The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-29
LOOKS BRIGHTER NOW
SAYS TELEPHONE GIRL
Miss Barncll Tells Of Rejoicing
Over Falling River at
GAINESVILLE.
SUPPLIES REACHING CITY
She Fears Disease if Pure
Water Is Not Sent TO
Sufferers.
SUPPLIES REACHING CITY

l tiE ~ dSk'u NpdIl last 'lCbt 10Y
long distance telephone connection with
Miss Airline Barncl the young operator
in thc GAINESVILLE, ohio. exchange. whose
graphic description Of conditions in that
Hood swept city. published in THE SrS
Yesterday morning, attracted such wide
spread attention. When Miss Bnrnel was
reached she %avo the following account
Of happenings in the twenty -four hours
| that elapsed since her first message
BIZ airline BdrneH
Things ARE much. much better in
GAINESVILLE Tonight. We can hardly hc-
licvc St but tho river has been going
down. slowly and steadily all day. And
relief has come 10 us from the outside
so that most of our troubles se"m about
over.
Late tonight 'ha wa.or had gone on.
80 Tar that two more squares are clear
of &. when talked with you last
nigh, the food was nearly up to Sixth
street. Now 1t reaches only to Fourth
and by tomorrow the soldiers Will he
able to get right into the centre OF
, town
wont be- nearly as big as it looked at
first Every little while somebody we
thought had been drowned is found
alive. and then there is great rejoicing
everywhere. Probably not more than a
/ hundred have boon killed in GAINESVILLE.
I though lots of lives have been lost in
Putnam across the river. still hun
drcd il great many to di" Ike that,
isn't it?
Great Relief Is Felt.
II seems almos; like q holiday here to-
night, tho relief everybody feels Is 50
great Some people could actually smile
But they had lost only money and
houses not their wives or th".! children
Th" fires ar" all out now. They did
a lot Of damage while tIcy lasted
though Tho Munson Music COMPANY
big building nj Third and Main streets
was hdincd, ani 80 were lIarvcy's gar
age AT Main and second streets and the
silk factory on Ninth street ana Adams
ir's.' Bulld!ug over in Putnam. II
certainty was luCky that the vino
changed. or ! am afraid "A great manN
more would have been burned up.
/ don't know exactly how many feet
the river has gou" down. but it's Z
good deal, and the soldiers have rescued
most al Of the people who were caught
in the buildings down town aud couldn't
get out, Capt Wiltshire of the Ma.
tiOnal Guard is in command Of the sol.
diers and he and Mayor sichoticd have
done wonders, saving lives and makinl
the people brave.
over In tho Good Samaritan Hospita
they have some bodies hut they havcn't
been recognized yet. Tomorrow they'll
probably find many more down town
where the food was worst.
Tho river j. still running very fast
jus; Ike mill stream. but several boat.
got across to Putnam this afternoon
NiN hut that was bravo thing to d,
in that awful current
some Have Been Stealing.
'gs' think of il, a. sad and hcIplos,
as w. ar" here. some men have beer
stealing The so'd ~ arrested two o'
them tu-n!ght and put thcm in the jail
They wcrr lucky they weren't shot,
capt WILTSHIRE has given bullets {,
his men, and if the robbers do anythina
lll''I'' 81. W. l''' NsllfN N+Ntl'hA Ul'lNN
The Nv, they caught were going II
empty houses and taking things tn,
people had loft behind when they hur,
ricd away. | guess there are q lot o
mon stealing. from what ! hear.
This morning everybody was cheered
up so when some relief parties came II
from the outside. IT certainly looked
good To- see those hig strong men loaded
down with food and medicines aud
warm clothes for the poor, shiverinl
women and children.
The trains have 20 stop AZ Brown,
Bridge. about four miles out OF town
The things they brought were loadct
on wagons. They came from Cleve,
land and Caldwell and Lancaster anc
New Lexington. Isn't everybody klnt
and good when people are in trouble lik,
We arc?
The Red Cross nurses are here, too
and they are so capable and cheerful
they make everybody feel better Just I,
look at them. We haven't many siCl
yet but If We havo To drink that awfrl
looking water that is just filled will
scwerag" and all sorts OF things, In
afraid there viii 10 typhoid fever an,
a great deal of disease,
Does il seem odd when I say that w,
aren't as badly off as We feared. an,
then when | tell you that probably l0I
havc been killed and that property wort
$4,000, 900 has been destroyed? Wei
even such terrible thing az that Il
much hcttor than seemed possible whci
tho river was going up a foot an hou
and buildings were being swept righ
off their foundations and fires wcr,
burning So brightly that tho whole cit,
was III up hv thcm. You don't know
what n relief Il Is to find us as We arc
OnI. One Bridge Standing.
Tho Fifth street bridge s still stand
ing. but II IL tho only one left and
guess it's not very safe, Tor the mel
would rather usc boats in tho swif
current than put INV burden ON tina
ehaky looking crossing.
AS the water goes down We can So
how much damage has been done to th'
buildings. Most all Of the Eighth war,
has been swept away and along Lc
street for seven blocks there isn't
house standing. These arc ruins. tn
soldiers say, and probably bodies II
them.
lrobabaly one half of tho people her
have been driven from their houses. an,
none of them have gone back yet. H.
still very dangerous everywhere, 70
| walls are likely TO fall at any time an,