Arizona republican., 1913-03-28

safety and those in the hotel eX- perienced but little discomfort.
 A report current in the flooded dis trict south of the Main street that Adjutant General Wood was fatally
 injured by q falling plate glass prov ed untrue. General Wood is now in full charge of the relief work and although his arm is badly cut his condition is not serious
 Two hundred women and children , found refuge in a paint factory north 1 of Dayton where it is believed they found sufficient food to keep them 1 from acute suffering. An effort will 1 be made at once to rescue them ! Nothing is known of the foreign ] settlement north of Dayton close to the Miami river. This is the part 1 of the city where the flood first made it's way and where the occu- pants of houses ignored the warn- ings to leave. Here. also. it is feared most of the deaths occurred
 Col. H. c. Catrow arrived with his military aides from Columbus this afternoon and immediately took l charge of the miitiamen. At lea st 1 five more companies will be here to- | ' N.
 Governor Cox ordered no more sight -seers permitted in Dayton. and when Col. CatroW attempted to have ! the railroad coaches of an arriving train vacated. many of the passen- gers showed fight and refused to leave Orders We're given the train ment to cut off the two rear coaches and they were left standing on the
 track
 The worst condition found near the center of the flood was in the work house where sixty prisoners had not had drop of water or d bite of food 1 since Tuesday. The men revolted or
 Tuesday night and demanded their lib-
 erty and chance to fight for theil 1 lives, Since then the workhouse has been a madhouse. according to Super 1 intendent Johnson. The prisoners re-
 peatedly fought with Johnson ant
 threatened to kill both him and hi:
 family. Johnson asked that a detach
 ment of national guard be assigned tC
 help him handle the men. He declared
 the men would be shot if they escaped
 from their cells.
 No word has been heard from Mayo
 Phillips The chief of police is unable to get near the Phillips house and doe.
 not know whether the mayor is deaC
 or alive.
 | North of Burns avenue and as far a.
 Fourth street the water was found tt
 be from three to six feet deep. Be l yOnd Fourth street the water has re
 ceded enough to make it possible il l many places to proceed on foot. From ! Fourth street to the Big Miami rive
 the relief work has been taken up b, a committee headed by Chief of Polio, Allaback. All the grocery stores wer,
 commandered but in most cases tn
 goods were covered with water, ye
 sufficient supplies were found to pre- , vent suffering among those in the il , interior on the dry strip.
 I While there may be many deaths il r individual homes, which have beel , without food and drink. there is m
 place but the Workhouse, where con siderable number are held without fOOC None had enough. but no case ap l preaching actual starvati ton has bee g found. The knowledge that the deat
 list is likely to prove low in the down I town sections tonight gave rise to hop 2 that even in North Dayton, abou ' which locality desperate anxiety ha s been felt there might be comparativel 5 few deaths. The progress of the frs u canoe into the waterbound district wa l greeted by an appeal for bread an
 water At nearly every house lei standing the people were asked wheth . CT there had been any deaths and wit 
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