Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1913 — NONE HERE HAVE HEARD FROM PERU [ARTICLE]

NONE HERE HAVE HEARD FROM PERU

Many People Have Relatives and Friends in Stricken City and 1 Are Very Anxious. So far as The Republican could learn no person here has received any word from Peru since that city was so badly damaged by thq flood Tuesday. There seem to be a number here who have relatives there and it is quite probable.that all are safai although the relatives will not ease until they have direct asm ranees. The same applies to with relatives at other places. A. U. Cloud, who was very much alarmed because his and his wife’s parents lived at Peru and who started for that city Tuesday night, has not been heard from. It is supposed that he managed in some manner to reach Peru or otherwise that he would’have returned. Mrs. Harrison Warren has twomarried sons living at Peru and has received no word from them. A report was circulated here today that John Holsema and family, formerly residents of this place, had all been drowned, but there seems to be no basis for that rumor. Holsema moved to that city and was to manage a cement tile factory, „the same business he -conducted here, and it is believed he lived in the part of the city that was swept by the flood, but aside from that there seems no authorative basis for the story of the drowning of himself and fapiily. Mrs. Clarerice Fate has two brothers living at Dayton, Ohio, and she is much alarmed about them. RosA Benjamin,- one of the railway mail clerks who was t caught away from home, is marooned at Lafayette and may be there for a day or two yet, but he has relieved all uneasiness about himself by letting his parents know where he is. Harry Jacobs, is also In Lafayette, according to information Mrs. Jacobs today received. Mrs. Dora Robbins, who keeps house here for her brother, AlCx. Frye, has been greatly alarmed about his failure to return home or to send any word, He went to Lafayette, Monday. She was to join him there Tuesday and went on a train as far as the south side of the Wabash river bridge but it was found that the grade was washed out and she was compelled to return to Rensselaer. The heavy mail business on the milk train, which continues to be the only train the Monon is running out of Chicago, was more than Art Cole could manage and Joe Long was called to help him. Charles Grow and Frank Leek were also called out by telegram. They will work at sorting the mail in the Polk street depot in Chicago. Joe Long states that one can have but little idea of the amount of mail that has piled up there. It will be sorted out and placed in “direct” sacks.