Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1913 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT Published (vary Evening, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW Q. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER f Subscription Ratea Per Week, by carrier 10 cent! Per Tear, by carrier 15.00 Ver Month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mai1..,., ~..52.50 ■lngle Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the posiotlice in Decatur, Indiana, as sceoiau ci*»s mail. From all over the middle states come the reports of terrible loss by the recent floods. Here, as elsewhere the damage is large, though fortunately there has been no loss of life. The ' serious part of the flood, however, is likely to come. Our citizens have not noticed the famine which is bound to result, but a few days will make it very noticeable. Five thousand peo-' pie will soon eat up the supply in a I city, when all outside communication ' is cut off and when shipments of goods cannot be received. There are no butter and eggs or milk on the market. The supply of other foods will diminish day by day and a week of this kind of weather would make us all sit up and lake noiice. While there is no assurance that the rains are over, let’s be optimistic, and at least hope for a cessation of the clouds. Any way we are more lucky than most of the cities in northern Ohio and Indiana. In many places the light and water plants are out of commission and this adds to the discomfort of the citizens. A day or two without rains will make ua forget it then it’s the duty of everyone to get busy and help repair the damage. The railroads are the heaviest losers and they will lose no time in replacing all the parts of their lines destroyed. FOR SALE. An ideal poultry farm for sale; 20 acres, well drained and well fenced land; mostly black soil, on stone road. Six-room house, barn 26x40, poultry house 10x32, corn crip, plenty of fruit; 2)4 miles from a live town, *4 mile to good school. Possession on or before April Ist Price 12 - 450. 54tf HARVEY & LEONARD. TWO MARES FOR SALE. I have for sale two mares in foal; Black mare, 8 years old, weight 1700, and sorrel mare, 5 years old, weight 1650. Inquire John Steimgeyer, R. R. No. 8. 67t3 WANTED. L nmarried man. by month or year, ’ to do general farm work. Enquire of A. D. Suttles. 57tf NOTICE. Say—don’t forget the West End barber shop. Hag two first-class barbers. Come in and try them. Clean towels to reach customer. Everything sani-l tary. Union shop, by the G. R. & 1.1 railway. Welcome to one and all. LESTER BAUGHMAN, 59t6-e-o-d Proprietor. . o— LOST—A black muff, someplace in the city. Finder please leave at NibMchjitore—Mrs. James Bell, 72*3 Spring Shirts •-in a great variety of neat patterns and styles. 50c SI.OO $1.50 THE COMPAN V X \

DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. St. Vincent de Paul—Mrs, Clem Voglewede. Orient —Mrs. John Stewart. Shakespeare— Mrs. C. A. Dugan. Thursday. Westminster Guild—Lulu Atz. Euterpean—Mrs. Eugene Runyon. Helping Hand—German Reformed Church. Presbyterian Aid and Penny Social —Presbyterian Church. Friday. Mite Society—Mrs. M. E. Hower. Zion's Lutheran Aid —Parochial School House. Saturday. M. E. Pastry Sale—Gas Office. The sweat of industry would dry and I die, But for the end it works to. —Shakespeare, Cymbeline. Today is the anniversary of the .death of Ludwig von Beethoven, the Prussian musical composer, who lived 1 from 1770 to 1827. Mrs. Clem Voglewede was hostess at a very enjoyable six o’clock dinner party Monday evening. Not a word was given out that the occasion was Mrs. Voglewede's birthday anniversary, but the event was found out in some way, and the guests presented her with a very beautiful cut-glass dish and glasses. Small tablets had been arranged for the twenty-five guests and the dinner served was very delicious. After dinner, cards were played. The Easter decorations were carried out. The house was very pretty with cut flowers, smilax and swansonia, and the tables were carried out in yellow and white. Favors were midget baskets in which nestled a little yellow chicken, and in the baskets were the place cards. The tables were lighted with fairy lamps and candles, and the birthday cake with its candles was also a pretty feature. The list of those Invited includes: Mesdames Charles Christen, John Wilson, W. A. Kuebler, Mary Crawford, Henry Schulte, Carrie Ehinger, Ed Ehinger, James K. Niblick, Ed Coffee. U. Deininger, J. H. Bremerkamp, H. H. Bremerkamp, R, J. Holthouse, Charles Voglewede, Ben Knapke, Martin Mylott, John Gerald. Charles Melbeta, D. D. Clark, Dyonis Schmitt, Lee Hindman, P. J. Hyland, C. V. Connell, T. J. Durkin, J. B. Meibers. Th» Pev. and J. H. Rilling and family wore given a very pleasant surprise Tuesday evening when thir-ty-five members of the church called upon them to spend a social evening, the ladies serving luncheon. A number of useful articles were presented to the family, and the kindness and consideration of his people were much appreciated by the Rev. Rilling and family. ! The Zion’s Lutheran Ladies’ Aid society will meet Friday afternoon at the parochial school house. i , I The Evangelical ladies have postponed their chicken dinner which was to have been given Friday in the Mo*--rison building. Miss Sue Mayer announces a post- , ponement of the Needlecraft club I meeting, which was to have been held i Thursday evening at her home. ' All members of the Westminster Guild are requested to meet Thursday evening with Miss Lulu Atz. TICKETS FOR HOME TALENT. The seat sale for the home talent play, “Billy’s Bungalow." for Friday ! evening will open Friday morning at ; 8 o clock at the Holthouse drug store. | Tickets are now being sold. Get one of the Ruth Circle girls. — o FRAME TIMBER FOR SALE. j he are tearing down the old bot|tllng works building on North Second II street. Will sell the frame skeleton as d now stands. Good heavy timber, building is 22x83. and 16 feet high. MRS WM ’ mer BMAN, 60t3 ________ No - St. WANTED. A good young man to pass papers through the week. Apply at City News stand. ELGIN KING 60t3 p r ; P . —O—- | NOIICE. Money to loan at » and 6 per cent interest. No commission. 288tf ERWIN’S OFFICE. FOR SALE—Single comb Rhode Island Red eggs. From the best strain. Call on Mrs. Dale Moses, corner Indiu ....

I HE WATERS I ARE RECEDING (Continued from Page 1) the city, is safe enough for the work trains to cross over and get water at the tank nearby. The small bridge near Monmouth is washed out and also the one crossing a little creek near Geneva. The work train ran from Decatur to Berne this morning and got a load of new stone which will be used in filling up the deep gushes which the water cut in and around the foundations at the bridges. It will be several days before any traffic can be resumed on the road, and maybe longer, if the water does not soon go down. About forty rods of track are washed out just north of the bridge at the St- Mary’s river at the city limits. Along the Railroads. The flood situation along the Erie and Clover Leaf tracks remains about the same except at the Erie where between five and six hundred feet of track has been washed out about a half mile east of the bridge and along the long curve which the road makes at that place. Carloads of stone are being hauled to this place and crews of men are busy balancing the road bed and are working knee deep in water endeavoring to strengthen the submerged track. The bridge is still holding its own against the raging torrent although it is claimed by men who have been closely watching it to have moved about two inches. The river had receedtd from one two Inches at eleven o’clock this morning and it is thought that the most dangerous part of the situation has been passed. No 4, a passenger going east passed through last night at seven o’clock going over the track which was under two feet of water, but shortly afterward the track was washed loose from the bed and no train has been able to pass since. It is doubtful when any trains will be run and none are looked for at least for 36 hours. On the Clover Leaf about 800 feet of track have been washed out in the vicinity of Bluffton and considerable other damage done. A work train has been sent out from Delphos and is headed this way fixing up the minor damage to the track and repairing the bridges over the smaller streams which are rapidly receeding and it is thought that by the time it reaches here the water will have gone down low enough for the men to work on the Wabash bridge at Bluffton and that trains will be running within' 24 to 36 hours. Crews will be out on . the different sections and will be ’ worked night and day shifts until the I road is entirely cleared up and every-1 thing in good running order. Decatur Families in Flood. Attorney D. B. Erwin this morning talked by telephone to his brother, Daniel Erwin, who is in Fort Wayne. Dan and wife are now staying with the Judge R. K. Erwins until next week when they expected to move into their own home in Lakeside near j that of Judge Erwin’s. Lakeside is all under water with the breaking of) the dyke, and the street car track leading thereto is under five feet of' water. The water had not yet reach-) ed the Erwin house, when they left it Tuesday, going to down-town apartments. Other former Decatur families who live in Lakeside are M. B. V. Archbold, Scott Hughes and Cal Miller. Bloomingdale is said to be even greater flooded and families there are living in the second stories of the houses. Physicians’ Long Trips. Not least of the suffering caused by the high waters is to the ill and those in need of medical care far out into the country, hedged in by high waters. A long trip of eight miles was made Tuesday by a Decatur physician to a point two miles west of Monroe. While the waters were high he found none impassable. Slaughter House Filled. The Schmitt slaughter and packing house, situated only a short distance from the river bank, is filled to the roof with water, which is a height of about 12 feet. The loss will be a heavy one, as an electric motor, used in making sausage, and other meats, is in the building. There was also a large supply of salted meats in the cooler. The main danger now lies in that the building itself might be I swept away and carried down the wild stream. Vesey Greenhouses Submerged. A. D. Suttles talked Tuesday night at 10 o'clock over the telephone to his cousin. Miss Margaret Vesey, In Fort Wayne. She stated that the Vesey greenhouses, the second largest In the state, were all under water. There are twenty-three large : greenhouses in their group, at the rear o fthe Vesey home, and all these are under water. The water has not y reached the large greenhouse ’ X r ße 1068 wUI ™“P • into tfie thousands of dollars, the loss - being occasioned by the chilling of the ' ] flowers, plants and bulbs. One green-

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house alone was given over to orchids, containing from SB,OOO to $lO,000 worth of orchids. Forty-five men are employed at the greenhouses. [Miss Vesey stated that from 3,000 to 4,000 Fort Wayne people were homeless, and the suffering occasioned 1 I thereby could not be conceived by' Decatur people. Colonel Fred is Safe. Mrs. Fred Reppert was much rellev,ed Tuesday night when she received | a message that her husband. Colonel • Fred Reppert* the auctioneer, was j safe. He has been in Ohio Monday I and was to have been in lowa TuesI day to cry a sale. The message received Tuesday evening was from | New Madison, Ohio. He said he was I between two washouts and it was Impossible to get out. He stated he was | all right, had a Pullman car and plenty to eat. No Word from Haefling*. James Haefling and family, who had been in Terre Haute for several' months, were expected to arrive home tomorrow, and Mrs. Haefling’* sister, Mias Bertha Voglewede, was to have met them tomorrow in Richmond. No word has been received from them lately, but it is not thought they were in the storm and flood district of the 1 city, as they resided near the central l part of the city. Mr. Haefling had hi»» family there during the time that he as state accountant, was going over the officials’ books in that county. Flood* at Vera Cruz. Mrs. Ben Elzey had a telephone call from her hlster, Mrs. John Scherry, at Vera Cruz this morning. The Scherrys moved from Magley to Vera Cruz recently, where they conduct a meat market and hotel. She stated that they had to move out of their homes, as have thirteen other families, on account of the high waters from the Wabash river. Miller Family Safe. Miss Anna Wlnnes this morning talked by telephone to her sister, Mrs, Hugh Miller, who resides at Riverside, Muncie. She stated that they were taken out of their home last evening by boats, the water coming up within five feet of their home. The waters went down last night, however, leav-j Ing the streets clear and they’ were able to walk back to their home this morning. The basements are full and i fires are out in the furnaces, and it' may be some time Uli they enjoy the comforts of life to their fullest. Many of th® most beautiful residences had their foundations washed away. Three railroad bridges were washed out in , that vicinity Tuesday and railroads

traffic is entirely suspended. Logs Are Floating. The Eli Meyers Cement Works and the J. D. Meyers saw mill, near the sugar plant, north of town, are under four or five feet of water, and the logs .are floating gaily. Eli Meyers states his loss will probably not exceed fifty ’ dollars. , Recalls Experience. John D. Stults recalls an experience' of 1883, when the river was over the * east levee of the east bridge, when himself and Andy Gay, both drove off of the levee into the water. Andy Gay was driving a team and wagon when it slipped over the levee. The wagon bed and horses broke loose from the wagon, and by holding to the lines and sitting in the wagon bed, Andy was able to drive into the shore. An hour afterwards Mr. Stults i was driving home in a buggy when he went over. He managed to stick to the buggy and finally floated so I near land he was able to jump. His . overcoat lodged on a chunk of ice and was finally rescued. Fremont, Ohio, Mar. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—a million dol-| lars will not cover the loss here. A I dozen houses have been carried down stream, taking with them a number of bridges. The lx E. ft W. railroad 'bridge was destroyed. All traffic has ceased. Muncie. Ind., Mar. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat)— An L. E. & W. freight train went through a bridge here and was lost in the river. Reports from all over central Indiana nrc that the loss by the flood has been the greatest ever known In Indiana and will reach millions. The lighting p.ants at Bluffton, Huntington, Peru and many other cities are down and out, adding to the discomforts of the residents of those places. The Union traction station at Logansport, according to information received here, is submerged under six feet of water. Peru is also a 'heavy loser. Berne, Ind., Mar. 26—(Special to i Daily Democrat)—The waters have i receded here and the danger seems to jbe over for the present. The water j is out of the houses and repairs have i already started. Fifteen feet of I track on the G, R. & j. whkh wag out , near the station here, is being repaired today. Portland, Ind., Mar. 26— (Special to Daily Democrat)—This city is beginning to recover from the big floode and the tallying up shows that the

I city waa as fortunate as were most .towns in tins section. A number of homes were damaged more or less and the loss to personal property was rather extensice. The waters are receding today. Brief Wire Flashes. Piqua, Ohio, Mar. 26—(Special io Daily Democrat)—The most terrible sufferings have resulted here on account of the unprecedented floods. More than 200 are estimated to be dead and the actual figure* may not I be known for several days as portions of the city show seven to eight feet of water. Dayton, Ohio, Mar. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Dayton has perhaps been the greatest loser in central Ohio. Hundreds of homes and business houses are in ruins and the estimates of the number dead are as high as 1,500. Governor Cox has o-r dered state troopa here to render aid. Columbus, Ohio, Mar. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A flash of news here is to the effect that the city of i Sidney has been entirely wiped out by I the flood. Loss of property and life is known to be large.

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