The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-31

relieving what has been one
of the most serious phases of the sit
uation here. About 100 bodies have
been recovered.
More than 1000 mihtiamen. under
command of Adiutant-General Wood.
have the afflicted zones thoroughly
patrolled, and little or no disorder is
reported.
Secretary Garrison There.
The city is divided into four mill
tary zones, as follows:
Zone NORTH DAYTON: Colonel Vol
rath
Zone EAST South Dayton: Col
onel Catrow
Zone 3-Central Dayton: Major
Huber
Zone 4-Lieut. Col. McQuigg.
Secretary of War Garrison arrived
here at noon from Cincinnati and held
conference with John II. Patterson,
chairman of the committee of fifteen.
Digging in the Mud.
Searching for bodies In the mud
was the chief work of rescuing par
| ties today. The water had drained off
a.
leaving thick layers of mud. In some
places the mud had been piled up by
the eddies several feet deep. Ii soon
began to dry up in parts of the streets
exposed to the sunshine. but for
blocks the searchers for bodies waded
through sea of oozy mud.
A brilliant sunshine threw an I'M
O hn
in the areas where the homes of u.s.
600 people were swept away or top
pied over. A view down almost any
street revealed among the debris
tumbled-over houses, pianos. house
hold utensils and dead horses brushed
together in indescribable confusion.
At two points the bodies of horses
We're seen still caught IN the tops of
trees.
Orders Through Mesaphone.
Over on the north side of Dayton
View, where a relief station was es-
tablished under martial law in the
Longfellow schoolhouse. thousands of
homeless people gathered for supplies
of food and clothing Every able-bod-
led man was pressed into service. A
man with a megaphone stood at the
door calling out orders.
AT least 80 people were killed when
the Leonard building collapsed We'd
nesday night, according TO the state
ment of Detective Kincaid today.
kincaid was marooned by the flood
in the city hall. just across Main
street from the Leonard building
Standing in the window of police
headquarters, he was watching pass
ersby in the street below prior TO the
coming of the torrent He saw 20
people, he says. enter a saloon which
space of the Leonard building None
escaped. Other people had entered
other stories in the building, and some
were on the upper floors Kincaid
felt sure there were at least 80 people
in the structure, and possibly more.
When the waters came a number
of the persons caught in the building
made their way to the roof AS the
walls began to tremble, they let out
terrible shrieks and calls for help.
Two men leaped into the food, a dis
lance of four floors, and were killed
instantly. Others went down with
the building. Kincaid said that the
police were taking steps to examine
the interior of the ruins. More than
twenty persons were rescued from the
market houses near the city building
Thursday night by Edward Schaeffer.
who sat astride of his horse and swan
~ he mo lat inn
About twenty people were trapped in
the markets and were standing on
meat blocks. Schaeffer fastened the
rope around one after another and the
police officers and detectives in the
building pulled the men to safety.
curfew Law in Force.
Fear that some of the buildings
that were flooded are in danger OF
collapsing was expressed today after
an inspection by officials, who order
ed that the Steele high school. one OF
the finest school buildings in the state
be roped off. The structure has been
undermined by water and may fall at
any time, il was declared.
Everybody has been ordered off the
streets AT p m, beginning To-Day.
Church bells announce the curfew or
der, and those who do not obeey will
be arrested.
After a meeting of seven-eighths OF
the undertakers of Dayton, last night,
il was announced that a concensus of
opinion was that eight hundred were
dead. These men said that they based
their estimates merely on general con-
ditions.
AS most of the hemmed in sufferers
had been provided with food yester-
day, no effort was made to work in
the flooded area last night, but with
the coming of dawn large rescue par
ties were out to succor the sufferers
and recover the dead.
The sewerage. gas and wire COM
munication systems have been de
stroyed. Thousands of dead animals
are lying about the streets. Two fer
tilizer firms began today to gather
these animals.
SprinkIina Wagon Water.
Water is also being served from pri-
waite plants of the Soldiers home and
the National Cash Register company
by sprinkling wagons. The relief COM