Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-25
OHIO and INDIANA
ARE SWEPT BY FLOODS
AND MANY LOSE LIVES
LOSS TO PROPERTY WILL Be LARGE But IT CAN NOT Be ESTIMATED At
THIS EDAYT0N IS Center OF CURRENTS FROM four STREAMS
wuru ADJ sWFrpNc 1HpoIcH IMPORTANT BuSNsS STREETS
WIRES ARE DOWN and RAILROADS
TIED UP E0LATING STRICKEN SECTION

town Of ten thousand inhabitants, %
miles north of here, is reported t.
be drowned The town is said to be
completely flooded, all telephone and
telegraph communications being cut
owing to the flooded condition OF the
Scioto river which has left its banks
Just before the telephone centraIs left
their switchboalds, they reporte! thai
+. all it's inhabitants were fleeing to the
hills.
An appeal for help was received by
Mayor Karb of Columbus from Della
ware. 1t is reported that besides Ma
yor Leas, 25 citizens of Delaware were
drowned. Efforts to get details were
curtailed because wire communica-
/ tions failed. Adjutant General Wood
has received information from Dayton
that the food had submerged a large
part of the city An appeal is made
for help. Tents and hospital supplies
are being packed preparatory being
sent by special train. An appeal for
help also came from Larue, Marion
county, which is practically inundated.
The railroad at 10:40 a. nj. cancelled
all trains to Dayton. They announc.
ed it was impossible to reach the city,
because of flood conditions. Efforts
to reach Dayton also from Richmond,
Ind, by automobile, interurban or
train were futile
The washing out of several bridges
across the Scioti river in and near Co.
lumbus resulted in almost total par
alysis of railroad traffic out of Colum-
bus today.
The West Side levee has overflowed
large are in the western part of the
city and hundreds of persons We're
driven from their homes.
FORTY PERSONS KILLED
= - - -SRYSFREPORT AZ COLUMBUS.
Columbus, Ohio, March 25-infor
nation was received at the state CAPT
tol building today that forty persons
| had been killed at Dayton as result
of the flood in that city. Adiutant
! General Wood issued an order 'irect
ing that the railroad bridge over the
Miami river be blown up.
According to reports received the
Main street bridge, a steel and con-
crete structure, had been swept away
already.
! Bridges connecting the west With
: the eastern portion of Columbus were
swept away at State and Broad streets
shortly after noon. Dozens of snaller
bridges have gone out. Hundreds Of
men are marooned in factories N the
west side and police and troops ara
making rescues in boats where pos
sible All street car traffic has been
abandoned. Fifteen hundred homes
! have been flooded.
| SMALL TOWN SAYS THAT
TROOPS MAY BE NEEDED
Columbus, Ohio, March a5--Cover
nor Cox received telegram this
morning which was sent from a rail
road town near Delaware asking for
aid for Delaware flood sufferers The
dispatch said that state troops would
probably be necessary, but did not
give the number of casualties.
GOVERNOR COX ASKS
RED CROSS TO AID.
Columbus. Ohio, March 25.-Goy-
ernor Cox telegraphed the Red Cross
at Washington today appealing for aid
for Dayton, Ohio, on representation
of great loss of life there
PEOPLE IN LOW LANDS At
COLUMBUS FLEE FOR LIVES.
Columbus, March 25.-With a great
road the levee at the foot of Broad
street let 60 shortly before II o'clock
today sending deluge of water that
swelled the Scioto river, covering a
great area. Several small buildings
collapsed.
The police at 10:4O o'clock ordered
all persons in the low lands to leave
their homes and fee for the high
lands. All fire and police officials as
sisted in the work. The citizens were
told not to stop for clothes or val
uables. No loss of life has yet been
IcpOItcu
RESERVOIR At AKRON
BURSTS AND FLOODS TOWN.
Akron, sOhio, March 25.-Word has
just reached here that the big state
reservoir south of Akron has broken.
The residents of the nearby section
are fleeing for their lives. The water
from the reservoir is pouring into
Long lake. If its banks burst, Akron's
business section will be flooded.
SPRINGFIELD REPORTS BAD
FLOOD CONDITIONS THERE.
Springfield, Ohio, March 25.-This
city is in the midst of the worst flood
in its history. Both Buck creek and
Mad river have broken from their
banks and the low lands are under
water. Several hundred houses in
the eastern section of the city have
been flooded. These contain families
who refused to abandon their homes.