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Citrus Recipe No. 5
Florida Orange Charlotte
Soak one-fourth box of gelatine in one-fourth cup of
cold water for five minutes, then pour on it one fourth cup of
boiling water, stirring till thoroughly dissolved. Add one
half pint of strained Florida orange juice and one tablespoon
ful of Florida grape-fruit juice, stirring the mixtures till it
thickens, when fold in three-fourths pint of whipped cream.
Have a mold lined with lady-fingers; pour the cream into the
center and set on ice to harden.
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Women, Misses and Children, is now
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ticularly high grade, a little better
than other manufacturers thought
possible for the money.
GRANT COUNTY HERALD LANCASTER WISCONSIN, APRIL 2 1913
REFUGE OF DAYTON’S HOMELESS THOUSANDS,
HEAD OF RELIEF WORK, AND FLOOD SCENE.
Several thousand refugees from the flood at Dayton, O , found safety at the works
of the JNational Cash Register company The factory is located on high ground and the
flood did not reach it John H. Patteison, president of the company, who heads the
committee in charge of the relief work, threw his entire plant open for the housing of
the homeless.
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DAYTON DEATHS
TEWED THAN 150
Work of Clearing City of Wreck
age Is Begun.
HUNGRY ARE BEING FED
Ninety Bodies Have Been Taken
From Ruins by State Troops and
Volunteer Force—Seventeen
Looters Shot.
Dayton, 0., March 31. —Dayton has
begun the reconstruction of the city
following the flood distsater. The wa
ters of the four streams which over
flowed the city have receded so far
that it is possible to penetrate on foot
all except a few of the sections of the
city.
The work of rescue is practically
finished, the last of the refugees hav
ing been taken to places of safety.
Most of the bodies in the limits of the
city itself have tr-en found and search
for others is being made farther down
the- river.
Ninety Bodies Recovered.
Ninety bodies have been recovered,
and it is estimated that the total num
ber of deaths will not be more than
150. With the recovery of the bodies
ended, removal of the wreckage of the
flood was begun by the state troops,
the local authorities, and the volun
teers.
Twenty-eight hundred bloated car
casses of horses and cattle have been
carted to a fertilizing works east of
the city.
Hungry Are Being Fed.
The relief measures are now so well
in hand that the hungry in all quar
ters are being fed, clothing and medi
cal aid supplied, and all pressing
wants being met. These conditions
are due to the generous response of
the nearby towns and cities as well
as distant points.
Telegrams have been pouring into
police headquarters from people who
are making frantic efforts to learn the
fate of relatives or friends here. These
telegrams cannot possibly be given
personal attention, the great bulk of
the department having been marooned
by the flood in • different quarters of
the city, and the rescue work being
too onerous. Telegrams are only be
ing delivered by the telegraph offices
to persons who can be readily found
and are close to the central part of
the city.
Identified Dead Number Fifty.
The identified dead so far number
50, with 40 unidentified. The dead are
being removed to improvised morgues
in different quarters of the city. The
wonderful order that has prevailed in
the city and the prompt response of
the citizens to the military require
ments, is preferable to the martial law
conditions that require all persons to
off the streets from six in the eve
ning until five in the morning. When
the curfew bell rings at six in the eve
ning the old as well as the young are
at home or hastening there.
Seventeen Looters Shot.
Seventeen men have been shot and
killed in the streets of Dayton as
ghouls and looters since the declara-
tion of martial law. Ten were Killed
between darkness Saturday night and
daylight Sunday morning. Nine were
negroes and the tenth a white man,
the only white man of the 17 whose
crimes brought instant death as pun
ishment.
George F. Burba, secretary to Gov
ernor Cox, who represents the gov
ernor in relief work here, summed up
the situation in Dayton as follows:
Forty thousand persons must be fed
and cared for a week.
25,000 Are Destitute.
Twenty thousand persons must be
fed and cared for for an indefinite
period.
Except for the clothes on their
backs they are absolutely destitute.
They must eventually be financed so
th§y can resume housekeeping.
Fifteen thousand houses must be
cleaned and plastered.
Two thousand are wrecked or must
be torn down and destroyed.
Untold thousands of tons of debris,
wreckage of all kinds, must be carted
away.
The bodies of 1,500 horses and other
animals must be removed and incin
erated.
Wood to Guide Sanitation.
Washington, March 31. —It was an
nounced at the war department that
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who drove
yellow fever out of Cuba and put an
end to cholera epidemic in the Phil
ippines, will give his personal atten
tion to the sanitation of the flood dis
tricts in Ohio and Indiana.
General Wood and Secretary of
War Garrison made an inspection
tour which included Hamilton, Ohio.
Here is the substance of the report
made by Secretary Garrison to Presi
dent Wilson:
“The force of the wafer here was
very great. The flood area was wide
and the destruction to property very
large. Forty-five bodies of the
drowned have been so far recovered.
The debris has not all been searched
as yet, but I think it safe to estimate
that seventy to eighty will be the out
side limit of the number of the dead.
Commends Public Spirit.
“The public spirit displayed here is
of the highest and most commend
able quality, and the citizens are
enthusiastically co-operating with the
National Guard officer in command
of the situation. Gur officers are
working in concert, we having med
ical officers, hospital corps men, non
commissioned officers of the line, and
engineer officers here.
“There is an abundance of food,
shelter, medical supplies, physicians
and clothing. Nothing needed for the
existing emergency is lacking. I
think it proper for you to announce
if you desire to do so, that Hamilton
as well as all other places seriously
affected by the flood have found
themselves and are tending toward
normal conditions rapidly.
“The pressure on the lines of tele
graph and telephone communication
has prevented news from getting
through, which have been cheering if
it could have been published.
“I saw Miss Boardman and her aide
this morning and they will take .care
of the situation after the emergency
has passed and our men are with
drawn.”
Death at Chrllicothe.
“The report from Zanesville, Ohio,
is that matters are well in hand there
and such is also the case at Chilli
cothe. At the latter the loss of life
was twenty-five.
“As a preventative measure officers
have been sent from here to Louis
ville, Ky., and Evansville, Ind. One
large boat is being stocked with provi
sions and an officer and aid will be
Placed on it to go to Portsmouth,
Ohio, and from thence to Point Pleas
ant, Ky., visiting the places on both
sides of the river and giving relief
where needed.”
Secretary Garrison concluded his re
port with the announcement that he
would go to Columbus today to hold
a conference with Governor Cox, after
which he would go back to Cincinnati
and return to Washington Tuesday.
C. L. Magee, secretary of the Ameri
can Red Cross society said the fund
collected for the flood sufferers had
reached the sum of $362,810.64.
BAD NEGRO IS ELECTROCUTED
“Bill Twiman, Who Killed Two Men
and Wounded Three, Pays Pen
alty of Crime.
Auburn, N. Y., March 31. —“Bad
Bill” Twiman, the Rochester negro
who killed his father and a deputy
sheriff and wounded three others who
attempted to capture him, will be ex
ecuted here this morning. Twiman
is conceded to be the most unruly
prisoner ever confined in “condemned
row,” and has been a source of
trouble to the prison officials since he
arived here.
Wilson Receives B'nai B’rith.
Washington, March 31. —President
Wilson today received the members of
the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith
who opened their convention yester
day. The visitors are from Maryland,
Virginia, North and South Carolina
and the District of Columbia. Secre
taries Bryan, Redfield and Wilson are
among the speakers for the banquet
this evening.
C. T. Ottoway of Canton, 111., Dies.
Mobile, Ala., March 31. —Charles
Thomas Ottoway, aged sixty-three
years, of Canton, 111., died at his win
ter home at Citronelle after an ill
ness of two months’ duration. His
body will be forwarded to Canton for
burial.
LEVEES ARE WEAKENED
FLOOD SITUATION GROWS
ALARMING ALONG MISSISSIPPI.
People Are Fleeing to Highlands and
Rescue Work Going on in
Threatened Districts.
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St. Louis, March 31. —Reports from
points on the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers indicate the near approach of
one of the worst floods the Mississip
pi vali*>y has kno\*n in years.
The high waters of Ohio and Indi
ana are sweping down and must find
some outlet. Rescue work is going
on generally in the threatened district
and many persons are fleeing to the
highlands. Refugees are arriving
from the lowlands and seeking safety
in Cairo, Memphis, Louisville and oth
er points.
The people of southeast Missouri
are preparing for a flood of the mag
nitude of last year. It apepars to be
arriving on schedule time, and the
OHIO RIVER FLOOD It
CONDITIONS GRAVE
Is Rising One-Tenth of an Inch
an Hour.
FEARED MANY LIVES LOST
Surgeon General Blue Orders Three.
Federal Hospitals to Be Pre
pared to Receive Victims of
Hioh Water.
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 31.—Antici
pating serious flood conditions in the
Ohio valley, Surgeon General R. Blue
has wired to the commanding officer in
charge of the United States marine
hospital at Cairo, 111., Evansville, Ind.,
and Memphis, Tenn., to be prepared
to open their hospitals to flood vic
tims.
Doctor Blue has federal funds to
the amount of $200,000 available for
work in the flooded district.
Two Lost at Portsmouth.
Telephone reports from nearby
towns state flood conditions at Hunt
ington, W. Va., and Portsmouth, 0.,
are grave. At Portsmouth two lives
are reported lost Both cities are cut
off from direct communication, but
telephone reports are to the effect
that both cities are well under water.
The reports state both towns have
sufficient foodstuffs for three days.
The Ohio river here is rising stead
ily one-tenth of an inch an hour. The
crest is above, but not yet in sight.
Martial law has been declared in
Newport and Covington, Ky., just
across the river. The loss is mostly
monetary. Places never before
touched are now inundated.
Believe Many Dead.
Many are believed to be dead in
villages along the line from Pittsburg
to Louisville. Lawrenceburg is in
undated from levee breaks. Ken
tucky from one end to the other suf
fers severely. The situation is very
grave.
A request was received at Port
Thomas, Ky., from Covington, Ky. t
city officials requesting that two com
panies of the Ninth United States in
fantry be dispatched to Covington for
patrol duty, while the flood threat
ened that city. This request was im
mediately telegraphed to the war de
partment at Washington, and reply
received that the request had been re
ferred to Secretary of War Garrison
and Major General Wood, who have
the matter under consideration.
Cario Levees Holding.
Cairo, 111., March 31.—The river
at Cairo reached 51.3 feet and
is gradually creeping upward. A
big force of patrolmen and lar
borers have been put upon the Cairo
and drainage district levees.
The Cairo levees were never in bet
ter shape and is believed they can
hold a 57-foot stage. The local weath
er office issued the following state
ment:
“With weather conditions becoming
somewhat unsettled in this river dis
trict and rapid rises continuing in
the Ohio and Wabash, 54 feet is re
garded as certain at Cairo if levees
below hold. With conditions as they
now are 56 feet is regarded as a strong
possibility here, subject to the levees
below holding the water.”
Calls for^Troops. ' * : ' - =—-***-
Owing to scarcity of laborers a call
was made upon Governor Dunne for
men and he responded that he would
send 1,000 men, 200 National Guards,
10,000 rations* which are needed for
the laborers and many refugees now
in Cairo. The governor stated that
he would send 200,000 sacks. Cairo
now has 750,000 empty sacks and
over 500,000 filled with sand ready for
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Shawneetown in Danger.
Springfield, 111., March 31. —Word
has been received here that the situ
ation at Shawneetown is growing more
and more alarming. The struggle to
hold the levee is too great for the citi
zens. The troops have arrived. The
residents of the town have practically
given up hope that Shawneetown can
be saved from destruction. No more
trains can get In or out of the town.
earthen breaswork Is being strength
ened to receive it. The St. Franci*
levee board is busy and have laborer*
at work all along the line.
The Frisco railway has put a work
train and full crew on the job. String*
of flat cars loaded with sand bags are
arriving in the threatened sections.
These are being placed along the
levees. There are admitted weak
places, one place in particular being
three miles north of Caruthersville, Mo.,
The caving bank is within a few
yards of the base of the levee there.
It is the kind of place where sand
boils develop and danger lurks in this
probability.
The levee is strong, but if its foun
dation is undermined by the treach
erous seepage of an underground
stream it passes beyond the bounds
of human ingenuity. Headquarters for
relief work will be established in
Caruthersville soon. The SL Louis,
naval reserve will be stationed there
as well as several companies of the
state guards. Company I of Caruth
ersville, called out by the governor,
will go down the levee, doing guard
duty and rescue work.
One man w’as drowned at Mount
Carmel, 111., while doing rescue work.
Two hundred families were ren
dered homeless when the Wabashi
river overflowed Maunie, nine miles
east of Carmi. Relief parties from
this city rescuetj, citizens from house
tops and vantage points. The river
completely inundated the village.
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