The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1913, Page 2

— eee | Food Distributed to Famishing Victims of the Floods THE EVENING WORLD, WILD PANIC IN COLUMBUS DURING SEARCH FOR DEAD QUELLED BY U. 5. SOLDIERS Harrowing Scenes as Crowds Seek to Identify Victims—Deaths in Ohio Capital Due to Stampedes Fol- lowing False Reports. COLUMBUS, 0., March #8.—Although Columbus is under military control the erewds on the west side hilltops over- looking the flooded district grew #0 reat this afternoon that the guards saloonkeeper, with his cash register in his arma, took refuge in the dome of the State House. Fifty horses from a livery stable were turned loore in the street and dashed through the crowd. “One thing that #tands out in my pare paanle to keep them in OFder.! memory,” ead #, C, Randall, a Ble Thousande of sightseers trom parte of! Four trainman, “wan the alight of @ the elty which were not visited by the] man on horseback floating down the flosds swarmed over to the west side and mingled with anxious, half } ad throngs looking for missing relat or friends. At 2 o'clock the confusion war #0 reat that the work of the rescuers iver, absolutely unable to stem the fant rushing current. “The water caine #o fast that men on the east sido who started to give the alarm failed to reach the bridges be- fore they were awept from thetr foun- dations Rescues From the Perils of OOOO! Waa halted. Gov. Cox was notified and | tonmt on the top of tae nual ween at his request two companies of in- orks. Factory buildings were un- fantry of the regular army were rus! rmined and collapsed in heaps, A from Columbus barracks to the scene Weat Sort e ‘ ya Sage lle Pe dar pring street car, with passengers ught on the east sido of et bridge. ‘The car was cpt against a building apd the pas- tw clambered through @ Window to one wan drowned, women frantically waved rescue from the u house that was ¢ got into action the hilltops were cleared and the work of rescuing the living and searching for the dead was re- sumed. As the search progressed and the flooded sections were explored it be- came apparent that yesterday's fren- zied estimates of lives lost up to 1,000 sen for per windows of a rried down the stream, but the rescue boats could not re exaggerations excusable under the | overcome the current and the wo! cireumstances. Scores reported missing! were carried away, have turned up since mornin Col Byron 8, Barger of tue Fourtn| YOUTH IN A SKIFF RESCUES National Guard, safety director of the THIRTY. city, afer recelving reports from all over the flooded district to-day, placed aa his official estimate the number of dead at 101. It ts not likely that this estimate will be exceeded as to Colum- bus, but there has also been @ consid | erable loss of life tr outlying districts which have not as yet been reached, West Columbus is under martial law, A close watch is being kept for looters and ghouls and the soldiers have orders | to shoot such on sight. atop 0 4 Reliet is being rapidly distributed to- | Firat to tallapeo waatk tne day. It was very cold last night 4nd! parton. “Then two women and 'e man {hia morning, but the sun ts elning and | fet, ‘Their position was such that res- the temperature is becoming more agree | cue boats wh h strove desperately tol able, Systematic efforts are under way | reach them were tossed out of reach. to eheok up the missing and get out lise | Ar ast the tree was cleared of its of the known dead. human freight with the exception of a COLUMBUS ALREADY PLANS [thinly clad meither, who whe frant- FOR REBUILDING. cally clasping her baby. The sight “One youth in a frail skiff rescued thirty persons on West Spring street and was so exhausted by his efforts that he co dim the arms of @ friend ax he completed his last trip Tho worst of the damage seemed to me to be along Central avenue," Cc. F. Barton, a Pittsburgh travelling: man, declared he saw seven persons, j Who had been swept tnto.a tree top, slowly succumb to the intense c waid Order ts mounting out of chaos and| drove the watchers in the places ot| Schenectady, Watervliet and smaller towns in the Hudson River Valley by Jto-morrow the work of caring for | *4fety frantic and at last, by almost]... , site tha 4 aaa baling: dha. hipaa ae . th and cutiining place endeavor, «boat was} ve all feeling the burden of water passing the highest mark in fifty-six forgthe rebuilding of the ruined section | #wunk the | tree just as the! years, of the city will be well under way. | Mother ropped into the water, The mbus is mot so badly off as Day- land other cities as to food, for thi le and warehouse districts of the city were not flooded. ular railroad communication has baby was dead in the mother's arms from exposure, but the mother clung to it untii a policeman tenderly forced her to unloosen her grasp and she was taken to a hospita established between this city and| J. P. Hoolsel, another Pittsburgh Cleveland, and other lines are being] travelling man, skirted the flooded dia. of ed up. Hundreds who have b trict of Columbus in an aute ‘mobile last marooned in the city since Monday are | ight. leaving for their homes in other parts I saw elght bodies taken of Schenectady, several thousand em: i UO ALR ARS aaa HON of the State. The crowds at the rall-| house,” he suid. “A Hloyeen of the General Bleetrie Company |" the wervice at Albany because of the road stations talk of nothing else but| aby was caught in a and the American L otive Company | °vinee neces fata fad all vege w the flecd, and trem those departing|¢ay and a pol tok the chitd,] were isolated in thelr homes, though |? el min FORA baEY aeauine many stories have been obtained which |*Aying that he would take it to the] tne water had not swamped ether of ATAHORI IUMEAC HABE Chavent Cours is give an idea of the progress of the|!ty Hall. Up to last night he had not disaster. W. B, Kirkpatrick, legislative repre- e@entative of Trumbull County, and John + vived and may have been drowned, NO BODIES FOUND IN COLUMBUS €C. Cooper of Mahoning County plecot i CHURCH. out together a picture that brought into Pini United Brethern Church in. the bold relief the happenings ia the capital, | T0led district which was reported yes They agreed that the estimates of the| 4 to have been turned into a dead bad been exaggerated. temporary morgue sheltering 20 bodies ‘The acenes in the city are awful,” | "#9 reached this morning. ‘There were no bodies in the It Is stated that chureh, n epidemic of diph- said Kirkpatrick, “Only one bridge re- walned intact when we left there late last might. It (a the Rich street struc: therla has broken out at D jaware, O, a aka olds’ in the ety and anol Dl W> 3 Black, the health. oftice: that has been ‘condemned for years, The} “ere, reports that there are not less than thirty cases in the town, The one-year-old daughter of Sam Jones, a farmer ving near Delaware, was rescued alive from a@ raft, | Provised from wooden door and soap box, which had floated far the creek near Delaware the parents ts unknown. Communication with TiMn, interrupted since Wednesday, was partly re-estab- shed to-day by long distance te ‘The city suffered severely, fifty work of resoue has been vetematized. Boats are being sen; through the flooded istrict, As fast as the people are taken from their uninhabitable homes they are rushed to the City Hall and registered. MOTHER AND HER SEVEN CHIL- \ DREN SAVED. “Last night I saw a mother and her seven children, the eldest eleven, the youggest three months, brought ‘nto the "hall so faint from exposure and laek} of food they could hardly stand. a down ‘The fate of houses having been washed from thelr fou T had not heard from the 'U8-| tions, Seventyefive persons are bang and father since the storm bags tnixsing, but It ts belleved the majority pe paoded ae oe thea pea are safe, though unable to get into or tha: Wad broek tae Wadnenday efter, | (OWch with thelr families, noog may have been responsible for], 4 lve sixtoen-monthy-old baby wax feveral deaths from fright alone, Wo t#ken from an attic at No. 94 Prince fore in a picture show, when suddenly | &venue on the west side of Colum- the Mim stopped, then the Iikht went bus. The babe was well dressed nd out and the cry that the dam had warmly wrapped. A note was found broten was set up. Pinned under its clothing on which was “When I ed the street people| Witten only “Walter Taylor.” Nothing Funning in all directions, Half-|!# known of what became of ite nts. 4 we from the resorts on phe o c es of the Columbus Front street were acattered through the | [00d Is Albert 12. Dutoit, a Hocking 4. Bome carried bird cages, othera| Vey engineer, He was at Walbridge | had pet dogs under their arms. One|WMEh he heard of the flood, Mis wife and four children, the youngest a 1 girl of nine months, we thelr home, Dutoit cut his low Jooxe from his train, » bus through water cov ag hae ly Was stopped by a washout, and waded | on, crossing the Fifth avenue bridge water waist deep. It Was late Wednesday when he ar rived in the city, Then sentries re fused to allow him to recross the Tiel street bridge to the west side, Al nicht he tried in vain, Thureday he siipp a across with & gang of Wor! and got | @ bout and rescued the wr fi ehildren from the upper wtory of th home, where they hai the flood sixty hours, to the lower Mohawk and Hudson River V. of State street and Broadway OGORRONETOS THOUSAND BY HUDSON'S RECORD FLOGD + Albany, Troy, Watervliet and Schen- ectady Partly Inundated—Great Shops and Railrcads Tied Up by | Highest Water Since 1857. The scene of the heavy up-State floods of yesterday is now shifting leys and Albany, Troy, At noon the Hudson stood 23.1 feet at Albany and the lower section was all afloat. At Renssalaer, on the east bank of the river, hundreds of persons living in the lower part of the town were marooned in their homes, the water, three feet deep, rushing through the streets. At Seotia, the manufacturing @istrict down on the Harlem division to Grand the bis nufacturing plants, ing down from Albany. The danger of great destruction to por-) every through train from Buffalo, tons of the Erle Canal through tre-| Cleveland, Chicago and the cities of Mendous Water pressure on some of Its] the Middle West still within range of resarvolrs and locks has not abated} uninterrupted railroad communication Supt. Peck of the Public Works Depart-| Which should have arrived at Grand Inent haa a larite force at work trying | Central station early this morning was to save the Northumberland locks, next] Piled up at Albany or behind it, Each the Hideo, ‘the | SUKI train Went under the proviso, to. the dam ‘across the Hyde displayed on a sign, “All trains subject Crescent aqueduct, carrying the canal] ty adhe: ie the hy » {At 8.9 o'clock this morning the ra danger, oad off n Sei Washouts between Renafaiaer andy TOMd omlelale at Geand Central Castleton, on the Hudson Division of tH > following tra o arrive bt n, were annulled he Hudson Local, the Albany the Hudson River Special, the Albany New York Ce tinuies to nee trains to th tral south of Albany, witute the switching of all Boston and Albany line tot Chatham and thence to New York, via¢ #4 the Harlem Division, ‘Train from Montreal, due to ‘The flood situation up-State, as re-{arrive at 7.2% o'clock, was also “an. flected in the interruption of railroad | ulled.” Floods in Vermont and on the aerv in many instances serious—|Velaware and Hudson had broken the can be tubulates as follow two ines of communteation from Albany Mew York Central, Mudson Divi- | 0M Ward to Mo al, it Was learned sion--Bight miles of water on the |!» the train despatchers hore, Nobody tracks between Castleton and knows just where train iS I, All trains from the West are coming ll service abandoned ‘Albany and Hudson, subject to delay of anywhere from one jew York Central Mohawk Divi. (‘0 four hours. The crack Twentteth sion—Line broken hetw: Mom. | Century, due from Chtea) 9.40, was mans and Utica; trains using West | *’Meduled to arrive at Grand Central Shore tracks at this polst. tt o'clo The Detroiter, due at 9 West Shore—Line broken below 9 Clock, would not get in until 1.90, ac- Little Falls by landslide at Mo- | ording to the bost calculations at hawk, | Grand Central, The Wolverin , due at Brie, Allegheny Division—Wamer-%, ‘wikht arrive at 1, Train No, 6, due] ous washouts im the vicinity of #11, will be lucky to get in atl. ‘The | Ole: Atlante Express, due at 7.05, was} Delaware and Mudson—Bridge be- | CHulked up for noon, Similar delays ob- | tween Troy and Green Island clo! tain in the ca f the Bul xpress, eave nd the Fast Mail, CHICAGO TRAIN STALLED WEST) OF PITTSBURGH. om account of danger and 1 broken by the carrying away of the bridge at Amsterdam. | ‘Mie Noodling of the tracks of the Hud- The Pennsylvania Railroad offices an- division of the New York Central} jounced to-day the entire mention ween Rensselaer nd Castleton, south | 4¢ the New YorksChicago avhedule with J of Albany, Js the most serious hand the exception of the Broadway Kxpress, to the moving of that line's trains, annulled until furch, fe cording to @ statement made by P: ‘Braln No. 10 rolled the Pi ‘ W. ©. Brown te The dim | Dat a. ee PRY is | Jculty on the Mohawk division he chare | YAN station this rhings it had acterized aa “not so serious as we ex | '"* made ub at Pittsburgh inatead of scape | Chicago and baa no Pullmans from THROUGH TRAINS REACH HERE Qo c(i ar the Cleveland on at f ON B, & A. TRACKS, + also with no connections from poin' AM through trains, both from beyond West of Pittsoursh, A despatch fro fof and from points north of Ale tarrinvurs, t sald Che second section | san to be shunted onto pal be two hours and more late, Hoston and Albany Une after midnis rain No. 94, the Chicago and Onto Jast night, and thence from Chatham Mapress, ten hours late at U o'clock Business Street of Marietta Under Water SLAMMED GDHOEGOCTESODOOOOOS |PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD — FRIDAY, MAROH 28 1918, Flood in Ohio; | DEATHS IN FLOOD OOOO IN FLOODED CITIES OF OHIO! KNOWN DEAD IN DAYTON. Stottler, John, No. Underwood, Jos % South ‘May phine, cypress | vies Winyne and | giv ave.:’ frozen to ; ee Meat ae Stottler, Mra, death, Haverstick, J. Nu Cupp, Smiley, Jr. Te ae avers Veen toe rnin manager Beli Wallace, Jesse | ycxumey. ita pret sphone ¢ >. 105 Mont. Dellan hk Getntdied boi; Haupt, LC. por gomery a Skidmore st. about Wz; light ijee operator, Elderman, Ethel, Withey, Mra, hair. wife and three Richards and] Wither ane Mise; children. Bagio sta. Deies, Hilda, No. 18% North | Ce: Collins, Mrs, and Mosely, Bessle. 188 North alec child. McConnell, John. al ave. yehman, Lille, Abel, Mra.’ — No. ft Bolton at Burne 9 DEAD AT HAMILTON. Schmidt, Mrs, and Tingley, Mrs. Lil- | Bell, D., wife and Bess, Earl, son of ughter, Mrs. Man, daughter 4: Albert Bess ond Two unidentified | Spradiy, B. and “sselinan, M UnidentiNed gir, babies. mother. Rows, Elsie, Ox- aged 12 Schunek, Mrs Demuth, Jobn. ford, O. Shartle, Anton, Garber, John F, | Whitehall. John. Stillmacher, Mra, vine | * slat, Arthur. Quinn girl, five Lena. Fee eee ee cunt oh years old. West, Joseph H. unt) irs. Morris, Julia. Schuntz, Mrs, Car- Seattle, Olle. Geis, Mrs, d He. Vine. near Willet, patrolman, | Kelsch, Mrs. and Zeek, Mrs, and Main Dueur, Carl, granddaughter. three grand- Thompson, Mrs Mrs. Jarrett, Dave. dren. Burns st, ‘entified bodies | Brovard, D. 0. Crawford, Paul, | Unidentified fam- — man and Muellor, Albert, wife and baby. | fy, man, woman Abel, Mr: patrolman, Sims, Isaac, Pa- | ‘and child. Herberle, Crise | drowned in res- — troiman | Twelve unident!- tian, cue work. Brown, Frank. i} fled men. Two unidentified | ‘Theobald, Mrs 1. Dutle, H., clty dee | Unidentified gir, women: one | Mann, Herman iis Bohn, Miss. young, one old, | ‘Tleman Jameson, Frank, | 4 ; O'Dell, son of Kuhr, Harry THE DEAD AT TROY. Talents Pies | Jones, Reuben, Stony, 6 | open Biking, Arthur. wife and baby — months’ old girl, | Macroberts, Cahill, John, Jaughter. Van Tyle, Henry, | Donkes, Louis Herman, ¢., Mock, Mrs. Aaron, Pierson, Mrs. Stemle, Joe. Bishop, Will!'am, and enild Martha. Cash, Joh Hagan, Patrolman Jon —— (fe Unidentified man, and son, mi » and 2 oll: | Wiemer, August, Van vie, George, dren, ! and wife, Neldermann, Pa- wife and 3 chil: Five untdentified | James, trolman John, negroes. family of fo Sauer, Emil, wife Unidentified mam | Cordes, ‘and’ child und family of De Long, Charles. | DEAD AT COLUMBUS, Heitkman, Mrs, | S May. Cooper, Ima, No. Mra, Olive. 1103 Sullivan ave, Broad joseph. Joh a son, Mrs. Dies, Miss’ Alma. rawford, Joseph. Bertha, last night, seems to, have been stalled] on the West Shore division and the Hudson division of the New York Cen- tral, Milk trains did not begin to ar- rive until they were hours overdue, and this delay was felt all over the city, indefinitely somewhere west of Pitts- burgh. No time for its arrival is set. A serious feature of the rallroad tle- ups was the delay of milk trains, both Hudson and Mohawk Valley Floods Tie Up Albany and Other Cities ALBANY, March %.—The Hudson [water mark heretofore wai reached River reached a stage of 23.1 at noon |in 1857. : to-day, surpassing all known records| All the streets in Schenectady lead- ing to the Mohawk River water front are submerged and many fatnilles have teen driven from thelr homes Scotia, Schenectady’s principal suburb, in which several thousand employees of high water here, Broadway 1s flooded and the water stands @ foot deep in Keller's Hotel. Families have been removed from the lower sections south of State street. No communication 13 possible with }of the General Electric Company and Rensselaer, across the river trom here, | the American Locomotive Company re- and all railroad trafic 1s at a stand- Jalde, 1s almost insolated, however, The bridge over the Mohawk, leading to the city, has been closed to traffic, almost completely cutting off Schenectady from communication with the west, on the still, With the heavy rains and flood reports from up-State it is certain that the river will go still higher, The high NONE BETTER MADE New Spring styles | in the old standard of quality. natway rT ce ghth Bt, Woolworth Ibu Brows Hein 8s finals ath ae Mroalwi tear I Lath 8. Broadway, near Beaver 8t, Onty Brooklyn Store, ‘Nemau t., peer Liberty, Bioedway; Cor! dow Bt O71 Fulton Bt, Opp, City Hall, on np rset cere. | should make the additions, rec estions from an | Banna money. ‘(Make Your | iBloodPure CUT TO 786 BY TO-DAY’S REPORT. IN OHIO CITIES. north shore of the river, Trolley traffic with Amsterdam, Gloversville and [Johnstown has been suspended. At Fort Edward the Delaware and Hudson Rallroad bridge ts still intact, although under great pressure from an immense log jam which has been piling up against the girders since yesterday, when the feeder dam of the Interna- national Paper Company broke. 7 bridge is in great danger of being swept away, and dynamite may be re- sorted to to relieve conditions back of the great mass of cut timber. The International Paper Company's milis are closed and more than 800 men are out of work. A large portion of the business section of the town is under water and much serious damage has been reported. —~— COMMITTEE OF 200 CALLED BY MAYOR 1S HUSTLING FOR FUND. The committee of one hundred named by Mayor Gaynor to raise funds for the sufferers in the stricken districts, was crganized in the City Hall this after- noon, Mayor Gaynor presided. His secretary, Robert Adamson, was elected Secretary. Mayor Gaynor said to the committee: “IT need not enlarge upon the object of your coming together. The matter s rather more than the Mayor and his siaff can take care of. I believe I was right in suggesting that it would be sirable to distribute the funds pugh the National Red Cross So- though, of course, you are at liberty to change that, We have $50,000 already in the Mayor's office, If you wish, I will add one hundred more per- sons to. yo minittee: Robert W. DeForest sald the idea was pod, and it was agreed that the Mayor iving su execu ‘e committee, whith was named as follows: Robert W. DeForest, John Claftin, Will- Jam 8. Hawk, Hen Towne, Otto T. d, Cleveland H, Dodge, Thomas M. Mulry, Alfred T. White, Frederick B, Pratt, Frank Q. Polk, y P, Dawson, Felix M. Warburg, Albert E. Davis, William Berri, James B. Mabon, Herman th. clet Ralph Peters, Will- ard BF. Cray » Seth Smith, Daniel Frohman, r, Mr. Gatti-Casagza, BE. 7. 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