The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1913, Page 3

ae . Famine « and Disease Amo 5 100 DEAD AT ZANESVILLE: ~ GREAT BROGE TORN DOWN MARTIAL Cement Crumbles in Crushes Homes. ' \ZANRSVILLE, 0., March ™ (By elephone and telegraph via Cambridge, D.)—The Muskingum River has beeen rising all day. New channels have been torn through the hills of the town eince the disasters in the rafirond yards and usiness and tenement districts this! Morning, and are stri through the Putnam residence district. The torrent fa lapping at many knolla on the tops Of which are hundreds of people who Ahovtht they had reached certain watety thelr lives. ‘Tre steel ferme building of the Muns eon Music Company war the latest of oovle, Middletown te entirely without the downtown buildings to vollapse this afternoon Manewtle's ded already number @more than a bwndred. Only seven Bodies have deen recovered. Three Qundred are in jraminent peril of their * Mves and beyond the hope of rescue, reat cement bridge over the Mus- Kingum River broke last night and the huge fragments Med through t homes of hundreds of workingmen, @rushing the houses as though they had been matehboxes Hefore dawn to-day the Muskingum Was increased by the waters from above, © yellow, seething wall of water. With- @m an incredibly short tUnte the river was at a level fifty-eight feet above its @ormal level, Tho real menars of the @oming flood has not been guessed at. There are three hundred workingmen Of an Islet in the tower part of the city put of communication, The depth of} fwater there end their chame for Ufe! ean only be guessed. Every part of the city {s under trom fifteen to twenty Beet of water, ‘The Mayor has dectared martial law, fand volunteers are heiping the regular firemen in making such efforty #8 are possible to stop the fires which are ‘@terting in every part of the factory istrict, where big natural gas mains which feed the fire. of the furnaces have broken and have become roaring! *Zountains of flame. More than 3,000 are homeless al- ay and the water is still rising. bodies of seven 4 have been recovered. Mr. and Mrs, John Carr and their two children. An unidentified man, woman and enild. ‘There are stories of from one to three hundred drowned along the flats men and women who were slow in dheeding the warnings. The Third street bridge, 500 feet long, Was ewept away and deposited on the fiver banks five miles away. The woolen mills were ripped from their doundations. ‘A floating warehouse rammed the Gixth Street Bridse and with an ear. @plitting roar the bridge broke loc ‘end disappeared. ‘The Baltimore and Ohio and Penneyl- vania Railroad bridges collapsed soon efterward. The Baltimore and Ohio depot is twen ty feet deep in water and the Regge House and the Clarendon here are under TELEPHONE GIRL GAVE FLOOD NEWS UP TO LAST WIRE ‘Mary Deaken a ba Ral Heroine at Her Perilous Post in Phoneton, O. When out of the weiter of disaster wweep of death in Ohio and In- final tale of heroism is told of Mary Deaken, chief tele- tpt t,! ané Tdegraph Company at the wih be obtef tit riqe ot the stricken city of Dayton. Down at the main offices of the company at No. 25 Dey street they are telling the story of Mary Deaken and ‘the five faithful operators under her ‘who have sat at their ewitchboards on ¢ha main trunk line junction in Phone- tom eince first the watera began to weep through Central Ohio and have conveyed to all the country the only hows that has come out of Dayton, flood swept and fire scourged, eleven miles south of their station, Without leap and with slender food supply Mary Deaken, chief operator, had eat with a receiver clamped to her ear, taking from the marooned operators in Dayton every detail of the holocaust in that city until this morning, when the final “‘goodby” came over the wire from the telephone office in the midst { ef the food. [ae 4s was at 12.06 on Tuesday that Mary Structure Over the but who are now In peril of} The reflections of the fires at Frank- ‘eperator for the American Tele- | THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, LAW DECLARED Muskingum Fragments and to the middie of the second story. MIDDLETOWN, ©, March 27.—A j Paralyzed community of 18,000 souls, Middletown awoke this morning to face perils that threaten her very ex- fatence. ‘Ten thousand persons are homeless and uneneltered. Cooked food is unobtainable, Thirty persons aro known to be miss- ing. Eleven more are said to be un- Accounted for. This does not include | the peopie who may be marooned in j thelr ow:: homes whom the relief com- mittee jiag not yet heen able to reach. | lin and Dayton last night served to in- atil moro fear into the hearts of the t protection, {FLOOD DIVIDES ZANESVILLE INTC THREE PARTS. The city ‘» divided by the water tnto three separate communities. No com- munication by railroad i# available and only once or twice a day has it been Possible to eatabiish telephone commu- nication with outside points. All the i bridges between this city and the Ohio River in the Muskingum Valley a out. The vig Y Bridge is under twenty feet of water and it is not known whether {t is still standing. All rall- road tracks ‘are likewise submerged. organized in the three: sections of the city, but there te little these can do be- cause of the absence of food and wear- ing apparel. There is no gas or electric lights, and only high-powered motor- boats can make headway in the current lot the river, which is rushing through ! he town at @ rate of twenty-five miles an hour. The river rose about five inches an { hour. It was thought at noon that !t {had reached the crest from the Tus- carawas and Washington Rivers, but | Creek. | ©. U. Schyrock, a marooned news- Paper man, telephoned the Associated Press that, while ~o actual number of lives lost is known, the general convic- ; tion of the community is that a hun ‘dred or more have been drowned. Be- fore any names of missing could be ob- tained the wire failed, 250 THE LATEST ESTIMATE OF HAMILTON DEAD. HAMILTON, Ohio, March %7.—Ten bodies were recovered from the ruins of this city in the first hour of the search this morping. Figuring on this erage \t 1s believed no less than 250 the first to be recovered were the bodies of two detectives and three policemen, The Lake View Hotel in the residence taken refuge there earlier in the day, PORTED AT 50 TO 100, “TROY, O., March %7.—Piqua was ob- tained on the wire here this morning Street. is eighteen feet deep. No mention was made of the disastrous fire that was re- dead is between © and 100, | Deaxen firat telephoned straight to the main offices of the company here au- thentic news of the bursting of the levee along the Great Miami River in Dayton which inundated the city and cut {t off from all telegraphic commbnication with the outside world. After the tele- Big Baltimore and Ohio Bridge at Zanesville Which Was Swept Away Like Matchwood by Rushing Waters COOOHE OOOE ® Separate reilef committees have been | @@OOOQOOOOEO’ Partial Lists of the Dead Kuentll, Fred. * © OOUIUOK OOOOG yee Bis.! pe COOQOOOOOOOIOSS) in the Flood Stricken States. It is as difficult to get the names of the victims of the floods as to obtain an accurate estimate of the number of dead. dead so far as known: DEAD IN OHIO. AT DAYTON. Abel, Mrs, Lucy, Bish, Viola. there are fears of a rush from Willis|gaetell, Anton. Bish, Mrs, Mauriel. Hadkins, John, jee - milltiaman Pe unidentitied woman. IN LORAIN COUNTY. Dike, Geo, Toledo.Burr, Fred, Massll- Shanklin, William, lon. Massillon. IN WAYNE COUNTY. Ert, Frank, 6mithville. IN BARBERTON. ‘Neuman, John, IN HAMILTON. McRoberts, N. C. Three unidentified O'Dell, —. women. sa ; Tieman, Herman, Two ummertizied Persons have lost their lives here. Among|Iutzi, Leon. IN COLUMBU: Saxton, William A., Mack, Mrs. L. H. probation officer. Three Mack chil- part of the town collapsed this after-|Daniel, Edwin D. dren, noon, It is said that ffty people had | Gore: fl Eckort, Mra. Hayes, EB. M. EAD AT PIQUA NOW RE-/ Hayes, Mrs. E. M. Seven Cook, Mrs. George, dren. Albert, mail Eckert, George. nd baby. IN DELAWARE. and reported four feet af water on Main |Melohing, Frank. — Fielding, = James elehing, Mra. Main, At one, point ja she city water |Mio ny Maine, James, Melching, Ralph, Bills, —. Melching, Lew Ported last nigh: The estimate of the |@mith, Mrs, Silas, Three Hills Three Smith ohil- dren. dren, Unidentified girl. Jones, Miss Esther. Milligan, ——, Bills, Mrs. chile joe Hazel. Milligan, Mra, Milligan, htld. Hessey, William, McAuliffe, Terry, Jones, Mrs. Sam IN MANSFIELD. Wise, Howard, Braph rie went down in the first of the angry waters the telephone Heid was ir only one that still burned and the only communication between Dayton and the outside wort! lay through the Phoneton ewitchboard, STUCK TO HER POST TILL LAST WIRE WAS DOWN. From that time Mary Deaken and her ttle staf have juggled the trunk lines, reaching out with all the rapidly dis- appearing filamente of the telephone syetem in @ constant effort to grip some sure point through which the news that was coming to their ears could be sent. A few lucky newspaper correspondents, who found themselves unable to reach the flooded city, settled down in the office of the telephone bulking at Phoneton and there snatched at every acrap of news thet came in from Day- ton, Gov, Cox of Ohio came to Phone- ton to telephone to the outside world ‘hia pleas for ald end his descriptions of the wide havoc, Just after Mary Deaken h, IN PENNSYLVANIA; TOWNS ARE SWEPT Score of Lives Lost as Floods Spread, Driving Hundreds From Their Homes. PITTSBURGH, March 27.--At least a score of lives are known to have been But last night the last link between| ®@#Tificed to flood waters In ‘Western | had previo’ Phoneton and New York began to fail,| #04 Northern Pennsylvanta and portions 4 received| of West Virginte. Communication 1s the farewell message from the heroio| seriously handicapped and accurate in- operator In Dayton early to-day the! formation not avaliable, The property single connection between her office at] loss, it 1s believed, will reach $3,000,000. Phoneton and the New York office was broken, out of employment temporarily through | gradually rising Upward of #000 working people are To-day the New York office tried in| the flooding of hundreds of industrial vain to get Phoneton. First the manage-| plants. ment tried through Pittsburgh and Wire communication with Ohto River} before nightfall. Many hundreds of Charlestown, Virginia, to Galipolis and| points in West Virginia south of Wheel- thence to Phoneton, Then another effort | ing was lost this morning and train was made from Pittsburgh to Cambrid; to Parkeraburg, to Gallipolis, to Port, mouth and thence to Phoneton; that, schedules west of Pittsburgh were an- nulled, There 1s no telegraph or tele- too, was futile. Even the roundabout | Phone communtcatiog north to Erie, and wire through Tynehburg, Va., Lexing-| the washing out of the Cleveland and ton, Ky, and up through central Ohio| Pittsburgh Railroad severs connection | IN WA) Wilkinson, Frank. #1000 IN TIFFIN. Knecht, Jacob, and Axeline, William, family of eight. and wife. Klinshirn, George, Lingscheren and family of family of ten, ‘our. Beckley, M. J., wife Canty, John. and child, IN TOLEDO, Gilman, Wi"tam 8. IN FREMONT. Zoller, Frank, Aller, Hall, saver, Howard. joe, Henry H. IN STRUTHERS. | Persing, Stanley. IN PINE FORK, Deville, Barnoy. IN’ COSHOCTON. Hawley, Edward. Hawley, child. Hawley, Mrs. IN BRINKS HAVEN. Goddard, FE. W. Goddard, two chil- Goddard, Mra. dren. IN YOUNGSTOWN. Corsing, Stanley. Gunn, James, IN FUNK, IN LOWELLVILLE, Bunn, James, IN CALEDONIA, MePeok, Floyd. IN FINDLAY, McGown, police captain, IN AKRON, Newman, Edward, McAlvaln, R. Unidentified baby. Sell, Milton, Unidentified man, DEAD IN INDIANA. IN INDIANAPOLIS. Morris, William, = Morris, two chil- Morris, Mrs. dren, Ridde, Knarry, John, | property, Six fatalities « IN FORT WAYNE. Cramer, Esther, Maiden, Alice. Wood, Arda, Wise, Kittle, IN PERU. Whittle, Mrs. Rose. Smith, Mrs, Elale, sylvania and Wheeling, W. Va., face a Brave flood situation. The Pennsylvania towns us completely under water, the height at some points being fifteen feet. Wheeling is practically isolated from the outside country except for a few shaky telegraph wires, At Sharon ten persons are known to be dead, The victims, mostly forelgn- ers, were crushed or drowned when their homes were wrecked by flood water. In the small towns surrounding Sharon the situation is known to beserious, Efforts to establish any sort of communication with adjacent points have been futile, Accurate conditions existing at New- castle, Pa., are not known, It Is re- ported that the waters from swollen Shenango River reached one of the many Diast furnaces in that city, causing a terrific explosion. The same report intl- mated that other furnaces might be ex- Dloded in the same way. Serious loss of life from the explosion of the fur- naces is improbable, as the workmen ly been driven from the va- rious mills by the oncoming water. A family of four, however, were drowned at Newoastle when their home was swept away. Wheeling, W. Va., to-day is confronted with one of the worst flood situations in its history. With the Ohio River and a great portion of the city already under water, a stage of forty-five feet Is expected at Wheeling familles are homeless and high water has already made great The river stage in this city this fore- noon Is 2.5 f slowly, A| wide area of Al nty t# inun dated, while a number of streets in the from the South was useless. At noon| with Cleveland and other points north. | water. came the report from the Pittsburgh | ‘The Pennaylvania Railroad to-day an- wire chief that everything west of that |point was down. When Mary Deaken's | voice will again be heard in the office nope ture dar make nounced that a week or more would fore train servi be re-| trained at C % Dey street {i hi stored a tain bee Would Be Te-| se for. destinations throughout the | b¢ the next. ey street Is @ prophecy that Bharon and Newcastle, both in Penn- Nc NN downtown busines® section are under Troop D, Pennaylvania State Constab- ulary, 18. po Sharon. ‘Troop A en- eensburg early this morn- | Beaver Valey, below Pittsburgh, where the flood situation Is cousing anxiety, Following are lists of the,! Flora, ——, fe, ng Refugees Add to Death List WIOSOODUSSOSDODOTOSSOOSS, (ere (esereieioie orerer Total ...... OHIO’S DEAD ESTIMATED AT 2,894; INDIANA’S LOSS IS PLACED AT 196. Following are the latest estimates of the number who perished 1D TOtAL ..csssecseseccessenceees Im ODIO wessecceeceessereeees 2,808 Grand total .........cseceeees 8,090) FLOOD EYEWITNESS TELLS OF HORRORS ALL TROUGH OH saa RE Men Tossed in} Yellow Foam Seen From Car Windows. Walter Born, a travelling salesman, was the only passenger on the Twen- tleth Century IAmited arriving from Chicago to-day who had been able to reach the working railroad lines from the flood-wreoked districts, All the pas- sengers who could crowd into the cafe car stayed up until long after midnight Ustening to the narrative of his expert- ences since he left Cincinnat! Monday evening to go to Clgveland. jenday noon found him in Columbus, and he reached Cleveland only last evening. | “I think I must have travelled almost every mile gf railroad track in northern apd eastern Ohio,” he sald. “It would be impossible for me to make @ map of the route I took. I changed from train to train, trying to work out of that State-wide lake with the persistence cf a bird seeking the north in the springtime. Trains ran ‘wild’ under the orders of conductors, Instead of dis- pate! at central points. “The conductor's post was usually on the pilot of the locomotive instead of in the coaches with his passengers, We wot through all right, iit it ts tm- possible to believe that there were not frightful wrecks in some of the places which were out of communication, "Once when we were running up a river trying to find # bridge still stand- ing on wh other side to go down again, a tr went rolilng down the current past us There were two men in the branches, mbing about the branches ag it roiled {imprisoned rats In a Wheel cage While the tree was just opposite the windows of our car the tree hit H the ground with @ shock which knocked one of the men from his peren, He rolled away in the yellow -|foam, The other man, standing straight up for # moment on the | trunk and clinging to a limb with one hand, pointed In the direction of his dgewning compade and then waved | his hand at us as thouga to says “I'l Mr, Born said he had met @ score or | more of travelling salesmen who were trying to get to New York as he was, but who had not been as lucky in chang- ing trains which would get them out to He passed three routes to return to New York. The effect of the foods and storms on business, he said, would reach far into All plane for fall business between the Alleghenies and the Rockies have already gone by the board, he sald. —>——_. lure. SAVERS HERE OFFER AID TO FLOOD SUFFERERS. The New York branch of the United si Lifesaving Corps, ‘through Its general superintendent, Wil- to-day notified ynor that It was prepared to sends boats and men to the reac the flood victims in Ohio, The Mayor immediately tranamitted the offer to the Red Cross workers on the ecene and 1f word comes that the New York offer fe aocepted the squad of lifesavers will qtart for Ohio before midnight, arations for leaving are already being The equipment offered consists of six eighteen-foot dones, each carrying twelve persons, and a twenty- foot power boat, volunteers from the Coney Island, Fort Hamilton, Sea Beach and East River stations of the corps, will accompany They will carry with then also # pulmotor, ee TRAVELLERS TELL OF HAVOC CAUSED IN MIDDLE WEST Crack Trains From Chicago Over the Pennsylvania Ar- rive Many Hours Late. The two k Chicago New York trains of the syivania--the Man- hattan Limited and the Broadway Spe- al-whieh were due to arrive here early this morning, did not pull in une til 216 thie afternoon, ‘Then they came train Passengers of the scene of doao- lation at All , Oy through which they passed last night. Water appar. ndly ten feet deep stood in the streets of the elty ands not a light gleamed from the houses, A panie-trioken It- tle group at the station told the train crew that many had met death and that those who survived wore confront- ed with the prospect of famine. Herbert Cowing, who started for New York from Kansas City with his wite and eight-months-old baby, one of the passengers on the Broadway ial, da rough trip. West of the Missivaipp! hie train wan held back by the tornado havoc, and east of the river the flooded condition impeded progress, Washout» around ©, mde nece the northern end of the State. these comparatively clear tracks the water had ri At places it appeared that the rails were a foot beneath the surface, Two lookouts on either aide of the engine stopped the train and went forward to investigate whenever the track ahead seemed dangerously undermined, Not @ passenger on the train slept during the night. Word came from the ar from time to time that sections of track which the train had passed mafely had been swept away. NEW YORK CENTRAL HAVING A HARD FIGHT. The New ‘imits of New York State ttrelf. Be. valleys elements, Communtoation with Chicago via the New York Central system ts kept open through the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Michigan Central j through Detroit and the province of On- tario; but in both cases there is but a, single line between New York and Buf- falo and that {# the one threatenal hourly by the flooda north and west of Albany, while the rising of the Hudson may make a serious situation south of Albany. Not a single Pullman from Cincinnati, Toutsville or southern points connecting with the New York Central system has come Into Grand Central Station inj thirty-six hours. A few Pullmans from St. Louls which have been routed via Chicago have come in, but for the mamt part the Chicago traing have been prac- with Pullmane picked up tleally lo at Cleveland, EVERY TRAIN FROM NORTH AND WEST DELAYED. 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