The Dickinson press., 1913-03-29

the storm reached cyclonic proportions.
causing over 200 deaths and several
hundred injured. Property loss was
estimated at $10. OOO,0 .
Wind. rain. dust and sleet storms. ac-
companied by great electrical manifes-
tations swept over Kansas, Nebraska.
Oklahoma. Illinois and Indiana.
At Terre Haute, Indiana, sixteen per-
sons were killed in a tornado and the
death list may reach fifty. Thee hum
dred are injured. Perth, mining town
near Terre Haute was wiped out as was
Prairieton. another small town.
Nine were killed, scores injured and
$500, 600 damage caused by tornado at
Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Loss of life was reported at Ackley,
Woodbine. Carroll, Nicola and Menlo,
Iowa. at Ashland, Berlin, Craig and
Avoca. Neb.
The town of Flag Spring, NO., was
destroyed by storm. Five known dead.
Twelve dead and many injured at Yu-
tan. Neb. ~
Several were killed and many build
ings damaged by storm in Chicago.
Following closely upon the oestruc-
tion of the storms and tornadoes ter
rife food in Ohio and Indiana was
leaving death and disaster in its make.
The rivers were all breaking their
bounds and whole towns and cities are
inundated and it is yet impossible to
even estimate the loss of life or prop
erty destruction. By the breaking of
the great dam at Dayton, Ohio, the
city. except the suburbs, was covered
with seethine. food water from s to "a
feet deep and by the middle of the
week no one could estimate whether
1, 600 or 10. 600 lives were sleeping be-
meath this yellow sea. 1t was said so. :
600 people were crowded in the upper
floors of their homes without food, light
or heat, and $4,000 of the homeless
ones were being lodged and fed in the
National cash register plant.
At Delaware several persons were
drowned and thousands of families
homeless. Columbus suffered enormous
damage from the food and all railroad
traffic and for the most part. the tele-
graphic service, has been paralyzed.
From Indianapolis comes the report
that S. 600 persons were forced to leave
their homes and flee 10 the hills for
safety. Tie river rose at the rate Of
six inches an hour aud in some places
only the roofs of the hoases were Wis.
ible.
The big state reservoir at Akron,
Ohio, was broken and the residents oi
that section were fleeing for their lives.
Whole towns along the rivers were re.
ported washed away but telegraphic
and railroad service is so crippled thai
full reports are lacking. Piqua. Cincin
natl. Middletown. Sidney, Hamilton
and Tippecanoe in Chic and Peru, Lo
eanspoft. New Castle, Lafay ette ant
Noblesvilie. in Indiana. were in th<
wake Of the flood and suffer ed greatly
This is undoubtedly the greatest dis.
aster in America since the San Fran.
cisco earthquake and none can yet esli-
mate the number of lives lost or thu
property destroyed. Fire broke out in
the flood districts and volunteer soldier.
and police are pressed into patrol ser
vice to protect property and keep order.
The desoiated sections were sending
appeals for coffins, clothing and provis.
ions and special relief trains are max.
ing their way to the scenes of destruc-
tion.
1t was reported Wednesday that the
waters began to recede and that cold
wave in the northern parts of the state
will enable the over burdened rivers
to disgorge the food waters int
the larger channel of the Ohio river be-
fore further floods come from the north
ern rivers.