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| Zimmerman, HUNDREDS OF WOMEN SAVED FROM FLOODS AT DAYTON; ORDERS TO SHOOT GHOULS Sixty Sisters Taken From Academy of Notre Dame, Where They Had Been Si Dayt Mareh 28.—Dayton was Practically clear of water at noon to- All the footed districts had been Opened up, relief was being distributed fan@ the work of searching the ruins for bodies was in systematic progress. The waters of the flood are now on their way to the Ohio River. It is not believed that more than @00 were drowned in Dayton, The Chief of Police places the loss of life at 150, John Patterson, president of the National Cash Register Company, persists in his estimate of 600 drowned. Less than a score of bodies have been recovered. The fact that so few bodies were found does not indicate that the total Of dead must be estimated by the num- ber of corpses recovered in Dayton Undoubtedly many were swept down the Miami Valley and their remains will be found in the debris in the farm- ing districts south of the city. The work of clearing up the chaotic Conditions brought on by the flood is Progressing with marvellous speed and oO, repidity. Presijent G. B, Smith of the Chamber of Commerce expressed the Prevailing sentiment to- when h waid ‘We do not want the world to think that Dayton {s unable to recover from the effects of the disaster, We are goins to show it that we are capable of coping with the situation with entire eMciency.”” To-day began with great promise, A drilllant sun tempered the keenness of the frosty air, The flood subsided per ceptibly, Flood victims who had been penned in the downtown sections of the city were able unaided to make thelr way to the suburbs by the thousands. On Main street, in the heart of Day- ton, it was possible to pick a dry path, over the pavement. TROOPS INSTFUCTED TO SHOOT THE GHOULS. Militlamen and deputies were given ingtructions to sioot offenders against the prearranged plan of relief work. “Shoot at the less firsi, and then shoot to kill," is the way the sold! were int d to ac Last night after rescue work had been stopped by darkness the fire, which ha the territory which would be swept the fire continued in its path, This morning more were taken out and it is delieved that the danger of deata by fre in this district is ov avery institution in South Dayton is crowded with refugees and hundreds have a a for in private homes, Although the relief committee says there has no communication with North Dayton and Riverdale, it is re- Ported rescue parties and relief from cities in the northern part of cae Bate has reached them. According to one story a carload of Provisions and thirty-two men for reliet Iwork arrived on te West side of { river from Detroit, It is in this se that the flood ts belleved to have takea its greatest toll of life. Gov. Cox last night declared Dayton under martial law, but he made the military government under Col, Charie; Fifth Infantry, sub. nt to the civil government, which fs now administered by the citizens’ re- t shadowel by the discovery that it was not nearly 0 bul as had deen supposed ‘There is an air of holiday rejoiciug in the ruined boulevards. ‘Those who Passed rough fiooi and fire a glad are alive. They Joke and OLD’ GEL Seam K itty Ver Rarer at FACTORY Ss ca gnc — practically burned out, burst out! afresh. Tals morning it was destroying, Mother and daughter were found on the} Relief trains are coming in and the the plant of the Gi Bates Broth-, #econd floor of their home with arms| work of distri* uting supplies has been! ers’ Plating and Manufacturing Com-| clasped about each other. organized, The main demand is for pany. Several hundred men and women fled|food and water, Ten thousand are Hundreds of persons, many of them| to the Arcade when the water made its|homeless her: and most of these are women, were taken late yesterday from first rush, they sald to-day. Former | absolutely destitute. Nek committee. An amazing feature of the s.tuation fm Dayton is tho philosoph' good mature wih which the people regard the situation. There have been floods! in Dayton before and there will be floods in the future, The fact tha: this was the biggest and most uct ve flood in the history of the city 18 over- nd selling the ad Solid G SIXTH AVE. Cor, 17th St. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAROR 88 nce Tuesday. j turns when friends, coming from the} South Side of the city, find them. | | Wednestay they had prepared to die when the fire, swept toward them by the wind, threatened to destroy them. “Most of us made up our minds that If we haq to die we would rather die drowning than burning,” sald Dr. Salun: newo, who was imprisoned in one of the buildings. “We prepared to cash in by the way of tho water. Hundreds we camped on the roofs of the hotels and skyscrapers, inspired by the mad notion that the water was reaching toward ‘ them even to tie top Moors of skyscrap- ers.” Sixty Cathol ters at the Academy jotre Dame and eigh- teen persons for wiom they provided refuge were found by the Louisville \life saving crew .o-day to have been en- tirély without food or water since Tuesday. There were several cases of illness and their cufferings had been intense, ‘The lifé savers left a supply of bread and water and planned to take further help, The Louisville men also took relief to several hundred families in the low districts in the vicinity of Ludlow and Franklin streets, Here the water had reached the roofs of all two-story buildings. Only a few of the most desperate cases were brought out, the first move being to leave bread and water in as many places as possible, There had been little hope there would be survivors in this district and the fact that there proved to be few deaths brought hope that the death loss would be lower than wi expected. TWO WOMEN PREPARED FOR DEATH AS WATERS ROSE. The morgue began to-day Its part in the tragedy of the Dayton flood. First there were brought in the bodies of ZANESVILLE GETS FOOD AND CLOTHES FORTS HOMELESS | Soldiers Take Charge and As- sist in the Distribution of Supplies. two women taken from a house at No. |609 Second street. One was the body sof an old woman, the other a young} ZANESVILLE, 0., March 28.—The jone. A note pinned to the bodies indi. }cated calm preparation for death as the water rose over thelr home and finally engulfed it. “Hawke—mother and daughter,” read the note. “Hawke—mother and daughter,” were placed side by side in the National Cash Register Company's garage that had been converted Into a morgue. The crest of the flood passed Zanesville at 3 o'clock this morning and the water immediately began to recede. Up to 8 o'clock it dropped at the rate of three inches an hour. After that the fall was more rapid and the city will prob- ably be clear by night. It 1s estimated that not more than fifty lost their lives, Mayor Burkhardt was one of those im- prisoned in the Arcade. Burkhardt was | unanimously elected Mayor of the Ar- cade community of flood refugees and | he established @ police and sanitary system. ‘The postoffice was turned into a shelter place for 89 men, women and | children, Ropes were thrown out and ases of food snagged as they float- edb: In the midst of the horror fitteen pris- oners in the city workhouse broke out Although the sun 1s shining the weather 1s cold. Warmer weather is promised and the rising temperature! will decrease the intense suffering of the miserable survivors. Communication between the clty and th section known as Putnam, bwhere it i belleved the loss of life will be found | to be greatest, 1s still cut off, and all public and private business ts at a standstill. Looting has commenced, and the military has been given ordera to shoot down the first thief caught at work. However, the city and county au- thorities are beginning to see their way clear. ‘The fire endangering this city was! checked at daylight, Seven bodies have been recovered. > - —— GENEROUS RESPONSE TO MERCHANTS’ ASSOCIATION, |through the roof and, fleeing over the roof the Antlers Hotel, ralded the | Fire engines were pressed into service | this afternoon to pump out the base- ‘ment of the Algonquin Hotel so that the artesian well there can furnish water | for needed fire protection, Another arte- sian plant in the downtown — section will be in operation by nightfall, and netween the two it is believed enough water will be available so that all dan- ger of fire will be past. A big detachment of engineers from (the National Guard Is at work distilling (aa ee rposce, “They wil” ttt] tanger Fuller of the Merchants | tackle the sanitary problem, Assoctation said to-day that the appeal | —_—— sent out was meeting with a generous 'NEW YORKERS SAFE response, and that in addition cloth- UT MAROONED AT ing and food were being offered, Man- ager Fuller received a large number | FRENCH LICK SPRINGS.) (¢° tetograms to-day trom points In the flooded districts in the Ohio Val- Le CE ate Pay ae Whitey, deat [ley graphically describing flood condi- [War in, Finley Peter Durnee’ gucop| tions. These are being prepared for | I! of New York, and Osear | Publication. The Merchant's Association received $3,710 to-day. Among the larger con- tributors were: | Czarnikow-Rionda Company $1,000 |G. Foreman and L. 8, Kuppenheimer, both of Chicago, are among the 6500 guests marooned but safe at the hotel > to-day. Apollinaris Agency Company 100} Calhoun, Robbins & Co, 250 Lyman & Clarke Company. 100 R. & G. Corset Company, 100 J. 8. Plummer & Co.. 100 | Lamb, Finlay & Co. 500 | D, P, Winne & Co 100 | Halden & Co... ie 100 Wiebusch & Hilger, Ltd 100 Linen ‘Thread Company..... 500 U, 8. Hungerford Brass and Cop- DEF COs se resreeene 500 ‘The Committee of the Stock Exchange, comprising A. E. Goodhart, J. H. Wain. } wright, la C, Benedict, W. B, De Haven and W. Erdman, which was appointed | to obtain subscriptions from the mem- bers, met to-day in the library of the Exchange, It was stated that quick responses had been given to appeals for funds. ‘The World yesterday wired $1,000 to Goy, Cox of Onto for the relief of the flood victims. It was believed that this Was a speedier method of xetting helo to the sufferers than to send the money | through the channels of any of the vari- (which the flood has not yet r Ohio River Floods Eastern Part of State; | Houses Under Water at Steubenville NEW YORK RAISES SH ent EN oe Pets b PS a THE OHIO OVERFLOWED BELOW STEUBENVILLE! ©. INTERNAT! RESCUERS REACH FLOOD VICTIMS AL OVER INDIANA Latest Estimate Is That Only 100 Lives Were Lost in Entire State. TOTAL LOSS IS $50,000,000 Considerable Looting Going On at Peru and West Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 2&.— Gov. Ralston was able to give assur- ance to-day that there would be no increase in the death list in this State except from towns In where the rivers did not reach highest point until last night. other hand, Incredibly shorter than jt was yester- day, The total is now estimat at 100 fn the whole State, ‘The property loss! will reach $30,000,000, | The generosity of their On the the rest of the | Unitea States began taking effect last night. To-day the Governor was as- sured that food and clothing and shelter had been supplied to every family in Veru, West Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Logansport, Terre Haute, Kokomo, Martinsville, Shetbyville, Con- norsville and many other smaller towns which were devastated by the floods. Brookville {8 still without the necessar- jes of life, but will be reached before dark, The relief which has been given 1s, of course, temporary and many of| From Peru, where it was first feared | of housew inthe vicinity of the river | were flood the suffererers will need outside help for weeks, that 600 lives were lost, came a postive assurance from Robert Hunter, the p»- liceman in charge of the Information bureau at the court house, that the num. ber of dead there would not excomt fifty, Rellef trains from Warsaw, Wa- bash and Rochester reached the our- skirts of the city and thelr freight w: quick!y forwarded to the camp of ov @ thousand refugees about the houne. The falling off of the Peru death list In due to thi dreds of ta on the other side of the Wabash River and were sheltered in scattered farm- houses from which telephone communi. cation was broken off, From Terre Haute comes word that ten persons were drowned at Howes- ville, twenty-five miles south of there, by the overflow of the Fel River. Boat- loads of rescuers have gone down from Linton. Tne Governor's greatest efforts. to-day were to get help to Brooksville and other towns of Franklin County in ded. persons whose deaths were emo eles COURIER BRINGS NEWS OF FLOOD IN EASTERN OHIO. CosHocTos ©., March 28 (vta cour- fer to Cambridge and telephone to Pittsburgh).—EKlght are dead here, the result of the overflowing of the Tux carawas and Walhonding Rivers, and the 10,000 persons within 127 miles of Pittsburgh have been shut off from the A will make !t @ convenient meeting place. A—s14.00, B—89.00 C. ¥ a outnide World since Tuesday afterno: We have sustained our ous funds now being collected here, The tracks of the Pennsylvania mont rellable So A number of other New York business | uve been ripped out, and the Mus houses and firms adopted the same |kingumn River has cut off communtea method, and the sum thus wired to| tion to the west, Telegraph and tele- [Ohio's Chief Executive will aid consid | Phone new Went down Aa iF diate neceen? | fail Tuesday, and the water fie Jae rid Nate neccessic wan put aut of commission. ‘There is les FOF 4 jnelther gas n Mgnt The World also announces that it of!" rhe city authorities appropriated fers free of rent the asse:nbly hall in! $10,000 for immetiate relief, and com the Pulltzer Hullding to the committee | anittees were © carry on the in charge of the relief! work in Now Ww " choral manager 200 Grand York, The central location of the hall of tie United Service Corporation, has gone tu seek ald for Coshocton, amen alliemae -—-__—. . &—- i the southeast, | h 4 y ! the Mat to-day tn almost | Morse and tet aie iv court | happy discovery that hun-/ n for granted had run to the hills| OVER $200.00 ~FORFLOOD FUND Alfred G. Vanderbilt Sends $10,000 to the Mayor To- | day and “J. D. R.” $500. AID IS HURRIED WEST. City Quick to Respond to Ap- peals From the Devastated | Districts. New Yor®, quick to respond to the ap- peal for funds for the rellef of the flood sufferers of the Went, alrendy has con- tributed more than $200,000, and this) money 1s being wired to the relief com- | mittees in Ohto and Indiana, the Gov ernors of thoxe States ant the Mayor lof Omaha, with Instructions to provite | at once for feeding and housing the des | titute flood sufferers, No restriction was placed on the manner of method of distribution except that it be spent ime | mediately for those in want, Substantial responses came from every arter—from banking concerns, bust- ness houses, committees, associations of | y character, uplift organizations, ONAL NEWS SERVICE civic bodies, 1 sources and even from the poor themselves, BIG HUDSON LINER | was too humble to contribute its share. | | Train loads of food and clothing were | also despatched West as rapidly as ral road service would permit. treasurer of the New York State Board | of the National Red Cross Bociéty, It | was wald at 11 o'clock to-day that up} WN | R R $89,708.46, This amount Includes $2 120 transmitted to Mr, Schift by May: _— | Gaynor yesterday. At 1 P. M. the total of fo quarter | At the office of Jacob H. Schiff, to that time the total received was | had grown to over $120,00), i i | °W a $50,000 to-day to ¢t! a Adirondack, Forced From Her tionnir rad (Crone in Waahington,” said Mr. Schiff's representative, “Thin Moorings at Albany, Has Per- ilous Trip in Storm. makes $75,000 alrendy forwarded to the national headquarters, The re- sponse to the appeal for funda Is aplen- did, showing that the people of New York City have warm hearts. ‘An Mr. Schift's representative talked to a reporter for The Evening World there accumulated on his desk a large pile of unopened letters containing cor tributions and messengers were bring. ing in more. BROADWAY ASSOCIATION 18 DO- ING GOOD WORK. The Broadway Association with head- quarters at the Hotel McAlpin celving large donations of clothing and | shoes as well as cash funds. Secretary David Robinson said a call had been fesued to all merchants on Broadway | and other business thoroughfares for cash aw well as food and clothing needed ny the flood sufferers, Macy's, Altman's, MocCreery'a, Saak's & Co. Tiffany, Bon- wit, Teller & Co. and numerous other business houses responded to the ap- All piers and thelr surrounding dls- tricts on the Hudson River from Troy to Kingston Point, sixty miles south of Albany, are under water from a flood which exceeds that of 1857, according to N. H, Campbell, general manager of the Hudson Navigation Company. Mr, Campbell went to Albany on the steamer Adirondack to investigate con- | ditions along the river, He returned to! New York to-day, after the steamer had | been driven from its moorings in Albany last night and passed through @ heavy gale, accompanied by a snow and sleet storm Adirondack was obiiged to tle up at Fletcher's Pier, Hoboken, to-day, tho slips of the Hudson Navigation Com | ‘pany being occupied by the C. WW.) Morse and the Trojan, which are being | situation im- with Capt. proves, Tho Rensselaer, peal. ‘The Hotel Martinique and other Broder and crew, was obliged to leave | ictuiries forwarded wagon loads of Ite dock in ‘Troy and found safe hace |Notir nae Oro sociation to-day, 1 Satskill Une bor at the high pier of the Catsk’ nt Hudson, where the bout will remain ntil conditions Improve, veiihe Adirondack Was driven from its 1 Albany at 8.30 o'clock last Guests of the McAlpin and other hotela have organized committee's among themaelves and made handsome contri- butions to the fund as well as donations ings in ment. sald Mr. Campbell, “There was! of clothing, a high northwest gale, rying #now| gecretary Robinson of the Broadway and sleet, and the rising water sur) Avsoctation has arranged for @ large that we had no he wharv tiene to tiv up. We reached Albany ‘Thursday morning and discharged #9 oeriera and perianable freight, but reception to be held later to-day in the McAlpin to raise additional funds, The reception will be held in the tea room, 2 rate y f wealth and prom- hood was rising at the rate of elght| and many persons of trete an hour, By $30 P.M, the gale] i will attend. and the flood compelied us to cut our] ‘The Ohio Soclety has taken @ large lines and start down the river. I was the only passenger on board, ‘wpe Hudwon was out of 1s banks and all the docks, streets and a great area aulte of rooms at the Waldorf-Astoria and established an organized system for raising funds and clothing. ‘The soctety will make an effort to have every men- ber contribute, and to this end the tele- 4 and there Were no plera to Which a vessel might safely Hun-| phone a# the readiest means of com- dreds of families had moved out of the} munication was used, Secretary Alt- lowlands us the Water rose, It was a! jouse sald | twenty-two foot freshet, or about four higher than that of 1857, which was the former record. “We found all the plers along the river as we came toward New York were submerged, and the flood was surging around the homes in the vicin- ity of the river, This was the case at} Rensselacr, Green Island, Watervller, | Casleton, New Baltimore, Athens, Cats: | kill and at the other towns as far) south as Kingston Point. | “Phe wind and sleet storm continued reached Hudson » have already recelved thousands | of dollars from the members alone, and | more will be forthcoming. We are de termined to attain a large figure and | nothing will refused that can b made of rvice to the people of thy flooded districts of our State or any other State needing assistance, The #o- clety has cancelled its dinner and dance at Delmonico's, which was to take plac: on April 12, and instead of a feast and merrymaking the members are going he until we about 1 Qrelock. South of Kingston Point, the, to devote themselves toward lending a fiver was within its banks and ‘con-| relleving hand Aitions were not alarming, 1 believe the flood reached tts height last night, and that after a day or s0 the water | Among the checks and cash contribu- tlons received at the office of Mayor and Mioside, but the conditions all along | G4)NOF to-day were the following the river are the worst [ have ever, NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE known on the Hudson. MAYOR'S FUND. Campbell received a telophone| Kibany shortly before noon to the effece William rir 1,000.00 | drat the flood appeared to be ata stand. J. D. Re 500.00 Wii and that no More serious rise of RH. Macy & Co 500.00 the water was anticipated M. Warley Platack 100.00 Paul Bloch Town Topics Publishing Co G. Colt, Henry Clews, the Rt. Rev. Jo- 250.00 seph 8. Mooney of St. Patrick's Cathe- Brooklyn Chair Company..... 100.09 |@ral, Elbert H. Gary. M. Kuraman’e fons .... 100.00] This committee Is neither working I, Oliver & Co, (employees of) 34.0 |! OPPORItIon to nor In conjunction with T. Cook & Bon (amployees of) 146.75 | ANY other relief body. T. A. Gillespie Company...... 500.00 ~g At the offices of the citizens’ commit- | MIAMISBURG’S DEAD tee at No, 141 Broadway a dozen clorks are busy at telephones installed over night, sending out appeals for help. Ax soon as messengers arrived with checks the money was at once wire! to Ole to representatives of the committee al- ready assigned to make distribution « Quickly as possible, Judge Alton FA. Parker is Chairman of this committee and Elverton R, Chapman, banker, ‘Treasurer. Other members of the com- mittee are the Rev. W. T. Manning, the Rev. Dr. Newoli Dwight Hillis, George F. Parker, the Rev. D. J. Burrell, Lewis 1. Clark, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry Morgenthau, ex-Benator Chauncey M. Depew, Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise, Russell NOW REPORTED AT 25; MBASLES BREAK OUT. MIDDLETOWN, ©., March %.—Ml- amisburg, the town of §,000 population which has heretofore been an unknown quantity in the flood situation, has deen reached. It ts reported now that the death list there will not exceed Only one body Las been nvered, but the property damage will run high. Miamisburg ie still under water, but teephone communteation has been te- established with this city, and assur- ances are given that the situation was not as bad as feared. Ultra Stylish New Suits To-morrow, Saturday Cutaways $25 Value, The season's most interesting exhibit of Spring apparel takes place at Bedell’s tomorrow with Suits of un- rivaled splendor, grace and charm shown in myriad models at this price. Rich Vigoreaux Extreme Serges S:unning Worsteds and Novelties Spring’s Most Lovely Hues The trimmings are a feature of these stunningly clever suits, combining at small price the distingue models of Paris tailors, 10% I! \ New Coats $ $18.50 Valu ance of the imported originals, ing quite so stunning in town for the money. Patent Leather Shoes At Five Dollars a Pair Women’s Button Shoes of fine Patent Coltskin with tops of Black Cloth, White Kid and Dark Gray Suede. widths in each. 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