The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-30
Ohio Now Contensplates
Destruction WitA;n
It's Borders.
OF FOOA
BECOMING ACUTE
Conditions Show How Helpless
Even Great State' Is When
Severed From Outside World.
Situation Is Improving, but
Many Towns Are Still
Suffering Under Water.
BIZ JAMES 81. COX.


Governor of Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio. March 29.-Tho snd
of the week inds the State daxed and
numbed in contemplation of the tre-
mendous and widespread destruction In
almost every section The situation
1t is becoming now problem OF food
within our borders, a condition which
demonstrates how impotent even a
great State Is when communication is
severed with the outside world.
Cincinnati. in the fullness OF her
bounty, shipped train loads of supplies
into the lower Miami Valley and the
southeastern parts of Indiana az we'll.
Philanthropy displaced prudence, and
to night the Queen City of the West
appeals to the State for assistance.
Troublesome Points Relieved.
Dayton and Evansville. the two trou-
blesome points, 50 far as extension of
relief was concerned. are in pretty fair
shape. TIE Western food supply was
tapped by way OF indiana poiis The
Chicago Association of Commerce. at
our request, established a base at In
was resumed between Dayton and the
Indiana capital
Ten carloads OF limo. Ave car tanks
of gasolene, and a trainload consisting
of bread. vegetables and clothing are
on their way to Dayton now from that
III,
for the purpose OF disinfection-
The West is also supplying medical
supplies, particularly antitoXin for the
diph liberia outbreak Dayton's last ap-
peal was for automobile trucks. 1t will
be harder to meet this requisition than
any previously made. but the appeal
las gone by wire to Cleveland. Detroit
Toledo, Lima and indianapolis.
If the wonderful response that has
come to any request up to this time is
any index, we ought to have 200 auto
mobile trucks with drivers in Dayton
for the purpose of distributing the food
supply.
Military of Great Service.
The military organization has been
OF great service, and the week closes
tonight with some measure of conso-
lation in the thought that every section
that has appealed to US had hunger
appeased.
Colonel Zimmerman, of the Eighth
Regiment, was sent at daylight from
Dayton into Hamilton, and this after
noon he sends his official report, which
is Indeed a Gruesome tale. Ninety-one
bodies will be Inferred there to-mor-
row. Two hundred horses were burned
In the street Two or three OF the
principal thoroughfares have been
washed into bitches twenty feet deep
Hamilton will supply a real problem
because we have reached It until now
through Cincinnati. 1t has been i'm
possible to get there from the North
With the Cincinnati supply diminishing
down TO the point OF need and the Ohio
flood situation cutting off communities
ton from both the East and South, we
doubtless face crisis in dealing with
the situation al Cincinnati and Hamil-
ton.
Secretary OF War Garrison reached
Dayton this morning by automobile
from Cincinnati The sanitary oondi-
lions there arc bad. and at our re-
quest he has assumed sanitary charge
of the city. DR.. Rupert Blue. who was
of such service at San Francisco. as
sumed personal supervision of the
work.
The whole country is loud in Its
praise of John III. Patterson. His was
the master mind at Dayton, and
through the remarkable organization
of the National Cash Register Com
pany, he was ena bled to be ms potential
as even the Federal and State govern
Inents In the first forty eight hours Of
the flood famine
Heroism Exhibited.
The power Of the military foroe
finally bore into GAINESVILLE. That sit
uation developed the same degree OF
heroism exhibited elsewhere. Judge
Adams, formerly OF the Circuit Court
and now dean OF the law school in the
state University, reached his own home
at GAINESVILLE by horseback and foot
and brought back to-day the first
verbal report of the condition in the
Muskingum Valley. Food expeditions
from the north, east and west Of
GAINESVILLE were successful, rendered
so by the transportation OF high
powered motor boats by train. Many
OF the Ohio manufacturing cities have
never until now appreciated the lurk-
ing danger of a congested foreign pop
ulation. Youngstown and GAINESVILLE
were under great apprehension for
considerable time because OF the omi-
nous muttering from the foreign sec
ton. Food is the solution OF the situa-
ton and 1t has been met
Marietta entered the list OF soreIy
stricken cities to-day. The water there
has exceeded the 1884 stage, and n
goodly portion of tho city Is inundated.
The relief commission for the time
being has provided for Marietta
Tho wire chief operator OF the Bell
Telephone Company, Ralph jackson.
reports tonight that an appeal has
come from Portsmouth Water in the
Ohio there is sixty eight feet high and
still rising. Report Is that the bust
ness buildings arc on fire. In GallipoIis
the water Is still rising. AT last re-
port 1t was siXtY-two feet. Tho teIe-
phone building has caved in and put
1t out OF commission.
All Ohio towns are wrapped In water
tonight. Ripley. Pomeroy. Middloport
and Gallipols are heavy sufferers
Now Richmond. Higginsport and seven
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