The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-31

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| them read.
| The Sixth regiment Ohio National
Guard from Toledo and northern Ohio
| towns. which has been on duty here COM
wandered a train when ordered to cincin-
natl and departed before nghtfall. The
naval reserves from Toledo Went on the
same train.
| Coroner j. W. Mckemy estimated that
| 100 bodies have been recovered, though
there are records of only n He said
many had been buried without usual Of
! fetal action, and that in many cases he
| did not expect to get records
Few Bodies Identified
| Hundreds OF persons still looking for
relatives passed along the lines at the
morgues, fearing they should find their
| loved ones there. Only few bodies have
not been identified
| Eight persons suffering from diphtheria
are at the Miami Valley hospital Seven
of them were caught In house with a
person who had recently become ill with
the disease. Four persons hemmed in
with one who had measles are suffering
with that disease
| There are two hospitals here. and st.
E,lizabeth's was flooded on the first floor,
| so all sick and injured were taken either
| to the great Miami hospital or to the State
Insane asylum here Eight persons whose
minds have temporarily become affected,
because of hardships suffered in the flood
are being cared for at the latter place.
With warmer weather the greatest prob
lem was the removal of carcasses of dead
horses.
Every available automobile truck and
all the horse drawn draws were impressed
by the sanitary officials and hundreds of
men were engaged all day removing the
| carcasses to the different incinerating
a.,1 70 alntc f1.o ~
skirts of the city, where they are burned
Sightseers Put to Work
Hundreds of sightseers arrived for a
holiday in the city only TO be impressed
into the service of the sanitary depart
ment. and were forced, in some instances,
at the points of bayonets in the hands
of national guardsmen, to assist in the
removal of carcasses. From end to end
of Dayton the people were cleaning house.
| Those who had no houses to clean were
| working cheerfully in assisting those who
| had
Merchants and what numbers of their
employees who could be found, were
| clearing the piles of wrecked stocks
| of merchandise with scoops and show
| els. The mud, in some places several
| feet deep, was being thrown into the
streets.
| Broken glass was piled into great
| heaps ready to be carted away. Coun-
ters and store fixtures were piled in
alleys, and carloads of merchandise
water soaked, and for the most part
practically worthless, were piled on the
sidewalks and on improvised shelves in
stores
| In Riverdale and North Dayton,
where the flood waters attained the
greatest depth and degree of destruc-
ton several thousand persons waded
| T. in, eli ,t1d erit ,er
their desolated homes for clothing All
of this, of course. was soaked and plas-
4 tered with mud, but ii was dried on the
| hill sides where the populace has taken
refuge. In some places in these dis
tricts the water had so far receded as
to render possible the beginning of the
work of cleaning the lower floors of
mud and debris, so that in a few days
fires can be built within the houses
and the premises dried out.
| But it will be long time before all
| Daytonians will live in their own
homes.
10000 Homes Uninhabitable
There are $1,000 residences, which it
will be necessary to plaster and paper
before they can be occupied. There
are 4500 houses which it will be neces-
sary to put foundations under, to
| straighten, reroof, put in doors and
windows, rebuild chimneys and make
other repairs before their owners can
move in again. There are 1000 houses
which 1t will be necessary to raze and
new structures built. The citizens re-
| lief committee, on advices from en-
gineers. had decided that this recon-
struction work will require four months
| even il building material can be OBJ
tained promptly.
SO far as the business and industrial
buildings are concerned. it has been
estimated by architects who have
looked over the different premises that
it will require eight months before the
repair work of rebuilding can be ac-
| complished. In the interim, business
will be done in whatever premises may
| be available.
! II. e. Talbot, who was commissioned
| by Governor Cox, chief engineer of the
{, military zone. completed his plans for
| beginning the rehabilitation He an
/ nounced that four departments have
! been created with an assistant engineer
in charge of each.
/ One will have charge of rebuilding the
! streets and alleys; another the levees
! along the rivers: another the sewerage
system and still another the bridges
| Thousands of men will be employed, to-
| gether with many teams of horses, and
work will be pushed to the utmost in all
| departments. Cursory surveys of the dam
age done have been made and large guam
titles of material ordered by telegraph to
be shipped Immediately.
! "A system of accounting has been de-
| vised and put into operation with John
| " I4yte, former county treasurer act
| ing as comptroller Money will be avail
able from the state and county govern
merits, besides help extended from fed
| eral government to be used in levee con-
! struction.
| IT was pointed out by officials Of Engi-
neer Talbott's department that the Miami
| river is under federal control and that
Congress Will be urged to make an imme-
date appropriation to straighten and
| deepen the channel
The pumping plants We're insnected by
experts and reported to be in fairly good
! cordition, considering the fact that they
were for many hours under 10 to II feet
| OF water The machinery was found 20
| he capable of being put in operation and
| the big ,pstons began to pnnn But the
| city is still without anything like an ade-
| uuate water supply and the danger of a
| confiagration still is the subject of graz
| concern.
! Food Being Examined
| Theodore A. Burnett and L n smith
! government food inspectors have taken
! charge OF the food supply, insofar a.
| inspection is concerned, and have appoint