Arizona republican., 1913-03-26
Stories of Deluge Gathered ill Chicago Tell of Terrible Scenes in Tormented Dis tricts i'll Six Stricken States
WATERS TIE UP
 ATTEMPTS TO AID
Reports Come Slowly From Regions of Terror Where Wire Service Is Paralvzed and Few Heroic Operators Remain on Duty
ASSOCIATED PRESS DrsPArcHl

CHICAGO, March 25.-tloods over
 an unprecedented area following the tornado and rains of the last three daYs. swept four states in the Miss issippi valley today causing d loss of life that may reach hundreds and damage to property amounting t. many millions. Ohio, and Indiana
 and in lesser degree, Illinois and Mis- souri, felt the brunt of the disaster. -A1 Taytop sc9rcs al, repoI ed drowned, following tine breaking of 1 the Miami river levee and the Lara mic reservoir fifty miles above the city
 When an Associated Press core spondent succeeded in reaching the city anxiety caused by the eXagger- atcd reports of loss of life were set at rest although he had great diff ficulty in obtaining details Maroon ed in office buildings in the center of the town. hundreds are vainly awaiting rescue. Streets heretofore considered miles from the danger line are running eight feet under water the torrential force of which pre- cludeJ rescue in boats. Millions of property damage is already incurred and the flood is still increasing. The climax of the flood in Ohio reached Dayton. where tonight it is reported that there is water from twenty to forty feet deep in many of the streets. with bodies floating past the windows of office buildings:
 the catastrophe has assumed the pre- portions of tidal wave. 30,000 of Dayton's inhabitants are said to be homeless. Hundreds of fires. which cannot be eXtinguished. it is said.
 added to the horror of the situation in Dayton.
 The waters swept through the city with terrific force one report, which however lacked confirmation. says water in Main street is fifteen feet deep. All wire communication eX cept on one slender wire to Phone ton. six miles away. is broken off, and information regarding the status of affairs in Dayton is difficult to obtain Railroads and wagon bridges across the Miami river are swept away, and others are in mOmentary l danger of collapsing. The river Is still rising at a late hour and fears are entertained that several other towns between Dayton and the Ohio river will suffer.
 At three D. m. a young woman 1 telephone operator in Dayton in di- rect communication with Governor | Cox at Columbus, said she was the 1 Ia st person remaining in the exchange building and that the water was seven feet deep in Main street. As I she was talking she said. the build = ing across the street collapsed. Many | are believed to have been in the 1 building at the time, and other build 1 ings are expected to be undermined 1 Columbus Suffers
 Columbus also suffered an enor- 1 nous damage from the flood. The washing out of several bridges across l the SciOto river in and near that ! city. resulted in an almost total par alysis of railroad traffic. Later the
 west side levee broke and d large
 area of the western part of the city was inundated Fires in three large
 factories ragged many hours and for a
 time threatened portion of the l business district Because of the
 | flood firemen were unable to reSpont
 1 to appeals for assistance.
 1 Conditions in Indianapolis. For
 1 Wayne Kokomo and other places 1T
 central Indiana are the worst 1T
 many years At Lafayette two spans
 | of bridges went out. carrying away
 | several people who were watching
 the flood All were rescued however
 l except two men. one of whom was
 l.. P. Woolley an Indianapolis sudden