The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1913, Page 2

i BODY OF LOOTER SLAIN BY SOLDIER FALLS NTO FLOOD Floats Down Stream, but Is Recovered and Thief Is Identitied. READY TO BURY DE fed Fear Now Is From Pestilence} That May Come From Un- sanitary Conditions. ——= COLUMBUS, 0., March ‘The firat Authentic case of the summary axecu- tion of a ghoul caught robbing the homes wrecked by the floods on the ‘West side was reported to-day by the captain of the Marysville Militery Company. One of the members of his Organization ehot a man dead in the early dawn, The victim of the soldier's bullet was Jaden with loot had stolen. When the soldier ran to the spot where the thief had fallen he found that the body had Into Leg teee and was being ewept away by current. The body was re- moved Tater and identified as that of Méward MoKiniey, a white man. ‘There are sixty-one bodies in the local ‘Twenty-three of them have ‘The estimate of 100 if BURIAL OF DEAD BEGINS IN COLUMBUS TO-MORROW. Although the waters have nat yeas fRceded, the flood is a hgaaeoll bistery in mot pease Rogers avenue from its foundations, was told to-day by Stacia Ways, & sir Jus found by rescuers. “It was about noon,” ehe eaid. “T was fa a +edroom with my mother, Mrs. Thomas Ways. The food heaved the house off ite foun@ations, I grabbed hold ret a hae and my mother hung onto a door house tilted over and floated ewey. “Then we heard cries—‘Catch hold! Caioh noid’ We worked our way to the wiitow. We had floated close to the house of Mra. -FAtsabeta McEttrick on Cable rtreet. Mrs. 3°. Sttrick threw out w shai. I caught It, and ghe pulled me through the water to her house. Then Mrs. James Griffin, who lived in the other’ ride of gur house, hauled over. “Before my mother or anybody else cuuld be saved, our house floated on, My fatier and Mr. Griffin were saved ben the house went to pieces, put my ncther and all the rest of them haven't been found, There were eleven in the One of the bodies found to-day, that of @ twelve-year-old boy, has a bell tied avout his neck by a string, A chubby tot, pulled up about hin ears an if to shield him from the cold. Aix more Bodies were discovered in the weat side flood district this after- noon, raising the total number of corpses found to sixty-seven, nearly alt of waom were identified. A mother and infant were found clasped in death, the baby’a hands clinging to the other's hair. Nearby was the body of & man, supposed to be the husband and father, At a short distance was discovered the body of @ little girl, a GARRISON SENDS ENCOURAGING REPORT § ON FLOOD TO WILSON. WASHINGTON, March 29.—Secre- tary of War Garrison's firet report on flood conditions was received by Pres! dent Wilson thin afternoon, It w. sent from Cincinnat! and read “We have got In communicatic Major Normoyle and Major Le find they have the situation well in hand. ‘The flood ts receding tn all small rivers, but the Ohio is getting the ef- fect mow and is rising at Cincinnati, where it is now sixty-five feet deep, thus threa: B the towns below here ‘At Goy, Cox's request Gen. Wood and 1 are wolng to Dayton. We will thes get Into communication with Gov, Cox and situation at Columbus and 1 will wire you fully from Dayton. You need have no anxiety about shelter of food sufferers north of us or in Cincinnan, as there is more than ample building Me were greatly exaggerated, ay | think are alse the reports of extreme fering, except where perso’ trom food and dry shelter. 1 tank it ts perfectly safe for you to announce to the country that matt re be'ng well taker lying dead next to him, wears a! The first reports concerning loss of f by those aes a» “DAYTON COUNTS HER DEAD: GETTING PLENT THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, LATEST PICTURES OF FLOOD’S HOUSES SweRert-rog BY “THE. FLooD — Dayron LENTY OF FOOD| ‘Now Plans for RebaidingeLais Stories Tell How 1,500 Were Saved by a Freak of the Flood--Nun DAYTON, 0., March %.—Reports made to the military authorities in charge of the city this afternoon in- @icate that about al! the bodies left the limits of Dayton by the flood been recovered, Undoubtedly other bodies will be found down the valley at points to which they were swept by the flood, but there exists no good reason for believing that more than 20 Dayton Deople were drowned, and this estimate may be too high. Thero jeventy~ four bodies of flood victims in the Morgue, twenty-five unidentified. At least thirty persons were killed when the Leonard building collapsed Wednesday night, according to the state- ment of Detective Kincald to-day, Kin- caid was marooned by the flood in the City Hall just across Main street from | ! the Leonard butiding. saw twenty People, he says, enter Joon which occupied one-third of the ground space of the Leonard building. None got hurt. Other people had entered other stores in the building and some were on the upper floors, FIRE ENGINES NOW PUMPING OUT CELLARS. Except in low spots that have not been artificially drained the’ waters of Rescued 70. tossing and turning down the swollen Miaml River into Itiverdale, in Dayton. At the height of the flood. Suddenly the current tore open the flimsy butld- ing and in ten seconds afty rowboats were floating through the flooded streets, That was how 1,500 Riverdale citizens came to escape death by drown- ing. The mory was told to-day by Dr. 8& R. Patterson. STORY OF HOW FLOOD'S ACTION SAVED 1,500, “I was awakened by the flood at 3 A. M.," said Dr. Patterson, “From one vtory to another we fled before the water until we were caught in the al tle, I chopped a hole in the roof and my wife, her father and mother end I climbed out, We could see the Platt Iron Works, where @ trapped men were waving to their wives and chil- dren, who leaned from their houses, some of which already were afloat. Phillips's boathouse from Stillwater, far up the river, came down the flood with its freight of #kiffs, One side of it wae torn away and all the beats drifted like « gift from Heaven to @ vands that grasped them from the roofs, “We paddled to high land, some using brooms as oara, then returned to save others.” the flood have left Dayton, Fire en- gincs are pumping out the cellars ‘and business blocks and stoves are now being installed fc pose’ of drying out the lower floors, Damaged stocks are being spread out |to dry and merchants generally are tak- ing account of thelr affairs and prepar: ing for the resumption of busines: bankers have received assurances from New York and Chicago that ample capital will be furnished for rebuilding Jare anxious that the work of rebullding | flood districts were awaiting President and repainng shall be begun as soon as son when he reached his der | Possible #o that the idle may be given | executive OMice to-day, Throughout the employment. Thousands of factory | night r ured into the War De {hands are out of jobs because of the Ame tevenue Cutter and Life destruction of the plants in which ¢ employed, but there will be plenty work for them in making over the city, NOW GETTING A FAIR for their shelter and more than ample OF WATER. seta tential Grae anal inee eanee food on the ground, We understand | Several artesian wells are furnishing ®/fyrwarded as quickly aw possible this alo applies to Dayton and Colum. | fair supply of drinking water and pure! fn rentres, and moving. pleture’ houses iy coming in from outside, ground are busily engaged in tr with disinfectants the districts that were flooded, the receding buildings and the pur- | Leading manufacturers and bankers | ° ris and out of the water, All the estimate that Dayton has suffered a 4 Bear eel ety Ay safe. The property loss of $4,00,00, incluaivs of | Senne higher wad ichor on tha ewain the losses sustained by the railroads | of the convent. . Other observers are disposed tw cut] A dozen telephone girla down at Miam- this estimate in two. isburg, below Day: stuck to their There is plenty of food in Dayton and) Posts and were marooned above a gro- the Govern nt has furnished a suf- ek note Panty ti Ae oes oA ? a rough the floor and with Hnes fished Came ¢ dnrae nd Ms ee canned goods and loaves of bread from the water in the On this food 4 repairing operations and for the rehabiiitation of manufacturing plants SENT TO THE RED CROSS rulned by the flood It is believed (that within a week Dayton will be one of the livellest cities | WASHINGTON, ores in the United States. The authorities |). cleaning up and SUPPLY | The | ang and sanitary experts on the | an: ting They follow ter and kill the germs, NUN IN CONVENT SAVED LIVES OF 70 PERSONS. | The Dayton flood, lke all great dis- | asters, is producing its heroines, Sister len of the Notre Dame Convent tn rth Dayton saved seventy persons m the flood by throwing a rope from a window and then pulling refugees in they lived for tw $400,000 RELIE CASH sive reports on i the Saving Se he Health the Gov ing t tor ve, the Red Cross, the Pub- rice and other bureaus of nt now engaged tn su afflicted in the stricken teri anged to-day while N's ont for t perform: numerous BKoietios and ormaniaations issu putions from thelr ni Ki rellef day to. $400,000. vad received a from \w | for ry a PrHoTros COPY RIGH 115 PASSENGERS FISHED OUT FOOD INDAYTON'S FLOOD (Continued from Firet Page.) {Iton and Dayton train 12% feet away. They tied these around their waists and we pulled them to the shed. We rescued three men who had gone to sleep in the caboose of another train in the same way. “The kitchen of the depot restaurant was on the second floor and we had food for that day and night. ‘The rain kept pouring down. “By Wednesday morning we seemed to be in the midst of an ocean, Many houses were floating quietly down the river, They were piled up ageinst the Miami bridge until it finally gave away. “Wednesday night the storm reached its climax, The rain fell as from a hose, Then the worst of the fi broke and from our windows we could vec flames shooting fifty feet into the alr, Both men and women knelt on the floors and prayed unashamed. One man, & member of @ theatrical troupe was temporarily out of his head. “‘We're goners' a man sald to me und 1 was ready to believe, RIVER AT LAST INSIDE BANKS. “Thursday morning brought relief, and As it began to get colder the water be- gan to recede slowly. We saw land dur- Ing the day and by Friday morning the was inside its bank: ur food came fram the debris which floated on the water, We had apples, ham, succotash, sausage, mushrooms, olives, tomatoes and cabbage. They Were washed alongasite the bullding and we fished them up, Engineer O'Dell made a scoop from a box for catching cana, We dug our coal out of the ten- der of the engine and got our water from the engine's boller, “We had the stoves of the restaurant where we built fires and cooked every- thing. At ni#ht every one who slept at all laid down on the floors, “Friday when I left Dayton was cov- cred with mud. Houses and stores had been gutted by the flood and in many ases pntents of one house had been washed into another, “Perhaps the queerest sight of all was a table we saw floating by us. It wan wet for din Four chairs surrounded the table. its _ YALE TEAM BACK; AIDED IN RESCUES team nin number, New York this afternoon viu the York Central from Indianapolis, New where oe the ground and, ev whicl: ,2e8e to be I be dome," will be disposed of. A boat bouse filed e carcasses of dead animals are being Tapidly removed to plants.where they Boston with notification that Boston would send about $100,000 in all A telegram from San Francisco” an- ‘ skiffs came nounced that $10,000 had been raised. participated in @ ewimming match they took active part during the flood tn that city On last Monday night the ¥ FROM GREAT FLOODS The members of the Yale awimming reached in vescue work ‘oy Ae APTER THE Ley 191 = SRoxey CcoLomBus Additions to .List Identified in Ohio Cities of Dead AT COLUMBI Greenlee. Mra. — Sorella, Sarah. Scovill, Mre. Sarah. Diss, Alma, 8. Underwood, Al- Diss, Hilda, 10. bert, 1. Shoup, C. My McNerney, Mra. baby. Delia, Houston, C. H. | Stottler, John. Gore, Albert, Btottler, Mrs. Clouser, Mrs. mas! John, rie. Becker, Walter, Weethe, Hannah. Becker, Mrs, Wal- Damsell, Edwin D. ter. Cooper, Emma L., Keyes, Mra. —. 6 Cooper, Mrs. Ford, Frank, 12. James, and two Holtonough, Mra, children, Anna F. Gaver, Gus. Miller, Mra, Mary, Haslett, Claude. Guy, William, Mashen, H. 0. Preston, Howard, Mashen, Mrs. H. Wiessenganger, 9, Arnold, Toy, Mrs, 0. C. French, William, Garfield, Mrs, Sa- or William Grit- die. fin, Wright, Mrs. McDonald, Mre Rhoda K. Urbana, Tl., and the next morning they started for Cincinnati, They got as far as Indianapolls, where they ran into the flood Tuesday afternoon, On Wednesday morning, under the direction of T, B, Harper, manager of the team, the qollege athletes got hold of a couple of big boats and went to West Indianapolis, where tho flood was at its height. They worked all day and until far into the night rescuing people from submerged houses and conveying them to places of safety, On Thursday afternoon they left Indianapolis for Elkhart, Ind., where they caught @ train for this city yesterday afternoon. —~— CHILDREN’S HOME AT ZANESVILLE IS DESTROYED BY FIRE. ZANESVILLE, ©., March 2%.—The Morgan County Children's Home burned to-day, All the inmates were rescued. ‘The catite of the fire 1s unknown, Tipe lines leading to the home from West Virginia wells have bursted and thy absence of gas 1s interfering with the relle¢ measures being take Between the city and Graysport, twenty miles down the Qfuskingum River, forty houses were to-day re- ported washet away, In some cases taking several persons down stream. ‘Tho loas of life in tls district ts a matter of conjecture. = children of the flood refugees here, it im Feported. Three cases of throat trouble are reported on the Kast Side and five at the Good Samaritan Hos- pital. Instead of putting the manufacturing plants in operation as the water ceded manufacturers ha’ fated their intention of turning the 6,000 working: men into relief workers to assist in cloaning up the elty, 20 Carloads a tatoes for Flood Victim: DENVER, Colo, March 9%.—Thirty cag- loads of potatoos were started East to- day from Greeley for the flood sutferers, a Odio and thdians. Diphtheria has broken out among - AT DAYTON. Ford, Alexander. Snyder, 11 Rowen, Mra. ——. Mason, L Gov. Sulser'a attention was called to Be am Ga this inability to get drinking water He Wallace, Mrs. Young, Mra. —. nt @ message to George i’, Peabody, James, Harkreader, B, %. |Chairman of the Saratoga State rese: Polk, Christopher. Scott, Frankie, | vation, suggesting that the State fur- Snyder, George, MoConnell, John | nish spring water in the emergency. Sarde iciaia Snow. The Governor also notified Com- . 5 missioner Porter, of the State Depart- AT DELAWARE. ment of Health, to aid, if ossible, in Volk, Frank, 6; Melching, Louis, 4. | securing a tempori water supply. shoemaker. Hessey, William, | The police are besieged with demands ial Frank, | 21. for coal and city officials are furnishing Jones, Esther, 17. | food to those in want. aching Jessig Tibbals, Charles | Troy suffered five disastrous fires yes: §. terday and is practically under martial Melching, Nellie, Tibbals, Clyde, 17, | aw. AT HAMILTON. Brevard, Mr. and Theofald, Mrs. Dudley O. Linfield, Tieman, Herman, — Bucke: patrolman. Lendwell, Keller, Rone. Rigdon. Iaseman, Verna. See) ee @re four unidentified TEN SAVED AT FIRE IN FLOODED HOUSE; TAKEN OUT IN BOAT: WELLSVILLE, O., March 29.—With twelve feet of water around the house John Starbury’s boarding house caught fire here to-day and ten boarders were rescued with difficulty by firemen and policemen in boats. As the fire spread to the John Irwin the rescuers loaded the Ir- win family of six into a boat, which was capsised, and the family was pulled from the water with by & second rescue boat. The flames spread rapidly to home of Mrs, Mattie Smith, penned in the burning building with five children for some time before res- cuers were able to reach them, ieee JOHN L. PASSES HAT AT PRIZE FIGHT, GETS $3,000 FOR SUFFERERS. SAN FRANCISCO, March 2. Sullivan, who refereed a prize last night, called on the crowd through Ilke true sports" for of the Ohio and Indiana flood The former heavyweight its rounds. the cheering assembly and flood was poured into the ring. nation totalled §3,000. The Food Drink For, All Rich milk, with malted “Sis "t tray Clemson, Mrs, Kelch, Mra, Lena, dropped $0 in a hat and started it on Others hats went through in water—more healthful than tea or coffee. athletes. The best diet for Infants, Growing Children, Invalids, and the Aged. It agrees with the weakest digestion. acct it, ee 13 ny wifice epee in emigete 8 minute, HAVOC IN DAYTON AND COLUMBUS as BRGED STREET in. “Sauumesuss © ITYPHOID EPIDEM MENACES ALBAN AS FLOOD RECEDES Troy Under Martial Law, Sol- diers Refieving Exhausted Police and Firemen. ALBANY, March 2.—The greatest flood in the history of the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys is passing. The river Bauge here at 9 o'clock to-day regie- tered 19.6 feet, a fall of more than two feet since yesterday afternoon, when the flood reached its height. ‘The inundation of Albany's filtration plant hae left the city in grave danger of an epidemic of typhoid fever, Black, filthy water fils the city’s mains, and the health officials have warned citizens to boil the w: It will be several Gays before the plant can be placed in normal condition. The authorities are Preparing to cope with typhoid pneumonia in the flood stricken district ‘ater companies are unable to eupply the demand for bottled water. joward. The Jeast ‘lood, ,000,000 damage in Tro: Fred, —_| receding. Armed soldiers were on guard ———, [in the business section to protect prop- . erty, Guards in rowboats patrolled the ——, |submerged section. at. Hundreds of families have been made homeless and relief stations are filled with refuse The city faces an epi- demic of bodl to guard against it. the place Pitice station and post-office are floodes ‘One-third of Green Island ts sub- merged. the north will amount to many thou- lumber district of Albany will be heavy. ——_—_. 12,000 PERSONS IN SIX KENTUCKY home of Kentucky citt from here estimated already homeless and that more than 3,500 houses are flooded, Aiftioulty the authorities today the who was -—_——— NEW YORK CENTRAL OFFICIAL’S WIFE IS SAVED FROM FLOOD. SPRINGFIDLD, 0., March 2,—Clyde C. Brown, solicitor-general of the New York Central Railroad Company, ar- rived here last night with his wife, whom he rescued from the flood at Dayton. Mrs, Brown was none the worse for her experience, except that she, like all other survivors, is suffering from ner- yous strain. She had been marooned | since Tuesday morning, —John Le fight here to “come the reliet sufferers. champion @ golden ‘The do- Ages—Highly Nutritious and Convenient in extract, in powder form—dissolves in training Convenient — nutritious, hold and every effort is water in many ‘The losses of logs in the regions to sands of dollars and the damage in the TOWNS ARE HOMELESS CINCINNATI, March 29.—In the eis across the Ohio River there were 12,400 persons Newport, Covington and Dayton, Ky., AU “ttupersonations “of Nigh come fisdw immediately opposite Cincinnati, are ue by bean AL Varnes most effected, aw RK TRAINS FROM WEST AND UP STATE ARE STILL IN TANGLE Pennsylvania Partially Para- lyzed, but Fairly Clear Far as Pittsburgh. Though tremendous efforts have seen spent by all the raliroads running into |New York from the Western flood some |and through the more recently tm- |undated districts up State to repair the damage done to their Mnes by the waters, partial paralysis of train serv- ice trom Chicago and Ohle points continued to-day ana the New York State tleupe were not all straightened out, ‘The section of the Hudeon Divison tracks on the New York Central be- tween Rensrelaer and Castleton, sowth of Albany, which was flooded yester@ay for elght miles by the rise of the Hudsen River, was atill out of commission to- day and all trains, both through and lo bove Albany were being shunted over the Harlem Division from Albany by way of Chatham on the Boston and ABbany. * 1c The Mohawk Division breaks between Albany and Syracuse were repaired yesterday, the work being made com- paratively simple because mone of the bridges had gone out. aul north of Albany were arriv, ing at the Grand Central Station from two to three hours late because of the congestion in traffic due to the neces- sity of ewitching to the Boston and Al- any. Through trains from Chicago, Cleveland and Western points were, in some instances, later than that, the necessity of seeking roundabout routes through the flood districts being reepon- sible for the delay: The Montreal Express was again “an- nulled” because of washouts on the Boston and Maine and the Central Rail- 4 of Vermont above Greenfield, Mass. The Buffalo Express arrived at 10 o'clock, Utte less than three hours late, The New York Central oMolais an- nounced that this afternoon they would send out Pullmans for all Big Four connections, including Columbus and Dayton, O. These oars might be subject to de! the company's ofMfcials a mitted, dut they would surely reach their destinations In the flood district. a Bank Reserve $15,768,600. ‘The statement of the actual condition of Clearing House banks and trust companica for the week sho’ that they hold $15,76: 0 reserve In excess of lexal requirements, This ie in- crease of $2,206,400 from last week. 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