The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-03-28

er and daughter" the note read.
Telegram by United Press.
Dayton, March rs. Conditions are
improving this morning and the fire
Is extinguished. Maroonea thousands
have been rescued by the militia and
fife savers in boats. The deaths are
now estimated at from 200 to 500
There IS new peril in the Ohio
river valley where rising water threat.
ened Wheeling, Cincinnati, Evans.
vile, Ind, and Cairo. Ill.,, with the
worst good in years.
Dayton is under martial law and the
railroads are in charge Of the militia
No sishtseers are allowed Train
loads Of supplies are reaching Dayton
Sanitary. engineers are taking every
pecaution to prevent All epidemic of
typhoid Several cases OF pneumonia
from exposure are reported.
New York money contributions to
the relief glnd have amounted 50 far
to slo9.s52.
All but a few Of those hundreds of
persons who have been marooned in
the down town section Of flooded DAY.
ton since Tuesday morning are safe.
Chief of Police > N. Allaback, him
self marooned, who has been direct
ing the rescue work, gave the first
information as 70 the situation in
what has heretofore been the water
bound district
Except for possible loss Of lie sn
tie north side of the river there viii
not Be more than 200 dead in Dayton,
according TO Allaback's estimate after
De had been given information as to
Che situation on the south side
The worst condition found near the
center Of the flood was ia the work
house. where sixty prisoners have nJt
had , drop Of water nor a bite of food
since Tuesday The men revolted
Tuesday nlgat and demanded their lio.
erty and & chance to fight for their
lives Since then the work house has
been mad house. according 70 supt.
Johnson The prisoners repeatedly
fought with Johnson and threatened "a
kil both him and his family
Johnson asked that q detachment
oi national guard be assigded to help
him handle the men He declared
that the men would have to be shot i
they escaped from their cells.
No word has been heard srom Mayer
Phillips. The chief OF police had been
unable to get near the Phillips house
and did not know whether the may ii
would be found dead or alive.
North Of Burns avenue. as far as
Fourth street. the water was found te
be from three to six feet deep
Beyond Fourth street the water has
recedea to make it possible in mari
places to proceed on foot From
Fourth street to the Big Miami river
relief work was taken up by a com
Imittee headed by Chief Allaback Al
the grocery stores were commanders
and though in most cases the goodl
were covered with water sufficien
supplies were found to prevent seffes
ing among those in the interior dr.,
strip
While there may be MANY deaths il
individual homes winch nave beel
without food or drink, there was ii
place but the work house where an
considerable number Of people wea
held without food, None had enough
but no case approaching actual starva
ton was found
knowledge that the death list is like
: ly to prove 50 low in the down tow
section gave rise to a hope that eve
/ in North Dayton, about which nearl
an hope had been abandoned ther
$ might be comparatively few deaths.
1 The progress Of the first canoe int
/, the water bound district was greete
BY appeals Tor bread and water
g nearly every house left standing wis
. fiS .aces were OF be seen presse
. against window panes. All peop'
y we're asked whether there had bea
1 any deaths, and, with only few e
g eeptions. replied there had not.
e though heartened by news from &
flood zones interior, Gov coxs Sc
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