The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-03-25
TIDAL WAVE
SWOOPED ON
CITY TODAY
BULLETIN 1880 p. M.

BULLETIN M.
Communication with Dayton
obtained few minutes this afternoon traction
ploye New Paris He talked the traction telephone line
spoke with formerly of New Paris Pur
stated that he about board oboat by
crawling through second story window of the building He said
the catastrophe to the breaking of the dam of the Lewis
town reservoir, north of Dayton.
don't know how many be thous-
When asked the death list might total
5000 he said there absolutely to make estimate
but that possible there had been that number of victims
Water in the streets thirty and forty feet high
places and in most places it twenty feet high.
The Richmond telephone exchange that established
communication with operator in Dayton for few minutes talk
Western Union telegraph line The exchange states
said people all the city firing and
revers to attract the attention of and that the
buildings black with terrorzed people
ey drowning like rats the death list is increasing
estimate the total number OF Deaths he said
Late this operator the Richmond Home
Telephone succeeded establishing with
the telephone operator at Liberty o. eight
The Liberty operator begged the Richmond
office to do everything its to communicate with Governor
of Ohio and him send assistance to Dayton
possible.
Dayton very serious 1t is terrible
the Liberty operator n many parts of the city the water
twenty deep people taken refuge the of tall
buildings"
When asked what estimated
Dayton could which
have today by telephone and telegraph
place the number of dead Dayton at least two thousand
Liberty said before she lost communication
the the Main street bridge in Dayton
huge tidal of flood waters
pouring into the stricken city.
Local telephone operators also caught call from Pqua o.
today stating that the situation in that city extremely
critical and asking that word be gotten Governor Cox asking
dispatch clothing food tents to the city poss
be The loss of life that city estimated anywhere from two
hundred to five hundred
this afternoon that the city government
Dayton dynamtng the Pennsylvania railroad
bridge the Miami river collecting debris and form
ing dam, diverting the flood waters into the city.
The following message received Richmond at four
o'clock this afternoon special ne running through West
Alexandria 1t is impossible to the line
Il neman in the second floor of the Ohio Electric
ton The water is to within foot of this floor and
ing rapidly that this talk has be short may my
going to build raft something to keep aoat the
water gets
"Jus little baby, its clothes caught of
small tree foated past the window The yellow
where twenty feet deep and looks going
be wiped off the map Some of the smaller are
floating about in the streets and aming the
heavy buildings.
The people drowning like rats Every few you
hear and garge The bodies floating
streets by the The tops of the big buildings
black with people, Those who could the buildings
there those who could either floating
are being swept down into the yellow torrent.
The water several inches higher than when
talking T. there series of and
broken off.
The Ohio Electric building a comparatively high
of the city, water in the second floor of this building
the twenty feet
deep.
With the fact estabhed that Lewstown o.
the catastrophe which has appalled,
grave thousand
Sidney o. for the thousand people Troy
o. No communication from either of these obtained
end they the Little Miami and the path