Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 244, Hammond, Lake County, 27 March 1913 — Page 8

8

THE TIMES. Thursday, March 27, 1913.

GARY FOLK

ANXIOUS FOR NEWS

Gary Merchant j and Family Feared Dead in Dayton. George llaker, prentdeat f the Gary nhulrMlr liquor Arm of Gforge linker & Co.. Tenth avenue and Broadway, and all of hla family, with the exception of Carl Baker, re believed to be dead In the Diiyton flood diaaxter. Carl Baker. Hon of Mr. Baker, left today for Toledo, where he hopes to reach Dayton. Gary people who have . relatives in Dayton. Peru, Logansport and other stricken cities are in a frenzy of fear over their fate. A. I). Schaeffer, secretary of the Gary Commercial club, has a son and several brothers in Dayton. William A. Cain yesterday tried to leave Gary for Dayton, his old home, to go to the aid of his sister, but could get no train connections. Cain called up Governor Cox on the long-distance at' Columbus, a former Dayton newspaper man, ' and asked for news, but "could get no news. Many other Gary people, formerly of Dayton, are fearful over the fate of fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters. Mrs. Ora L. YVtldermuth fears for the fate of many relatives at Peru, while Miss Cora Barnes of Greenlee Si Call's office has been trying to get in communication with her folks who live in the flood area. J. W. Roser, advertising manager of Alschuler's department store, three days ago received word that his father Is dead at Lynchburg. O. Mr. and Mrs. Roser have been unable to get a train for Ohio . and neither have they been able to wire the elder Mrs. Roser at Lynchburg.1 Carl Baker, of George Baker & Sons, liquor dealers. Tenth and Broadway, today left for Toledo, where he hopes to make Dayton, George Baker, the head of the Gary firm, is now in Day ton visiting with the rest of his faml- ' ly and the son fears that all have been lost, fis they live in a low part of the city. PERU AND CAPITAL IN GREAT SUFFERING (Continued from rage onei ' citizens' committee assert that the death list will not be less than fifty. They cannot see how the occupants of the twelve cottages on "Wallace row escaped the rapids which poured over the banks of the river which after reaching a high water mark on Monday evening suddenly rose seven feet in three hours. Last night the water had receded five inches and it is believed that the rest of the flood i over. Many how ever, are suffering from cold, hunger, and exposure, and a heavy snow storm last evening added to the terrors that beset the town. TWO NAMES OK DEAD. The Identified dead are: MRS. ROSE WHITTLE. MRS. OPIE SMITH. An Infant is known to have drowned, and three children reported seeing the

Town's full of Studebakers

Studebaker Farm Wagons, Studebaker Buggies and Studebaker Delivery Wagons. and every owner of a Studebaker vehicle is proud of it Because he knows it is the best Studebaker wagons and buggies are built on honor and with the experience that comes from sixty years of wagon building, and you get the benefit of this experience when you buy a Studebaker vehicle Whether you live in town or country; whether you want a work or pleasure vehicle, there's a, Studebaker to 11 your requirementa. Farm wagons, contractor's wagons, trucks, municipal vehicles, ice wagons, dump wagons and carts, road oilers, buggies, depot wagons, surreys, pony carta, runabouts we make them all. ;b1o harness, for any sized animal, for any vehicle, of the same high standard of quality as the Studebaker ehklea, 5m oar Dealtr or write as. STUDEBAKER South Bend, Ind.

L NEW YORK MINNEAPOLIS

bodies of a man and .woman in embrace floating down Second street. Alexander Clevenger carried his wife and three children on his back through waterwalst deep to the Miami county courthouse. Then ho secured a rowboat and rescued a neighbor and her infant. On the way to the courthouse the boat was crushed by a telephone pole; the woman grasped some wires and kept afloat until Clevenger reached her. The child was lost. XISE HOURS OX A HOI'SE I.EDOE. A boat which was carrying a man from his inundated house to safety

sprung a leak and the man took refuge on the ledge of a building, where he remained for nine hours before relief came. Three women who climbed down a fire-escape capsized a boat and fell into, four feet of water. They were again rescued and taken to the courthouse. A man was taken half frozen from a tree where he had perched during most of Monday night. Supplies of food and clothing and necessary stores for temporary aid for I 5,000 people .were sent from nearby j towns, and arrived during the day at points within two or three miles' of the business district. Here the boats were compelled to moor until daylight. At dawn th currents running between the buildings in the business district were seen to be so swift that navigation by small craft was out of the question. Three motor boats had to be brought in on interurban trains from Winona lake, fifty miles away. Also some came from Culver Military academy. With these larger boats rescue work proceeded. The rescuers in some instances found entire families lying float on the roofs of their, houses, where they had orawle'd the right before, waiting for daylight to bring relief. Hundreds of others- were jammed in the courthouse and lodge hall buildings, which are located in the only district not under water. ' RESCVE WORK IS BEGIN. . The first thought of the rescue parties when daylight came was to send into the city boats to carry to safety those who were in immediate danger of drowning. The rescuers learned that many people, including , women with children in arms, had been on housetops all night, exposed to a freezing temperature. Their suffering was intense. One man told the rescuers he had seen several people slip from the roofs from exhaustion and drop into the swirling water. Among the marooned was John J. Krutzer, mayor of Peru. He was 111 in bed when the flood rushed in and was unable to escape before the water surrounded his residence. He delegated the functions of mayor to Thomas Kruger, superintendent of the lighting plant. SOUTH BENI SENDS AID. ' A relief train from South Bend arrived with 3,000 loaves of bread, representing output of all the South Bend bakeries and hotels. The train also carried barrels of salt meat, condensed milk, eggs of all the grocery stores, a carload of apples, gasoline stoves, lanterns candles, clothing and medicine. Another South Bend relief train reached Peru late last' night, with Lieutenant Governor O'Hara in charge. Besides food and clothing it carried 1,600 gallons of water, 185 gallons of oil, and 200 lanterns. ' Relief forces from Warsaw are on the way. They Include seventy-five men with forty rowboats and several launches. A rescue party from South Bend consisted of a squad of detectives sent' by the police authorities and a squad of twenty-flflve volunteers. In spite of the numerous relief parties already In the vicinity there, was not a sufficient number of boats to carry them topoints where they could be of service Snow is falling heavily and suffering is intense from lack of heat ing facilities. There is no light save from the lanterns. MUDDY WATER CAUSES IMXESS. Many of those taken from here to the hospital at Plymouth have become sick through drinking muddy water. To prevent this, by supplying fresh wat-

CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY DKNVXK SALT LAKS CITY SAN Fit AN CI SCO PORTLAND, ORE.

Photograph from Dayton- Carrying a

I IT"? 1 . " 1 1 I

mmu i---.h i . it jw ' x i - ,n

MM L 'v-: .; r , . 4zrir---i ' fe . ' -1

I i I (II iV, V-i jOrt . . -i Kir , i? j -1

er. was one of the problems confronting the rescuers. One of the rescue party, who made the trip in the first boat that entered the city, said: "We learned frri the survivors that the flood rushed in upon the city at about 10 o'clock-Monday night. The river rose six feet lit three hours. Warning had been given some of the residents, but many failed to heed it. 'The cry to be saved from those who saw the first boat was heart-rending. Some of them threatened to jump into the water if we did not take them aboard. But it was impossible with the scanty boat supply to take all away at ones " HOMELESS FII.X INDIANAPOLIS. Indianapolis, March 27. Night fell on the stricken west section of IndU anapolis with the rescue work far from complete and nothing done as yet to recover the bodies of the dead. Many persons are known to have been drown ed In their little one story dwellings beside the broken levee, and the number of deaths cannot be estimated until the water has receded. Most of the suffering is. of course. among the poor, and there the death toll is heaviest. But some sections of the residence district have been swept wealthy families driven out for refuge. ' boulevards ruined and some of the parks swept clean of surface soil The city is In a 'state of semi-panic. Some women were taken from tree tODS and housetODs in West IndianaDO-1 lis unconscious. Others collapsed when thev reached safetv and with everv nhvtlrlin In lh r-itv wnrklnr aleenlesa and almost foodless the relief work is! short of what it should be. STREET CARS STAND IDLE. Street cars in the street where their

crews were compelled to abandon them atOD the National Cash Register buildwhen power was shut off. Poles andi1"- nearly two miles from the scene

wires are down and tracks washed out. Late yesterday afternoon the east span of the West Washington street bridge fell into the river, and a little later the wreckage was swept down with a crash against the pier of the Kentucky avenue bridge, a mile below. That structure is in danger of giving avenue traffic bridge and the two railroad bridge, both of which are cut off at the terminals and useless for rescue work until the flood subsides. The big bridge of Kingan & Co., acrosa White river, went out last night, and with it a large amount of debris was swept down the river and lodged j against the Big Four railroad bridge ' a few blocks below, which puts the ' latter in great danger. The bridge of , the Vandalia railroad is only one block! below the Kla- Four structure, and ' would likely be carried away if the bridge above it goes out. WATER WORKS SHUT DOWN. The city found itself crippled in respect to waterworks and without "fire protection.- Drinking water sold at a premium and water from the mains for bathing was unattainable. The sudden crash of the Morris street levee at West Indianapolis caught the hundreds of people near it entirely unprepared. The families in one story houses were at the mercy of the flood. It Is believed many were trapped and unable even to get out of doors. The bodies of these unfortunates will not be found until the waters recede, and this circumstance baffles attempts to estimate the extent of the casualties. There is an unverified rumor that a large number of refugees sought shelter in Wolfe's hall. Under the extraordinary weight the crowded floor collapsed and many probably were crushed or drowned In the water below. DAWN STARTS RESCUE WORK. At dawn the armies of rfscuers resumed the work they had been forced to abandon at midnight. At the edge of the flood and along temporary landing places they hastily threw together scows "and rafts, lined them with tar paper and paddled their way about the flooded streets to persons in the greatest dangeY. There were some of the rescuers who In spite of fatigue worked all through the night. Police Sergeant Charley Reed and Albert Harris made a scort; of trips to marooned houses. ' "We saw three drowned." Reed said, "a man, a woman, and child. People across the street from them yelled at us and pcisted to the house. We rowed

over to see three lying there dead and

v t; cuuiu Jiui i racn Litem. Thirty-five children were taken to the West Washington street car barns and little groups rescued from every imaginable point of temporary escape from the waters were taken into homes and store rooms on the higher ground. BOTOR LAIACHES AID WORK. . , worK wan grcany Tciciuitiieu Dy ine j arrival of six motor boats hurried down White river, arriving at West Indianapolis a little before noon. The makeshift scows and rafts continued their explorations all through the day, finding hundreds of frantic people hungry and near exhaustion from exposure scattered through the vast flooded territory. i DAYTON'S PEOPLE TRAPPED BY FIRE - ' rcontlnned from Pare L.1 flamescast.a. red, weird glow over the city that added to the fears of the thousands of marooned persons.' Fire Nears Telephone. The conflagration Is within a block of the telephone exchange In which Is located John Bell, who for more than i forty-eight hours has kept the outside world Informed as best he could of the catastrophe. If this building goes the only connecting link with the outside will be severed. I Tnat the fire which appeared to be : sweeping through the half-submerged 1 DUSlness OlSlrlCl OI JJaytOn late last night had destroyed the Beckel house, j where there were supposed to be more I than 200 flood refugees, was the concensus or opinion or scores or watcners or tne rames. Investigation of the fire at close range was an utter impossibility. More than a mile of flood water intervened between the point where staunchest boats dared venture and the area of flames. Traced by aid of maps, it apr w u- . 1 . 11 T . 1 , 1 . J piroyea ai some nine aner iv o ciock. City Under JJiaruai Law. , 1 Whether the refugees supposed to ' have ben there tried to escape was 'only a matter of conjecture. At midnight residents watching the course of of Dayton the flames from across the wide stretch of flood waters believed the fire got Its new "tart .this afternoon in the store of the Patterson Tool and Supply company on Third street, just east of Jefferson, whence it ate its way west, apparently aided by escaping -gas and exploding chemicals in two wholesale drug establishments. The city has been placed under martial law. A boat which was engaged in rescue work capsized and all of the crew but Robert Patterson, son of John H. Pat terson : of the National Cash Register company, were drowned. Mr. Patterj son acted as captain of the crew Rescue squads worked frantically to day to throw back the veil that hides j the true story of, the disaster the number of dead. Two hundred bodies have been recovered in the outlying districts. , The greatest loss of life occurred in North Dayton. The death list is' now believed to 6e in the neighborhood of 2,000. Five hundred coffins were ordered tonight for Immediate delivery by the National Cash Register company. Current Retards Rescuers. While the flood steadily receded this afternoon, the terriffic current retarded rescue work, and a cold, smarting rain added to the discomforts of the already overburdened storm victims. Expert oarsmen who braved the tide In the business section of the submerged city this afternoon came back nerve-racked to relate narratives of pitiable appeals made to them-by hundreds marooned In upper floors of tall buildings about whose lower stories swirled a flood that threatened the structures' foundations. SMOKER AND CHBWER, FOREX (XXXX) plug rat tobacco has become famoua with amokera. Quality and quantity appealing like UNION SCOUT SCRAP. Save the ticketa. McHie S. Tob. Co Ae.

ir

Woman to Safety. PJIJJJ3 STILL ARE ANNULLED (Continue from Page one) peake and Ohio,, and the Panhandle are In worse shape, although all are able i to run accomodation trains between 'certain oolnts. A relief train passed through Hammond about noon today over the C & O. bound for relief and stopped here to take oh a supply of provisions which City Sealer Frank O'Rourke had gathered together from the various merMore Is to follow In a special car that Is to go from this city. The relief train however will not be able to go all the way to Peru owing to track washouts. The Panhandle Is unable to get its trains beyond Logansport and is running accomodation trains between Chi cago and the Indiana city. The heavy snow storm last evening added to the railroad difficulties. ' Dispatchers Overworked. The dispatchers offices for the vari ous roads are almost overworked In routing and re-routing - their various trains over other companies lines. The roads are accomodating each other as best they can The lack of through train service Is felt especially in the mails. Mail from the east is all late. A little is brought in by the various accomodation train which carry mail, but most of it gets to cnicago in a rounaaooui way ana men gels DH.CK. io nammonu ana rerouted to other Lake County cities. HAMMOND GETS BUSY WITH HELP tConttnued from Page L) meeting this morning was that every body who can afford it will want to give a little more and therefore a spe cial committee was appointed to re ceive these funds. The following committees worked untiringly this afternoon to ge. the re lief car under way: ' For the city administration: John I Rohde, John Kane and Frank O'Rourke, this committee having been appointed by Mayor Smalley to expend the city's relief funds, For the Chamber of Commerce: W. C. Belman, E. F. Johnston and Ed Simon, this committee having been appointed by President Reiter to apply the funds raised by subscriptions and to cooper ate with Mayor Smalley's committee The committee on loading the special car is composed of H. P. Downey, Dr. J. T. Clark and Charles Hubbard. John M. Stlnson, member of the Ham mond Motor Club was delegated as i committee of one to make arrange ments to have a number of motor boats taken to Peru on flat cars which' the C. & O. railroad offered to furnish free of charge .The suggestion for motor boats came from Judge Barnett at the last minute and Its carrying out is as important as getting provisions into the stricken city. Judge Barnett Informed ' the meeting that Peru railroad officials state that some people In the city are completely marooned and crying and begging for food and assistance. Be cause of lack of boats it is Impossible to reach them The meeting lasted just one hour, Many good questions, and suggestions were raised .but by common consen all discussion was cut short in order that the committee could get to work without a minute's delay. Through out the meeting it was emphasized that what is needed is food clothing and shelter, and that these supplies could not be purchased in the stricken city with any amount of money. The question then arose as to how to spend the Hammond money, whether directly or through the Red Cross. Dr. Mary Jackson a member of the Ameri can Red Cross, Informed the meeting that she was positive that no mistake could be made in sending provisions df rectly from Hammond, and, further more, gave .the meeting assurance that any money that might be turned over to the Red Cross would be . wisely spent. City Engineer Peter J. Lyons touched responsive chord, wae nhe called the

-

Proclamation

by Mayor Knotts of Gary. T the People of Garyi Every citizen who believes la the brotherhood of hamanlty atanda appalled at the terrible atory of atoraa and flood that have swept thouoanda of hu-belna-a Into eternity and made deatltote and homeleaa many more thousands of men, women and chil dren In our own atate of Indiana d in oar slater atate of Ohio. I therefore call upon the good people of this community, which thua far has escaped the fnry of the ele ments, to contribute liberally of their means In aid of the sorely smitten peoples of the flood-stricken cities mm dtowns which are appealing- for comfort and aid In this the hour of their dire distress. All rltUena who feel that help la due the sufferer from the floods which are devastating oar. sister cities are requested to meet with me In the city court room at the city hall at 7i30 o'clock tonight. March 2T. for the purpose of taking such immediate action as may be deemed necessary In the matter. Remember that he who gives promptly, gives twice. AH citizens of Gary are org rd to attend the meeting. THOMAS E. KNOTTS. Mayor. attention of the meeting to the fact that Peru is not the only city suffering and that Hammond's sympathy should extend beyond the state boundary and into all the suffering cities. He said that the people of Hammond ought to be good for at least $10,000. Mr. Belman pointed out that this could best be done through be Red Cross society. The amount of money that the city should appropriate from the city treas ury was a subject for some discussion. While there is no legal provision for such an appropriation, the meeting pro ceeded to Indorse any appropriation that the council might make, satisfied that no citizen would question the propriety In so good a cause. In behalf of the city -officials, how ever. Judge Lawrence Becker, however. urged the meeting not to let its sentiment carry away good Judgment. His remarks were based on suggestions for a $5,000 appropriation. He said Hammond should take its place along with other third-class cities and not lag behind in the sise of its contribution, but 1 that there was no occasion for it to out-reach an'd out-distance all other cities in the state. He was not opposed to some appropriation, however. wnen it was touna mi new aiscusslons would be opened continually It was finally decided to give the appointed committee full power to act In accordance with their best judgment. SOW FLOOD SUFFERERS E. Talk about your flood sufferers! Well, maybe you fancy there were no flood sufferers in East Chicago, but there were. Chauffeur Hartley and Officer Harry Nangle were them 'ere. and the experiences of the father of his country crossing the Deleware and Eliaa of Uncle Tom fame, leaping from one floating Ice cake to another, were tame compaerd with perils of Hartley and Nangle, crossing the raging Little Calumet, in the East Chicago auto patrol day before yesterday. It happened In this wise. The afore mentioned cherished arms of the law had navigated to Crown Point with a bunch of prisoners on the day of the big waters. They got there by the skin of their teeth, and by everybody, including the prisoners getting out and pushing on numerous occasions, and hauling out of the way divers and sundry telegraph poles and chicken coops which had broken from their moorings, which beset their path. Aa the flood was rising every moment, the officers bethought them that it would be unsafe to try the journey back, and proposed to Chief McCormack over the telephone wire, that they put up the auto in a Hub garage and make the perilous journey back to East Chicago, via interurban. , Chief McCormack sitting with his feet on a nice, dry desk In his cozy private office, couldn't see it that way and said, "Be sports and take a chance." Hartley and Nangle .consulted with persons who pretended to know and they advised them to make a race for It via the Ridge Road and Maryville. These wise ones thought they could beat the flood by "pouring It Into" their machine. 'It took that patrol seven and

CHICAGO

GRAY HAIR TURNS ITS NATURAL COLOR AFTER APPLYING SAGE TEA

Mixed With Sulphur It Darkens Beautifully and Takes Off Dandruff. irejrj Almost every one knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur, properly compounded, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray: also cures dandruff, itching scalp arAl stops falling hair. Tears ago the bnly way to get this mixture was .to make it at home, which Is mussj- and troublesome. Nowadays skilled chemists do this better than ourselves. By asking at any drug store for the 'ready-to-use product called "Wyeth's Sage and ' Sulphur Hair Remedy" you will get a

HAMMOND -GARY

TRANSFER & EXPRESS FOR QUICK SERVICE. Furniture to or from Chicago or any where In the Calumet Region with Auto Truck. :-: :-: :-: " :-s OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. Phone. Office. 67B. House 10B3J. 34 Michigan Avenue. S. U. CABI.EY, Manager. PATENT YOUR IDEAS and make I Money cmo roe sit rsca book HOW TO GET THKhf" Al Awcc nuz m . w wnVoSS JOSHUA R. H. POTTS Ms c su wnii HH.P.C-. u.a.wr wnm lauwriiiiWiiifc ai one-half hours to get back and part of the time it was slushing through water and mud three feet deep. Ordinarily It takes two hours and twenty minutea t make the round trip. RALSTON MAKES THREE APPOlliTMEHTS Dr. Coover, Marshall Man, Is Ditched for Dr. Nelson. Indianapolis. Ind., March 27. Dr. W. E. Coover, another of the ill-fated Mar shall appointees, went overboard hero. last night when Governor Ralston re fused to re-appoint him to the position of state veterinarian, though he car ried score of recommendations. Dr. Amos F. Nelson of Lebanon, th governor's home city, was the successful applicant for the Job, which carries) a salary of 1.200, with numerous fees. and the power to appoint practically as many deputies as are needed at any salary the xerinarian may see fit. The governor has announced that he has in mind the sort of a public UtUU ties commission he wishes to name and ' that he "will take no dictation from any one." The statement Is taken to mean here that Thomas Taggart wishes will not be considered too strongly In the selection of the comj missloners. ; Governor Ralston has named W, TV Longley of Noblesville as state flr marshal, with John Minor Jr. of In dianapolis, and Roger Wallace of In dianapolis as deputies. Longley is aj dyed-in-the-wool Taggart politician. . i There is a lull in the. activity of tha campaign-for the vacancy .on the board of county commissioners. The three most prominent candidates are the city chairmen or the township chair men of the various townships. In Gary there is J. J. Kelley an" township chairman Herbert c Francis, in East Chicago there Is city chairman Thomas O'Connell of Indiana, in Ham mond there, Is city chairman William Newman. These three candidates for the office base their claims on the service they have rendered to the party In recent and other campaigns. The list of can dldates has Increased by two. , Paul B. Liplnskl, who made the race; for treasurer on the Hammond city ticket two years ago is out and so Andrew Reiner of Highlands, banker and prominent business man there. The following is the corrected list to date: Gary. Herbert C. Francis, township chair man. J. J. Kelley, real estate dealer. Eaat C'hlcaa;. Mose Specter, the postmaster of East Chicago. Thomas O'Connell, a leading Indiana! Harbor republican. Hammond. .William Newman, former alderman and ward leader. Paul B. Liplnskl. Wotting. William Vater, now county council man. Bob Denham, republican leader. Walter Schrage Jr., prominent re publican. , Pante Haralovlch, prominent republl can. ' f Aetna. Hobart Township. Walter Edwards, superintendent ot the Aetna powder works. North Township. t Andrew Reiner, Highlands. , V large bottle for about SO cents. Somn druggists make their own but It's) usually too Bttcky, so insist upon get ting "Wyeth's", which can be depended upon to restore natural color and beauty to the'halr and Is the best remedy for dandruff, dry, feverish. Itchy scalp and to stop falling hair. Folks like "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur" because no one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as It does It so naturally and evenly, says a wellknown downtown druggist. You dampen a sponge or soft brush and draw it through you hair, taking one small strand at a time. This requires but a few moments, by morning the gray hair disappears and after another uppUcation or two in restored to Its natural color and looks even mors beauMful and glossy than ever. Harry's . Drug . Store, Citizens Nat l. Bank building, L. Harry Weis. 4

110 NEW : nnrM niir

Ml UU

i 1 1 inn -"

rim juu