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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-26
MEAGRE REPORTS PHONED
TO CHICAGO FROM OHIO
TELL OF FLOODS HORROR

PROMOTION, o.. March 26 (via
telephone to Chicago).--A report from
the flooded district of Dayton re-
ceived here today says that on the
west side of the city there were
from rs to 100 drowned.
This is only an estimate, as 1t is
impossible to obtain accurate de-
tails.
Only a meagre report was received
from Hamilton, o., today Outside
of the fact that immense damage had
been done, and that there probably
had been some loss of life, nothing
could be learned. Attempts to get
wire into that city were without sue
cess.
A report reached here that Miamis-
burg was practically wiped out.
No further details have come
through as to Piqua and Troy NO
telephone circuits are working to
those towns. Two men penned up In
the office are in intermittent COM
munication with this station Ola one
test set. The telephone company is
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HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE
REPORTED IN VICINITY /,
OF GAINESVILLE, O

GAINESVILLE, o., March 26.-Six
persons are believed to have been
drowned in the Musldngum river here
this morning, when the mill of the
GAINESVILLE Wooden Company, whose
foundations had been weakened by
the high water, washed down against
the Sixth street high bridge. The
bridge gave way. and the mass OF
debris was carried away by the cur
rent. Later in the day the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad bridge went out,
completely severing communication
between the east and west sides of
the city. On the west side are scores
of persons marooned in their homes
and 1t is thought that the loss of
life there will be heavy as it is inn
possible to reach them.
The city is entirely cut off from
the outside world except by one tele-
phone line. The rising waters of the
Muskingum and Licking rivers have
flooded the electric light plant, and
notice was given by the gas company
at noon that the supply would be
shut off this afternoon.
Captain Charles Weolshire COM
manding Company E, Seventh regi-
ment, Ohio National Guard, was
placed in charge of the situation by
the civil authorities and the city is
virtually under martial law.
Before the wires went down the
news came from Coshocton, O., thirty
miles north of here, that the Tus-
caravans and Walhonding rivers had
overlooked their banks and were rag
ing torrents. Thousands of acres of
the richest farm lands in Ohio were
under water. and the loss of live
stock was heavy. A railroad bridge
on the Columbus division of the Pan
handle railroad went out during the
night, and scores of highway bridges
throughout this entire section were
washed away All streams through
out this section are raging torrents
and the loss will be very heavy
There are no trains or trolley cars
running into GAINESVILLE.
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200 SWEPT TO DEATH AS
GREAT LEVEE GIVES WAY
AT WEST INDIANAPOLIS

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. March "a
First word from West Indianapolis
cut off from the city when the grea'
West Washington street bridge went
out last night, came this morning
from the Associated Press staff cor
respondent from Chicago, marooned
there, who said it is generally esti-
mated that at least 200 persons were
drowned when the Morris street levee
broke early last night An unverified
rumor is that large number of refu-
gees sought shelter in Wolfes Hall
until the crowded floor gave way and
scores may have been killed or seri-
ously injured.
Families in one-story homes were
at the mercy of the sudden rush of
water that followed the breaks in the
levees. 1t is believed the bodies OF
these people. who are supposed to
have been trapped in the houses, will
be found when the waters recede
Various estimates are made in West
Indianapolis as to loss of life, but the
prevailing opinion is that not less
than 200 persons must have beer
dfowned.
sixty passenger trains are shut out
of the city on the lines entering from
the West, and all the passengers are
practically sharing the lot of the
homeless refugees. The Assumption
Parochial School, in charge OF Father
Joseph Weber, is sheltering and feed
ing about 100 women and children
Efforts to reach that section of the
city from Indianapolis have been
fruitless until today.
Much anxiety in Indiana today is
centred in Brookville and Connersville
on the Whitewater river, from which
frantic appeals for aid have been re-
received by Governor Ralston. While
the appeal was being made wire COM
munication to Connersyille failed.
The person who was talking with
the governor said that a break in the
Whitewater river levee had flooded
the valley, sweeping hundreds of per-
sons before it. Since then 1t has beer
impossible to reestablish communica-
ton even for few minutes, and the
governor fears the worst there. Militia
is ready to hurry to the town. but nc
train can be operated in that direc.
ton.
Though the whole State is stupefled
by the enormity of the disaster, which
In twenty-four hours drowned hun,
dreds of persons and destroyed prop.
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GOVERNOR COX ASKS FOR
HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS
FROM THE GOVERNMENT

COLUMBUS, o., March 2e.-From
Lake Erie to the Ohio river and
from the Indiana to the Pennsylva-
mia State lines. Ohio today is ex-
periencing the worst flood the State
has ever known. At least $50 were
drowned in this city, Dayton's loss
of life is estimated today to run over
500. Almost, every city and village
in the State follows with a death
toll that cannot be totaled until the
raging waters subside.
Federal aid in handling the flood
situation was asked today when Cow
ernor Cox telegraphed the war de-
partment at Washington asking that
$4,000 tents and 100000 rations be
made available for use and distri-
button by the Ohio National Guard.
Mobilized at all points of the
state companies and regiments Of
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erty valued at nearly s25, 100000, work
graph lines and railroads was started
early.
Practically every railroad and trac-
ton company operating in the State
has lost one or more bridges, with
several miles of track washed out or
made shaky by the flood waters.
Indianapolis awoke to find the wat
ers higher than ever appeared before,
with property loss that two days
ago would have been unbelievable. 1t
Ia hard oven yet to bring the full
realization of the damage to the peo-
pie, who had no thought Of a flood
from streams that ordinarily are I'M
important, aiding only in beautfying
the city's parks and boulevard drive
ways
During the night the water adj
vaneed upon the exclusive residence
section along Fall Creek. 1t tore
away one bridge, destroyed the city's
most pretentious driveway and forced
the families living along its banks
to desert their palatial homes.
a lew hours DelOIt llty hhu ~
idea they were in any danger and
were awakened by the militiamen,
to be ordered from the threatened
buildings, only to find every hotel In
the city full. They were cared for
at the home of friends.
With the breaking of day also
came the proposition Of feeding the
refugees to the number Of 10000. The
city has appropriated enough to de-
fray this expense today, but more
will be needed tomorrow. A fund
has been started. and it is believed
this will solve that problem.
1t was believed by telephone and
telegraph company officials here that
they soon would be able to establish
a more certain communication with
Peru, where scores are reported to
be dead and where many persons are
suffering for food and clothing.
Indianapolis faces another day
without water and is without fire
protection. Drinking water is at a
premium, while water TO use for
baths and washing is unattsinable,
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800 DEAD IN PERU, IND.
OFFICIAL REPORT SENT
BY RELIEF EXPEDITION

SOUTH BEND Ind, March 26.--An
official report received by Mayor
Charles e. Goetz, of South Bend, at
1915 a. m today was that 300 people
were drowned at Peru, that no bodies
had been recovered and that there
was less than one block of the entire
city that was not under water.
The report was telephoned to Mayor
Goetz by the relief party sent from
South Bend, which reached the out
skirts of Peru. 1t stated further that
only two feet of the upper parts of
the houses in the submerged districts
could be seen; that the caart house,
the hospital and some factory build
ings were crowded with survivors in
need of food. and that Governor Raj
ston had been asked to send more
supplies from Fort Wayne.
The special relief interurban train
which left here at / a. m. reached
point several miles from Peru at
a. M, but owing to the failure of wire
communication could not get out
word cartier
The report to Mayor Goetz said that
all the available boats were immedi
ately loaded with provisions and sent
into the city under great difficulty,
but so great was the suffering that it
was soon found the supply was in
sufficient.
Mayor Goetz, who had been in
formed of the conflicting reports about
the loss of life. said he accepted the
report from the relief. party as Of
fetal
1.-THE messages stated definitely that
at least 300 were drowned" said May
or Goetz. THAT seems to leave little
doubt that the loss of life is great.
can't conceive that those in charge of
the relief party would greatly over
estimate the loss"
Efforts to reach Peru by long-dis-
lance telephone at II o'clock failed.
The telephone companies reported
that all the power generated at the
Peru end had failed. No-communica-
ton by telegraph was possible.
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IS IS Is Is Is Is Is Is Is Is Is Is Is Is, Is Is

continuous rainfall At Oil City a
number of big tanks were washed
away and $1,000 barrels of oil and
gasoline flowed into the Allegheny
river.
Operations on the Allegheny river
division of the Pennsylvania railroad
were at once discontinued for fear
sparks dropping from engines as they
passed over bridges spanning the
stream would set the oil afire. The
division will practically be tied up
until the oil runs out.
Railroad traffic west and south Of
Pittsburgh is being carried on with
the greatest difficulty and only few
trains are moving. Whole schedules
have been annulled and miles of
trains are said to be tied up between
washouts on lines in eastern Ohio.
The Pennsylvania lines west are
accepting no passengers west of
Dennison, o., 100 miles from Pitts
burgh, the bridge spanning the Mus
kingum river at Franklin, o., havins
gone out during the night. Other
less important bridges were washed
away, and it will be days before
through traffic can be resumed.
Conditions in Western Pennsyl-
vania are little better, washouts
blocking many roads. Traffic To the
east has not yet been interrupted.
The Allegheny river is at flood
height, and the Ohio river here at 8
o'clock had passed twenty feet ard
was rising six inches an hour Tho
crest of the flood is not expected here
until tomorrow. No loss of life has
been reported, but the property lani-
age is heavy.
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COLD WAVE ONLY
HOPE OF CHECK
UPON THE FLOOD

WASHINGTON, March 26.-Upon
the rainfall of the next As hours de-
ponds whether the flood situation will
be relieved or grow worse.
over crippled wires, fragmentary
reports creeping into weather bureau
headquarters today told of excessive
rains all over the stricken districts,
threatening to carry the surging
waters higher or maintain them at
present stages.
With the exception of one single
reading of the stage of the Mus
kingum, at GAINESVILLE. which reported
that river fifteen feet above, Hood
stage. the weather bureau was en-
tirely without the usual river records
from the danger centre. This morn
ing the Allegheny at Pittsburgh was
two feet below flood stage and rising
rapidly. 1t is expected to be four
feet over the flood stage by Thurs
day night. The Ohio at Cairo early
today was reported 4S.5 feet, but 1.5
feet below the food stage.
One CLEAN of hope for relief APP
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-26
WASHINGTON HURRIES
AID IN RESPONSE TO
APPEAL FROM GOV. COX

WASHINGTON, March 26.-The fol-
lowing telegram came from Cover
nor Cox at Columbus O., to President
Wilson,
I'VE have asked the secretary of
war this morning for tents, supplies,
rations and physicians. In the name
Of humanity see that this is granted
at the earliest possible moment. The
situation in this State is very crit
zeal. We believe 100000 people were
unsheltered last night and the indi.
cations are that before night the Mus
kingum Valley will suffer the fate of
the Miami and Scioto valleys
The President telegraphed to Gov
ernor Cox as follows:
Have directed the secretary of war
Immediately to comply with your re-
quest and to use every agency of his
department to meet the needs of the
situa ton
Governor Cox's appeal brought
prompt response from the. war de-
partment. Preparations were at once
begun for moving rations from stocks
at Philadelphia and st. Louis. No
such number of tents as the governor
asks for, however, is available, and
army officers are assuming he wants
tents for $4,000 people and are pro-
ceeding on that basis. 1t would re-
quire about 5000 tents to shelter So.
900 refugees. These are available in
the army storehouses in Philadelphia.
The Red Cross here is anxious for
information regarding the where
abouts of National Director Ernest P.
Bicknell, who started Monday from
Washington for Omaha. He was last
heard from yesterday morning at
Wellington, O., and If he can be
reached probably may be diverted
from his original destination to the
neighborhood of Dayton.
Secretary McAdoo has ordered
Surgeon r. W Willie, of the United
States Marine Hospital at Cleveland.
to proceed al once to Columbus to CO.
operate with the State Board of
Health in preventing the spread of
disease in the flooded district Of the
State. Orders were also sent 10 DR..
]. O. Cobb at the Marine Hospital at
Chicago, to go to Indianapolis to CO.
opera &c with State authorities
Secretary Garrison sent a III assage
to Governor Cox, of Ohio, ana Cow
ernor Ralston, of Indiana, Offering
to send trops as wei as army r1tins
and tents.
Regular troops could be drawn
from Columbus 2 barracks. Fort
Wayne, Michigan; Fort Leaven-
worth, KANSAS: Fort Thomas. Ken
lucky; Fort Port, New York, OF Fort
Niagara. New ( rE.
The United States life-saving sta
tion at Louisville has been ordered
to hurry its entire crew, equipped
with power boats and lifevsaVing an
paratus, to Cincinnati, with orders to
work up the Miami valley toward
Dayton for rescue work.
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2. 500 Are Dead in Great Floods
Which Wreck Homes of 100000
President Appeals to Whole Nation
to Aid Sufferers of the Floods

WASHINGTON 26President issued the fol-
floods
Indiana assumed the
The the infinite suf
appeal to all who
of American
II o
should this The needs of those
capable sympathy give immediate aid
those who laborng and relieve
WOODROW WILSON
al and Columbus Ohio
deeply sympahze people of
n
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DAYTON STILL CUT OFF
FROM HOPE OF RESCUES,
THO WATERS ARE STILL

DAYTON, o., March 26.-The crest
Of the Dayton flood passed about mid
night, but the next few hours allowed
no appreciable lowering in the water
Today has brought little hope of inn
mediate relief to those who had spent
feared that the number of drowned
was greatly increased during the
twelve hours of darkness.
The rescue work looked as hopeless
as on yesterday, however. No one In
the city attempted to sleep.
The only known dead are Anton
Saetell. grocer, Vine and Main streets
killed in an explosion; his wife
drowned; unknown woman found
nearby hanging on wire; the Bish
family, wiped out with the exception
of son, John Bish; his mother, aget
SIS; sister Florence. q; niece, Viola
Bish, and Muriel, wife of John Bish
all being victims OF the flood.
1t is not believed the rescuers will
be able to make any advance into tn,
flooded district today, but will have
to content themselves with saving
those who were marooned within 8
few doors of the waters edge.
10000 Marooned.
More than 10000 persons either were
unable to reach their homes or helC
in their water-locked houses, wer,
unable TO reach land.
The inundated district is estimated
as more than fifteen square miles
most of which is under from six t
eighteen feet, of water.
No communication could be estab
lished with those in the commercial
district. and any attempt to sa,
whether any. or all of them drowned
is merest conjecture.
1t is thought most of the fatalities
occurred on the west and north side
OF the river, where the wall of waite
rushed in suddenly with the breakin,
of the levee.
The early breaking of the levee will
keep the loss of life in the CONNER
cial section lower than was first esti
mated.
BY s o'clock yesterday morning tn
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Rescue Work Hampered by
Submerged Tracks and
Rushing Waters.
Continued from First Paee5

death list is being increased by the
constant dropping of exhausted per-
sons into the waters. The utter in
ability of ordinary boats to reach
people clinging to dismantled houses,
trees and surrounding objects makes
the work of rescue everywhere prac-
tically impossible. There is hope,
however of a gradual subsistence of
the fury Of the flood, which had
reached its crest at Dayton at mid
night and began slowly to fall.
One pressing need at Dayton, next
to the rescue of imperiled persons, is
a supply of food. the stores being in
the inundated district. The water
supply for drinking purposes has also
been cut off and physicians fear a
possible typhoid epidemic from the
use of the flood waters.
In both States the train service
continues in a demoralized condition.
but every effort is being made by
the authorities to reach the districts
most in need of help. Individuals and
relief trains striving to reach Day
ton have thus far been unable to
penetrate the city, which remained
utterly isolated save, possibly, from
the north, where further efforts are
to be made to enter.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. March 26.-At
a. m. today the telephone operator
at Logansport, who had been relaying
telephone messages from Peru to
South Bend, thus keeping open the
only communication with the stricken
city, reported that the wires had sud-
denly failed He reported 1t was i'm
possible to reach Peru from any di-
rection. All the telegraph companies
stated the wires were down.
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$4,000 SONG AT
The WASHINGTON
New York's Fancy Priced
Ballad Sung in
Newark.

The New York song fad "Why Did
You Make Me Care2" for the copy
right OF which a Philadelphia man.
one Joseph Morris, is said to have paid
the fanciful sum of $4,000 recently,
was suns for the first time in Newark
last evening at FoXs Washington
Theatre, and caused considerable com
ment.
The ballad was rendered by Mr..
George Earnest, baritone sololst OF
the dainty coincidence Isabel Grey's
act whose pathetic and intelligent in
depreciation of the text won him
rounds of applause. The sketch, ny
the way, is the best Western act that
has yet come East--the three mem
bers of the cast being refined, up-to-
the-hour artists of the highest type.
Here is a portion of the song chorus:
" by Did You Make Me Care
BY ALFRED SoLMAH.
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OHIO LEGISLATURE
VOTES S250,0OO FOR
AID OF FLOOD VICTIMS

COLUMBUS, o., March 26.-The
House, under suspension of rules, to-
day passed a bill introduced by Mr.
Lowry for the relief of the flood suf-
ferers. 1t carries $25O,0Oo and this en-
tire sum is placed In the hands of the
governor for distribution as he deems
fit. The bill carried the emergency
clause. so it goes into effect inn
mediately upon its passage.
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attempting 10 get man to Franklin,
O., from which point he may be able
to work toward Dayton to ascertain
conditions In that city.
a rumor was received from Troy
yesterday that twenty-three bodies
Mad been seen floating past that
town. There is no yerlfication oil
this report
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West which is advancing East very
slowly. Officials say it probably
would aid in checking the rains which
are predicted to continue over Ohio.
Indiana. Western Pennsylvania and
the entire flood region.
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RESCUE WORK GOES ON
IN GLARE OF BLAZE AT
$2,0O0,O00 FACTORY

HAMILTON. o, March 26.-The
Champion Coated Paper Company,
two-million dollar concern. took fire
early today and is at the mercy of
flames. as all fire fighting is out of
the question. The glare of the fire
helped somewhat in rescue work
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STREAMS IN WESTERN
PENNSYLVANIA ALL
AT FLOOD HEIGHT

PITTSBURGH, March 2s.-All
streams in Western Pennsylvania
were at flood height this morning fol-
lowing twenty-four hours of almost
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PpZEs CURED IN 8 To IA DAYS
Your druggist will refund money if
PAZo OINTMENT fails to cure any
case of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or
Protruding Piles in to Il days. soc.
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telephone message, the Geneseet river
rose three feet between and 3
o'clock last night.
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the State military force are ready
to start for the stricken cities and
towns as soon as arrangements for
their transportation, the most Sc
rious problem confronting the mill
! tia headquarters, can be arranged
/ The relief which they would carry
was held back by the lack of rail-
road facilities everywhere.
The first place which the troops
will reach probably will be Sidney.
Transportation for a company from
Bucyrus was arranged. Brigadier-
General John c. Speaks was in touch
with the railroads, bending every ef-
fort to start train with troops to
Dayton from any point and by any
route. Help was still cut off from
Piqua today. The naval militia at
Toledo is entrained, but is unable to
leave that city because of the lack
of railroad facilities.
MARIETTA, o., March 26-With
the Ohio river rising rapidly and all
surrounding streams hurting a large
volume of water into it, residents of
this section are alarmed over the
prospects of a flood. Reports this
morning indicated that the Ohio
river would continue to rise at least
throughout the day. The Musklngum
river also is reported to be rising
rapidly at headwaters.
The towns of Stockport, Beverly,
McConnelsville and Pleasant City
are under water and wire and rail-
road communications have been cut
off, Extent of the damage done by
the flood in these places is not known.
DELAWARE, O., March 26.-Res-
cue work continued this morning in
the flooded districts, and the list of
those believed dead was changed
from time to time. Several reported
dead were found after daylight, and
others believed saved were reported
dead. However. the list of dead proba-
bly, will reach 40 or so. Because of
meagre reports from the main BUSH
ness section of Delaware, the exact
number is still unknown.
AKRON, o., March 26.-Cessation
of the rains today has quoted the
fears of the citizens here concerning
the strength of the banks of the res
ervoir. No lives are thought to have
been lost in the food, but scores of
families have been made homeless by
the high water. Most of the rubber
factories have been forced to shut
down. No further rise in the river
is expected The homeless are being
taken care of in the schools and
churches.