tells nothi te anyone who is seeking means preventing disease. The certi should really state what in the doct: opinion was the cause of the deter becoming diseased. be it was nervous debility, an ailment that rapidly menacing th health of the ent i population, and fer which there is only one really efficient bread namely, the new tonic, Toma ita. Nervous debility can be showa by bold) eran. Y owing to its wide read nature. Amony many sym tana that Tona Vita has relieved are:~- aleep that is broken and restless; les: of weight; being tired after any exer- tion; Premature. o old loss oe energy, and a general ng ot being ru run-down. Tons Vita pera 5 of the larger drug stores oa Ne New nyerk City.—Advt. The offices of the National Cash Register Company At Broadway and 28th Street have been converted into relief head-| quarters for the DAYTON FLOOD SUFFERERS Contributions of medical supplies, food, new clothing and bedding, tents and cash will be received and imme- diately dispatched to the afflicted cities. The second special relief train leaves New York to-night or to-morrow morn- cegp ase BY THE OUTSi foe ce day’ tom Thar OLATE NUT EEE Ne cea hcl E ea Ciuprch Street eee and Nasseu St. At City Hall Park, TSiDE (Trade mare 2 % sclbeae, sete see, stated Sts ie ker Sy Sa ee ay .| Spectal tor Friday Ww. UT CROQUETTES—They're new tLe tww nox LOC CHOCOLATE COVERED MOL AtE ACO LASSER