The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-28

there, would like to rush across
into the city's stricken business
district, but the militiamen stand
guard at every bridgeway. Only
relief automobiles go through.
These machines carry food and
coffee into the business section
and bring sufferers out of it.
Those on the outside of Day
ton should not think because the
streams have taken to their
banks, and the water has left
Main street, the principal thor
oughfare, that Dayton can now
take care of itself. Imagine what
Richmond would be if three
fourths the entire city had been
under water of an average
depth of twenty-five feet for two
whole days, if it had no light,
heat, drinking water, street cars,
or telephones, if several squares
of its business district were char
red ruins, and hundreds of its
citizens were dead. If you would
want help from Dayton for Rich
mond under such conditions,
then Richmond should lend ev-
cry assistance possible to Day
ton now.
CLOTHING BADLY NEEDED.
Not only is Dayton needing
help now, but her citizens will
need clothing and food for
months to come. Those who had
nothing but clothes and house
hold goods have been pauperized.
Added to this is death and sick
ness with it's attendant expense
and sorrow. There will be an
abundance of deserving charity.
Little towns surrounding will
be greatly handicapped by Day
tons loss. Dayton with its
wholesale houses had been the
source of supply for these small
places. and for several months to
come they will have to order else
where. Already these small plac-
es have sent to establish a new
supply from other large cities.
One grocer in Brookville, Ohio,
west of Dayton, told the Pallad-
ium correspondent that he had
entirely sold out, and he had
been trying all Thursday after
noon to get telephone connection
with one of the wholesale grocer
les of Richmond so that he could
re-stock his store.
Those on the outside of Day.
ton have worried a great deal be-
cause of inability to learn of the
fate of their friends and relativ-
es inside the city, but this situa-
ton is nearly as bad within the
city's borders. The city has been
divided by reason of the water
and with no phone service, news
has been of the most fragment
airy kind. There has been no
newspapers published inside the
city since the flood and none
sent in from the outside.
MANY TRAGIC SCENES.
| There have been a great many
tragic scenes and heroic acts
since Tuesday morning. Wednes-
day man with a baby was be-
ing carried down the river in a
canoe. He saw that he was to
be crushed to death against a
huge cement bridge and suicid-
ed instead by using a revolver.
The baby was drowned.
An avaricious fellow in a boat
refused to rescue a man and wo-
man because they did not have
the five dollars he demanded,
whereupon two men in an adjoin-
ing house offered him the money
asked for When the boatmen
reached them they dumped him
into the water and took posses
sion Of his boat, saving them
selves and a number of others.
Mr.. Thompson, of the Bell
Telephone company, of Dayton,
told how a relative of his had
saved himself, wife and baby.
The water rose so sigh in their
second story that no longer