The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-03
Citizens Who Have Valua-
bles Buried in the Wreck
age Are Afraid Thieves
Will Get Them.
GIVE US OUR DEAD
CRY THE SURVIVORS
Talk Of Burning Ruins and
Bodies in Them Causes the
Families of the Dead to
Become Crazed.
(National News ASsociation)

(National News Association)
check the vandalism and looting
among the ruins that marked the site
of Austin an appeal was made today
by citizens who have valuables and
money buried beneath the debris to
have the whole Sinnenahoning valley
placed under martial law. Two troops
of heavy armed state police are al
ready on the ground and by an order
Of Governor Tener the region about
the devastated townsite could be
! thrown into military control in an
hour. Redoubled precautions were
taken this afternoon to prevent loot
ing tonight.
Relief work under Doctor S. G. Dick
son, head of the state health depart
ment, is progressing slowly. Greatest
prevent pestilence from the bodies
under the wreckage.
Give us our dead" was the cry rails
ed today by the strickened homeless
when the suggestion was made that
the ruins be burned with the bodies
| laying beneath. Thousands of sight
seers came here today apd all roads
were blocked with vehicles. None are
allowed within the Gordon of troops
about the ruins unless bearing spe-
cial permit.
State 10 critisised.
The state was bitterly criticised to-
day for not rushing 1000 workmen to
Austin to clear away the debris. OF
| sixteen looters arrested eight are con-
fined in the school house, a building
which escaped destruction and which
has been transferred into a Jail Heav-
lily armed guards are stationed about
the Jail, not only to prevent the es-
cape of prisoners but to keep back
half-crazed survivors who are threat.
ening vengeance on all vandals.
| Eighty-six persons were reported
missing today and the maximum num-
ber of dead had dropped from $50 to
100. The principal demand in the sit
uation was for clothing for the suf-
fering women and children and for
more relief workers.
The weather turned colder, follow.
ing the rain, and the homeless folk
encamped on the hillsides above the
monia from exposure.
Four hundred lahorers arrived here
from Buffalo today and joined the
wornout forces which have been
working night and day since Saturday
night
In spite of its menace to health,
strong objections to turning the
wreckage into a vast funeral pyre are
being raised by those who have rela'
tives missing.
Big Safe is Opened.
The safe of the Bayless Pulp and
Paper Company. which was found un
scathed in the ruins, was opened to
day upon orders from George and
Frank Bayless in Binghampton. They
sent word to assemble as many EN-
Iployes of the Bayless paper company
as escaped death in the flood and pay
them their wages, engaging them tC
assist in the work of clearing away
the wreck of what once was Austin.
State Health Commissioner Samuel
G. Dixon of Pennsylvania, has opened
headquarters in Odd Fellows hall, one
of the buildings which escaped des
t-uction and from there is directing
the relief campaign.
water famine is threatened. The
flood cont taminated the drinking sup
ply in wells along the sides of the val
ley and the 1000 refugees have beer
warned not to dring anything except
lpurified water furnished by the au
thorities.
Conditions in Costello, severa
miles below Austin, are almost as bat
as they were Immediately after The
torrent swept away a portion of thai
town. Relief work was not started
there until today.
Itn is estimated that more thar
100000 in cash was buried under thu
debris in Austin and Vandals are risk
ing their lives under cover of dark
ness to secure a portion of it. There
was $4,000 On deposit in the bank o.
Austin when the disaster occurred