Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 118, 28 March 1913 — Page 17

RICHMOND AJBI AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 1 1 8. RICHMOND, INP.,, ; 31 ARCH ; 1913. SINGLE COPY CENTS ,S . -".

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2 EXHAUSTED MAIL CLERKS RELATE SCENES AT HAMILTON In an exhausted condition, H. S. S. Bell and Oliver Jaylor, mail clerks on the Chicago and Cincinnati division of the Pennsylvania railroad, arrived here last night op r. handcar from Hamilton. The two men were cared for at the Pennsylvania station. Bell and Jaylor left Cincinnati yesterday morning with a relief train for Hamilton and on arrival there they found the flood conditions so serious and knowing the flood conditions in Cincinnati, they decided to make a break for Richmond. They secured a hand car and by taking .it off the track every lew miles they arrived in Richmond Friday evening. The two men. stated that the postmaster of Hamilton estimated the number of dead at 400. They have plenty of provisions there on the east side, as Cincinnati has sent cars of food to that city. The men stated that the postmaster had informed them at Hamilton that Trenton, O., had been wiped off the map. "One policeman told us that he had seen eleven persons drown and yesterday saw thirty-six bodies float past the place where he had been assisting in rescue work," the men said. "We talked to a man who was the father of five children and he told us he had saved but one of them. "The water was twelve feet high at the court house and nine feet at the station yesterday. We saw a big number of dead horses floating in the streets. From what we were told there we believe that there were at least 300 horses under water." The first regiment of the Ohio National guard is there now, Bell and Jaylor said and the city has been placed under martial law. The south side of the city cannot be reached at all, the men asserted and it is not known the exact conditions in that section. "On every side one can see awful sights," they said. "Screams of women and moaning of men, who have lost their children or whose homes have been destroyed, rent the air. It was horrowful. We did what we could and then secured a handcar and by taking it from the track, wherever the track had been torn up or washed away, we managed to get here. "Those streets that Were dry yesterday at the time we left, were filled with rubbish and debris of all kind."

"BEWARE OF BURGLARS" OFFICIAL BOLLETIN READS

DAYTON. O , ' March 28. The relief Committe tonight announced that It was greatly pleased .at thejgenerou.s response to the appeal for aid and ventured the opinion there would be no difficulty in caring for the sufferers unless the volume of .supplies received tomorrow and Sunday should be less than those which came today. Everything considered the condition tonight in Dayton in so far as the relief work Is concerned Is hopeful and by tomorrow morning every section of . the stricken city will have been covered. Danger. of Thieves. "Beware of thieves and burglars," Bald an official bulletin given wide circulation.' "Don't leave your houses without protection. It was thieves who scared yon about the reservoir and natural gas explosion. The natural gas has been turned off, and there is no danger of explosions." Sixty Catholic sisters of the academy of the Sisters of Notre Dame and eighteen persons for whom they had provided refuge were found by the Louisville life saving crew today to have been entirely without food or water since Tuesday. There were several cases of illness anf their suf ferings had been intense. The life savers left a supply of . bread and water and planned to take further help. Water Reached Roofs. The Louisville men also took relief to several hundred families in the low district in the vicinity of Ludlow - and Franklin streets. Here' the water had reached the roofs of all two-story buildings. Only a few of the most desperate cases were brought out, the first move being to leave bread and water in as many places as possible. Tl.ere had been little hope survivors lmld be found in this district, and ,te fact that there proved to be few aeaths brought hope that the death loss would be lower than expected. Alter returning for supplies, the lifesavers started. for North Dayton. Algonquin Hotel Accessible. For the first time in four days the water is oft the street in front of the Algonquin hotel. In the first two days of the flood water reached the second story of the hotel. Relief boats brought food and water today to the famished guests of the Algonquin, the : Becker house, , the Phillips and the Atlas hotel. There was an air of holiday rej joiclng in the ruined boulevards today. I People were glad that they were alive. I They joked and cried with joy by .turns when friends, coming from the , south side of the city, found them. "Most of us made up our minds that .if we had to die we would rather die (drowning than burning," said Dr. Salj unnewo, who was imprisoned in one of the buildings. "We prepared to '. cash in by way of the water. . Hundreds were camped on the roofs of .the hotels and skyscrapers, inspired by the mad notion that the water was

, reaohmg toward them even to the i j'f top floor ., of ; skyscrapers. As the flames, veered toward them Uyhonted j warning ? across th roofs. Manyprayed. At midnight the flames shifted and the downtown section was saved." Mother and Daughter. There were brought to the morgue jtoday the bodies of two women taken . from a house at 609 Second street. . iOn was the bpdy of an old woman. .', Lth other a yoong one. A note pinned

tion for death as the water rose over their home and finally engulfed it.

l , "Ha wke Mother and daughter, read the note. "Hawke Mother and daughter." were placed side by side in the National Cash Register company's garage that has been converted into a morgue. Tho mother and daughter were found on the second floor of their home, in an embrace. Several hundred men and women fled to the Arcade when the water made its first rush, they said today. Snagged Cases of Food. Former Mayor Burkhardt was one of those imprisoned in this Arcade. Burkhardt was unanimously elected mayor of the Arcade community of flood refugees and he established a police and Eanitary system. The postofnce was turned into a shelter place for eighty-nine men, women and children. Ropes were thrown out and cases of food snagged as they floated by. In the midst of the horror fifteen prisoners in the city workhouse broke out through the roof and, fleeing over the roof of the Antlers hotel, raided the cafe. f IS YOUR NAME ( IN THIS LIST? j The following list of names are those of people who have telegrams addressed to them but, owing to inability of locating them, are being held at the Western Union office until disposed of. Any one whose name is in the following column can 1 have their telegram by calling at the Western Union office: " E. G. Bueker, Mrs. Ora Guy, Mrs. H. L. Haywood, Mrs. E. H. Mooreman, Prof. R. C. Sloane, W. M. Zimmerman, Mrs. H. T. Rakonaska, Izrial Harris, Mrs. George McCoy, Mrs. Anna Kemper, S. W. Jackson, Catherine Townsend, Mrs. W. , D. Wildmans, Charles T. Bash, Leon H. Block. W. Vanderstein, Mrs. Bessie Weiland, Mrs. James Holly, Rev.W. B. Freeland, Henry M. Reed, Mrs. Ella Haskett, Charles Stoddard, Ed Schildman, T. I Turner, Mrs. Waldo- Seekinger, Mary M. Kidwell, Rev. Becker, H. Cowgill,Mr. William Smith, G. A. Bair. D. M. Ulrich, Albert Mains, Mr. Dell, Harry Stillinger, Patterson, care Pullman Condr., C & O. No. 1, R. J. Crossley, Mrs. A. W. Putterbaugh, W. L. Magow, Gordon Bartlett, John A. Brown, Mrs. C. M. Thomas, J. T. Woodruff. W. C. Moyer, Mrs. Ida Merwin, W. Rich, Miss Ruch or Mr. Longnecker, Rose Sharkey, Mrs. Charles Goins, George Hayes, Bill Benson, Mrs. Geo. Homrighous, R, L. Sponenberger, Wm. L. Hines, .Wm.. Spangler, F. G. Murray, O. G. Murray, Wm. Wentling. Mrs. Lewis Brackensack, Ora J. Stanback, Mrs. Fannie Scott, Mrs. Jessie Tulble, Mrs. Tulble, G. C. Good, Geo. W. Fleming, Martin Rinehart, A. EL Wells, Mrs. P. A. Rogers, Ison Elliman, J. W. Higgina, F. A. Garley. - FINDS MRS. MILLS. J. H. Mills, president of; the Richmond Casket company, succeeded in locating Mrs. Mills in the Phillips house at Dayton. She-had ,, been in Dayton visiting friend?. "Yesterday the company sent another shipment of 500

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LIBERTY, Ind., (11:00 p. m.) C. M. Gill, a railroader, reached here to night on his way to his home in Connersville, after escaping out of the flood in Hamilton. He said that the train crew went into Hamilton Mon day night and about eleven o'clock Tuesday morning they found that the city was going to be flooded so they took refuge in a church nearby. Gill says that he saw bodies in the streets, on . the porches and in the houses of East Hamilton, and he thinks that the death list will reach the thousand mark. On Ludlow street there was six or seven feet of water and inhere was 6 feet of water at the C, H. & D. railway station. The suffering has been terrible and it will be weeks before the total loss can be estimated. Gill remained in a church until the water had receded enough to allow him to walk out of the city. FIND DEVVEESES AT THEIR FARM NORTH OF DAYTON Burton Carr returned laBt night from Dayton where he had gone during the day in an effort to get trace of Mr. and Mrs. Rollin De Weese. He was successful in bis efforts and brought home to relatives ' the welcome news that Mr. and Mrs. De Weese are safe and well, though they experienced the thrill of a very narrow escape. Mrs. De Weese formerly was Miss Maud "Westcott of Richmond. The De Weese country place is north of Dayton proper about three miles and the tract of 300 acres was inundated last Monday night. Mr. and Mrs. De Weese were driven to the upper floors of their home where they were marooned until the following . night when they were rescued by boat and taken to the home of a tenant on the farm where they remained until yesterday morning. The farm itself was directly in the path of the greatest volume of water that poured -over the country-in. that section and in consequence It suffered damage of the severest sort. Other country seats in the same locality were likewise badly damaged. General Condition. In speaking of general conditions that exists in and about Dayton Mr. Carr said to the Palladium last night that even citizens of the stricken city apparently were, unable to give much information as to the number of fatalities. . "I was unable to get into Dayton proper," said Mr. Carr, "owing to the stringent rules laid down by federal troops now on the ground. Every bridge spanning the river from the suburbs into Dayton proper is guarded by these troopers and no such thing as a mere 'pull' from some citizen of influence will get , one entrance to the business section. I saw a Dayton banker who really seemed to. think he must get through the lines apply to the adjutant in charge for a pass, but he was no more successful that the most humble applicant. The soldiers are there not to annoy citizens but to protect the business interests of the city and they know that there is but one way to do it simply to restrict entrance to the city proper to those persons who have pressing business therein. "Inside the lines the dealing out of rations is done on the army plan, and while all those in need are supplied, there is no promiscuous giving. Food is dealt out according to the needs of those applying and the rules laid down are being strictly adhered to. If the federal soldiers continue tomorrow and Sunday as they started to do this afternoon, it will be useless for mere sightseers to try to get into the central section of the city. A pass is required to get through the lines and to get a pass requires something besides a 'pull.' Stories Differ. "In my trip north to the De Weese farm I did not see a dead body though it had been reported that through this section many persons were drowned. I met and talked to several Dayton men whose ideas differed so greatly as to the number of people whose lives were lost, that -1 was puzzled. For instance I talked to one man who said that he did not think the death list would reach two hundred. Five minutes after I talked to another man who appeared confident that there must have been thousands who- lost their lives." ; WARNING The people of Richmond are warned against going to Dayton unless they go as bonaflde members of the relief commitee. Conditions are such that it is absolutely necessary that anyone not needed for relief work should stay away and not make the troubles of the troops and officers any greater than they already are. . The city Is under Federal military control and under no condition will sightseers -be . allowed to enter the city. The Palladium Is emphatic in its request that everyone not connected with the relief committee shall remain away from the stricken city.

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Dead- Number varies from 500 to 4,000. Number of Homeless 70,000. Sick and Injured At least 2,000. Government Strict martial law. Needs Still want food and milk for babies; also drugs and candles. 1" TO GIVE BIG BENEFIT Attend the show at the Y. M. C. A. tonight and enjoy yourselves and at the same time help the flood sufferers at Dayton and other places. It won't cost you more than ten cents and you can pay as much as you want to. The show opens in the gymnasium at 7:30 and will consist of drills, gymnastic dances, vocal solos and recitations. It will be a performance of real merit and well worth seeing. Sunday four benefit performances will be given by the vaudeville bill at the Murray theater. BREAKS RECORD OF LOCAL OFFICE Manager Ryan of Western Union Has Unprecedented Volume of Business. All records for the volume of business handled at Western Union company's Richmond office, have been broken during this week. Because of its position geographically and also due to the fact that . Richmond fared more fortunately than most cities during the flood days, the ' Richmond office of the Western Union was the real connecting link between the outside world and Dayton. In addition to hundreds of messages brought into Richmond from , Dayton by messengers to be dispatched from the local office of the Western Union, hundreds of messages have been filed by travelers "ntaroohed In theclty as a result of the railroad blockade. All of this business has been handled over a limited wire equipment. Manager Ryan has spent the week at the "key" helping out his force of operators and with all the rush has found time to answer several thousand questions daily put to him by patrons. Two of the regular office force, Messrs. Tuppes and Graham, have been in West Dayton for two days handling business that can now be cared for without transfer. Cecil Clark has received word from his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis Clark at Ruchville that she and his father, mother and sister are safe. He also received a telegram from Mrs. N. Q. Mills, a sister at Connersville saying that she is safe. DEAD AT DAYTON i i 4 DAYTON, a, March 29. Following is a partial list of the dead at Dayton: GEORGE MORGANTHALER. War ren and Vine streets. JOHN N. HAVERSTACK. manager Bell Telephone company. L. C. HAUPT, police operator, wife and three children. MRS. COLLINS and child. LILLIE EICHMANN, thirty-one years, Bolton street. MRS. SCHMIDT' and daughter, MRS. BOND. BODY OF UNKNOWN GIRL, age about twelve. ANTON SHARTLE,, Vine street. near Main. MRS. CARRIE SCHUNTZ, Vine street, near Main. MRS. THOMPSON, Burns street. GEORGE RICHARDSON, . Wayne and Heart streets. SMILEY CUPP, JR. JESSE WALLACE, 105 Montgomery street. ETHEL EIDERMAN. Richards and Eagle street. BESSIE MOSELEY (colored). JOHN McCONNELL (colored). MRS. ABELL, 25 Burns street. ;..;'.. MRS. LILLIAN . TING LEY, fortyfour. TWO UNKNOWN BABIES. MRS. SCHUNCK. JOHN F. GARBER. T ARTHUR SLAT. GOETSCHALL. OLLIE SEATTLE. PATROLMAN WILLET. CARL DUEUR, age sixty-five. MRS. TREE. UNIDENTIFIED BODIES, MAN AND WOMAN. UNIDENTIFIED MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD. TTV'O UNIDENTIFIED MEN. UNIDENTIFIED YOUNG WOMAN. MISS BOHN, forty. MRS. LUCY ABEL, seventy! BODY OF UNIDENTIFIEED , WOMAN, sixty years old. . UNIDENTIFIED GIRL, seven years old. BODY IDENTIFIED AS CHRISTIAN HEBERLE, thirty-five. ; BODIES OF NINE UNIDENTIFIED M EN TAKEN - FROM NEAR ,, OHIO FOUNDRY COMPANY'S PLANT, f BODY OF YOUNG MAN. twenty-

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RECOVERED THE BODIES OF NINETEEN AT BROOKVILLE The Stricken Indiana Town Will Receive Assistance From Neighboring Cities Today. PERU'S CONDITION MUCH IMPROVED Indianapolis Damage Will Exceed All Estimates Heretofore Made Other Indiana Flood News. BROOKVILLE, Ind.. March 28. Nineteen bodies of the Brookville flood victims have been recovered. Those identified are Sophia Buckingham. Margaret Buntz, John Fries, wife and three children, Margaret Fries, Lizzie Siefert, Kate Headrlck, Mrs. Robert Sears and three children. Charles Keppel and wife, Margaret Colebank and Joseph Sennefield. The Fries family drowned in sigtit of many who were trying to rescue them. The man held his aged mother's head above water till both were swept away. His wife and children died earlier. The Rev. Father Schlff pronounced .final blessing on the dying family. Heroic Deeds. Fully confirmed reports of unusual heroism when part of Brookville was flooded have been received here. Charles Westcott, an express agent, and expert canoeist, saved 118 lives. One of his feats was to paddle to a tree three-fourths of a mile from tho town proper and save Julius Weber, wife and children, and their dog. The

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several Hours in rescuing others. Saved Seventy-five. Another man working with a raft saved seventy-five people, including James Luce, eighty-two years old, who had been marooned six hours and was lying crosswise of a mass of telephone wires. Luce had lashed himself fast with strips of his shirt and was unconscious. He was revived and will live. Six men and three women were marooned in ihe third story of the remaining portion of the woolen mill. A rope was shot to them by means of a skyrocket and coffee and sandwiches sent them. Later they were rescuea with stronger ropes. The remainder of the building pitched into the water ten minutes after the last one had escaped. Metamora Not Swept Away. Later reports from Metamora. north of Brookville, show the town was not swept away. Several houses, including the station, floated out People were warned of the rising waters, and all escaped to a hill nearby. No dependable reports can be had from Cedar Grove or New Trenton, south of Brookville. Brookville's hundred-year-old hotel, the Valley house, has been turned into a house of refuge. The receding of the waters at Connersville, has permitted the delegaUon of twenty-five to go to the relief of Brookville. The total dead there is not known. Only 'eighteen bodies had been recovered up to this afternoon. Whitewater river is subsiding rapidly, and definite news from the flooded valley . districts above and below Brookville, where dozens of farmers were caught, Is expected soon. PERU CONDITIONS Show Improvement Though the Damage to Property Will Be Very Heavy. PERU, Ind.. March 28. Conditions tonight in. Peru were much improved over the early morning, though the receding waters bring . into view . the damage -that was done to property of every character. The loss of life, however. Is very much less than was reported twelve hours since and this fact alone is encouraging to the people in general. . AT INDIANAPOLIS , Water Service is Again Established Much to the Delight of the People. - , INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 28. Tomorrow Indianapolis will have Its water works system in working order after four days of complete shut down. Late this afternoon the boilers at the Riverside station were fired up for the first time since the floods began to recede and water was turned into the mains, though it win take several 'hours before the supply will be ade quate. The property damage in Indianapolis will run np very high and it will be many months before things in general will be restored to the normal. Relief work has been well systematized and those in charge feel that without taking advantage of ontside j

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(By Staff Correspondent) DAYTON, O., March 29. (1:00 a. m.) Bands of looters were giving the troops in West Dayton considerable trouble all tonight and it das difficult to apprehend them owing to the fact that th citv waa in utter darkness. The homeless people kept

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shot by the watchful guards. Throughout the nignt tne cracx oi rifles could be heard every now and then in various sections, showing that the vampires were busy and the guards were vigilent. Major Hubbler of the Ohio National Guard, stated at midnight that a number of looters had been captured and would be

court martialed and if found guilty would be shot. Special officer, Robert Weese, was shot and killed by a negro J lnoter tonicht. The murderer has not been apprehended.

A number of crooks, the militiamen state, are wearing uniforms similar to those worn by the guardsmen to get beyond the picket lines. Two automobile loads of soldiers have been sent out

to run down these outlaws. Late yesterday an attachment of United States regular in-j f antrymen arrived in Dayton and it is said they are patrolling the central district of east Dayton. Their arrival was hailed with I delight by the flood victims who know they will stamp out all disorders in a relentless fashion.

Drugs are desired by the Dayton physicians, who also fear the carcasses of dead animals littering the streets will cause an epidemic. The relief committee says that it will be necessary to

keep the city supplied with food for several days and milk is want-! ed badly for the babies, many of whom are in a critical condition i for lack of proper nourishment. The waters are falling fast. Two companies of naval reserves from Toledo and Cleveland,; accompanied by a trainload of boats, arrived yesterday and have been of the greatest assistance in rescuing marooned inhabitants. Edgemont is the one district of Dayton now most in need of .; attention of the relief workers. Residents there have been without food for days. The Richmond automobile drivers are being given a strenuous workout and are kept busy distributing sup

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rafters of the attic of their home. The woman had given birth " during the flood but her condition and the baby's was not serious. It is estimated this morning that the death list will not exceed 2,000 and it may be from 800 to 1,000. ' Farmers from three and four miles south of Dayton have : brought in wagons to the National Cash Register Co., bodies which floated down with the torrent and were stranded on their! . farms when the water subsided. The line of residences of the. wealthy, along the east side of the Miami river, from Williams street south, were wiped out when the levee at .Williams street broke and let a wall of water even with, the second floors down upon them. In the northern part of Riverdale the water was. thirty feet deep. One cause of the disaster was the Ohio and Erie canal which runs through the center of Dayton from thej north. As long as the canal did not overflow its banks it served to carry the water through the city, but when it overflowed by the breaking of the levee, it carried the flood into the center of the stricken city. West Dayton probably suffered the least of; any part of the city, only 20 or 30 being reported dead there. A train arrived from Greenville this afternoon and its supplies were immediately distributed. Edgemont, a suburb on the south of Dayton, has suffered badly and many people there had nothing to eat until yesterday afternoon. People in the Beckel hotel report that they saw a number of men and women commit suicide in the building across the street rather than be drowned. An appeal has been made by Dayton for Candles and lanterns, as many as possible, and for automobile tires. Much of the relief work is done by autos and the glass in the streets is playing havoc with the tires. The receding floods in Dayton reveal new horors in many parts of the stricken city. . Under the layer of brown mud, which covers the streets to the depth of from one to two feet, relief parties are uncovering a number of bodies. All of the corpses found in the east side are being taken to the National Cash Register Co., for identification. In the north side they are buried without being identified. It is absolutely impossible to estimate the loss of life in Dayton. In some places corpses may be seen through the windows of the houses. Only one or two lives were lost in the Algonquin hotel. .They were employes. The confusion in the business district is indescribable. Articles of all descriptions are strewn about the streets in the mud. A man who spent a day and a night on top of the Union depot said that a number of horses were caught on the first floor of the building in the first rush of the flood and dashed to pieces against an iron barred fence. Lamp posts were bent double and in many parts every building except the strongest stone and brick collapsed under the strength of the flood. The big jewelry stores of Dayton are under heavy guard as looters are very active. The looters are not being shot in large numbers as was first reported but all the available jails are full of them. The Dayton Telephone company is making strenuous efforts to resume at least a partial telephone service and expect to have a few phones working before noon. The Dayton Daily News issued the first paper since the flood today and they sold like liot cakes. Bread lines have been established in all parts of the city and coffee is being served to the victims. In the northern part of the city a number of people are still on housetops or in the second stories of the houses. Some of the people have refused to leave. At the Third street bridge the water extends three or four squares east of the bridge and on the west side two or three squares. The water on the bridge is about knee deep. Several of the automobiles are carrying signs to the effect that Richmond people can get word back to their friends by filing their messages with the Third Precinct Police station where the Palladium has a special wire leading into Richmond, but conditions are so confused that it is almost impossible to get information from one part of the city to another, and the river cannot be crossed without the aid of vehicles or boats. Motorboats, autos and other vehicles are being used to carry the provisions being sent from Richmond to all parts of the city. The victims are lodged

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