The Forrest City times., 1913-03-28
FLOOD VICTIMS COUNTED BY THOUSANDS hhio and Indiana Are Greatest Sufferers---City of Dayton Reports Greatestl Loss of Human Lives. (OOCHILDREN ARE CAUGHT bu9llC SCHOOL KNOWN TO HAVE I CONTAINED THAT NUMBER
 BEFOPE WATERS SUB
 MERGED BUILDING. kTATE TROOPS ARE ON DUTY Hcias Take Steps to Prevent Any sorder and to Relieve All Suf-
 fering ssible-May
 Need Aid.
TATE TROOPS ARE ON DUTY

cestern Newspaper t'uion News Service Chicago Reports concerning the ppalling nature Ci the floods in Ohio bd Indiana, which in most instances was impossible to verify, were re fiyed from widely scattered sources. |he most serious of these were: :. repor. tha l,600 lives had been (st d Dayton and 300 at Piqua. A report apparently more fully au. lentcated from Indianapolis that |om zoe to 5o9 had been drowned at eru, Ind
 |Late reports from Delaware, O., said at 75 to 100 wore dead. More con. errati'e reports cut these estimates halr
 Floods almost unprecedented in fta, following the tornadoes and (ins swept four states of the Missis. Pp valley causing a loss of life |at may reach into the thousands Pd damage to property amounting to fny millions of dollars.
 Eohlc and Indiana, and in a lesser gree. Illinois and Missouri, felt the pnt of the the disaster.
 " Dayton moro than 1000 persons i reported drowned, following the faklng of he Miami river levee and Lamarle reservoir. 70 miles above clt\ Narooned in office buildings the center of the town, hundreds persons yainly awaited rescue for rs Streets heretofore considered eS rom the danger line. ran eight Of water. the torrential force of Den rrecmded rescue in boats.
 ilIIloAs of dollars in property dam was incurred
 rom Indianapolis came reports of V'l homeless throughout Indiana a property loss reaching the enor- os figure of $10,00000O in cities. Hs and villages alone The loss ae' while not so great as in Ohio, not Yet been estimated.
 Delaware many are reported dead many missing. B. V. Leas, mayer ulat city, reported drowned was ed' He estimated the death list frcm 25 to -.
 tto hamlet of 100 persons was
 to be destroyed and the fate of inhabitants unknown.
 ne death list in many cities and hS' m .uding Fort Wayne, LaFcy-
 Richmond. Marion, Muncie, Kollo- "Nd LDsansport totaled 15. At aye'te the loss extended to mil ly en Was nothing less than ''iI~ iiFer three miles wide. a lie !" N'It on each side of Main st 4et. pFIH'lpal 'horOughfare. while 1t is La'F' that from 2,OO0 to 5000 ie have perished,
 school building that was known ave housed no less than 400 chil-
 Snart.} before the waters rushed 0' a're' ion was entirely submerg- ad as far as can be ascertained
 aeso little ones met q watery
 '4dS of these who were fortu-
 e4ouIh 10 have escaped the ruch
 waters are being fed on short
 flooded district comprises 'i'ai circle with radius of a
 ana a half and in no place is
 a'er less t&an six feet deep.
 'uF worst fears are confirmed it 'e necessary to call on the out
 Nofld for tents and supplies in
 'o make provision for the worst liF that has ever befallen this
 Sald Governor James NJ. Cox
 '''eeFam. The governor added
 tops were ordered out for duty
 capital city and that the naval yes were dispatched from Toledo