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LOSS OF LIFE IN
DAYTON IS SMALL
! Latest Reports Indicate Early Lists Were
Exaggerated Property Destroyed Will Be
$1,500,000; Damage, $20,000,000 Water Is
Receding Rapidly
I TROOPS GUARD PROPERTY AGAINST LOOTERS
Life-Saving Corps Recovering Bodies Fac
tory Buildings Now House Ten Thousand
Survivors Relief Trains Being Rushed to
the Stricken District President Wilson
Ready to Visit Ohio
Washington, March 28. When President Wilson was advised to
day of the progress of Secretary (larrison's special tnuu toward the
flood district, the president was still holding himself in readiness to
go to Dayton at an hour's notice from tht- secretary. special tram
with relief supplies leaves late today.
8outh Dayton, Ohio, Mar 28 The
lost of life In Dayton by flood will
not he more than 200 people This
was the general agreement here to-
qr: after government life-saving
crews had penetrated every part of
the waterbound city Op to the proa
nt forty -five bodies have been re-
covered Twenty of thf?e were in I
Riverdale fifteen in West Dayton.
five in the business section and five in
the south side residence section
Three deaths from diphtheria were
reported today and there is fear of an
epidemic.
Ollna. Ohio. .Varch 28. The wa
ters have receded in Pinna and 800
belies have Keen recovered It is
he'leved there are no other victims
This Information, the first direct
' to reach here, came bv telephone to
day. Relief measures hae lecn taken
bv fit-, authorities The property .
loss will be great as most of the'
man.ifacturlnp plants were destroyed
by 'he flood There is no such dis
tvesi In Plqua as in Davton A com-,
pany of militia from Covington is In '
! ' Pttjuft, maintaining order and caring;
f6i those made destitute by th flood
i A report from Troy by telephone
f wae that few If any lives had been
Ll lost there, although the town suf
frreti great propcrt loss The high
1. nd on e;ther side of the .Miami val
ley was the salvation of Troy
Dayton. O . March 28 The flood
situation In Dayton today Is this
Previous estimates of the number
drowned are greatly exaggerated
The property loss from fire will not
exceed more than a million and a half
dollars.
The damage caused to mercantile
houses factories and residences will
run anywhere from ST.. ,000 to $20,
000,000
The water has receded from the
business section of the clt) and from
a large portion of the residence por
I tlon.
Residents in portions still inundal
ed are being taken to sections not af
fected b the flood
There is no lack of food. The tele
phone systems arc being restored.
There Is much suffering from cold,
but all available fuel has been appro
priated and there is prospect of im
mediate relief
So far there has been no epidemic
of sickness
One thousand militiamen arriving
today have the city In rigid control
effectively squelching looters, sight
seeing that will Interfere with rescut
work and all disorder
Touring the business sections to
day, officials found the high stage of
I the flood was nine feet hi the corner
of Third and Main streets In the irerj
heart of the city
The onrushing water flooded the
first floor and every store In the bus
iness district ThiB caused the great
est financial loss
The new steel high school was lev
eled and the Leonard building on
Main street v. as undermined so that
It collapsed.
Many houses were swept awaj iri
Riverdale. West Dayton. North Day
ton and Edgemont
Shelter for the Refugees,
i The following buildings withstood
I the flood and furnished shelter to
about 7,000 people who were marooned
In them from Tuesday until Thursday.
Conover building, Kuhn's bulldinc,
the Arcade, two Cappel buildings.
Hawkah bank building. Schwlng build-
iug. ; 1 building Mi-ndenhVl
building, Rah Kuhnler building and
the Brethren Publishing company e
building.
Many of the public buildings were
t l destroyed. Among the latter were the
Dayton club. Victoria, National and
Colonial theaters. Beckel hotel. Phil
1 1 ph. Algonquin and Atlas hotels. Ma
sonic temple, postoffice and several
churches
The fire loss is positively limited to
the destruction of the Dayton (Jus.
Light and t'oke company's plant, the
rnw of two and three Btorj buildings
on both sides of Third street from
Jefferson street to Third avenue, tin
Troy-Pearl Laundry plant and two
apartment house fires on the west
side.
Capture Jewelry Thief.
A daring robbery was thwarted to
day when the poli e arrested ;i ni.,n
who was escaping from the itv with
a satchel containing $50,000 in dia
monds and jevvelrv which he bad stol
en from jewelry stores
A score of motor boats and the lif e
saving boats were in the flood distrlc
early today and by tonight it was hop
ed relief would be extended to ."11
flood victims that were still alive. No
eftort was being made to take put any
bodies, the first care being to provide
help for the living.
The boats began to return early
from the nearer sections, each depos
iting its load of from 15 to 2" sur.iv
ors Most of the people refe ued were
so weak from deprivation and suffer
ing as to be scarcely able to move.
At S o'clock several hundred patients
were brought to the Cash Register
1 hospital on the south aide of the riv
er. Flood Suituation Brighter.
The flood situation was much '
brighter today. The trucks sint iro i:
the Cash Register company manned
by men with military orders to con
fiscate potatoes aud food from the
farmers, brought back a good sup
ply of vegetables and several relit 1
trains reached th city with supplies.
The rescue work also had taken on a
semblance of system and all the
streets from which the flood had re
ceded were patrolled by militia. Per,
pie were urged to get back to their
bouses whenever possible.
"Beware of thieves and burglars."
said an official bulletin given wide i ll
OUlatlon. "Don t leave your houses
without protection It was thieves
who scared you about the reservoir
and natural gas explosions. The nat
ural gas has been turned off and there
Is no danger of explosions '
Every Facility Is Free
Sixty Catholic sisters at the acade
my Of the Sisters of Notre Lame and
IS persons for whom they had provid
ed reluge wen- lonnd b tin- Lui
Vllle life saving crew today to have
been entirely without food or water
since Tuesday. There were several
eases of illness. The life savers left
a supply of bread and water and plan
ned to take runner uetp
The Louisville men nlso carried re
lief to several hundred families in the
low district in the vicinity of Ludlow
and Franklin streets Here the flood
had reached the roof of all two-Story
buildings Only a few of the mos:
desperate cases were brought out thi
lirsi move being to leave L i ; 1 1 Hid
water In as many places as possible
The Fourth National bank building
which was reported several timet 10
have been destroyed by the hr- was
not burned, but the building Imn
ately adjoining it was destroyed
Money is of no use in Dayton at
present. Every facility Is free to ev
er one without cost Refugees not
living in Dayton are leaving the city
j by huudreds on foot.
Under Strict Martial Law
("nder strict martial law Dayton
faced today the task of caring for
an Increasing army of refugees and
of r'C0erlng the dead With head
quarters at Bamberger park. Colonel
Zimmerman, of the Fifth regiment.
II' Ike Aiienioon Newspaper is Headed for the
Homes ol the People
IB ' Try to laiariue vourseK without i
1 : ecr being able to get or to tee
I :n afternoon paper If B
1 Necessary to you, can you not
m k. understand the lanx- ; !:. i M
In the readiufi habits of tho peo-1
B r pie' Can - cm Iron-me any way or
M advcitifin Uint woad he so sure
S- ,,r rinding welcome attention and
BP (onslde-.-pMrn rs In ad.erti&m? in,
.1 vl-.iT.-.-ARV ! irer
l Thr nfte-non parcr is from
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the time it leaves the piaSf
HKDKl towards the homes of
the people not away from home
' Most almost all of the copie
tbnl sre bought On the streets are
j taken home and ar- lead by eVr
erv an mber of ever;, fainllv . They
rre- "the evening's reading" in the
ctty'e bouses and the thopplnj to
1 be done s plsnaed under :be ln
fluences of the eveuin.' uewspa
! per's ad.
I
Ohio national g-uard Inaugurated
j piano for an organization thai will
protect the city during the ensuing
w e;s ot reconstruction
Militia companies from all partt 0
the state reached Dayton during the
morning and by noon every accei I lie
street was under guard
lernlers of the state board of
he ilth, bringing carloads of lime and
other disinfectants, were expected to
reach here before night and begin the
work of warding off disease.
Many Seek Military Passes
From hi? headquarters, roionel
Zimmerman listened to the appeals of
riior than 5000 persons before noon.
Hundreds ol visitors waited for five
iMurs In the lone lines of humanltv
that circlerl through the park up to
military headquarters Most of these
sought passes to go through the flood
'area, where they thought they had a
chance to reach marooned fiicnds and
kinsmen
Only a few pf the throng were al
, lowed to go and they were compelled
;o prove especial causes before the
j coveted passes were issued
To those who asserted they had
Starving friends imprisoned by the
i waterfl Colonel Zimmerman rejoined
that boatloads of provisions were
continuously going into the inundated
district.
Will Reduce Number of Dead
rhief of Police AllabacK today told
two Associated Press correspondents
1 that reports he had received Indicated
the number of fatalities to be far
less than earh conditions Indicated
j Ac. nearly as ran be ascertained,
about 1lo persons were drowned in
Riverdale, the first section of the
city to be flooded by the breaking of
rhe levee The rushing waters over
turned several houses there and
rushed them over and over with their
joccupaiits inside
In this vicinity, several boats laden
with refugees, overturned both ref
I ugees and their would-be rescuers
losing their lives.
In West Dayton there was ronsid
ciahle loss of life but the latest fig
ures are relativeh unimportant as
compaied to the lowest figures In
Cist Dayton. Davton View and Oak
wood the loss of life. Chief AUaback
said was smell.
In North Davton where the topog
Iraph of the land made the situation
r.iore dangerous than at anv other
poir.t relief parties penetrated this
morning and found that although
there would be a large numher of fa
talities, the drowned was not likely
to be much greater than in Riverdale
the other section that bore the chief
brunt of the Hood
Rescue Many Foreigners
North Dayton's population consists
largely of foreien-boi n people. The
flrsl H Jcue party took off many of
i these.
The refugees conducted themselves
in or leTl? fashion -nd aided their
rexuers in every conceivable nian-iKi-
I'ers'.-ns -it'iated in the business
section appear to have escaped ex
cept in very few instances
Identification of the dead and com
pilations Ol the numher of fatalities
;il , j,, i he li indB Ol I be militia under
charge of Adjutant Ceneral ood. but
( this work hardly will get under way
before tomorrow. No accurate esti
mates can be m?de until the North
iDaton situation Is cleared up Mayor
, Phillips is marooned in his house
G B Smith president of the
Chamber of Commerce, is in active
chmee of relief operations
The Log Cabin, 115 years old. the
first house built in i ia ton withstood
the flood, although it is situated on
the south banh of the Miami, right
In the path of the torrential waters.
River Rises Five Feet.
BvSnsvlUe Ind . March IS The
Ohio river today showed a rise of 5
feel aud 2 tenths of a foot since last
night, aud Forecaster Brand issued
a warning that all stock and movable
properly affected by n 48 foot stage
I of the river should be removed before
sundown.
Mayor Hellman is directing the
collection of skiffs nnd motor boats to
carry people from flooded districts.
In addition the city authorities are
constructing flood gates to keep the
rising waters out of the city
A record breaking flood stage of
the river Is feared
Relieved of Anxiety
Fort Wayne, Ind.. March L'8 With
the announcement today that the
Grand reservoir a. Celtna, o. is safe,
the people of this city were relieved
Of HllM'1' V
Inasmuch as the local flood condi
tions arc much improved this after-
noon no further danger was. expect-
Operation of hired cars was resuiu
I ed today except in the heavily flooded
! dlst ri 1 1
Few Dead Found.
South Dayton. v tfarcb 28. Com
paratively few dead wc-ie lound in
! North Dayton today by the Louls-
ville life saving crew, the first to
cross the Miami into the section where
It was thought the heaviest loss of
life would be fOund.
Indications there are in Kiverdale
are now that the total loss of life
by flood will not be more than 200
I persons
Busch Sends Check
St. Louis. Mo . March 28. The clt
' izens' emergency relief association,
which is collecting funds for ihe In
diana and Ohio Hood sufferers, re
ceived a check today for 126,000 from
' Adolphus Busch.
Lcoompanyina the check was a let
ter directing that the money be turu
ed over to the Red Cross for imme
: diale use
Sheltering Foreigner.
Chicago, Man b a private tele
gram received today by .1. H. Clow &
Sops from thS manager or their milU
,.t I'oshcekion o. wliTe a force if
500 men is employed, read as foi
I low?:
' Mos' lisa Straus flood in history j
j city. Water within two feet of top
Jof pits sheltering foreigners of plant
Mutt wan until water subsides."
TRAINS TO
FLOOD ZONE
Marked Improvement
in the Service
Through Ohio and In
diana; Few Through
Trains
( hicago, March 28. There was a
marked improvement today in train 1
r. i.e with the flood zone of Indiana I
and Ohio The Fort Wayne division j
of the Pennsylvania system resumed
j a full schedule between Chicago and
New York except the 20 hour train.
which has been shuspended ludetlnlte-
ly.
The through trains are being rout
ed from Chicago to Mansfield, from'
Mansfield to Akron, over the Erie line
and from kron to Alliance and thence
io Pittsburg.
'1 he Panhandle division of the Penn
sylvania is operatiug local trains troru
Chicago to Roy?l Center, Ind. Reg-
i ular train service between Chicago
j and New York was continued without
Interruption today by the Lake Shore
Michigan Southern, Michigan Cen-
, tral. Grand Trunk and Nickel Plate
roads
The Baltimore i- Ohioaran local
; trains as far east as Chicago June- I
tion. III The Erie sent trains as far
east as Monon, Ind
The Monon trains were unable to
get farther east than Monon. Ind
l be Chesapeake al Ohio made no ef
fort to send out trains and it was
estimated that property it would be
several days before train service on
these lines again began.
HOMELESS IN
ZANESVILLE
More Than One-third
of Population Are in
Need of Food and
Shelter
Zanesville, O., March 28, by long
distance telephone ,o Pittsburg.
Zanesv ille's 30.000 inhabitants, in nun
of whom are homeless, saw todav the
first gleam of hope since the flood
in the Muskingum river swept
through the city three days ago
The river had commenced to recede,
soldiers reinforcements for the na
tional guards on duty in the streets
i were entering Ihe suburbs, provisions
had arrived to a point within four
miles of the city and there were m
uications that the bitter cold of the
the last 24 hours was passing.
Llectrlc light and water compa
j nies are still out of commission and
' will be for days. One small gas line
lis serving the city with a fitful sup
ply of fuel and there is little if any
coal available Food is scarce and
there are families in the flooded sec
tion entirely without food
Communication between the citv and
I the section known as Putnam, where
it is believed the loss of life will be
found greatest, is still cut off.
NEWS CAUSES
MAN'S DEATH
Postmaster of Dayton
Dies While Visiting
Son in Oakland Ex
citement Causes Apo
plexy San Franc"i8CO; March is - Killed
by news of the flood In Ohio, Freder
ick G Wlthoft, for 15 years postmas
Iter of Davton. is dead today at the
1 home of his son in Oakland, where
be had been visiting. Mr Withoft was
! president o! the National Association
of First Class Postmasters, a thirty
second degree Mason, a Mystic Shrln
er. a member of the Dayton City club
n personal friend of Governor Cox and
at one time chairman of tin Davton
Commercial laague The body will
be taken had; to Davton
Mr. Withoft was about to return to
his home when the first news came
or the disaster that had overtaken It.
Each succeeding addition of the news
papers added to his excitement and
depression, which finally resulted in a
fatal stroke of apoplexy
NEW YORK TOWNS
HAVING FLOODS
New York. March -S. The first
loss of life as the result of the floods
in New York state was reported from
Llenns Falls last njght bridge was
swept away and two persons ire said
to have been drowned The tlood sit
uation in the Adlrondacks is acute
The village or Luthern. with 200 In
habitants, is ut Off. while half the
town of Fort Kdvvnrd U Inundated
Every stream In western New York
is out or Its banW The property loss
will reach several millions. Hornell,
Olean and Salamanca arc among the
cities that have suffered much prop
erty damage In Mi eastern end of
the state the Mohawk and Hudson va!
Ics arc experiencing the worst flood
in years. In Albany power plant
have been put out of commission,
street car traffic is practically sua
pended and schools and factories are
( losed The south end of the cltj
is under water and the police rescued
residents there in boats.
In Troy the water front streets are
submerged and there has been con
siderable financial loss.
The bUge plants of the General
Electric and merican Locomotive
companies in Schuectady are threat
ened by the flood from the Mohawk
Red Cross Active.
Chicago, March 28. Ernest P Bick
nell. director ot the American Na
tional Red ross, reached here today
i and left immediately for Dayton to
urne charge of the Red Cross re
lict work
All public Institutions here have
I been ordered thrown open to refugees
from flooded towns
OMAHA CARES
FOR VICTIMS
Committee Provides
1300 Families With
Food and Shelter;
Scores of Funerals
Held Daily
Omaha. Neb. March 27 Thirteen
bundled families have been given suc
cor since Ihe relief committee began
its work of caring for victims of last
Sunday's tornado Halt a hundred
houses have been provided with rent
paid a month in advance and furni
ture, clothing and other household ne
ct ssltles have been given out without
vim' This was a resume of condi
tions In the tornado stricken districts
tonight.
Many ramilies who were left home
less as a result of the storm have
permitted bride to keep them from
the relief stations and the committee
has put to work a corps of search
ers to reach and relieve this class or
sufferers.
A general supply depot at the Audi
torium is beiug used to supply the
various relief stations. Twenty thou
sand loaves of bread were among the
contributions which came in today.
The supply lasted only for the day
Three more injured died during the
day. The last of the original vic
tims of the disaster were buried to
day, a score of funerals being held.
mostly from undertakers' chapelt;
MONEY FOR
SUFFERERS
Hourly Contributions
Increases Chic ago's
Relief Fund Rush
Clothing and Food to
Ohio
Columbus, O . Mar 2S Governor
Cox has requested the Associated
Press to send out notice that all con
tributions be sent to Colonel W. L
i Wilson, treasurer of the relief com
I mittee.
Chicago. Mar. 2S Chicago's relief
nnd for the flood victims reached
si'T.uihi today and is being increased
hourly by new contributions. The
city expects to send to the flood vic-
'tims $200f000 or more cash
The United Charities, which has
been at work lor several days col
le ting clothing, rushed two carloads
! todav to Ohio this morning Captain
Frank C. Garland or the government
life saving station in Chicago, was
hurried to Terre Haute. Ind . today
to assist in tbe rescue work.
Mis orders caoiH within two hours
after he had returned from Fort
Wayne when he and his men rescued
Bis nurses and sixty-nine children,
jrinodbound in the county orphan
asylum.
REAL ESTATE MEN
TO AID VICTIMS
Omaha. Neb.. March 28. Frank
Grojean, 41 years old. and Helen Hod
ges, aged 8 years, died last night of
injuries received in Sunday's torna
do, and Thomas Hurrup. 48 years old.
believed to have been crazed bv the
shock, although not physically hurt,
when his daughter's home was blown
down over his head committed sul
, ,,. todaj at s local hotel.
Committees from the real estate ( t
use are now canvassing the devas
' taled districts and will report on the
damages done each piece of property
and the amount or money necessary
to rebuild or repair It This will be
used as a basis by the restoration
committee, which is arrauging to pro
vide necessary funds to loan at low
rates or without interest to those
needing It tor the rebuilding or their
homes.
Reservoir Is Safe
Kocktord. O. March 88. The Ce
lioa reservoir was today declared out
ot danger. The water here was some
I lower and none is flow Ing over the
'banks Celina on the west and St.
i tfary't nn the east bank reported the
j r rv oid holding There wire no fa
laluico near hcrL-
RELIEF FOR
SURVIVORS
Hamilton Cares for
Hundreds of lis Suf
ferers; Parents Suicide
When Their Three
Children Perished
Hamilton. O., March 27 Hamilton
hns relieved her sufteriug survivors
who have, been shivering and starving
and late today began recovering bod
ies of her dead from tho receding wa
ters of the flooded Miami.
Twenty-six bodies had been recov
ered tonight when darkness slopped
the work of the struggling workmen.
Mayor Karb declared that ihe fa- ,
tallty list Is certain to be large.
Hundreds are missing,'' he said.
I "and the condition of the rity con
duces me that revelations to come
, will bo appalling "
Among the identified dead recov
ered were bodies of Henry Schals
schneiuer and his wife. Their three
children are known to have perished
also. Bullet boles in the heads of par
j euts showed that they had shortened
' their suffering as they were rushed
to certain death on the roofs of their
i homes.
A body of a cripple was recovered
I also had a bullet hole through the
head. Refugees from above Hamil
ton relate that Coke Otto, a harnh '
of 400 souls, which lies in Q little
valley between the Great Miami and
the canal, is completely submerged,
not even a roof being visible. The
fate of the inhabitants is unknown
VICTIM WAS
UNMOLESTED
Shot Rats in Room of
Submerged House Un
til Rescuers Could Get
Him Out of Plight
Dayton. O. March 2&Y One of the
remarkable features here today was
rhe cheerful spirit with which flood
victims viewed their plight This was
Dayton's first big flood in many
years Each of the submerged area
had been considered BSfe from high
I water, but as the majority of residents
I of the sections looked upon a great
sweep of muddy, swiftly moving wa
J ter they seemed undisturbed
I In some of the poorer sections the
attitude of the marooned was not so
( beerful As a motor boat passed
I before the second floor of one partly
submerged house a man leaned out
i and threatened to shoot unless they
j took off his wife and a babj thai bad
! been bom yesterday. The woman,
almost dying, was let rroni the win-
dow by a rope and taken to a place
of refuge.
Further on members oi a motor
boal part) were startled by shots In
the second floor of a house about
which five feet of water swirled The
boat was stopped and a man peered
rrom the window or the bouse
"Why are you shooting?' he was
asked.
"Oh, just amusing myseir, shooting!
at rats that come upstairs. When
are you going to take mo out ofj
here "" he replied.
Captain of Police H. F. Lackhart
declared that water in North Day-I
j ton. Miami Cltiy and East Daytou
reached the house top His estl
! mate of the number of dead in that
dlstrkt was 300.
Water Is Receding.
The bodies of a woman and a baby
were seen floating down .JeHerson
si reel one ot Dayton's main thor
! oughrares.
All patrons in the Beckel hotel are
safe Extensive preparations were
made last night when the building was
threatened by rire.
Police and volunteers constructed
bridges over the tops of houses to
safety
TO PREVENT
I BIG FLOODS
National Drainage
Congress Will Consid
er Plans to Make Im
possible Recurrence of
Recent Disaster
Chicago, March 28 Plans for 8
comprehensive drainage system for
the country which would prevent
floods and make impossible recurrence
of the recent disaster In Ohio and In
diana will be considered at the Nt
lional Drainage congress in St Louis
April 10. In a telegram received here
today by Edmund T. Perkins, chair
man of t lie executive eommlttee ot
the organization. President Woodro
Wilson expressed regret at his ina
bility to attend tbe meellug Id St.
Louis, and added.
"The calamities in ludiaua and
Ohio make Clearer than ever beloro
the imperative and immediate neces
iit3 for a comprehensive and system
atic plan for drainage and flood con
trol. 1 very' earnestly hope that youi
federation may take a long step for
ward in this direction."
Message to President. I
Chairman Perkins scut the follow-
uig message in reply to President j
Wilson-
"Recognising tho unavoldablllty of :
your absence from St. Louis April 10. I
the National Drainage congress, sad
dened by the tremendous flood dlsas
ten now Inflicted upon our country. i
and knowing that such catastrophe, I
are needless, accept the responsibility j
or presenting to tbe people and to the
congress or the United States a plan
to alleviate and prevent the rccur
rence of loss of life and property, aud
we respectfully suggest that lacking
your personal presence, the greatest j
impetus which could be given our
work would be the presence of Secre
tary of the Interior Iane, and an of
ficial exposition by him of the needs I
or our country Tor drainage and Hood
prevention Will you conrer with him
at the cabinet meeting today and If
agreeable to him, draft him Into our
service''''
DEATH ROLL ! I
CUT DOWN I
Sensational Rescues
Serve to Reduce the
Fatality List Many
Towng in Need of Food
Pio.ua, O.j March 27. Scores of sen
sational rescues from death in the
rs lug Flood have served to limit the
fatality list here, which tonight. It is
practlcallj certain, will not exceed 50.
W W ood. In charge of, the re-
lief work of the Citizens' league, in
a summary of conditions formulated
after a thorough search of flic Inun-
dated seetion of the city, declared that
between twelve hundred and fifteen
hundred persons had been taken out
oi perilous places to safety and that
.." bodies only could be round.
Many of the rescues were made
rrom flood tossed roofs, crumbling
I houses, tree tops and floating debris
I at hazardous risks.
The water supply and lighting pJant
have been restored and three carloads
I of provisions for the stricken Inhah- j
I itants hav e been received from Union
( Itj and Winchester More provisions
will be necessary, however, before Pi- " ,M
qua can care for its own
The propert loss !s a staggering
one for the community. Two hundred
houses in Rossvllle. Shawnee and thai
I part, of Plqua near the canal have
been swept to destruction. i
"The city is under martial law."
said Mr Wood tonight ' Relief ror iH
the suffering is being carried on with M
system aud dispatch."
The Pennsylvania bridge across the
Miami is down and no mail has reach-
ed the city since Monday .H
OHIO RIVER IS
STILL RISING
rincinnatl 0 Mar. 2S. The Ohio
I river still is rising East and west
of this city on the Ohio side of the
rler the lowlands have been Inun
dated and much damage has been M
rtcno In the low sections of the city
manj houses have been riooded.
Across the river at Newport and
Covington, Ky., similar conditions
prevail i!
Davton and Ludlow, other Ken-
tucky suburbs or this city, also are
! sufferers from the rising Hood and
I many houses are completely under
I No lives have been lost in this dis-
The weather bureau predicts the
river will have reached a stage of
'nearL- seventy feet by tonight, al
most SB high as It was February 14,
1884, when the gauge showed 71 leet,
the highest on record. H
SPECIAL TRAIN
CARRYING SUPPLIES
Washington. March L'8 -Arrange-meats
were made early today for a
special train carrying food supplies,
clothing, medical stores and blanket.,
to leave hero tonight for the flood- j
swept district In the middle west. As
many cars as can be filled with 'h
contributions of citizens and the sup
piles of the American Red Cross will
be attached to two powerful engines
and efforts will be made to reach Day
Several government officials may
accompany the train.
Thousands of dollars have been
subscribed and necessaries and com
forts of all descriptions arc pouring
into the relief station. i
The relief train while making Da
ton Its objective point, will dispense
succor to the suffering communities,
through which it passeB.
INDIRECT DEATH
LIST IS LARGE
Peru. Mar. 2S As Peru emerged
from the flood today It became ap
parent that the death list will not be
over 2a. Manv cling to their state
ment that fifty is a nearer estimate
of tbe fatalities, but a close inveati
gat Ion leads to the belief that twent -five
is nearer correct. Tho Indirect
deatb list of the flood, however, will
go much higher, as scores of aged
mep and women who ror hours were
forced to undergo terrible exposure
and later were forced to fnce nn
t .Hilary conditions, are expected to
Although the conditions in ibe main
portion of 1'eru ure rapidly Improv
ing the water having receded lo such
an extent as lo allow people to Wad
amout the street? Tbe conditions In
South Peru are still desperate. Ten
feel of water yet lies over that sec-
tloU. J