Imperial Valley press., 1913-03-26

needs of those on whom this sudden,
overwh Ginning disaster come should
quicken every one capable 81 sym
diate aid to those laboring TO rescue
and relieve"
Secretary of War Garrison has or
dered $4,000 tents and 100000 rations
rushed to Ohio from Philadelphia.
CLEVELAND. March 26.-At 1 o'clock
ii is still impossible to estimate the
flood fatalities in Ohio and Indiana.
1t is believed 100000 are homeless in
the Ohio valley states. In Miami val
ley the devastation extends for eighty
miles along the river.
DAYTON
DAYTON, March 26.-GBy Messenger
to Lebanon l-Although less than a
mile intervenes from the point where
thousand, Of hysterical refugees are
gathered in the center OF Dayton s
business district, it is impossible to
get a single detail of authentic infor-
nation. No actual word from the bus
mess section has been received since
noon yesterday. Water twenty feet
deep is rushing through the streets
tells and theaters are under water and
the jail is inundated. 1t is impossible
Ehzabeth's Hospital with 500 patients.
was engulfed. Fire is still burning in
many sections of the city. There is
terrible suffering among the refugees,
thew having no food or shelter.
Twenty five thousand rains baked,
starving people huddled on the hills
south of the city last night Hundreds
We're hysterical. shrieking for lost rel
atives. They were without shelter, food
or medicine. Daytonville, Edgmont
and North Dayton were obliterated.
Persons with field glasses today de-
clare they can see swarms Of people
on the roofs of the higher buildings
and mountains of debris. Buildings,
dead live stock and human bodies are
swirling down the Miami. The fate of
the villages of Miamisburg and Frank
lin is not known and it is impossible
to get information.
ONLY one telephone wire is working
from Dayton. That is to Lebanon. The
Nothing has been heard from them
since the flood began. The National
Cash Register Company is conducting
the only organized rescue work. The
company bought all available food for
the refugees. President John Patter-
son ordered all the company's carpen-
ters TO build skiffs and worked bare
footed throughout the night aiding the
rescue, despite his 20 years.
The crest of the flood passed during
the day, but without appreciabl fal,
still hopeless. 1t is estimated that So
GOO people are either in refuge in the
hills or are maroOned on buildings.
The inundated district exceeds fourteen
square miles. Fatalities were great
est on the west and north sides of
the city. The city's food supply is ap-
parently exhausted and frantic appeals
for aid are being sent out.
LEBANON, Ohio, March 26.-GeneraI
Manager Brandon of the Dayton, Le-
banon and Cincinnati railroad said to-
day that his official reports indicate the
estimate of 500 dead at Dayton alone is
conservative.
COLUMBUS, March 26.At 9:1o
o'clock an Am erican Telephone
message came from Wire Chief
John Bell of Dayton to Governor Cox
that the flood victims there would
number about 100, the majority Of
them women and children. A tenn
porary morgue had been established
The governor has received word that
the fires which started in Dayton last
night continue, unchecked. He sent a
courier TO Dayton, saying soldiers
would reach there today. The entire
state militia has been ordered out He
mas appealed to the governors of all
states for aid.
CINCINNATI, March 26.-Post re-
porters returning from Dayton say it
is conservatively estimated that the
dead number 500.
GAINESVILLE
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, March 26-Fif-
teen are reported dead here from the
flood that partially inundated the city.
The Muskingum river is at the 40-foot
stage and is still rising. Three thou
sand are homeless.
DELAWARE
CINCINNATI, March 26-Eighteen
are known to be dead in Delaware and
1t is expected later reports from the
surrounding country will bring the to-
tai deaths in Delaware county to a
hundred Men on horseback from Syd-
ney, Piqua and Middleton tell tales of
increasing horror. No one is able to