Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 243, Hammond, Lake County, 26 March 1913 — Page 1

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(BULLETIN.) Two hundred lives are reported to have been lost by drowning in the flood which swept over Peru, Ind., aocording to a dispatch received from that place last night by Governor Ealston in Indianapolis. This dispatch was given in a late edition of THE TIMES last night. "Send 200 coffins and food and clothing at once," wired the Governor's informant, a man named Baker, who added in ominons words: "This will probably be the last message you will get from Peru. Two hundred or more are drowned and the remainder of the residents are grouped on a hill waiting for daylight."

maianapous, March 26. Witn 100.000 or more homeless, scores drowned and a property loss of at lesat 120,000,000, Indiana is experiencing tonight the worst flood In Its history. Virtually the entire state Is one huge sea. Every brook, creek and river Is taking: Its toll of damage. Public service corporations of the entire state are helpless, railroad and traction lines have canceled nearly all trains. Many cities are without fire protection and without light. Dwellers along streams devoted their

Omaha Storm Toll 214; C old A dds to Suffering

Blizzard Following- Tornado Causes Intense Discomfort Among 2,000 Homeless.

Omaha, Neb., March 2. A blinding blizzard awep Omaha Monday night and yesterday and last night half a foot of snow added to the discomfort of the 2,000 people who were left homeless by Sunday's cyclone.. The temperature was below freezing and the suffering of the homeless ones was Intense. -'. While all public buildings churches, schools, and thousands of prlvato residences were thrown open, many hun- ' dreds of those whoso ' houses were wrecked preferred to remain in basements and cellars rather than leave toe remains of their homes. Loss of Life Is 214. Two hundred and fourteen lives were lost, according to latest estimates, '. based upon the number of bodies found recovered and the number reported missing by relatives. It Is believed that many bodies still are beneath the ruins and rescuers, urged on by anxious relatives, are working frantically all day to reach them.

FLOODS

LOST AT PERU labors all day to rescuing those trapped In their homes and to removing furniture and merchandise to higher gound. ' Many-reports of loss of life were received, but few were verified, because wire service was paralyzed. Seven persons are known to have been drowned, two at Lafayette, three at Newcastle, one at Frankfort and one at Rushville. The appalling swiftness with which the waters arose caught the- entire (Continued on Pag .) Along the devastated district, four blocks wide and almost eight "miles long, little campfires, built by those who had lost their homes, dotted the blackness of the night. Electric lights and gas were not permitted in the ruined districts Martial Law la Enforced. Around other campfires United States soldiers ' stopped to get warm as they patrolled the wrecked district. Strict military discipline was maintained and none without police passes was permitted to go through the lines. Passes were issued only to those bearing credentials. The finding of dead bodies in the debris has ceased to be a matter of interest. The thousands of homeless no longer are curious as from the ruins. of some building a body is removed. Near the child Saving Institute, the naked bodies of two babies were found lying in the snow. The babies were blown from one of the outdoor nurseries when the cyclone struck the build-JUig.

(BULLETINS.) Rochester, Ind., March 26, 3 P. M. It is impossible to get into communication with Peru by .telegraph or telephone. The ill-fated city is completely isolated. Trains can only get within six miles of the city and the worst is feared, as it can only be reached by boats. Xenia, O., March 26, 3 P.

Irl. Iliamisburg, a town of 4QQ0, twelve ; miles belbw Dayton, was wiped ouFby the flood, according to refugees reaching here today. They estimate the dead at 2,000. Middletown, O., April 26. There are fifty dead in Middletown. The remains of the city are burning. The $2,000,000 plant of the Champion Coated Paper Co. has burned. Columbus, O., March 26. The Broad street bridge went out this morning, cutting the city in halves. The Scioto river is still rising. There are seventeen known dead here. CAMPS WASHED AWAY. (Special to The Times.) Lowell, Ind., March 26. Word has been received here that a number of camps and cottages on Jerry's island In the Kankakee river, east of Lowell, have been washed oft by the flood. Whether or not there was any loss of life is not known. V GALE WRECKS HOUSE. (Special to Ths Times.) TVhlting, Ind., March 26. It has Just been learned that a two-story house at Berry Lake, a little station between here and Indiana Harbor, was overturned by the wind of two days ago and that three facilies and a number of boarders who occupied the place were shaken about like dice in a box. The house was picked up and thrown upside down against a neighboring structure. As a result the other house was badly wrecked. The building Is owned by the Lake Shore railroad, which has purchased all of the property In that vicinity, and was pur-. chased from Henry Ehlers, one of the old residents of the county. The building has for years been looked upon as an old landmark. Steve Gransic, a foreman for the Lake Shore railroad, was one of the occupants of the house. His little baby was badly injured. It Is reported that five others received bruises. TWO FEET ABOVE ROAD (Special to The Time?.) Water Valley, Ind.. March 26. The river at Ben Fogli's place here is still rising. SJ.s reported here that the river has inflated Fuller's Island, seven miles west of here, and has destroyed camps and cottages. The water is now two feet above the road. Jackson's Corners, Ind.. March 26. The Gary : Southern cars are not Interrupted by' the flood so far and it is not believed that traffic will be stopDed. The river is, however, still rising.

Big Trunk Lines Through Lake County Stop Service; ..Flyers Are Stalled in Chicago Depots; Mail Delivery Demoralized.

TRAINS ANNULLED. Chesapeake Ohlsi All itrhrdnlrm caacele atll farther aotlce. Eriet Throng tralaa nailed. Waahont reported at Decatur, east of Haatlagton. Loeal tralaa betweea Iluatlnartoa and Chicago rnaag. Moaont All through tralna eaacelled. Local tralaa brtwrra Chicago and Battle Graupd ruanlne. Washouts at Lafayette. Delphi, and forth of Iadlaapolla. Xlekel Plate I Yesterday' through tralna have not yet reported. Washoat feared at Arnold by the Tippe. rar.ee river. ' PeaMaaylvamla-r' Tkrvnrh . tralna at benad tln. Six ' lachea of 'water reported In the Logan sport atatlon. Chicago, Tnaiaaapolls and Southern tralaa running on achednle. Mlchlgau Central tralna raanlna: oa achednle, aad the only one ao far to brine In the hulk of the I'nlted 4(atea mlta. Today the Orak Shrine trip by special train to Indianapolis from Hammond was called off. High Potentate H. E. Sharrer was notified today that It will be impossible to get a train through to Indianapolis for at least a weok. Througrh trains on practically all roads passing through Lake, County are annulled today. Bir trunk lines are demoralized on account of washouts, and it will be days, possibly weeks before the old order can be restored again. With the exception of the C. I. & S. which passes through Gibson the Michigan Central was the only trunk line to be unhampered. Arrangements have been made to route as much of the United States mails. and as many of the pasenger and freight trains of the other roads over the M. C. as possible. The Monon is reported to have a five thousand foot washout at Lafayette, another large one at Delphi, and another in an Indianapolis suburb- The (Continued on page six.) Official Forecaster Says That Other Storms Are Coming. By Dr.t H. C. Frankrnflrld. (Official Weather Forecaster for (hlcagro.) The outlook 1m bad. With every river between the Mlmianlppl valley and the Allegheny mountain swollen beyond their baika, the Indication are that there will be atlll more rain or kbov In the affected area. There la an omlnoua . low prrMurr area over the mntkirrat, aad a long an that condition prevail vSere I little hope of elrar weather through the middle western Mate. The damage and nnfferlna: which hare already remitted and which nre yet to come probably will exceed y within- my experience. From two to four Inche of rain have fallen In Ililaol. Indiana and Ohio within the la five day. The thoroughly water-soaked condition ( the ground ha turned thta mirplua water ruahlng down the smaller Htrenmn Into the larger river by the ton. Today the rainfall In art of the flooded nectiona wan 1.56 Inche. an nmount aoffldent In Itnelf to cauae an abnormal eoadltlon. considering the condition of the ground. Between l.M) aad 1.94 lachea of rain fell In Indiana and Ohio on Sunday. Accompanied " by a rlnlag temperature, thia not only relenaed till more water from the thawtnar ground but melted Know which had fallen in some section.

Cleveland, Ohio, March 26, 1 A. M. BulletinMessage from Dayton, via Xenia, via phone, just received, says death list is from 2,000 to 5,000, probably the latter. The entire town is under water, which reaches the third floor of hotels in the business center. A school containing 400 children was submerged and all the little ones perished. r

DEATH LIST - IN THE FLOODS OHIO Dayton, (estimated) 5,000 Piqua (estimated) 640 Delaware 7C Hamilton (estimated) .....1,000 Middletown 15 a INDIANA. Peru 200 to 400 New Castle 3 Lafayette 2 Noblesville 2 Logansport 2 Connersville. .Number not known Rushville 1 ILLINOIS. Makanda (estimated) ...... 12 a a MISSOURI. ANXIOUS ABOUT FRIENDS Ralph W. Ross, assistant prosecuting attorney, is anxious about relatives In Muncie,. his former home. Muncie Is among the Indiana cities which Is flord ridden. Court Reporter Spurgeon has relatives in Peru. Ind., that he Is anxious about as a result of the stories of flood that come oat of that place. He says they are located on high ground, but on account of the great loss of life reported he has telegraphed for some word regarding them. J. D. Smaliey has relatives in Upper Sanduskj which is threatened by flood. The mayor is making anxious inquiries regarding them. William Pepperdine has received a detailed account of the destruction of a part of Omaha, Neb., by a tornado. His son, James, is safe, and no damage j was done to his home, which is in another Part f the city. Mrs. Ray Dieber of this city Is worried about the fate of her mother, who lives very near the river in Dayton, O. She has tried in vain to learn whether or not she survived. BELIEVE CANAL SAVED TERRITORY Engineers in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor declare that the canal has Baved the territory, hereabouts from being seriously flooded. The canal this morning showed a remarkably swift current toward the lake, whither it was carrying the contents of the overcharged basin of the Grand Calumet river. The fact that the territory ad jacent to the Little Calumet Is all under water bears out the theory that the canal with which the Grand Calumet communicates Is doing good service as an outlet for the water that finds its way Into the latter, stream, and which without the canal would spread over the district through which the stream runs. THE LITTLE CALUMET RIVER Black Oak, Ind., March 26. Mrs. F. B. Scheldt says that the river has risen five inches during the night. It Is still rising. Usually the river rises for nine days after it starts In the spring, due to the fact that it takes that long for the Besor, Deep river and other tributaries to empty into the river after they receive the water. It has been rising for two days and is not more than a foot over the road. It will have to rise six inches more before traffic over the road will be stopped. In 1908 the river was four feet higher than It is now, so that the flood situation is not causing much local concern. Try a La Vendor cigar. Adv. It's sood.

kEPORTED DEAD

DEEP ENGULFED

Cleveland, O., March 26. More than 7,000 lives were lost in the great flood which swept through Ohio today, leaving in its trail damage estimated far into the millions: The state is paralyzed. Railroad, trolley, telephone and telegraph traffic is blocked and the cities and towns, in which hundreds and thousands of lives have been lost, are cut off almost entirely from communication with the rest of the world. Situation Simply , Appalls the Bravest. According to reports which are believed to be authentic, 5,000 were drowned in Dayton, fully 1,000 in Hamilton and 540 in Piqua. Untold millions of dollars' damage has been-done to property, fully 75,000 people are homeless and appeals for aid have been sent out to the Red Cross. In Dayton alone 30,000 people are homeless. . ; . The four days continuous rain filled every reservoir in the state and a number of them have undermined the'

dams and poured their contents into the" valleys. " People Trapped in Home Like Animals. A wall of water seven feet high rushed down into Miami' valley. The levees along the Miami river broke and the residents of Dayton along the river were forced to flee for their lives. The rush of water was so great, however, that houses were undermined and carried along in the . swift current. ; Hundreds were drowned before they had a chance to tttY places of safety. The water crept higher and higher and finally it was thirteen feet at the Union Station. Some parts of the city were under thirty feet of water. It was at first reported that 8,000 were drowned at Dayton. Later a message was received from a telephone operator in the Dayton exchange that he could see hundreds of bodies floating through the street past the telephone building. Message Comes from the Mayor of Dayton, Ohio. AT 9 O'CLOCK THE MAYOR OF DAYTON, WHO HAD ESCAPED FE0M THE FLOOD. SENT A MESSAGE DECLARING THAT 5,000 PERSONS WERE DROWNED IN THE CITY, THAT 30,000 WERE HOMELESS AND THAT THE SITUATION WAS APPALLING. . At 10 o'clock tonight the dam of a reservoir north of Hamilton burst.

(Continued FIFTEEN LOSE LIVES IN NEW CYCLONE Illinois Village Visited by Destructive Cyclone. Anna, 111., March 26. A terrific tor nado visited the vilage of Makanda, 111., late last night, leaving a death toll of fifteen. Several were injured. A fast freight on the Illinois Central running south as an extra, in charge of Conductor Aitker, was -struck. Twenty-five cars behind the engine were blown from the track. To add further to the destruction, rain fell in torrents to a depth of three feet over the tracks, washing away the contents of the cars. The loss will reach $10,000 to the train alone. Engineer Wagoner and Fireman Andrews of Centralia were injured seriously. Mrs. Walker,1 residing in Makanda, was killed outright. Her husband was injured. Another passenger train escaped the cyclone by being five minutes late. FEAR LIVES ARE LOST AT RESORT Detroit, Mich., fears were felt , in lives had been lcjst March 26. Grave Detroit today that nn floods which have surged inland at St. Clair Flats, a summer report across Iake St. Clair from this city. A cottager leaching the cjty reported that at Fairhayen and Algonac it was rumored ten persons had been drowned. All wires are down and interurban cars are unable to reach the district, miles pf track having been washed away. Is your house cold when you reach home? Get a Gas Heating Stove. Jfo. ina. Gas & Elec Co.

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HELD BY FLOOD. A. M. Turner is still at Kvansville, Ind., where he is tied by by the storms and floods. He does not know when ha will get out of there so that he caa reach the bedside of Mrs. Turner, who Is very ill. Mrs. Turner was reported to be very much better today and everything possible is being done for her. It may ba several days before Mr. Turner can get back. RED CROSS IS BUSY GIVING AID Washington, D. C, March 26. An appeal for aid for the sufferers from the floods in Indiana and Ohio has been issued by the Red Cross, which , announces It will collect and distribute funds sent to it. As soon as the extent of the damage was known the organization dispatched its agents from Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, and they were expected to be at the scenes of the principal suffering at dawn today. The Cincinnati division of the Red Cross, of which the mayor of that city is an officer, telegraphed last night that plans for rescue and relief work were under way. It was also reported that, a Red Cross agent with medical supplies and nurses from Birmingham, Ala., had started for the devastated district. BITLLETIX. riBannport. Id March 2ft. The mayor of Peru over loag distance telephone rays i "Tell Oovernor RaUrtoa. that from M to 400 were killed oa south aide. We wit provisions, clothing and coffln." La Vendor cigars are pronounced ex. . ceptlonally good by all amokert. AdT

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