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p5 f$ht Spirit ITrlr ffifthtfttP sss S fJV jv Jv JW JV Wmt Ads ot y acwspai'er-1 II XXvTn- 1(33' SAL-t lake CITY WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1913. 16 PAGES FIVE CENTS 11 000 DIE IN DAYTON FLOOD ijiio Governor Asks the World for Help; Legislature Will Appropriate $250,000 1 SWEPT TO DEATH IN HOSPITAL; 400 CHILDREN DROWN IN SCHOOL D. AYTON, 0., March 26. Hundreds certainly, and it is believed thousands are dead in a flood which swept through this city when the Miami river levee burst shortly after dawn yesterday. It is impos sible to give anything like an accurate estimate of the casualties. Some estimates place the dead as high as 5,000. At least 40,000 and perhaps as many'as 70,000 are homeless. $. Many bodies can be seen floating down Main street. For many hours the water has been from ten to thirty feet deep in the business district, but, this morning the flood is receding slowly, r Achl building that was known to have held about 400 children shortly before the flood rushed in that direction is entirely under water and it is believed that all the li ttle ones had been drowned. ? St. Elizabeth's hospital, in which there were 600 patients, is reported to have been washed from its foundations. It is not thought possible that many of the inmates could have escaped if the re- joitiitnie. - The electric light plants were completely disabled early in the day and the city is in total darkness except for the lurid lights of the conflagrations in various parts of the flooded district, i AH groceries and bakeries of the city are in the submerged district and it is thought that a severe famine will result, owing to the impossibility of getting food to many who are marooned in and on T Governor Cox last night, with the sanction of the state legislature, sent an appeal to the world for help. The state legislature is preparing to" appropriate $250,000 for the relief of sufferers. flj ; Hie washing down of bridges and subsequent collection of debris acted as a dam in the river, later causing the levee to break and sending the water through the main streets of the city to the south- HI Impart of the town. H '? The woodworking department of the National Cash Register company was turned into a boat manufactory. Ten boats an hour are being made. fl ft in Lives and Dol- It Is Apparently Beater Than Those Hi BLo Had Studied the Kfrlt, Were at First flping to Admit; Biy Two Hundred WTY DEAD IN m NEAR-BY TOWNS jBHA, March 25. Omaha's 131 club made a statement jjR8 piyslMl condition of the ,Bf Mon tbis morning. The JptfTesome conception of the lhe 8torra ad ie number HM Mch have heen hroken jRfipns follow: BnirUr deGtroyed and nn- iW Partially destroyed, 1027. ijP7H Homeless, 2179 yelydestitut 263. M80 fr the "K n3 ih twTL was it was tte results wore Trilling wSbft120? Uves mflfed 9w ttS Persons .jBiwiLT?' ,0,t their lives- diM T' aDd eight of B4 l0Cal i08Pita dur- BueS!ai.'rafl ontoa to- vmwlto? 3i8trict- maWnK 4 lblo the h0U9es o' Mtoito? -mpzTei t0 rctaiu ffimtL ,n Partially destroyed JWNifon J 38 mony P'Rht re $mZlT nerfoct' Tendcra g.ttii,?ahttg.a m51"on dollars W t?th8 "y commia. hi lay ouda. Those jjMwir. ' aDd wero made un n!!rk 'P was that of WK iT6 all tME ruhin T d to car for Delin dC3titation. In and other ,' MP 011 Bight.) Nearly 100,000 Persons Are Driven From Homes; Prop erly Loss Is Estimated at $20,000,000. ' INDIANAPOLIS, Ini, March 25. The White river leveo on Morris street broke liore at 6 o'clock and 1500 persons were forced to hastily desert their ,iomes. The waters spread over several blocks. Troops and police hurriedly were sent to aid in rescue work. INDrAXAPOLlS. Ind., March 2o. With tens of thousands of homeless, hun dreds dead and. property los3 of 520,000,000, Indiana tonight ie ex periencing the worat flood of Its his tory. Tho entire 9tato practically Is one huge sea, and every brook, creek and riv er Is taking Its toll of damage. Public service corporations of the en tire stale are helpless, railroads and trac tion, llnea having canceled nearly all trains. Many cities are without flro pro tection and without light. Dwellers along streams today devoted their labors to rescuing those trapped In their homes and to removing furnlturo and. merchandise to higher ground. Dur ing the day reports of loss of life were received, but none hns been verified be cause wire service is paralyzed. Seven are known to have been drowned, two at Lafayette, throe at New Castle and one at Frankfort and one at Rushville. The appalling swiftness with which the waters have arisen caught the entire state unprepared. Streams that wore brooks Easter morning, havo become raging torrents during tho last twenty four hour3. Persons who rotlrod appar ently safe at homo last night, this morn ing were roscued from second-story win dows by boats, ThousanHs Homeless. Conservative estimates tonight place the number driven from their homes at cIoeo to 100,000 and tho property Iobs, it is said, will reach tho twenty million mark. These figures are made up from reports recoivod from townB and villages and do not Include tho probable great loss to farmers. ?Co hop for relief to tho stricken state Is held out by tho government weather bureau. "RaJn and colder" Is tho foro-ca-ft for tonight and tomorrow. Besides higher wator, untold suffering to the homeless will come with the drop In tem perature. 1 Rescue work Is being carried on by volunteers, police, firemen and the state militia and every placo where there s a dry horno it hns been thrown open to the flood rofugees. Indianapolis Is in the grip of its worst flood. Street cars stopped runpinff at noon, at which time the wator and gas plant were forced to suspend. Two elec tric plants are operating but may bo compolled to closo dawn. Bevon thousand porsons wore driven from their homes hero by tho overflow from White river. Eagle Crock and Pleasant Bun. Tliey aro being cared for by charitable institutions and In private homes. Tho militia 1b patrolling tho flooded district, aiding the police. Clly authorities late today called for volunteers to aid In protectlnff the threat ened loveod. Mayor Shank asked tho board of public cafoty to appropriate ?2000 for the rcllof of flood sufferers. Parts of Fort Wayne, Lafayetto. Itlch mond, Marion, Torro Haute, Muncle, Rushvlllo, Kokomo. Peru, Connorsviile, Petersburg, New Castlo. Frankfort, An derson, Tipton, Noblesvillc. Hartford City, ; Kiwood, Bloomlngton, Sholbyvllle, Ix ;;ansport, Portland and innumerable (Continued, on Pajjo Pour). Terrific Winds and Hea vy Rains Cause the Loss of Many Lives in Ohio, Indiana and Parts of Illinois and Missouri. Damage to Property Great. SITUATION AT DAYTON IS GRAVE CHICAGO, aiarch 25. Swept bj wind and rain storms of torrirlc violcnqo for three days, vast areas of the middle west, from tho Missouri river to the Allegheny mountains, tonight are inundated, many porsons have been drowned and enor mous property losses have been caused by floods, the worst in years. The maps of Ohio, Indiana and parts of Illinois and Missouri aro maps of desolation. Tcrro Hauto, Indianapolis and Lafayette, in Indiana, and Dayton, Delaware, Columbus and Youngstown, in Ohio, present particularly pitiable spectacles. In all of these citios there was loss of- life, according to tho most authentic reports available, and in each city the property loss particularly was heavy. No definite information as to what actually happened at Dayton could bo obtained until tonight, when "information from Cincinnati came that sixty lives had been lost. Practically all of Dayton was under walor and tho residents had been forced to Hco for their lives. Many of the more in trepid Honght rofugo on the house tops. In Delaware, O., nineteen porsons are known to have lost their lives and thirty to fifty others are miss ing. Torro Hauto, swept by a disastrous tornado Inst Sunday, was today in the Krip of a wind and Tain storm, which seriously interfered with the work of removing tho stricken families. Tho death list still remained at twenty, while tho list of injured is expected to aggregate 250. Rivers on Rampage. At Dayton, O., throo rivers, the Miami, Stillwater and Mad, and auotber stream, konwn as "Wolf creek, join. For tho most part the citr lies on a level flat with the four streams moot ing almost in tho heart of the place, and iB, protected by levees twonty-fivo foot high. Tho levee protecting the Miami river broke about 0 o'clock this morning and tho. flood was augmented by the rapidly rising waters of the other three streams, and finally mado uncontrollable by tho breaking of. the Laramia reservoir, fifty miles above Dayton. The waters swept through the city with terrific force. One Toport which, however, lacked confirmation, was to tho effect that tho water in tho main stroot was fifteen lfoet deep. All wire communication, except one slender tele phone wire to Phoueton, a station six miles away, was broken oft" and in formation regarding tho status of af fairs in Dayton was difficult to obtain. Kailroad and wagon brings across tho Miami river were swept away and (Continued ou Pago Pour.). GOVERNOR JAMES M. COX of Ohio, who is directing -relief work from his executive mansion in Columbus. Dayton, the heart of the flooded district, is his home. The governor's residence in Riverdale and the Dayton Daily Nbws, his news paper, are both under water. TORNADO DOES MCI DAMAGEHKB LESUJE, Ark., March 25. A tornado striking eight miles southwest of hero last night cnutiod one known death. Five other porsons are reported killed and seven aro known to bo injured seriously. Rumloy, a village five miles south, is reported to havo niifferod heavy damage. The wind was accom panied bv floods which caused thou sands of dollars damage to farms. Mon hourly aro riding in here from the moun tains with stories of the storm's bavoc and begging for medical aid. Mrs. John Sondcrs, wife of a farmer whoso homo was in tho tornado's path, was 'kiillcd. Her husband and son, Wil liain, were injured serious-. The wind curried tho fcouders's home 500 feet, dashing it down, a heap of kindling. Tho Iiome of James Trioso, a farmer living five miles east of Loslio, was car ried sixty .feet through the air, serious ly injuring Triese, his wife and three smnll children. High wind and heavy hail created havoc among crops, tearing off houso tops and breaking windows. All streams in this vicinity aro out of banks and many bridges aro reportod washed awav. Wire communication is demolished. Meager reports from Rumloy say five porsons were killed in that town, sev eral injured and groat daiuagc done to property. WOULD ENJOIN T.HE GOVERNMENT Canceling Machine Concern Seeks an Injunction Against the Postmaster General, WASHINGTON, March 25, Tho B, V. CummiiiKs company of Chicago, an mi successful bidder for contracts for can celing machines for tha poBtofdco de partment, today asked tho supreme court of the district to enjoin Postmaster General Burleson from carrying out con tracts with other bldi!ra on the ground thnL the CiiminhiKs company's proposal wan the loweat and that the government will loso $400,000 by tho execution of other contracts. TWO HUNDRED ARE DROWNED AT PERU INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. March 25 Two hundred or more were drowned at Peru, Ind., today, according to a mes sage to Governor Ralston from that place. The governor's informant asked that 200 coffins and food and clothing be sent to Peru at once. 'I This probably will bo the last mes sage 3'ou will get from Pcru,,J said the man. '''Two hundred or more aro drowned and the rcmaindor of the resi dents aro grouped on a hill waiting for daylight." Governor Ralstou immediately com municated with Stato Senator lleming at Fort Wayne and asked him to for ward the coffins and other supplies as requested. "While tho governor was talking the wire to Peru failed. "From what my informant said, th-cre may bo as many as 500 drowned in Pom," Governor R,iIston said tonight. "I understand survivorB at Peru aro huddled within two blocks and in great distress. 1 have ordorod a carload of food and coffins and the Fort Wayne citizens urc sending another car of pro visions." The catastrophe was caused by a breaking of a Wabash river levee late yesterday, which poured a torrent of wa ter Into tho south part of Peru, where more than a thousand people live, They received no warning of the danger. Two hundrod or more. It Is estimated, at least, were drowned In thulr homos. Governor Kaleton ordered 200 coffltiB. a carload of food and one thousand blankets to be shipped to the Inundated town. More than 4000 men, women anil chll drun spent Vhc night hurdled In groups about the courthouse square. Many of the houses In South Peru were swept from their foundations and carried down the Wabash river. It wan Impossible to get Into communication with that section of tho town. William Baker, manager of a. furni ture factory there, who talked, with Governor Hnlston, estimated thn loss of life In Peru from 200 to nOO. Doats wero sent to Poru from Roch ester and Warsaw. Several persons wcru rescued from housetops and carried to safety. Just after Governor Ralston stopped Ulklng with Peru tblB morning, thij only wire to tho tow.a foiled, ' Waters Rush Down Canyon ! of Business District; Loss I of Life Guesswork I MILITIA ORDERED OUT TO I PATROL FLOODED TOWNS H DAYTON, O., March 26. The wind veered suddenly from H south to north at 3 o'clock and the fires on Vine street Ml sprang- up anew. There are numerous unconfirmed reports of H men shooting" their families and committing suicide when they MB saw escape from flood or fire impossible. flfl DAYTON, 0., March 26, After a day and night of H fire and flood horror it is impossible to give any H accurate estimate of the loss of life or of property. H Undoubtedly thousands have been drowned or injured. H and the damage to propert.y will be millions. Hfl The flood came with daylight yesterday. The levee HR of the Miami river broke and earned the water into the mm business district. Main street soon was a torrent, then Hfl a liver, then a tidal wave.. The rapidity with which the M waters rose was due to the fact that the bridges torn down H by the flood or dynamited to clear a channel served only H to direct the flood into the canyon of Main street and Hj neighborig thoroughfares. Bj LOSS OF LIFE IS PROBLEMATICAL H The impossibility of estimating the loss of life is due H to the fact that no comprehensive investigation can be S made. Those who are making their way through the Hooded district are doing so in boats which are being fl manufactured at the rate of ten an hour by the National I Cash Register company, which is rendering heroic and H highly intelligent service to the sufferers. BH Many reports of buildings collapsing are being H shouted from housetop to housetop. H MANY DEAD BODIES ARE SEEN, H That there has been extensive loss of life is evidenced 88 by the dead bodies which can be seen floating with the I B flood. Already these have been counted by scores from H Various points of vantage. But even in this case there is IB an element of doubt, as many of the objects may be bun- I B dies of clothing or even barrels and boxes. The electric IH light plants were put out of service early in the day and I the only light shed upon the waters is from fires that are U burning here and there in the business and residence dis- Hi Reports of looting cannot, be verified. If any robberies have I 8 taken place they must be ascribed to men iu boats or to thieves I flj operating in the outlying districts. Word was received here last flj night that Governor Cox had ordered out the entire state militia If H to aid in patroling the flooded districts of the slate. Wire com- n H munication with the outside world is fairly well maintained by In telephone, dospite the fact that the flood is still many feet deep fftfSa and the foundations of all the structures are being sapped. m H The Algonquin hotel was tho scene of many interesting and fsB startling scenes early in the day. As the water grew deeper JB raj pedestrians rushed into the hotel and 'added to the. panic among l'n (Contintted on Paw Two.) Jl)