The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-27
II Don Xtra!
NEWS
IS WHAT ALL
ARE SEEKING

Richmond people are taking the
keenest interest in the Dayton situa-
ton. owing to the large number who
have relatives and friends in that city.
The newspapers and telegraph and
telephone companies are being besieg
ed for news all hours of the day and
night and the employees of these con-
Germs are almost exhausted from the
strain of work for the past eighty
hours, for they have been on duty
nearly al the time.
There have been two or three hun
dred people stranded in this city be-
cause of the paralysis OF railroad and
traction operations, and nearly all of
them are from cities affected by the
floods. In their frantic endeavors to
obtain some information of their fam
lilies they have thronged the news
paper, telephone and telegraph Offices
but there has been very few in
stances where they have obtained any
news of personal nature.
A Palladium correspondent Carl
Emerson, sent to Dayton, in a personal
message sent from Dayton View this
morning stated that he had located his
sister Katherine, IN the Algonquin
hotel by meeting a woman who had
seen her there. Another Palladium
reporter, Howard Smith, has received
no information regarding his father,
Philip Smith, who is some place in
Dayton.
Alvin Kemper, advertising manager
of the Palladium, has obtained no in
formation of his sister, Mrs. John
Stud7baker.
Mrs L. E. Turner has been unable
to secure any information regarding
her mother Mrs. Elliott. -
Practically all the employees of the
Automatic Tool works, Beallview, are
from Dayton and many of them have
families residing there. None of the
men desire to work until they receive
news Of their loved ones so the plant
has suspended operations.
Will Wilcox, the oldest conductor on
the Ohio Electric traction company,
who resides in Dayton, but who has
been stranded here has received word
that his home is under water and he
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and children.
Mrs. Mary Seaman, 1913 North B
street, has received word that her
three brothers, Clyde, Frank and John
Fogleman, are safe in Dayton.
J. H. Mills of this city has received
no word from his wife who had been
visiting in Dayton but he believes she
has found refuge in the Phillips House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Arsdell of Dayton,
who have been in Richmond on bust
mes shave appealed to Mayor thinner
man to assist in locating Mrs. Van AIRS
dell's mother, a proof reader on the
Dayton Journal. and the parents of
Mr. Van Arsdell who had been TAX
ing care of Mr.. and Mrs. Van Arsdell's
child
Mr.. and Mrs Roland De Weese, the
latter formerly of this city, are be
| lieved to be out of danger. s
Mrs ]. w. Ferguson received a tele-
! gram from her husband this morn
ing that he was safe in hotel in Mid
dletown, O., but he said the situation
| in that place was desperate, the town
being half under water
William Butler and eight other Cam
/, bridge City men having relatives in
| Dayton passed through Richmond in
automobiles today enroute to the
stricken city MIR. Butler will search
| for his cousin, Mrs. Bessie Darnell,
formerly Miss Van Meter of Cam
| bridge City.
William Waking called the Pallad-
| ium representative on a private wire
yesterday and asked that his wife be
notified that he had just left Dayton
and was on his way to Richmond All
of the relations of the Wakings are
reported safe except Grace Wells. Mrs.
| Waking's sister. When informed that
her sister was cut off from communi.
cation. Mrs. Waking almost swooned
exclaiming, My God, don't tell me any
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