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ROCK ISLAND ARGU
Associated Press
Exclusive Wire
SIXTY-SECOND YEAIL NO. 137.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1913. SIXTEEN PAGES-
PRICE TWO CENTS.
IN
THE
S. 1H0ME EDITION
TERRIBLE
SUFFERING
FLOODS;
TOT
ILLINOIS RESPONSE QUICK I
Springfield, El., March 28 "niinoi3 will respond nobly to
the call of Ohio for assistance in its appalling disaster," said
Governor Dunne this morning. "Messages already received by
me indicate this state will be behind no other in lending a help
Ing hand." Probably 300 Illinois naval reserves at Chicago will
be sent to Dayton in a body to assist in the rescue and relief
work.
Gibson, 111., March 28. Citizens here raised and sent to
the National Red Cross society for the relief of flood suffer
ers $431. More will follow.
Sterling, El., March 28. Meyor J. W. McDonald today
raised $300 for the benefit of the Dayton flood sufferers.
Champaign, El., March 28. Mayor Coughlin of Cham
paign issued an appeal for funds to aid the flood sufferers and
named a committee to solicit.
Galesburg, 111., March 28. At a meeting last night Gales
burg citizens arranged to collect a fund for sufferers and ex
pect to send $2,500 this evening.
Rockford, El., March 28. Rockford business men today
telegraphed $700 to the Red Cross. The Elk of Rockford
tent $150 direct to Dayton.
Chicago, March 2 8. Chicago's relief fund for the flood
victims reached $157,000 today, and is being increased hourly.
Birdseye View of Dayton Shows Large Area
.Inundated by Flood and Swept by Fire
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IN PROPERTY
20 MILLI0!S
Survey Shows Fire Dam
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$1,000,000.
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The Weather
Forecast Till 7 p. m. Tomorrow, for
Rock Island, Davenport, Moline,
and Vicinity.
Fair tonight; generally cloudy with
rising temperature Saturday; lowest
temperature tonight above freezing.
Temperature at 7 a. ra. 28; maximum
yraterday 32; lowest last night 26.
Wind velocity at 7 a. ni lu miles.
Precipitation In 24 hours, none.
Relative humidity last evening 86,
thU morning 78.
Stage of river at 7 a. m. 12.8 feet, a j
pfee of .1 feet In last 24 hours. !
J M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
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Dayton, Ohio, March 28. The loss of life in Dayton will
not be more than 200. This was the general agreement here
today after government life-saving crews had penetrated every
part of the water-bound city. So far 45 bodies have been re
covered. Twenty of these were in Riverdale, 15 in West Day
ton, five in the business section, and five in the south side res
idence portion.
Three deaths from diphtheria were reported and there is
fear of an epidemic.
Losses Reduced
BIRDSEYE VIEW OF DAYTON, AND GOVERNOR COX.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
(From noon ttday to oood tomorrow.!
Sun sets 6:19, risen Evening
NO DISEASE EPIDEMIC i8 JP'ter. Mar.
Plenty cf Food on Hand to Care
for People 1,000 Mintia
men Control the City.
U est Dayton. Ohio, March 2S. Pre
miiih estimates of drowned wore great
ly exaggerated. Property loss from
flr will not exceud a million and a
linlf. The damage" from flood will be
Ji:.,oix.rt(o to $20.'00,i)iK. Water has
r'eded from the business section ai:d
n lurge part of the resident e section. ,j
KcMidt'tits In portions still inundated
lire being taken to safe ground.
There Is no lack of food. Tele
phone r being restored. There is
mtieh Buffering from cold, but aU ava'.l
ulile, fuel Las been appropriated and
there is prospect of Immediate relief.
So far there has been no epidemic of
f.lcknes. The city Is toutxolU'd by
1,im)i militiamen.
MV IIOI M-: SW I'.IT lAl.
Touring the business sections t.day.
officials found the high stae of Hood
to bt nine feet at the corner of Third
and Main utreets, whlrh i in tiie ery
heart of the It y. Waters flooded the
first floor of every store in the bui-
IH'itM p. Ctioll. TUlS CO!l!titUt-8 the
ihief financial loss. Many houses
were swept away In Kiverdule. W't'ht.
1'ayton, North Jiayton and Kd ;emont.
The followii.K buildings withstood
the flood, fiirnibliing shelter to
marooned there from Tiusilay ur.t:l
Thursday: I'ouover, Kuhr.s. Arcade,
two CapycJ buildings, Callahan bank,
Srbwlnd. Commercial, Meudenhal,
Rirf-KutiW, Keibold. and I'L'.ted
llrethren PublL-hing company.
None of the public bu.ld:r.h was de
stroyed. The Victoria, National and
Colonial theatres, city hall, court
refuge were found by the ljouisville
Iile-savir.K crew today to have been en
tirely without food or water since
Tuesday. There were several cases of
illness and their sufferings were m-1
nearly as can be ascertained about I tense. The Louisville men also took
100 persons were drowned ap River- : relief to several hundred families in '
dale, the first section of the city flood-1 tUe low- district in the vicinity of Cud-j
. n -ttmt "vicinity, several' boats rlati "Franklin trets. -i " j
with refugees overturned, both refu- breao a-so water i.ekt.
gees and would-be rescuers loslne? I , Here, the water had reached the !
ttml. 1 i i-w 1 rt W i a t V -1 t- t .mi thai, im I r . 1 1 . . i :tj: 1 f
considerable loss of life, but the lat- !
est figures were relatively unimport- j
ant compared with first estimates.
HKAK BIH NT OF 11.(1111). '
Jn Ka.st Daytop, Iayton View
RE
SERVOIRAT
CEUNA STILL
HOLDING OUT
and
Oak wood the loss of life, Allaback
said, was small. In North Dayton
the drowned would not likely be rr-la-tive'.y
much larger than Riverdale.
North Dayton and Riverdale bore
the brunt of the flood. North Day
ton's population is largely foreign.
Thu fir. rescue party took many of
these persons situated In the business
section appear to have escaped except,
iu remote Instances.
No accurate estimate of the dead can
be made uutil the North Dayton situa
tion is cleared up.
MAHIIl I MAIIOOXFD.
Mayor Phillips is marooned In hie
house. A log cabin, 115 years old,
the firt house built in Dayton, with
stood the flood, although situated on
the south b..nk of fhe Miami, right in
the path of the torrential wa'ers.
Among the refugees taken out of the
Algoni'uiu hotel today were Steven
I'ut'erMMi aTid wife, who were guests
hen the flood ptruck f.he city. Pat
terson is a brother of I'resident Pat
terson of the National Cash Reeister
co't'patiy.
Dayton. Ohio. March 1!S. A score of
inctor boats and life saving boats were
in the flooded district early today and
by night it was hoped that relief would
be exteiuie dto a! st'.ll alive. No ef
fort was being made to take out any
bedies, the first care being to provide
I for the living, lioats began to return
ea'ly from the uearer sections, each
brii.gir.g 15 to 20 survivors. Most of
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house, the Becktl. Phillips. Algonquin!1""'" . u .wtdK lm oeprnauou
and Atlim hotels. ptstofflie, Y. M. C.
A. and all the churches an safe. The
tire loss is positively limited to Uie
destruction of the Dayton ias. Light
it Coke plant, a row of two or three
Ptory buildings of both sides of Third
ureet to St. Clair avenuff; the Troy
Pearl laundry, and two apartment
houses on the w est side.
Police arretted a robber today who
was escaping fivtu the city with a
satchel ooutalnicit $30,000 in diamonds
rcofs of all two story buildings. Only
a few of iiie most desperate cases
v.ere brought out. the first move being
to leave bread and water at as many
places as possible. There had been lit
tle hope there would be survivors In
this district, and'ttie fact that there I
proved to be few deaths brought hope !
that the death loss would be lower j
than was expected. After returning!
fcr supplies the life-savers started for j
N'orth Davton.
MTIATIOX IN NAM),
West Dayton, Ohio, March 28.
Backed by the militia and hundreds; of j
deputies, the citizens' committee in '
looZTcZ rTtSr Thirteen Bodies Found in Creek
hold on the situation today. The work' ThirtV-TWO Killed in Ven-
of clearing up tne chaotic condition is :
ptogressing with marvelous speed
President Smith of the chamber of
commerce expressed the prevailing
Fear of 4 Deluge to Ohio
Towns Believed Now
Passed.
WATER BEGINS TO FALL
from the manager of their mill at
Coshocton, Ohio, where 500 men are
employed, reads: "Most disastrous
flood in history of city. Water within
two feet of top of pits sheltering for
eigners In plant. Must wait till water
subsides."
Revised estimates during the night
from the flooded districts of Ohio and
Indiana showed that reports of loss of
life in many cities and towns had been
exaggerated. Greatest anxiety is still
centered about Dayton, where an ac
curate estimate of the number of vic
tims of the flood continued an impossi
bility. The death toll promised to be
much less heavy at Columbus than the
first reports from the west end of that
city indicated. In parts of Dayton ex
plored by motor boats the death list
wos greatly reduced from first esti
mates and unless the number of vic
tims in the north section of the city Is
found to be large, the total dead in the
eDtire city may not exceed 200.
In Piqua, where 500 were reported
drowned, less than 20 comprise the
total dead, according to advices today.
In Chillicothe the dead will not ex
ceed 25, though it had been reported
POO were lost.
Miamisburg, a town of 8,000, was
reached last night and reported the
death list would not exceed 25. One
body was recovered. The property
damage is heavy. The river is reced
ing rapidly, and relief work has begun.
By midnight the waters had almost
completely left the city streets. An
epidemic of measles developed in an
emergency hospital last night.
A numbr of Indiana points continued
to report improving conditions during
the night, with estimates as to the
number of deaths shrinking as more
accurate reports could be made.
LOWER OHIO
SWELL ADDS
NEWJDANGER
Record -Breaking Flood
Stage is Feared at
Evansville.
WARNING IS SENT OUT
, i
ice, Butler County.
' sentiment today when he said :
'We do not want the world to think
Dayton is unable to recover from the
ehects of the disaster. We are going
1 to show it we are capable of coping
with the situation with entire efficien-
cv
" . . ... . . . i Marys on tne east bank report
Today began with great promise. A
brilliant sun tempered the keenness of
i the frosty air. The flood had subsided
perceptibly. Flood victims, penned in
1 downtown sections of the city, were
1 able unaided to make their way to the
suburbs by thousands. On Main street.
Rockford, Ohio, March 28. The Ce
liua reservoir was declared out of dan
ger today. The water here is slightly
lower and none is flowing over tne
banks. Celine on the west and St.
the
reservoir is holding. There were no
fatalities near here, but 13 miles south
of here three bodies were taken from
a creek.
200 FOISD AT PIQVA.
Celina, Ohio, March 28. The waters
MINING SWINDLE
IS NIPPED IN BUD
Duluth, Minn., March 28. With the
arrest last night of Daniel BartleW,
it is believed one of the cleverest
swindles ever workea in the middle
west has been stopped. Bartlett is
charged with using the mails to de
fraud, selling stock in alleged iron
mines. It is charged he wrote let
ters with fictitious signature, offering
stock. The letters stated the writer
while boring for water on barren land
in Michigan, had struck ore. Forged
certificates bearing the signature of
Professor L. S. Austin, of the Michi
gan School of Mines at Houghton,
showed the alleged assay value of the
ore. Daniel Bartlett of Hllea, Wis.,
was named as owner of the property.
Bartlett waived examination and was
held to the federal grand jujry.
Property Affected by Expected
Rise is Ordered Moved Be
fore Sun Down.
ty jffll yesterday showed effects of the
strain of her second trial.
She is the fifth woman who has been
tried for the murdPr of her husbaTid
within a year and a julUd,""Th -ethers
were Mrs. Rene B. Morrow, Mrs.
Jane Quinn, Mrs. Florence Bernstein
arid Mrs. Antonia Musso.
2 ALLEN OUTLAWS
ARE PUT TO DEATH
Richmond, Va., March 28. Floyd Al
len, leader of the outlaw band that
shot up the llillsville courthouse, was
executed in the penitentiary this af
ternoon. The aged prisoner, terribly
unnerved by the excitement incident
to a delay of six hours in carrying out
the sentence, went to the electric chair
at 1:20. He was dead at 1:26.
Claude Allen, son of Floyd, entered
the death chamber at 1:30. lie was
eiecuted at 1:35.
it is possible to pick a dry path overt have receded in Piqua and 200 bodies
tbe pavement. Sightseers are barred i have been recovered. It la believed
from the downtown district. Militia-1 there are no other victims. This rn
men and deputies were given orders to ! formation, the first direct to reach
shoot offenders against the prearrang-; here come oy telephone." The proper
el plan of relief work. j tv los8 l8 heavy. Most of the manu-
"Shoot at tne legs nrst, men snoot 10
' Dtwl cuff ..H n tr t - ,. t- sw. r ., . ! . . - V. 7
I to move. By S o'clock several hundred
kill," were the soldiers' instructions.
10.4(00 HOMEI.FSS AT 7.A K II.I.K.
Zanesville, Ohio, March 28. Reced
ing waters and a bright sun brought
facturing plants were destroyed by the
flood. There is no such distress in
Piqua as in Dayton. The militia Is
maintaining order and caring for the
destitute.
had been brought to the National Cash hope to Zanesville's 30,000 inhabitants, : five families cose.
Register hospital on stretchers from 10 000 of whom are homeless. Con- 1 Cincinnati, Ohio, March 28. Thirty-
the south side of the river. ditions. however, are still frightful. 1 two lives were lost in Venice, Butler
ninn i nniriTrn i Th lttric lieht and water companies county. The drowned were members
The focd situation today was mnch'are out of commission and will be for . of five families. One mother was
bi ighter. Trucks from the cash regis- days. One small gas line is serving the saved.
ter companv. manned by men with mil-1 city. There are Indications the bitter j relief at roi.rMBra.
itarv orders to rnnfit. nntat an cold is Dassing. The militia has beea ' Columbus, Ohio, March 28. At day-
food from farmer hrnuht hark m. ordered to ehoot down tha first thief break hundreds of rescue and relief j
good supply of vegetables, and sev- ceught at work. Provisions have ar- parties started for the flooded section j . rg had an t dead
.! n min. ,.,v .k i.K rit4 or a nolnt four miles from the : or tne city wun supplies or doming, . . j , .
. . . , j. ir,lu 1 " w " i r . : . . . . , , . . lit ior 13 nours. n naa ueen rumorea
imi jrwrirj uv uuj Duicru nviu grplies City.
Th resell work has tnkon nn thi
ine river is
NEWS IS FATAL
TO POSTMASTER
San Francisco, March 28. Killed by
news of the flood in Ohio, Frederick
Withoft, for 15 years postmaster at
Dayfton, is dead today at the home of
his son in .Oakland, where he was visit,
ing.
Withoft was about to return home
when the first news came of the dis
aster that had overtaken it. Succeed
ing editions of the newspapers added
to his excitement, and the final re
sult was a fatal stroke of apoplexy.
ADMIRAL EATON'S
WIFE INDICTED
MRS. BURNHAM IS
FREED BY JURORS
Chicago, March 28. Mrs. Harriet M.
Burnham was acquitted of a charge of
having murdered her husband, Herbert
E Burnhaf, late yesterday afternoon.
The verdict was reached after the
tjwn Jewelry store
The Fourth National bank, reported
de royed by fire, was untouched by
fames. The News and Herald and
Journal buildings are safe, but are not
issuing papers.
MOEV OF NO I .E.
Money is of no use in Dayton for
the pr. or.t. Every facility Is free
to t very one w ithout a cent. Refugees
not hvint; in Dayton are leaving tt
it) by hundreds on foot.
Chief of Police Allaback tcid the
Associated Press correspondent that
reports he had received indicated the
i.umber of fattat'.ee would be far 2et
theji early conditions indicated. As
Many families are without food. : food and fuel. The day dawned crisp,
rnv bodies foi n. cld and clear, and indications are It
semblence of svstem and all streets rtartnn Ohio. March 2S. Com- ul 6el iuuou warmer.
from which the "water has receded are paratively few dead were found in i receding rapidly, and rescuers will b
patrolled by tne mintia. people were i xorth Dayton today by the Louisville t
also urged to get back to their houses nfe-saving crew, the first to cross the
Plymouth, Mass., March 28. Mrs.
Jessie Eaton was indicted for the
murder of her husband, Rear Admiral
Joseph G. Eaton.
The widow, who is 20 years the Jun
ior of the naval offier, was arrested
last Thursday.
The Indictment charges that ,Mrs.
Eaton placed arsenic in a cereal drink
which the admiral took with his meals.
The evidence upon which the widow
was arrested revealed that much of
the family life of the Eatons had been
unhappy.
Rear Admiral Eaton died in his bed
at he home in Norwell, w here he liv
ed with his wife, his mother, Mrs.
George Harrison, and his stepdaugh
ter, Dorothy Ainsworth. The death
was unexpected and due, the other
members of the family said, to an at
tack of indigestion which followed a
too hearty meal of roast pork.
Circumstances led to an investiga
tion, and according to a statement by
District Attorney Baker today, evi
dence of arsenic poisoning was discov
ered by Professor William F. Whit
ney, who analyzed the contents of the
stomach.
For 10 days the authorities have
known that the admiral died of arsenic
I poisoning, and their efforts have been
Evansville, Ind., March 28. The
Ohio river rose five feet here over
night. The federal forecaster issued
the following:
"All stock and movable property af
fected by a 48-foot stage of the river
at Evansville Bhould be moved before
sundown."
Skiffs and motorboats are being col
lected to move people from the flooded
districts. A record-breaking flood stage
is feared.
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Indianapolis, Ind.. March 28. The
night brought the flood-devastated In
diana citie'S great relief through rab
idly falling waters, but from southern
and southwestern portions of the
state, where many flooded streams con
verge in the Wabash river, reports of
varying reliability brought tales of
fresh disasters.
At West Indianapolis, practically un
der martial law, relief trains with pro
visions have been able to enter this
district, where the water fell more
than seven feet during the night.
HEAVY HOW ES II.I.E LOSS.
Unconfirmed rumors tell death and
heavy property loss at Howesville, 25
miles south of Terre Haute, and in sev
eral small towns.
Terre Haute is suffering greater dan
gers than at any time since the begin
n!ng of the floods and Vinc.eunes and a
number of other smaller towns in Sul
livan, Knox, Gibson and Posey coun
ties may suffer repetitions of the hor
rors at Peru and West Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, March, 28. Not fewer
than 20 lives were lost at Rrookvillo
when the flood struck Monday flight,
according to Charles McDonnell of
this city, who arrived from Brook
ville today.
sr. lost at ii:ir.
South Bend, March 2s The situa
tion at Peru is much improved. Th
water is receding. The dead will not
exceed 50. Twenty-five la a safe es
timate. FAMILIES llltlE HIT.
New Albany, Ind., March 28 Hun
dreds of families were, driven from
their homes by a rise In the Ohio
river. All factories were closed.
Darrow's Trial Is Postponed.
Dos Angelas. March 28. When Clar
ence S. Darrow left the court yester
day after his third trial had been post
poned, J'rostcutor Fredericks extended
a hand and said, "Good-bye, Darrow, if
I never see you again." Captain Fred
eticks did not explain his remark. The
trial was postponed from March 31
until June 10 by Judge Willis at th
request of Darrow, who desired to re
turn to Chicago to settle up a busi
ness affair.
wherever possible.
THIEVES TRV KTSES.
"Beware of thieves and burglars,'
Miami into the section where it was
thought the heaviest loss of life would
be found. Indications there and in
seid an official bulletin. "Don't leave ; Riverdale now are the total loss of
your houses w ithout protection. It j me by the flood will not exceed 200.
was tnieves wno scarea you aooux me
reservoir and natural gas explosion.
Natural gas has been turned oS. There
is no danger of explosions."
Sixty Catholic sisters at the academy
Bulgaria Negative Proposals.
London, March 28. Bulgaria accent
ed the offer of mediation made by the
European powers, but with provisos
of the Sisters of Notre Dame and 18 -that practically negative the proposals;
jptrtons for whom they had provided q! ile powers.
of the west side, Columbus remains
practically under martial law.
14 PEAD AT MIDDLETOWK,
Middietown, Ohio, March 28. There
are 14 known dead aa a result of the
flood. Property loss ii estimated at
a million, and a half. The water is
receding. There are 100 in the emer
gency hospital. Measles has broken
Out.
BOO TS TRAP.
Chicago, March 28. A private tele
gram received by J. B. Clew & Sons
that an agreement was impossible
So elated was Mrs. Burnham over directed to finding where and hv whom
her acquittal that on her way back to I ,he poison was obtained and to laying
tne county jail she threw her arms , bar(. the home ,ife of lhe Eaton8-
arouna Austin iasey, a turokey, ana
kissed him.
Mrs. Burnham shot and killed her
hueband in their home at 2755 South
Whipple street on the morning of
June 10, 1512. She claimed self-defense
and when she took the witness
WILSON TO GO ON
AN HOUR'S NOTICE
NEW YORK JUDGE
IN FATAL PLUNGE
Washington, March 28. President
Wilson is still holding himself in read
iix.ss to go to Dayton at an hour's no
t;ce if Secretary Garrison wires his
presence there could do any good. A
spt-cial train wun relief supplies wui
cave today.
Roanoke, Va.. March 28. Secretary
I Garrison's special train, delayed tlur-
Btand in her own be-half related a dra-!
matic atory of how she had struggled j New York, Marcn 28. Justice Henry ! ing the night by a washout and forced ,
and pleaded with har husband to dc- Bischoff of the state supreme court j to make a detour, passed here at 9
tist mistreating her telora the Crcd j plunged 11 stories in an elevator sha.'t o'clock this morning. Garrison and
the fatal shot ito death this afternoon in the Immi- 1 Major General Wood, chief of staff, de-
While sho mailed Tor the verdict 1 grant Savings building, where he had j cided to try for Dayton, and if that was
Mre. Eurnhim In her ceil in tiie coun- ounces.
1 impossible, for Columbus.
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