Ee SERRE Dayton Now in Flames; | The Death List Grows. Persons Who Escaped Rushing Wa. ters in Dayton Reported to Be Burn- | ing to Death, With No Means at Hand to Save Them——Death List In Other Cities Will Reach Appalling Figures. Columbus, O., March 27.—The busi- ness district of Dayton, O., is burning, | according to the latest bulletins from the isolated, flood stricken city, and Governor Cox has appealed to the nat- | ural gas companies to reduce the pres- sure, as it is said the gas is feeding the flames. Marooned survivors of the flood are reported to be leaping from roof to roof to escape death by burning. There are from 500 to 2000 dead in Dayton, . according to Governor Cox's secretary, | who has arrived in the city, but these | estimates are based largely on conjec- | Reports from cities in other parts of Ohio show conditions to be much worse than they were on Tuesday. | Zanesville, on the Muskegum river, is reported entirely under water, and it is feared there will be heavy loss of | life there and farther down the val- | ley. i The Lewistown reservoir is report- | ed to be weakening and great alarm is felt. Tiffin, in the northwestern part of the state, reports fifty dead. Mount | Vernon, in the eastern part, is sub- merged, with 100 dead, and an uncon- | firmed report says Miamisburg, with a population of 4000, south of Dayton, has been swept away. In Indizna the heaviest sufferer is Peru, with 300 dead, property loss of $2,500,000, and thousands homeless. Railroad traffic in both states is en- tirely suspended, except on the Lake Shore line in the north and the Balti- more & Ohio in the south. With 250,000 persons homeless in Ohio and many thousands more in Indiana, a ready response from federal agencies met the appeal of President Wilson for assistance for the flood suf- ferers. Secretary of War Garrison or- dered the immediate dispatch to Co- lumbus and other points in Ohio of tents for 10,000 persons, 100 hospital tents and food sufficient to feed 100. 000 persons for ten days. Medical sup- plies were rushed to flood points, in- cluding vaccine points and a large number of doses of anti-typhoid vac- cine as a precaution against the out- | break of the pestilence. Fire Adds Horrors to Flood. Fire is adding its horrors to the! devastation wrought by the flood at Dayton, and word received from that city was that a disastrous conflagra- tion is raging in the center of the city. | Thousands of persons are marooned | in buildings in that region, unable to | escape because the streets are still filled with water, and unless the | flames quickly burn out an appalling ' calamity will occur. | The fire has attacked the Beekel ! house, where 250 guests have been ; marooned since Tuesday morning. It’ is impossible to combat the flames and | the hotel seems doomed, with all its inmates. Governor Cox received word from Dayton that the entire business sec- tion of the city in on fire and that in- | dications are that it will be entirely destroyed, People are reported to be jumping from roof to roof of buildings keeping out of the way of the flames. The fire destroyed buildings be- tween St. Clair and Jefferson streets on the north side of East Main street and threatened to destroy a big por- tion of the business section. A message from the Western Union operator at Wolf Creek, which is only a few miles from Dayton, says: “There has been an explosion in the middle of Dayton and the town is on fire and the loss of life has been increased. People are burning up and we have no way to get to them or the fire either, now.” A further message from Wolf Creek says: ‘Every hour or so explosions oc- cur in Dayton due to fires. The condi- tions are simply frightful and inde- scribable.” . The fire is reported to have started from the explosion of an oil tank con- taining hundreds of gallons and which bumped into a submerged building near Fourth and Jefferson streets. The fire started in a row of build ings on Third street, between Main and Jefferson streets, next to the li- brary building. This point is two squares south of the Phillips house. The fire is burning south. The report of the fire came from Wire Chief Green, of the Bell Tele phone company, who says the fire is now within a block of the telephone exchange, in which is located John Bell, who for more than twenty-four hours has kept the outside world in formed as best he could of the catas trophe in Dayton. Many of the buildings on the right side of the river were so insecure that they had left their foundations within an hour. What were blocks of thickly populated one and two-story resi dences, populated mostly by foreign- ers, are only shattered lumber. They are believed to contain many bodies. Every effort has been made to reach houses containing living persons. It appears certain that no part of the district under water escaped con- tributing its tcll to the flood. Mr. Bell said that he had seen two bodies floating in the waters along the shore in the south side residence district. Rescuers from time to time saw a body disappearing in the flood. All of the buildings available have been filled with cots and means for providing food for the sufferers. The crop of flood babies was in- ! creased by two, making five little ones to be born in the hospital rooms of a factory within twenty-four hours. i More than 70,000 persons either were unable to reach their homes or held in their waterlogged houses and were unable to reach land. No communication could be estab- lished with those in the commercial | district and any attempt to say wheth- | | er any or all of them were drowned | is the merest conjecture. It is sup- posed most of the fatalities occurred on the west and north sides of the | river where the wall of water rushed | in suddenly with the breaking of the levee. i The immediate pressing need is for food and medical supplies. The great ! demand for food exhausted the emer- gency supplies in the outskirts of the city and survivors now are depending | entirely on what may be brought in during the day. Fear is anticipated that typhoid may result from the use of the river water. Famine Faces Survivors. ! The flooded district comprises a practical circle with a radius of a mile and a half, and in no place was, the water less than six feet deep. In| Main street, in the downtown section | it was twenty feet deep. Most of the business houses and nearly all of the residences have occu- pants. Downtown the offices were filled with men, fathers unable to get home, and the upper floors and on some of the roofs of the residences were helpless women and children. Hundreds of houses, substantial build- ings in the residence districts, many ' of them with helpless occupants, have | been washed away. i The St. Elizabeth hospital, with 600 | patients, was reported to have been washed away. The buildings were known to be in many feet of water. Famine became an immediate pos- sibility. All of the supply and grocery houses are in the submerged districi, and it was said there was not enough bread to last the survivors another day. While those marooned in the offices and hotels are in no immediate dan- ger of drowning, there is no way food or drinking water can reach them un- til the flood recedes. Those in the resi- dences, however, are in constant dan- ger, both by filuod and fire. When the flood came the frailer buildings were swept into the stream, many showing the faces of women and children peering from the windows. These were followed by more substan- tial brick buildings, until it became evident that no house in the flood zone was safe. The houses as a rule’ lasted but a few blocks before break. ing up. The flood came soon after day- light Tuesday morning after the resi- dents had spent the night in terror. The levee broke in a dozen places and a wall of water ten feet deep swept through the main street just’ above the junction of the Big Miami and the Mad river, and where the wa- ter of the Stillwater river poured into the Miami the flood reached its height | and rolled into the business section. The Dayton News was soon under twenty feet of water. The flood rose to the second floor of the Algonquin hotel and all along Main street the occupants were driven to the third floors. | WILSON CALLS ON NATION TO AID FLOOD SUFFERERS | Washington, March 27.—Presi- dent Wilson issued the following | appeal to the nation to help the | sufferers in the Ohio and Indiana floods: | “The terrible floods in Ohio and Indiana have assumed the propor tions of a national calamity. The loss of life and the infinite suf- fering involved prompt me to is- | sue an earnest appeal to all who | are able, in however a small way, to assist the labors of the Ameri- can Red Cross to send contribu- tions at once to the Red Cross at | Washington or to the local treas- urers of the society. “We should make this a com- mon cause. The needs of those upon whom this sudden and over- whelming disaster has come should quicken every one capable of sym- pathy and compassion to give im- mediate aid to those who are la- boring to rescue and relieve. “WOODROW WILSON.” The president also sent the fol- lowing telegram to both Governor Ralston at Indianapolis and Gov- ernor Cox at Columbus, Ohio: “I deeply sympathize with the people of your state in the terri- ble disaster that has come upon them. Can the federal government assist in any way?” Miss Mabel Boardman, of the American Red Cross, promised to keep the president in touch with the situation. POPE CELEBRATES MASS | Physicians Express Satisfaction With His Condition. Rome, March 27.—Pope Pius X. cel- ebrated mass. He administered com- munion to the members of the house- hold. The physicians in attendance ex- satisfaction with his condi- tion. They, however, advised him to maintain caution. It was decided that on April 3 the pope would receive some of the bishops, and on April 4 give his first collective audience since he was taken ill The Weather, Forecast for this section: Rain and colde: :oday; tomorrow, fair and much colder; high, shifting winds. jon a hill, that a small court house is | | are suffering intensely from the cold : than 200 persons must have drowned. Three Hundred Persons Drowned at Peru and Only One Block Escaped the Water—200 Reported Dead In West Indianapolis. Indiznapolis, Ind.,, March 27.-—From | Lake Michigan to the Ohio river the’ state of Indiana is gripped by floods. A revised estimate places the dead at 1000 in Indiana, but many commu: ! nities are cut off, and the exact total cannot be learned. Peru, on the Wabash river, seems | to have suffered the worst. Between 200 and 400 perscns were caught there by the current and were drowned, ac- cording to a telegram received by Gov- ernor Ralston from the mayor of Peru, All the survivors of the town took refuge on a hilltop. They are home- | less. The buildings not destroyed are’ hopelessly damaged and untenable. Food and water famines prevail in some districts. Railroad traffic in many sections is at a standstill. Hun- dreds of buildings and bridges were carried away. Before the crest of the flood is reached the number of dead may go over 1200. More than 200,000 persons are homeless throughout the state. The money loss is at least $25,000,000, ' Mayor Charles E. Goetz, of South Bend, received an official report that 300 persons were drowned at Peru,’ ‘that no bodies had been recovered and that there was less than one block of the entire city that was not under! water. The report was telephoned to Mayor | Goetz by the relief party sent from ' South Bend, which reached the out- skirts of Peru. It was stated further’ that only two feet of the upper parts of the houses in the submerged dis trict could be seen; that the court house, the hospital and some factory buildings were crowded with surviv- ors in need of food, and that Governor Ralston had been asked to send more supplies from Fort WW. je. Mayor Goetz, who had been inforn- ed of conflicting reports about the loss of life, said he accepted the re- pert from the relief party as official. “The messages stated definitely that at least 300 were drowned,” said Mayor Goetz. “That seems to leave little doubt that the loss of life is great. I can't conceive that those in charge of the relief party would over estimate the loss.” Twelve bodies were recovered in a’ single house in the southern part o! Peru. This was taken to indicate that | the loss of life in that section of the | city was great, as it was there ‘that | dwellings were completely submerged before the occupants could vacate. It was reported that six survivors were suffocated in the overcrowded court house. The weather has turned severely cold, adding to the misery of the unsheltered, but the flood is fall. | ing rapidly. In the belief that most of the 16,000 people of Peru were hungry, Mayor Goetz started out another relief train loaded with 3000 loaves of bread, rep- resenting the output of all the South, Bend bakeries and hotels. Barrels of salt meat, condensed milk, the eggs of all the grocery stores in town, a Information was telephoned to May- | or Goetz by Patrick A. Joyce, city con- troller of South Bend, who was in| charge of the first relief party. Mr. | { Joyce sald that 5000 persons were ipo camped out without shelted in a park! crowded with 1000 survivors, the hos. | pital with 1000 more, and that 300 children are imprisoned in a school house. No fires are allowed to be lighted and the women and children and dampness. From what seems to be authentic information fourteen are known to have been drowned in West Indianap- olis as the result of the breaking of the Morris street levee. Rescuers say that a family of six, consisting of the father, mother and four children, are dead in their home. No effort is be- ing made to bring the bodies out, as every means is being used to get the women and children, who in many cases are either standing on the sec- ond floors of their homes or have gone to the housetops and are suffering from the cold. Families in one-story houses were at the mercy of the sudden rush of water that followed the breaks in the levees. It is believed that the bodies of these, who are supposed to have been trapped in the houses, will be found when the waters recede. Vari ous estimates are made in West In- dianapolis as to the loss of life, but the prevailing opinion is that not les: 100 Lives Lost In Mount Vernon. Columbus, O., March 27.—The elec: tric engineering department of the Ohio State University received this message via wireless from Mount Ver- aon. “Great floods; 100 lives lost; al! dnes down; outside world cut off; thousands of dollars’ damage done: Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio rail *oads’ miles of track washed out. Mt Vernon.” Plainly Described. Finest and viewfulst place. Baths and toilets on modernst principles. The hotel not being adapted for health resort of ills is only preserved for the sojourn of passengers, tourists and sportsmen. Reputed excellent cook- ing. Noble, real. weli lain wines, dif- ferent beers. The magnificent outlook is grandious. Daily six trains to all parts of the globe. Free view at the lovely lake. — From a Foreign Hotel SURVIVORS ARE SUFFERING Guide. .~ IN PATH OF THE CYCLONE. OMAHA BURIES DEAD. Omaha, Neb.,, March 27. — Burying the dead and the work of reconstruc- tion now occupies the tornado-stricken city of Omaha. Paying the last rites occupied the time of thousands of persons during the day. Many of! the bodies recov- ered from the wrecks of Sunday's storm were cared for at undertaking escablishments and a greater number o fthe 100 or more funerals were held from those places. Friends of many stricken families took care of bodies and had them prepared for burial Others were sent to out-of-town rela- tives. In many instances churches were | carlond of apples, guscline og 1an- | gemolished in the districts covered by $900 and some clothing also were ¢ye giorm and others were so badly wrecked as to prevent them being used for burial services. During the night the work of rescue continued. Only one body was reported recover- ed, that of another negro, buried in Idlewild pool hall wreckage. The authorities are taking steps to un cover the place at once and remove any bodies buried there. ‘I'he real estate exchange nas taken steps to prevent the raising of rents. Already cases of alleged attempted extortion have been reported. Execu- tives of the exchange decided to deal harshly with any owners found taking advantage of the tornado victims. Hunareds of persons trom all over the state, unable to hear from rela- tives, have come to Omaha seeking news. Many persons known to have been in the vicinity of that portion of the city ridden by the storm have been reported missing, and everything possible is being done to locate them. Plans for the immediate rebuilding of the wrecked district are now being worked out by a big company of the business men of Omaha. A corporation is being formed to handle this work systematically and assist those who lost their homes and personal effects. This institution will begin at once the task of at least partially reconstruct. ing magy homes. 150 Dead at Columbus. Columbus, O., March 27.—At least 160 persons were drowned in Colum- bus as a result of the flooded Scioto river, according to reports from the flooded west side section of the city. The reports came as a result of a partial restoration of telephone com- munication with the West Side. Many persons who are considered conserva- tive, assert that they saw scores of bodies float down the stream and doz- ens of persons carried away in their —Have you Job Work done here. New Advertisements, Public Sale of Horses. At No. 1211 West Fifteenth street, Tyrone, ! J SON, care of Mrs. S. 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