Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 118, 28 March 1913 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRID AY,MARCII 28, 1913.

The Richmond Palladium And San-Telegram Published and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued Every Evening: Except Sunday. Office Corner North 9th sad A Street. Palladium and Sun-Telegram Phone Business Office, 2S66; New Department. 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

RUDOLPH Q. LEEDS Xditor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS In Richmond, $5.00 per year (In advance) or 100 per wee. BITRAT. ROUTES On year. In advance . SJ.00 Six month, is advance................. . One month, in advance........ ? Address chanfed aa often aa deaired: botk new and old addresae must be given. Subscribers will please remit with order, whiah should be given for a specified term; name will not be entered until Daymen received. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS One year, in advance.. .93-00 Six months, In advance................ 2.60 One month, in advance.. ........ ...... .41 Entered at Richmond. Indiana, poet office as second class mad matter. X7- W.I. Bu..-..4l.u Vmmnm Young, 30-34 West JJd Street, and 39-3 S west una street, new I or, rt. x. Chicago Representatives Payne tt Young, -o aaarquciia suwugi wwiiqi Tk- IumUiU mf Aim ?fill lean Advertiaers bag exJ&Xj ami-url aa4 eertifUel to Beatiea, Tle tigmres of cirewlatiea Mtainnel in the Asaeciation's re port only avr apuraetteed. Asraatiea of Amer km Advertisers iNo. 'CP. ,WWtn Ilif. 1. T. Citj OF LOCAL AUTOS TO Richmond' flying squadron of relief automobiles brought good cheer to the famished, saddened disheartened resi dents of West Dayton yesterday. The nineteenth car to start, a test m chine driven by Russell Oaar, was the first to arrive in the stricken city and Its load of bread was seized by the refugees like a pack of starred wolves. Before returning to Richmond nearly a bundaed of the homeless flood suffer ers wsote letters and post cards to relatives In .other cities, telling them they were sate and sound, and intrust ed them to Gaar's care, to be mailed at the Richmond post office. Mrs Leroy Howell, a former resident of Richmond, "gave him a message to tele phone to George McClure on his arrival in Richmond. He also bore a personal message from the son-in-law of 'Squire Hunt, living south of Rich mond. Krman Smith arrived shortly after Oaar and he said that it was impera tive that Richmond oontlnue its efforts to provision and clothe the Dayton flood victims. He bore a personal message from Carl Emerson, a Pal hadium reporter, that his sister, who had been visiting in Dayton, had sur vived the horrors of the flood. Smith also told of the rescue of an aged woman off a housetop, on which she had floated all the way from Piqua. He said that a Richmond woman, Mrs. .Hale, formerly Miss Bessie Johnson, had escaped from the high waters. John Weller,' another member of the iRichmond flying squadron, also returned yesterday after a hard trip. He said the refugee's cheered Richmond for its work in assisting the flood vic tims. After leaving his load of provisions at a little school in West Dayton he obtained permission from a militia major to cross the Dayton View bridge to assist in removing women, brought to the foot of the bridge in boats, to places of safety. "A member of the Dayton relief committee told me that 500 bodies had been found in the traction terminal station," said Weller. "I cannot see where the newspaper accounts of the catastrophe have been overdrawn." William E. Bayfield of this city returned today after experiencing tour days of the horrors of the flood in Dayton. Bayfield last Monday was enroute from Dayton to Lima, but four miles out of town the train was stalled and forced to return to Dayton. Bayfield then sought refuge in a small hotel next to the Union station. Early today he got out of the hotel, climbing down a fire escape and entering a rowboat. He was taken to the levee, along which he walked until he came to the railroad tracks, which he follow ed until he reached the Dayton View bridge. He returned to Richmond on train. Wanted A wash woman to come to the house. Phone 2933. Easy. "Henryj" she said, "I wish I could organize a society of some kind. It seems to be the only way to secure social recognition in this town. "Well, why don't you go ahead and organize one V "I can't think of anything that I'm an authority on. If I should organize a drama club some other woman who knew more about the drama than 1 would butt In and get herself elected rweldent It would be the same way 'Uh suffrage, ethical culture and child Ihidjr and music. I'm unfortunately an authority on any of these igs, ana If I got up a society lid, of course, want to be tne neaa 11, why not organise a Browning You can pretend to know all rownlng. and the other women etend to know all about him now whether you're fooling nof-Chlcago Beeord-HeralA

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Some Modest Heroes. The Palladium desires to express its most grateful thanks to those highly efficient and public spirited men and young women who have been manning the telephone and telegraph wires with little or no opportunity to rest during all the terrible crisis this section of the country has been passing through. They have been polite, generous and obliging to people who have showered unjust abuses on them and they have been "on the job" every minute, alert, intelligent and resourceful and the assistance they have given the newspapers will make those institutions their debtors forever. Wire operators at the local telephone exchanges and telegraph offices sought out neighboring communities in dire distress and have on every occasion been the first to spread the appeal for help, and like their sisters and brothers in towns and cities where flood torrents reaped a heavy toll, would have faced death at their posts calmly and without fear, giving the news to the last, had they been confronted with such a situation. If Mr. Carnegie has any of his little hero medals to spare, the Palladium can furnish him quite a list of modest, unknown heroes and heroines, a great part of whom are of that courageous craft who man the wires and "stay on the job" when others flee for their lives. Our hat is off to them.

What the Work Ahead of Us Is. Mighty torrents have swept down the fertile valleys of Indiana and western Ohio and the path of these flood waters is marked with the corpses of thousands of men, women and children, and the debris of demolished homes and leveled factories and business houses, and today the stricken survivors gaze stupefied on this terrible scene of chaos and death, but the dwellers of this country which has been dealt such a crushing blow come of a great race conquerors of men and nature for centuries, and they will not be dismayed at the great task which lays ahead of them. On the sites of those cities laid low by the floods and winds, will spring up better cities and new railroad lines will be built, and they will carry away the product of new mills and factories, so it will not be long until the valleys of Indiana and Ohio will once more be the garden spot of America. Although Richmond has fared better than most of its sister cities its citizens have an important part to play in the great work of reconstruction confronting the people of Indiana and Ohio, which is to work untiringly and generously in clothing and feeding the flood victims in the immediate vicinity of Richmond, so that they will be properly prepared to do the gigantic work ahead of them.

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(Owing to the many conflicting reports that have reached this city from the flood stricken district the Palladium publishes the following article which was written by Will W. Reller who was in charge of the press car sent out by the Palladium, Mr. Reller consented to take charge of the expedition so that the people of Richmond might have an accurate report on the conditions in Dayton Editorial Note). (By WILL W. RELLER.) DAYTON NEEDS FOOD AND CLOTHING. No newspaper report of the situation there has exaggerated Dayton's needs in this respect. Dayton needs food and clothing AT ONCE, and Richmond and the surrounding country can do more toward alleviating the suffering in the stricken Ohio city, less than fifty miles away, than any other place. Railroad service has been established sufficently to get food and raiment through to the sufferers, and the turnpikes are also passable for automobiles and other vehic les. Each person should do his part by subscribing money or giving food and clothing. When these commodities are delivered into Dayton they will be given to those absolutely deserving. Adequate measures have been taken for dispensing the food and clothing after it arrives. Dayton will care for its own if given the material to do with. But Dayton cannot originate food nor clothing; it must depend on the outside for this. The Palladium's correspondent does not desire to preach a ser mon in this column, but he does want to make the readers of this paper know that they can now do most for Dayton not by signs and sympathy but by contribut ing. THURSDAY TURNING POINT Thursday morning was the turning point for better things in uayton. rne sun DroKe through the. clouds and the waters of Miami and Mad rivers and Wolf creek dropped back into their banks. The bridges across these streams which for two days had been impassable were opened to automobiles carrying relief into the down town flood district, and hundreds of suffer ers who had been on roof tops, in attics and other high places were carried for the first time since Tuesday morning to a warm dry place and given a cup of hot coffee. Dayton welcomed Thursday with a silent fervent prayer to God. The maddened elements took their final fling at the dis tressed city Wednesday night,

and it was horrible in the extreme. Added to the desolation of the flood were licking flames of fire, a cold drenching rain turning to snow and cutting winds. The Palladium correspondent stood at the corner of River street and Salem avenue, both paved thoroughfares in aristocratic West Dayton, at nine o'clock Wednesday night. This usually well ordered corner was the shore line of the raging water and looking toward the heart of the business district there was no land in sight. The sky was red with flames burning down -town business buildings and this light showed plainly the outline of the Third street bridge with its street cars filled with hungry and cold passen

gers. The only electric light to be seen anywhere was that in the National Cash Register building. Although the water did much damage at the Ca'sh Register plant the main buildings are standing solidly and they have been turned into a relief station where hundreds are now sheltered. With a light beaming from every window the Cash Register plant was a most j welcome sight. PATROLLED SHORE LINE. Two members of the Ohio National guard here patrolled the shore line, and assisted flood sufferers to land as a life saving boat now and then made its way through the swift current and to the bank. E. J. Anderson, suerintendent of construction of the Richmond Home Telephone company, who accompanied the Palladium correspondent to Dayton, worked bravely through the storm trying to establish communication west from the city. And all the while persons passed carrying relief to the suffering. Some went in automobiles, but most of them were afoot. The fire, what ordinarily would be an all absorbing catastrophe, attracted no great attention; every living person was apparently bent on saving others from drowning and of giving relief, to them when ashore. Even those whose homes were not ruined by the water or fire suffered for drinking water, light and fuel. The water supply was cut off on account of the power plant being flooded, the power plant, supplying electric light was likewise under water,! and it has been impossible to, furnish any gas to consumers! since Wednesday night. Dayton residents use gag, both naturalj

and artificial, very largely for heating, and almost exclusively for cooking. The hardship worked by the failure of the gas supply can easily be imagined especially when those rescued from the flood districts were so sorely in need of hot food and beverages. ESTIMATES ON DEATH TOLL Estimates on the loss of life place it all the way from 1,000 to 5,000, but as a matter of fact there is no way to accurately tell what the death toll will be. It will be a week before the true loss can be fixed. The first attention must be given to the living. That the officials feel it will be very large is shown by the call sent out to all undertakers in surrounding towns. The property loss will be millions in Dayton alone. It is estimated that fifteen thousand residences have been destroyed entirely, while nearly all the buildings in the flood district, which was three-fourths of the city, were seriously damaged. Those who manned the rescue boats said that the currents on al! the streets were swift, so there may be hundreds of buildings undermined to the point of unsafety. The loss to the municipality for river levee, bridge, sewer, street and sidewalk improvements will be enormous. An official of the city government said that a million dollars worth of bonds will be floated at once, the money to be used for cleaning the city. Then there is the enormous loss to business interests. Not a down town business house escaped. All suffered from the water and many by fire. Buildings did not burn singly, they burned by blocks. The net loss in Dayton will be greater than in many other cities visited by calamities in late years for the reason that there was practically no property insurance against loss by water. In some ways property owners whose buildings burned are better off than without the fire. The buildings were already ruined by the flood, and the fire making complete the destruction, gave to the owner some insurance money with which to rebuild. It was reported that some had fired their buildings when they saw they were to be ruined by the flood. 'UTILITIES BROKEN DOWN. Every public service corporation is completely disabled. Not a street car has moved since the flood, set it, not a telephone has been used, no electric lights have been turned on. and gas has been cut off since Wednesday night. The equipment of all these companies has been wrecked and it will be a long time before Dayton will have anything like adequate service from its public utilities. The great power plant of the Ohio Electric Traction company, which operates electric interurban cars on all lines out of Dayton except one, is under water, its fine machinery and dynamos water soaked beyond use. If Dayton recovers sufficiently to think of amusement next summer even in this the city will be handicapped. White City, the big amusement park, which bordered on the river, has been entirely destroyed. Many are no doubt asking the question how could it all happen in a modern city like Dayton. Not only, how did the water

spread as never in the city's history, but how did so many fall victims before it. An abnormal rainfall almost a cloudburst of hours duration, coupled with the breaking of the levee along the Miami river accounts for the volume of water. The topography of the city's bus iness and residence district, the same being a low level river valley, accounts for the breadth of the water. DID NOT HEED WARNING While the loss of life is the same old story of all such disasters people would not heed the warning given. A general alarm was sounded by proclamation, bells and whistles of the danger ahead, but those endangered put off moving until the last minute, and thousands when it was too FRECKLES February and March Worst Months For This Trouble How to Remove Easily. There's a reason why nearly -everybody freckles in February and March, but happily there is also a cure for these ugly blemishes, and no one need stay freckled. Simply get one ounce of otbine, double strength, from Leo H. FIhe, and apply a little of it at night, and In the morning you should see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the light ones have vanished entirely. Now is the time to rid yourself of freckles, for if not removed now they will stay all summer, and spoil an otherwise beautiful complexion. Tour money back if othine fails. , T (ATrtliemtaU ;

late. Thousands, however, were affected by the water who had never been threatened before and this made them feel safe in places which later were devastated by boiling currents. Street cars stranded on the Third street bridge for two days without fuel or provisions. They caught such driftwood as they could, and used it for fire, while their only food was such as could be tossed them from boats. This was a hazardous feat as the whirling of the muddy water about the abutments and girders of the bridge drove the waves into white caps, and the currents threatened to draw down those who ventured on rescue work. It seems that there never is a calamity but that it might have been worse, and Dayton is thankful that the rush of waters came early in the morning, and after sun up. This made it possible for families in most instances to remain together, for all to be awake and dressed, and with sufficient light by which to see. Had it all occurred late in the night, attended by the destruction of the electric lighting system the loss of life would have been many times what it is now. POOR ARE VICTIMS. Althought it cannot be told how many are dead it is safe to say that when the list is chronicled it will show mostly poor and lowly in its numbers. There will be some in moderate circumtances, and a few of the rich residents, but due to various circumstances the dead will in the majority be of the very humble. In the Polish settlement the loss will be frightful. North Dayton, also known as "Texas," lays between Miami river as it comes into the city from the North and Mad river which flows in from the east. These two rivers meet and between them were the homes of hundreds of day laborers. Nearly all these houses were frame and of but one and two stories. The river levee is higher than the roofs of most of them and when the levee broke naturally they were completely submerged. The inhabitants drowned like rats in traps. Those who lived in apartment houses with several stories, or were caught in down town business houses had a chance to climb above the water's level, but there was no such opportunity for the unfortunate residents of North Dayton. Many substantial and wealthy citizens live in Dayton View, a part of the city not submerged, and they are doing valiant service toward relieving the distressed. No attempt is being made by any one to attend to his own personal business. Automobiles and vehicles of every kind are hauling people from danger to places of safety, and carrying clothing and food. These rich people have thrown open their homes to any one unhoused, while every church and school building not under water, is being used as a relief station. Men, who have made successes of their own business, are giving their time and training to the work of relief, and this feature is moving systematically and with telling results. GOOD WORK OF SOLDIERS Thanks to the soldiers there has been little looting and disorder up to date. Now that bridges across the river are in use, people living in the Northwest and Western portions of the city and those who have taken refuge

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there, would like to rush across into the city's stricken business district, but the militiamen stand guard at every bridgeway. Only relief automobiles go through. These machines carry food and coffee into the business section and bring sufferers out of it. Those on the outside of Dayton should not think because the streams have taken to their banks, and the water has left Main street, the principal thoroughfare, that Dayton can now take care of itself. Imagine what Richmond would be if threefourths the entire city had been under water of an average depth of twenty-five feet for two whole days, if it had no light, heat, drinking water, street cars, or telephones, if several squares of its business district were charred ruins, and hundreds of its citizens were dead. If you would want help from Dayton for Richmond under such conditions, then Richmond should lend every assistance possible to Dayton now. CLOTHING BADLY NEEDED. Not only is Dayton needing help now, but her citizens will need clothing and food for months to come. Those who had nothing but clothes and household goods have been pauperized. Added to this is death and sickness with its attendant expense and sorrow. There will be an abundance of deserving charity. Little towns surrounding will be greatly handicapped by Dayton's loss. Dayton with its wholesale houses had been the source of supply for these small places, and for several months to come they will have to order elsewhere. Already these small places have sent to establish a new supply from other large cities. One. grocer in Brookville, Ohio, west of Dayton, told the Palladium correspondent that he had entirely sold out, and he had been trying all Thursday afternoon to get telephone connection with one of the wholesale groceries of Richmond so that he could re-stock his store. Those on the outside of Dayton have worried a great deal because of inability to learn of the fate of their friends and relatives inside the city, but this situation is nearly as bad within the city's borders. The city has been divided by reason of the water and with no phone service, news has been of the most fragmentary kind. There has been no newspapers published inside the city since the flood and none sent in from the outside. MANY TRAGIC SCENES. There have been a great many tragic scenes and heroic acts since Tuesday morning. Wednes

day a man with a baby was beting carried down the river in a canoe. He saw that he was to ;be crushed to death against a huge cement bridge and suicid ed instead by using a revolver. The baby was drowned. An avaricious fellow in a boat refused to rescue a man and woman because they did not have the five dollars he demanded, whereupon two men in an adjoining house offered him the money asked for.- When the boatmen reached them they dumped him into the water and took possession of his boat, saving themselves and a number of others. Mr. Thompson, of the Bell Telephone company, of Dayton, told how a relative of his had saved himself, wife and baby. The water rose so sigh in their second story that no longer MCLVIN BABLER. j CaldweU's Syrup Pepsin. Blnoe using this remedy he has never seea clnsU pated. The use of Dr. CaldweU's Syrup Pep sin will teach you to avoid cathartics, alts and pilla as they are too harsh ; for the majority and their effect is on- ; ly temporary. Syrup Pepsin brings per j manent results, and It can be convenleatly obtained of any nearby druggist at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle. Results ere always guaranteed or money win be refunded. i If no member of your family has ever used Syrup Pepsin and yon would like to make a personal trial of it before buying It In the regular way of a druggist, send your address a postal ! trill do to W. B. Caldwell. 417 Wash 'lngton St Montieetlo. HL, and a free jaamle bottle vrM ho aaUod jf on.

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on their bed stacked high with furniture. The man took a chair and broke through the plaster ing into . the attic inrougn this small hole, he pulled his wife, who weighed two hundred pounds, and also his baby. Thurs day when the water receded they were saved, but they were nearly dead for want of sustenance and from the cold. One man with a boat saved one hundred and sixty persons. It was reported that twentyseven militiamen were patrolling the levee when it gave way and all but two were drowned. There will be a very heavy loss of horse flesh. Practically all horses in the district badly flooded have been drowned. Animal life was abandoned where there was only a chance to save human beings. One place a house with a porch attached had lodged in a tree. Two horses swimming in the water attempted to get onto the porch but their weight submerged the structure and the animals were carried on down the river. GROCERYMAN PUNISHED. A groceryman Wednesday attempted to double his prices. That night enraged neighbors broke into his place and carried away everything that was in shape for immediate consumption. Another groceryman nearby dispensed what groceries he had without charge. There is practically none of the former, and nearly all of the latter spirit in Dayton at this time. The supplies from Richmond sent Thursday reached Dayton in good shape. At the relief stations they expressed deepest thanks for the interest Richmond is showing, and those in relief cars spread the news of what Richmond is doing and hopes to do. Citizens in Dayton speaking of the relief in sight always mention Richmond, and the work of this city is being generally heralded. As pointed out by the Palladium correspondent yesterday, Dayton needs supplies not sight-seers, and no one should go to the flood stricken city without earring some provisions to it ready for immediate use. The-best route by automobile for reaching Dayton from Richmond at this time is over the New Paris pike to New Paris, then through Gettysburg, then to Lewisburg, then to Brookville, then to Salem, and through Fort McKinley, into Dayton over Salem avenue. On Salem avenue, the large school house on the left hand side has been turned into a relief - station where supplies can be left. The road from here to Brookville will be found very good, but from that point on the pike is in bad shape, but passable at all places. The heavy travel is tending to dry the road and it will improve rapidly unless there is another rain. It is apparent to the traveler in an automobile that Ohio from Lewisburg on to Dayton had much heavier rains than those in Wayne county during the past week. Railway Watches , A Specialty PLEASURE IN RIDING ilther a motorcycle or bicycle comes ionly to those who ride good machines. We have them. BICYCLES Racycle Iver Johnson .. Avalon Crown Pearl 135.00 $30X0 $30X0 : tsaoo $22.00 to $27X0 All With Coaster Brakes 1913 BICYCLE TIRES Oil Proof $6.50 Pai Hearsey 13 $4X0 Pair Hearsey T. T $6-50 Pair Wlndson Road $6.00 Pai Sapphire $3X0 Pair Winchester $4-00 Peir $250X0 $200X0 Belt or Chain Drive tlood Second hand Excelsiors from 16S.00 to $150.00. ELMER SMITH 126 Main St. , Phone 1E0 Richmond. Indiana.

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