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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
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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.
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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
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Public Sale of Horses.
At No. 1211 West Fifteenth street, Tyrone,
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in pedagogy. This is an excellent
{ opportunity to prepare for these ex-
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ers. All other expenses including
| board and room will be $4.00 per
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term, and will receive the same rates.
For further information and illus-
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WILLIAM GROH RUNKLE,
Commissioner.
OTICE TO CONTRACTORS.~Sealed pro.
| will be received the Board of
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Pennsylvania, at their office in the court house at
street, in the berou
Bids will 10 0" a. m. Sat-
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A certified check in the sum of $200.00, made
pa; to the Commissioners of Centre county,
must be filed with the Commisioners’ clerk at
least two hours before the time fixed for closing
of for the faithful performance of contract.
ala missioners reserve the right to reject
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GROVE HIGH SCHOOL.—The Summer
term at Pine Grove Mills will open
, April 7tk, in the High school
inue for seven weeks. Special
tothose who prepare for
eacher's examination. Instruction
will be given to the 8th, 7th, 6th and 5th grade
Pror. Frank 1. Paul, A. B.
HERIFF'S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of Fi-
eri Facias issued out of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas of Centre county, and to me di-
| rected, there will be exposed to public sale at the
court house, in the borough of Bellefonte, Penn-
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Bellefonte, Pa. March 15, 1913.
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