Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 119, 30 March 1913 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRA3I. SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1913.

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CltlCllltlAII FACES A SERIOUS CRISIS Every Hotel in the City Crowded-Many Refugees Flock to the City.

CINCINNATI, March, 30. With the Ohio river covering the entire krwer section of this city and with refugees from the stricken up-state towns coming in by hundreds, Cincinnati today faced a situation that will require the combined efforts of all its relief and civic organisations to cope with. Every hotel In this city is crowded to its capacity, and every moving van, auto truck and freight street car has been

pressed into berviee removing famines from the flooded area. The river reached the stage of 65.9 feet at daybreak and was rising at a rate or 1 tenths of a foot an hour. More than sixty city blocks are under water to a depth of from between half a foot and ten feet. Suffering, however, has been at a minimum owing to warning sent out early that a stage of seventy feet probably would be reached before the waters began to recede. Kentucky Towns Cut Off. The city was practically cut off from traffic communication with Covington, Ky., early yesterday when the approach to the suspension bridge became covered with water. A raise of another foot will put the South Covington & Conclnnati Street Car company's lines out of commission owing to the fact that the power house will become swamped at this stage. The central bridge leading into Newport was abandoned early last evening. Food Supply Ample. The water reached the second floors of a number of business houses along Front street and was half way up on the first floor of several blocks of houses in Second street. Several lines of the Cincinnati Traction company operating in the lower district, have been abandoned. Reassuring word from the packers,

commission men and general produce merchants came today when it was es

timated by experts that Cincinnati had

enough food supplies to last at least ten days without inconveniencing any one. Sixty city blocks in Newport and

Covington are under water and as al

most all of tbe manufacturing plants

on that side of the Ohio axe in the low

lands thousands have been thrown out

of employment

THE DAYTON FLOOD SITUATION AT A GLANCE

Estimates of the dead in Dayton at an early hour this morning do not reach 400. Every hour sees the estimated total of dead diminish.

Secretary of War Garrison, is in the city and has reported to

President Wilson that the situation is well in hand and decidedly hopeful.

Estimated property loss is now about ten million and may be

much less.

Dayton merchants who have suffered heavy losses say they

will present a solid financial front and will open for business at the earliest possible date.

The dreaded North Dayton district was explored Saturday and

failed to reveal the great loss of life expected in that part of the city.

About a hundred bodies have been recovered up to 12 :30 Sun

day morning.

President John H. Patterson, chairman of the Citizens committee has been doing heroic work. He has spent thousands upon thousands of his personal funds to provide relief.

Dayton took on a holiday spirit Saturday afternoon when a hundred thousand people were allowed to go into the downtown district. Main street was packed and jammed with men, women and children and vehicles of all kinds.

State and Federal troops guard every street corner, every alley and all property and buildings.

DAYTON BEGINS TO CLEAN JTSJTBEETS Five Thousand Men Were Placed at Work on This Task Saturday. Five thousand men under Engineer Talbot are cleaning up the streets of

Dayton. The residents of the various districts are being organized by the city council to aid in the woTk and all able bodied men who want to eat

must work. The Ohio 6tate militia is doing heroic work day and n'ght and many soldiers are about ready to collapse trom the lack of resi. Forty "drunks" and "bums" who were in the county jail at the time of the flood were put to work Saturday Eighteen dead horses were found at the foot of Monument bridge and one dead horse is hanging by one foot over the side of the bridge. Many of the animals were saved by being washed into hotels, stores and office buildings. In the National Cash Register building, where a hospital has been established, there were forty-two births Friday night. There are several thousand people sheltered at this plant. The supply trains which were ient from

Troy. Greenville and Arcanum arrived yesterday and the food was immediately distributed. Bread Hues were several blocks long at som of the relief centers. The new postoffice was not injured seriously and all of the registered and first class mail is safe. It is being distributed in small bunches as fast as conditions will permit. The mother of Jack Agan, a Dayton attorney, refused to leave her home when warned and was drowned. Afterwards when relief parties tried to set her body, a large bull dog kept them off for several hours. Rescue parties yesterday afternoon began to pick up several bodies washed down from Piqua and other points north of Dayton.

General Wood, of the Ohio National Guard, issued printed warnings against any one appearing on the streets after 6 oclock at night or before 5 o'clock in the morning. Those disobeying this order will not only be subject to arrest, but run grave danger of being shot by the guards.

SECY. GARRISON REACHED DAYTON DAYTON, Ohio, March 29. Secretary of War Garrison arrived in Dayton yesterday.

Main street is free from mud, the swift current of the flood ! President" Wilson notifying him of his

sweeping the street clean, but the downtown residential streets are ' arrival. .The secretary also told the

a mass of mud and wreckage.

Rigid watch against looters was kept Saturday night and there was much firing at prowlers.

GOVERNOR COX SENDS MESSAGE

COLUMBUS. Ohio. March 29. Governor Cox tonight issued a statement in which he said: "Ten carloads of lime, five cars tanks of gasoline and a trainload consisting of bread, vegetables and clothing are on their way to Dayton now from Indianapolis. Lime is as need

ful now as food for the purpose of disinfecting. The military organization

has been a great service and the week ( closes tonight with some consolation j in the thought that every section that

has appealed to us have had hunger t appeased. j "Colonel Zimmerman of tae Eighth j regiment was sent at daylight from j Dayton into Hamilton and this after-; noon he sends his official report. !

which Is indeed a gruesome tale. Ninety-one bodies will be interred tomorrow. Two hundred horsese were

burned in the streets. Two or three j of principal thoroughfares have been i washed into ditches 20 feet deep. All Ohio river towns are wrapped in ; water tonight. Ripley. Pomeroy, Mid-j dleport and Gallipolis are heavy suf- j ferers. Richmond. Higginsport and several little towns in Clermont

county are in trouble. It is said that there is not a bridge standing over either the Muskingum or Miami rivers.

" The loss at Columbus will be about 100 lives. The maximum at Dayton as it appears now will be two hundred. Hamilton will run about one hundred and fifty. "Estimates have been made this afternoon with considerable care and it is the belief that property loss in tlu state will aggregate 3(k nillilon dollars."

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CINCINNATI. March 30 With the Ohio river covering the entire lower

section of this city and with refugees

from the stricken up-state towns coming in by hundreds, Cincinnati today faced a situation that will require the combined efforts of all of Its relief and civic organizations to cope with. Every hotel in this city is crowded to ItS"tApaeityi"and every moving van, auto truck, and freight street car has been presseed into service removing families from the flooded area. The river reached the stage of 63.9 feet at daybreak yesterday and was rising at the rate of 1V2 tenths of a foot an hour. More than sixty blocks are under water to a depth of from half a ,foot to ten feet. Suffering, however, has been at a minimum owing to warning sent out early that a stage of seventy feet was probably before the waterB began to recede. Kentucky Towns Cut Off. The city was practically cut off ' from traffic communication with Covington, Ky., early, when the approach to the suspension bridge became covered with water. A raise of another foot will put the South Covington & Cincinnati Street Car Company's lines out of commission, owing to the fact that the power house will become swamped at this stage. The central bridge leading into Newport was abandoned early last evening. Food Supply Ample. The water reached the second floors of a number of business houses along Front street and was half way up on the first floor of several blocks of houses on Second street. Several lines of the Cincinnati Traction Company, operating in the lower district, have been abandoned. Reassuring word from the packers, commission men and general produce merchants came today when it was estimated by experts that Cincinnati had enough food supplies to last ten days without Inconveniencing anyone. Sixty city blocks in Newport and Covington are under water as almost all of the manufacturing plants on that side of the Ohio are in the lowlands, thousands have been thrown out of employment.

PRAYER FOR SUFFERERS.

BIshopGreer Authorizes Reading in New York Churches. New York, March 30. Bishop David H. Greer has authorized the reading of the following prayer in the Protestant Episcopal churches of the diocese of New York: "O Merciful and Heavenly Father, who has taught U8 Th' Holy Work that Thou dost not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. give ear to the prayers which we humbly

8AL00NS ARE CLOSED; CURFEW RINGS EARLY.

DAYTON, Ohio. March 29. This la not a place for a thirsty man. Adjutant General Wood today ordered that all saloons be kept closed, and declared that no one will be permitted on the streets after dark. H. E. Talbott has been appointed chief engineering officer, with full control over all streets, roads and sewers.

Thousands of men have been put to work clearing away the wreckage, mud and dead animals. There is work for every man and loafers are not tolerated by the military authorities.

The water works pumps were started Saturday afternoon and water is going through the pipes of all homes that are not wrecked.

It is said that electric lighting will be resumed very shortly. The newspapers are badly out of commission. The Journal and Herald's monster presses will not be working for some time and the press of the News is completely covered with water.

The big edition of the Evening Herald printed in Richmond, Indiana by the Richmond Palladium, reached Dayton at 2 o'clock Saturday. The automobile in which the papers were sent to Dayton were surrounded on West Third street by thousands of eager people and in one block 5,000 copies were distributed. Before the automobile reached the Dayton View bridge every paper was gone into a cheering good natured crowd of news-hungry people.

offer to Thee in behalf of our brethren who are suffering from the great water floods. Cause them in their sorrowto experience the comfort of Thy presence, and in their bewilderment the guidance of Thy wisdom. "Stir up, we beseech Thee, the wills of Thy people to minister with generous aid to their present needs, and so overrule in Thy providence this great and sore calamity that we may be brought nearer to Thee and be knit more closely one to another in sympathy and love. And which we humbly ask through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen."

WIRE SERVICE LIMITED.

Telephone and Telegraph Companies Caution Message Senders. NEW YORK, March 30. The American Telephone and Telegraph company and the Western Union Telegraph company have found it necessary to issue the following announcement: 'In the use of the necessarily iimiited wire facilities reaching the flooded districts of Ohio and neighboring states due importance is being given to public officials, relief associations, the press and to such urgent messages as have to do with measures of relief, believing that thus the public will be best served until further service can be restored. While there has been no time during the past week when the joint facilities of the two companies have not afforded communication with the larger cities and

towns, local conditions have rendered i it impossible in many cases to deliver ! telegrams or to make local connec-!

tlons by telephone.

institution are safe. Many telegrams of inquiry are being received.

Houston Gives Liberally. HOUSTON, Tex., March 30. Eight thousand dollars have been subscribed

to a fund being collected by the Hous- j ton Post for the relief of flood suf- j

rerers in Indiana and Ohio.

Thirty Cars of Potatoes Coming. DENVER, March 30. Thirty carloads of potatoes were started east today from Greeley for the flood sufferers in Ohio and Indiana.

COUNTY FARES WELL IN BRIDGE DAMAGES John Mueller, county bridge engineer, said yesterday that Wayne county fared well as compared with other counties in Eastern Indiana, in respect to damage done to bridges by the recent floods by the recent floods. However there were many structures that were damaged to the extent that repairs will be needed and according to the estimates made by the county commissioners yesterday afternoon about $22,000 will be required to put them in proper condition The county council will be asked to appropriate funds for this work.

president that it was safe to say that the situation was being well taken care of by those on the ground and that it would not be necessary for the President to visit the flood district. The Cincinnati flood interfered, however, with the Garrison party, inas much as the special train could not be transferred from the tracks of the Louisville & Nashville road to the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern, owing to these tracks being submerger. It was decided to "proceed to Dayton by automobile. General Wood remained in Cincinnati to assist Mayor Hunt and the Red Cross. Major General Rhodes and General McCoy accompanied Secretary Garrison to Dayton. Distress at Hamilton. Secretary Garrison received word from the President at Winchester last night, stating that the situation at Hamilton, Ohio, was reported serious and answered from Cincinnati in a tel-

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cgi am, ui.u oaivj , x ouu. w ... is possible to relieve the situation at Hamilton." Secretary Garrison's special reached Winchester, Ky., last night at 10 o'clock, after a perilous journey over the Chesapeake & Ohio. After crossing the Big Sandy river from Kenova, W. Va.. into Catlettsburg, Ky., the train plowed its way for two miles over tracks that lay under three or four feet of water. Throughout the trip the water dash

ed against the sides of the cars and there was constant danger of the extinction of the boiler fires, the greater danger of an explosion and the constant menace of spreading rails. Trainmen Cautious. Trainmen hesitated to take vthe risk and sought to dissuade the secretary of war from his course, but Mr. Garrison, who earlier in the day had declared he should move on toward Dayton as long as one length of track remained to run on, was firm in his determination.

It was necessary to bank the boiler I f-r

fires and to leave the fire box open to obviate the danger of an explosion. The water filled the ash box and caused a cloud of steam to rush up into the faces of the enginemen, but they remained at their posts as the train struggled across the raging torrent to higher ground.

FIFTY DROWNED IN FLOOD AT PIQUA, O.

J. W. Putterbaugh, 133 Williams! street, who arrived in Richmond from i Piqua, Ohio, last night, stated that Mayor Kyser of Piqua estimates the j deaths In that city at 50, although I only 15 bodies have been recovered ; and identified in the Pio.ua morgue. ' The property loss in Piqua is beyond estimate but is said to be enormous I for a town of that size. ! It was stated that the loss of life ! near the Pennsylvania and Main ;

street bridges was heavy. Many

people were seen to suicide after repeated unsuccessful attempts at es

cape from the stricken district. More i than two-thirds of Piqua. was flooded) and all of this district suffered heavy j losses in both property and life, al-! though the largest loss of life was in 1 the river bottom, where the people

were caught unprepared and without warning. The entire ' city is under martial law. The latest advices from Troy and Tippecanoe City state that there is very little loss of life' in either city, although much property was destroyed. At Troy eight bodies were found and identified as residents of Piqua.

The high waters which swept Indiana and Ohio began to recede at Indianapolis last Tuesday night. Business and industrial conditions in Indianapolis are now practically normal. With the exception of two or three railway divisions, freight will be moving In all directions by Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. There was considerable damage to personal property in the residence section of west Indianapolis. The situation there has been speedily relieved. The business section of Indianapolis and the bulk of the residence and industrial territory were absolutely untouched by the high water. There have been no conflagrations and practically no loss of life. Indianapolis is sending aid to other cities and is doing business as usual. Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce 5:04 P. M. PALLADIUM WANT ADS BR1NQ RESULTS

RUSSELL TO SPEAK

Charles Edward Russell, a wellknown magaiine writier and lecturer, will deliver an address in the high School auditorium April 2nd at S:00

Dead in Ohio Village. o'clock. Mr. Russell is known as

CINCINNATI, Ohio. March 30. The ' one of the boldest magazine writers in known dead at the four little villages I the country, condemning freelv disof Harrison. Cleaves, Vallev Junction . . , . , j x- D ... . ... .. honest and unscrupulous officials. and New Bethlehem, at the mouth of j the Great Miami, where it empties a cr irrnT 4 x into the Ohio, is twenty-two. Twelve i -A jJlUUoxii J1Hi31U1vLA1j

bodies were recovered at Harrison

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two at Cleaves, six at Valley Junction and two at New Bethlehem. With the exception of the bodies of two men all have been identified.

The Rev. H. L. Haywood, pastor of the Universalist church will deliver the address at the annual memorial services of tho Loyal Order cf ths

Moc-se this afternoon. The excrcis"? Notre Dame Convent Escapes. : win he;d in tae h5?h sc2loo; audi. DAYTON, Ohio, March 30. All the torium. A. H. Vestal, of Anderson 6isters of the Notre Dame convent f Deputy Supreme Dictator, will also

and other persons connected with the j make an address.

Already Is Planned, Declares John

H. Patterson.

DAYTON', Ohio. March 2.. The foi- j

lowing statement was issued by John H. Patterson, president of the Naticna'. Cash Register Company:

we are already planning for a;

greater, a richer, a more beautiful !

miiu i v. i v-. i - & " i -u v kj i c Trail i 3 phasis upon the fact that Dayton will f

be made safe. I pledge my word on I

that. 1 have already contracted with engineering experts to go oxer the situation and begin plans for the making of a Dayton that will be absolutely safe and secure.

"In spite of the loss of life and the ! J ruin and desolation everywhere ap- T) parent, the calamity may prove a J 3

blessing in disguise. It has brcugit !

us all to the need of close co-ope ratten j '

and civic enthusiasm, sn.1 sli nf nl'

will work now for a (renter r'tv

John H. Patterson has contribute'! !

JlO.OOQ to a ? "3,000 fund wh'rh win b u?ed to E5?.st the icor ptcp'e cf D:ytcn in gc-tt'ng a fresh start in iife. The money will be applied so a; to heio those whose homes have been le- j

jstroyed.

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