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iv rr I i tX "t1 V ' -w 'i. 1 : v.; Hj '. c V,KJ. 0 a ... ; ' '( Bating ' , ! 1.60 PER TXAE MT. VKRNON, OHIO, TUKMDAY, APRIL 1, 101&-No. 26 ESTABLISHED ltM 3 tlthr V lr. V yjVik NT,. .ifl m ! Wftf v?. I (.!' ISO THOUSANDS HOMELESS IN OHIO VALLEY treat Damage Wrought Along the Ohio River Swollen River Drives i People to Hills. HUNTINGTON HARD HIT Mnss SictlM Innditid and Lives Reported lust. CMCHtNATI NOW IN DARKNESS JL Washout of the Canal Five Mils North of Hamilton Hamper the Gaa and Electric Light Corporations of tha Queen City Troopa Request a) 'to Patrol the Streets of Covinn- tan and Newsett ,Dema8jeiPoints tha Floods .at UsvRlver points. Cincinnati. O., March 31. The Ohio fltver was reported stationary at Hip ley, 50 miles from Cincinnati. The city reporting; the most serious condition is Huntington, W. Va., to which city aid ia being sent from Clarksburg and other places. Fifteen thousand out of the 40,000 inhabitants of Huntington are home leas, 12 persons are reported missing, and the -property damage, according to close estimates' of leading business men, will amount to nearly 11,000,000. The rivor reached a stage of 66.2 feet. the highcBt In the history of Hunting ton. The entire business section is in undated, water being up to the second floor of all .buildings. Numbers ol hemes have been wrecked and their occupants have been forced to seek refnge In houses In the surrounding country. Governor Hatfield arrived last night and is in charge of the sit uation. Portsmouth reports improved condi tions with no lire. Galllpolls Is again la touch wih the outside world, and wedJe the city Is practically surround ei by wutet, no Uvea have been lost. Cincinnati is in darkness at night wing to a washout of the canal five asMea north of Hamilton. WateMrom the canal is lmod by the local gas and electric company and without It the city la deprived of gas and, electric Ught service. Two companies of the Ninth United States Infantry, stationed at Fort Thomas, Ky.,, have been requested to ho sent to Covington, Ky., to patro' tha city, by Mayor George E. Phillips, while the Ohio river' Hood threatens the city. Chief of Police Phillips, after sur veying the field, reported Portsmouth hi fairly good condition as regards the flood. No Uvea have been lost so far as known. At Parkeraburg, W. Va., the crest ef the flood reached the record of 1M4. The river Is receding slowly. Two companies of militia are guard tog the town. In Belpre, O., across Mw river from Parkeraburg. a Urge raok has appeared In adam. Belle; TlUe, 18 'miles away, is practically wiped out, and the people are camp tag on the. bill above the town. It, is reported several lives have been lost at Belleville. Two lives is the toll of Ike flood water ,la Parkeraburg. The damage is enormous. Fully 6,000 per mbs are homeless. ZanssvlUe'e Loss, Zaneaville, Q., March 31. Flood lcj In Zanesville Is confined to dam age of property rather than loss of lives. The only known dead are George Kopenspacker and family of Ave. It Is not believed the total .loss Uvx..,. Ufe wilr exceed 19, Ivenr bridge Is f bt - - . ' . ... , .1 down, The property; was will ' reach l sflfr- T -M; " v;itf '" i SCENES AT DAYTON Concrete Bridge and Third Street, Hard Hit by Flood.-. V $AW . X.Ai'r : fcltfW.S ,,: V COLUMBUS GRATEFUL deeply Appreciative of Response of Nation to Appeal For Help. Columbus. O., March 31. Mayor iioorpe .1. Karb issued a proclamation In which ho said: "The people of Co lumlr.it. are deeply grateful to friends throughout the country for ready sym pathy and prompt material aid an.', succor In the hour of need. Wo are preparing to bury our dead. While sorely stricken, we are recovering from the disasters of the past weolt With the outHide assistance already rendered we are able to do all things BcreHtary to restore the life of the city to its normal channels. Our waterworks system Is performing Its functions. Streetcar service is being resumed, as is the service In all dlrea tlocs, of the steam railroads, The great work of rehabilitation of the stricken section is before us, but we are equal to the tBBk." RAILROAD MAGNATE LAID TO REST TODAY fuenl Stnicts HtM Oni Rt- mains of Janes MeGrta. Philadelphia, March 31. The tu aeral of James McCrea, former presl dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, who died Saturday1 night, was held this afternoon at St. Mory'a Protestant Episcopal church at. 2:30 o'clock. The interment waa private. lie had bees in 111 health for sumo time. 1 Mr, McCrea's rise to responsible and powenu) positron waa one of the most remarkable in the railroad his tory of the country. He was born at Philadelphia in 1848 and was edu cated at the Philadelphia Polytechnlo college and entered the railroad ser vice as a rodman in, 1865. He became assistant engineer of the Allegheny Valley road in 1867 and officiated in the same capacity on the Pennsylva nia railroad in 1871, and by 1890 had been promoted to, engineer, divisiui. superintendent, manager, genera' wanager and fourth 'vice president it the, lines i west bif :jtteburgv , , His, vfaa Minn rftAat'immrliiA lvii itrbfilflpnt flLtld flrst vice president-and became presi dent of the Vast, system o Jan. 1, 'MeoT ') ' . "' " . ''m? sVsV fcBBBMsafjBBB CTM J' J-2BW'lawfl'rSSJMBBBBBBBBBl ia Kr?-WlMmESBX!K SSBBBBBBBBBBBBwJaasi RECOVER DEAD AT COLUMBUS Sixty-Two Bodies Reclaimed So Far From Flood. WATER RECEDES ON WEST SIDE Peats Still Used On the More impor tant Thoroughfares, but Conditions Generally Are Improving Streetcar Service, Water, Electric Lights and Telephone Connsctlena Promised the Stricken inhabitants, Columbus, O., March 31. Fifteen additional dead bodies were recovered ia Columbus. This makes the total number of bodies 62. . The damnge to the West Side can not be estimated. Several hundred nouses wero destroyed, while every house in the flood none was damaged. Truffle, from High street to the Hill top was possible by vehicle or nfoot. water had ceased running across Broad street after the gap in the Scl oto river levee along the Big Four railroad tracks had been closed. Boats still were used south of Sulll van avenue In the neighborhood of Dakota and Olenwood avenues, but water here was receding rapidly ex cept In the holes made by the rushing wnters thero. Squads of soldferp. and civilians were busily engaged in clearing West Broad street no as to establish streetcar service ns far east ns the bridge. Service was extended yeater dny from the Hilltop to Stephens street The Ohio Klectrlc workmen worked on the debris scattered in Town street. Firemen started clearing the piles of wreckage. ,and searching for more 'rlrtlmav Man.r; persons rrtnrnwl te' their homes and began the clean-up. While tho nspect. was solemn, the West Slders started working earnest ly to restore their property to its for mer condition. Almost ton man they am determined to make the West hide better than ever before and will push steps to prevent a recurrence 3t Inst week's catastrophe. Subway Blocked. Southeast of the Sulllvant avenue subway where the rush of water swept the streets clear of bouses, ninny returned to gather a few re mains of their former belongings which might Have escaped the marlno hell. In many of these places nothing remained, jtot even the foundations of the houses. Centner avenue is buried under thousands of cubic yards of gravel and' bowlders. The districts for sev eral squares each way and in Glen wood avenue from Broad street north wero filled with rocks which appeared like glacial moraine. The north abutment, of the Sulll vant avenue subway .as disappeared entirely. The south abutment was broken and part, thrust into a hole made by an eddy under the railroad crossing. The paving where this eddy must have been Is gone. Paving of the same material and build was found in a Held a mile to the Boutb. It will tako weeks, to establish street lights again on the Went Side. Telephone service also, .was destroyed and will require a long time to re establish the system. The Bell com pany will have connections with the Hilltop in a few days. Repairs on the exchange have been started .and all breaks between the centra) ex change and the subexchange at Broad 'street and Central avenue were con nected. ' i City Engineer Maetsel said that he believed the city's storm sewers .were uninjured. Until the sewage disposal plant can resume operations, the con dition of the sanitary sewers can not be determined. Mr. Maetsel said it is probable that the latter system will have to be gouged out. Railway Washouts. The Baltimore ft Ohio has, two seri ous washouia which, wUh.haVe to be replaced before It can resume opera tions. A new viaduct over Sulllvant avenue will have to be built, A large washout also was made near the Sun Manufacturing company's plant. The wator tied tiro rails of Its main track jinto a knot here. The Pennsylvania railroad, crossing It at this point, bridged a pool of water south of the ole made through the embankment at the Big Four railroad tracks. The Pennsylvania had .100 'men working on a fill-in. It will have trains run? nlng over this fill this week, Al of tho WeBt Side paving was damaged and will require many re pairs. In a great' many streets the brick have buckled and the milmruc ture ground up, This paring will have to bo retold. , -j Bx looters, fnciuuinc one wo Six looters, Including one woman and two girls, West Side. were arrested on the Upton's Contribution Rejected. Columbus. O., March 31. sir Thorn Ib W. Liptonto'cofjlrllmtlon of $1,000 lor the relief of the Ohio Hood suffer ers wilt not beSccopted. Governor Cox will return It to tlio philanthropic yachtsman at Liverpool with expres sion of high appreciation. "President Ilousevelt," said the governor, "set the precedent at the time of tho 8an Francisco earthquake of not accept ing contributions from abroad." i .,-. 4- , GLIMPSE OF THE FLOOD Scioto Pllver Overflow On the West ! e, Columbus. "3'liliJ. l)j-.AiurrItiin 1'jm AniuvUtlon. 50,000 MUST BE FED, CLOTHED AND HOUSED Fully Two Thousand Houses In Dayton Wrecked By Flood. Dayton, O., March 31. Here is the problem presented to Dayton as sum marized by George F, Burba, secre tary to Governor Cox, and represent ing the latter here: Fifty thousand persons must be cared for Indefinitely. These are per sons who lost their all when their household poods were swept away. They must be provided with a few necessary household articles, bucIi as bidding, pots, pans, stoves and a fow dollars. A half million .dollars could bo used In this way by the relief com mittee. Fifteen thousand houses and business buildings must be rehabili tated. Two thousand houses and busi ness structures, or what remains of them, must be pulled down. Thou sands of tons of debris must bo re moved. , Following are some , of the accojn plishmenta since the .flood broke over the city Tuesday: The waterworks pumping station Is in operation, but the distribution of water Is greatly retarded by open pipes in wrecked houses. The press ure is feeble, but growing stronger as leaks are checked. The main sanitary sewer is in oper ation, although many of the laterals leading from houses are clogged with mud or backed up water. The flood sewers, separate .from the sanitary, will be In operation tomor row. These sewers carry off the rain tall from the gutters and are needed tpw to remove the, water being jumped from basements.- Telegraph service, is, fast 'catching up with requirements, which have jteen and are. still enormous. No braver services have been per formed than those by the1 telegraph and telephone linemen who 'made pos sible the dissemination of news to hundreds of thousands of friends and relatives of, Daytonlsns. They waded and swam ley floods and i entered tot tering buildings unhesitatingly In pur suit of their duty. John H. Patterson, chairman of the general committee, found many operators who had not removed shoes or clothjng since last Tuesday. There is enough food an clothing for present needs, but relief will be required ou a diminishing scale for another month. Chairman Patterson aaaounced that W. F, Klppua will act as, treasurer for all contributions andi will make s strict, accounting to aH eentributors. i&W 'Af &' T, AHHbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbsbbbbbbbbk PIERPONT MORGAN AT DOOR OF DEATH Alid Financier In Critical Con dition In City of Rome. J. PIERPONT MORGAN DEAD Rome, March 31 J. Plerpont Mor gan, the American financier, died here at' noon today. Rome, March 31. J. Plerpont Mor gan is in a most critical condition, This Is the official announcement made by the attending physicians. For several days he has been unable to take any nourishment and his weakness has given rise to the grav est apprehension. Up to Saturday night Mr. Morgan's son-in-law, Herbert L. Satteriee, and the physicians made every effort to conceal Mr. Morgan's true condition. A bulletin Just issued, however, indi cates that the worst is to be feared If a change does not speedily set In. Dr. M. Allen Starr of New York, the noted nerve specialist, was summoned from Naples. Dr. Starr had already made an examination of Mr. Morgan on the latter's return to Naples from Cairo. He arrived here Sunday night and visited Mr. Morgan immediately. Professor Giuseppe Bastianelll and Dr. George A. Dixon also were In at tepdance. The physicians, who are in complete accord with the diagnosis, Issued the following bulletin: "A week ago. Mr. Morgan was per evaded to go to bed and remain there to conserve his strength. Until Wed. ne8day afternoon he did very well un tder this ;regimen; he rested and slept without' the aid of drugs and took a satisfactory amount of nourishment "Wednesday afternoon ho began to refuse food, and since then it has been impossible to nourish him. He h,as lost weight and strength very rapidly.' Jlis nervous system Is show ing this, and It has added to the strain. "Mr. Morgan has not developed any organic trouble, but is so exceedingly weak that his present condition must be considered most critical.'' BITES INTO A FORTUNE. Mrs. Stutz Finds $2,500 Paarl In an Oyster. Passaic, N. J. August Stutz, pro prietor of a casino, is telling his friends how he got a pearl worth $2. fjOO through the' purchase of 44 cents' worth of oysters. Stuts: says bis wife bought the oys ters from a peddler. While she was eating one of them her teeth struck something hard hud large and smooth. It looked like a pink pebble and was the size of a marble. Stutz says a New York Jeweler offered him $2,500 for It LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN CHICAGO, MAnCH 31. Cnttlp HaovoH, 7 00f(i9 15; Texas steers, 6 50ff7 N); western steers, $8 () OX 1: stotkurs and feeders, 6 OOSJi :0: -on-s and lulferw, 3 4508 00; calves, 7 00 llo;H-l.lK!lt, IS S59 20; mixed, S3 73 ff 15; heavy, $8 R58 15: romjli, 8 GStf r ;o! ris. Jti uo9 oo. Hlioep and Lnmba Native sheep, JR 00 Sit W; native lambs, $7 0003 S5; western, 7 2.", liS 85! yearlings, (7 208 25. Wheat No. 2 red. tt 02&1 OS. Corn No. 1. Si!'!., Oats No. 2 white, 3514030c. KAST'BIJFFALO, MAllCIt 31. Cflttle Prime steers. IS 7E09 00; shipping. tR 00O8 SO; butchers, IS 00Q R 44; heifers, 16 00(18 00: cows, 13 75 7 25; bulls, 15 0007 25: fresh cows and springers, S5 00S0 00; calves, 13 00p 11 .10. How Heavy, 19 6509 70; mixed, York era umf plga. tt 709 75; roughs, 18 60 R 75, stnes. 17 0008 00; dairies, 9 509 75. Phuep and lmb Yearilncs, 15 00 R 25; wither. 16 5007 00; ewes, J 500 6 50: mlxv.1 sheep, $5 0006 65; lambs, C GO 09 25, PITTSBUna, MARCH SI. Cattle Choice heavy steers. $8 509 9 00; fat steers. IS 0008 50; fair steen, 15 75t7 00: heifers, 17 0007 60; cow. M CA06 CO; hulls, 16 7507 00; milch cows, 140 00075 00; calves. 111 00. Hogs Prime heavies, 9 4509 SO; heavy mixed. ,19 55; mediums, heavy Vorkers, llsht Yorkers and pies, 9 00. Hheep and Limbs Top sheep, $7 00; (op lambs, 19 00. , Hog's Vackers, 19 1909 45; common sows, Pi 0008 86; pits mid lights, 5 000 9 1C: stags. IS 0007 50. CINCINNATI. MARCH 31. Hob Packers, 19 SO09 45; common sows, SO 0008 90; pigs and lights, U 00 09 20; stags, S 0007 50. Sheep and Lambs Sheep, 13 0005 75; sunbs. 85 5009 25; spring lambs, lis o 016 00. Wheat No. 2 red, II 0801 11. Corn No. 2 mlxexl. 5314084c. Onts No. 3 mix ed, 34fr34HiC. Rye No. 2, 05067c. CLEVELAND. MARCH 31. Cattle Choice steers. 17 7508 25; good to choice steers, 17 2507 76; heifers. 15 50 07 AO; Imllx, IS 0907 00; cows, 13 750 (0; mllchers and springers. 140 00 76 00; calves, 1 10 60011 50. Hogs Heavies, 9 60; mediums, York ers, light Yorkers and pigs, 19 60; roughs; St SO; stags, 17 SO. TOLEDO, MARCH at. Wheat, II 09tt; com. lies oats, 36a elovarseed, 113 30. OX PLACES OUNTY UNDER THE Extending Its Authority Out From City Of Dayton All Montgomery Un der Martial Law. REASON IS WITHHELD dew Order of Sfafe Executive Has Officials Guessing. GENERAL WOOD ON SITUATION Declares the Greatest Need of Troops Now Felt In the Southern Part of the State Fifty Thousand Persons at Dayton Must Be Fed, Clothed and Housed. For a Week or More Fully Two-Thousand Houses In Gem City Wrecked by Flood and as Many More Will Have To Be Repaired. 4 Columbus, O., March 31. Ono of the military developments of the dar was an order issued by Governor Cox placing Montgomery county under military law until further notice. Day ton has been tinder martial law since Wednesday. Xo explanation was given at the statehouse for tho new order. National Guard officers on duty at the statehouse are greatly pleased at a message sent by Major Gdnoral Leonard Wood, V. S. A., to Governor Cox, In which the work and elllciency of the Ohio mllilfn are praised In wannest terms. General Wood, In company with Secretary of Wnr Garrison, made n trip from Cincinnati to Dayton by motor, Btopping at Hamilton when re turning. It was at that point that th9 telegram was dictated to Colonel Zim merman. General Wood has establish ed headquarters at Cincinnati, saying he considered the situation in that pert of tho state the most grave. Hrlgadier General John C. Speaks said he was in touch with practically the entire state utid that the situation was well In hand. Telephone conver sation with Waverly and a relayd telegram from Portsmouth brougkt the word that that city was not on fire. .Marietta can be reached Indirect ly. Marietta, Portsmouth and Irontou are provided with sufilcleut supplies for the immediate future. Crest of the Flood. The crest of the flood was reported at Gallipolls, with waters rising at Marietta, Ironton und Portsmouth, at which places all previous records al ready are surpassed. At Marietta the Ohio was at 59 feet. Portsmouth had C7 feet of water and the river was rising at the rate of almost a half inch an hour. It Is ex pected to continue to, rise until near noon' today. All Portsmouth flood records have been broken. Six feet of water was reported in the Washing ton hotel. Xo loss of life was report ed and only one bridge' of importance was said to be gone. Pomeroy and Middletownadviied that they bad sup plies for present needs and Athens re ported that It needed no help. Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Weybrecht, In' command at Zanesville; reported R40 houses, actual count, washed away. He says he needs all the troops now stationed there and Is pa trolling the entire district to prevent threatened looting. Loss of life, he says, will be slight. A relief boat from Pittsburg can not get up to the city, being detained at McConnels: vllle. ht wagon supplies sufficient for Immediate needs are at band and trains will be able to reach Zanesville from Lancaster and Columbus today. Colonel Weybrecht has elgh( com panies of, thq Eighth regiment, two companies of the Seventh and one platoon ef the signal corps, Com pany B. From reports that reach the gover nor's office, Hamilton, In proportion to Its size, has been the worst strick en point in the state. The first mes sage in several days got through Sun say. It stated that 91 bodies had been buried during the day. Major Smith at Piqua advised Gen eral Speaks that iu an area equal' to. 'our acres In that town not a single foundation is standing. Some Heavy Contributors. Columbus, O., March 31. Rev. Billy. Sunday sent 3f00 to Governor Cox far the relief fund. The Mothers' club of Boston wired the governor offering H-. home for 10 orphan children on irs farm near Boston. One of the larger contributions was 16,000 from Cluett, Feabody & Company of Troy, N. Y. The Cleveland Firemen's Relief asso. elation of Cleveland Rent 1500. Ex Senator W. O. Broreln of Wapakoneta wired from Tampa, Fla., an offer to aid financially. Heavy Loss at Flndlay. Flndlay, O., March. 31:" The losi caused by the flood here Is estimated' at 3750,000. At one time nearly 3.00Q persons were homeless. The course- of Blsncbard river through, this city may be changed as a result of the dls-. astrous overflow, Thousands of dol lars have been spent for relief. imilltIIHMIIIIHlf POSTOFFICE CLERK 8AVES MAIL AT RISK OF LIFE, f Columbus, O, March 31. One of the most striking cases of fidelity reported since the flood began was that of Morris G. Moccabec, superintendent of Sta tion D of the postofflce at 99? West Broad street, who at the risk of his life managed to save . every plere of mall in the build- x' ins, the records of his ofllce and all stamps and cash. Seek Pardon For Patterson. Washington. March 31. ;An appeal for the pardon of John H. Patterson, at Dayton, O., convicted of criminal violation of the Sherman anti-trust act In connection with the National, Cash Register company, was received by President WlUon. The appeal was made because of Patterson's work In relloving the flood sufferers at Day-' ton, O. The president acknowledged the receipt of the appeal, signed by John L. Sc-huff of the Cincinnati finance and relief committee, and re-, ferred it to Attorney General Melley nolds for action. BANK CASHIER SHOT ' KHIed by Robber Who Is Slain Later by Posse of Citizens. Topeka, Kan., March 31. R. P. Brown, cashier of the Barnes State bank at Barnes, Kan., was shot and killed by an unknown bank robber. The robber was killed a few minutes later by citizens who were brought to the Bcene by the sound of the shots, They onened Are on thetrobber as h "was making his escapejr Curerncy to. the amount of , IMKLiWas found on the body of the dead'rbbbcr The body ot the cashier was found with, a revolver firmly grasped in one hand. Will Participate In Chinese Loan. Washington, March 31. President1 Wilson learned that an American financial syndicate stood ready to fur njsh the republic of. China a short term loan of about 110,000,000, and would later negotiate a long-term loan up to $100,000,000, or whatever Hhould be China's need. The syndicate hat asked for assurances that the United States government would not partlcN. pate- iu any way in the negotiations. Luther Mccarty's father Dead;, Bellcfontaine, O., March 31.t-a message from Piqua says that James, j, McCarty, father of Luther McCarty,,,, the heavyweight pugilist, was drowcv ed' In the, flood. , tt l' ." LA -'. 1i t ;i X t H i m " At M 1 91 i -tail 4 tt i .t 'M 71 & ' '.-. ' , V, .- -V v, '.. V-. M'.M ! ' V-litT V ,M;tm.u.f -m$k: -. , usitfsH i mA MAyMtM::iM fit$i . ?- i'.'fiarciiiif-ww M.1 !w I3'U r" "'. J'.'.T"'.