Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-31
FLOOD WATERS NOW
DOING MUCH DAMAGE
TO Low farm LANDS
WHILE THERE IS LITTLE DANGER OF LOSS OF LIFE THOUSANDS OF FAM
lilies ARE COMPELLED TO LEAVE HOMES WHILE LIVESTOCK LOSSES
ARE CERTAIN TO Be HEAVY ...0HIO STILL RISING
TYPHOID SERUM IS BEING USED
TO PREVENT EPIDEMIC IN CITIES

/ here. A carriage factory burned dur
ing the night
MONEY BADLY NEEDED
AT DAYTON FOR RELIEF
Dayton, Ohio, March 31.-John D
Patterson, chairman of the citizens
relief committee, issued the following
statement today regard conditions
here:
Our committee has not at its dis
posal all the food and clothing nee
Cessary to meet the loss of the suffer
ers of Dayton.
Money, however, urgently is re
quired for putting our city in con
dition to prevent the outbreak of ser
I ious disease and to rehabitate the
thousands, many of whom have lost
their homes entirely, and all of whom
have lost their household and per
sonal effects
The committee wishes to send out
all urgent appeal to the citizens OF
the United States for the necessary
funds. All contributions should be
sent direct to w. F.. Bippus, who has
been appointed treasurer of the reliet
committee. Mr.. Bippus will send re-
ceipts for all moneys received"
In the bread line today was Eugene
J. Barney, Il multi-millionaire whose
gifts to charity, have been very large
and recently included $4,000 to the
Y. NJ c. A. of this city He obtained
three loaves of bread and a small
sack Of potatoes.
With the rapid subsiding of the
food waters and dissipating of panic
among refugees here. thrilling adven.
ture continues coming to light.
Among the most interesting of these
was the experience of the family of
Charles Adams, in Riverdale. Mr..
adams sot his wife and ten months
old twin girls into a skiff and took
them to the home of friend in War
der street
An hour later it was again neces
sary to move and the family was TAX
en- by rescuers out of a second story
window The canoe in which they
We're being transported was dashed
against telegraph pole by the ter
rife current and capsized. Adams
swan bravely in the icy waters for
a few minutes when he was picked up
by some men in fiat boat. Just be-
fore he was rescued, he saw his wife
sink. The baby girls were floating
down the street. Then he collapsed.
Three hours later he regained con-
sciousness to find himself in an attic
and beside him on the floor lay his
wife, whom he believed to have been
drowned. A few minutes later, a man
crawled into the attic window, from
the floating roof of a barn, bringing
with him the twins. They had caught
in the branches of tree and were
picked off unhurt, by the man who
was riding to safety on the roof. Mrs.
Adams was rescued by a high school
boy, on hastily improvised raft. The
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troop of the boy scouts.
APPROPRIATION MAY BE
MADE FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS.
Sacramento, CAL, March 31.-An an
preparation of 100000 for the flood
sufferers of Ohio and Indiana is pro.
posed by the state legislature and this
afternoon Governor Johnson, state
Controller Nye, and joint committee
Of senators and assemblymen are dis
cussing methods by which the legis
lature can act and avoid violation ct
the constitution. Immediate action is
iRoNTON ASKS FOR
FOOD AND SOLDIERS.
Columbus. Ohio, March 31.--Mayor
Kennedy of lronton this afternoon
asked Governor Cox over the long dis
tance telephone for four companies OF
militia and food sufficient to last five
thousand people for the next ten days.
He said supplies there We're very
limited
SlxTY-SEvEN BODIES
FOUND IN COLUMBUS.
Columbus, Ohio, March 31.-With
total of 81 bodies recovered, most of
them identified as having been among
the missing, efforts to recover bodies
believed to have been swept down
by the swift current were continued
today 1t was planned to explore sec
tions that for five days have been in
undated in the expectation that bodies
might be found beneath the huge
piles of wreckage. Although there
was heavy drain on the food supply
of the city yesterday, and early today,
many of the groceries of the city be.
ing sold out" it was said this morn.
ing that efforts to prevent food fam
inc would be successful because of
outside relief that has reached the
city.
The organized effort to relieve the
sufferers in the district that was
flooded and to supply them with
food and provisions are believed by