The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-04-03
DEATHS
FEWER THAN $50
Work Of Clearing City Of Wreck
age Is Begun.
HUNGRY ARE BEING FED
Ninety Bodies Have Been Taken
From Ruins by State Troops and
Volunteer Force-seventeen
Lootcrs Shot.

begun the recOnStruCJiOn OF Ine city
following the flood distsater. The wa
ters of the four streams which over
flowed the city have receded SO far
that 1t is possible to penetrate on foot
all except few Of the sections of the
city.
| The work of rescue Is practically
finished. the last of the refugees hav-
ing been taken to places OF safety.
Most of the bodies in the limits of the
city itself have been found and search
for others is being made farther down
the river.
Ninety Bodies Recovered.
Ninety bodies have been recovered.
and It is estimated that the total num-
Der of deaths will not be more than
$50. With the recovery of the bodies
ended, removal of the wreckage of the
| flood was begun by the state troops.
the local authorities, and the volun-
| teers.
Twenty.eight hundred bloated car
| casses of horses and cattle have been
carted to a fertilizing works east of
the city. ~....
Hungry Are Being Fed.
The relief measures are now so well
in hand that the hungry in all quar-
ters are being fed. clothing and medi-
cal aid supplied, and all pressing
wants being met. These conditions
are due to the generous response of
the nearby towns and cities as we'll
as distant points.
kilograms have been pouring into
police headquarters from people who
are making frantic efforts to learn the
fate of relatives or friends here. These
kilograms cannot possibly be given
personal attention, the great bulk of
the department having been marooned
by the flood in different quarters of
the city, and the rescue work being
too onerous. kilograms are only be-
ing delivered by the telegraph Offices
to persons who can be readily found
and are close to the central part of
the city.
Identified Dead Number Fifty.
The identified dead so far number
50, with 40 unidentified. The dead are
being removed to improvised morgues
| in different quarters of the city. The
wonderful order that has prevailed in
the city and the prompt response of
the citizens to the military require
ments. is preferable to the martial law
conditions that require all persons to
be off the streets from six in the eve
ming until five in the morning. When
the curfew bell rings at six in the eve
ming the old as well as the young are
at home or fastening there.
Seventeen Looters Shot.
Seventeen men have been shot and
killed in the streets of Dayton as
ghouls and looters since the declara-
ton of martial law. Ten were killed
between darkness Saturday night and
daylight Sunday morning. Nine were
negroes and the tenth white man.
the only white man of the II whose
crimes brought instant death as pun
| ishment.
George F. Burba. secretary to Gov
ernor Cox, who represents the gov
ernor in relief work here, summed up
| the situation in Dayton as follows:
Forty thousand persons must be fed
and cared for a week. ...
$4,000 Are Destitute.
Twenty thousand persons must be
fed and cared for for an indefinite
period. ...-.a. ..
Except for the clothes on their
backs they are absolutely destitute.
They must eventually be financed so
they can resume housekeeping.
Fifteen thousand houses must be
cleaned and pIastered.
Two thousand are wrecked or must
be torn down and destroyed.
| Untold thousands of tons OF debris,
wreckage of all kinds, must be csrted
away.
The bodies OF 1,500 horses and other
animals must be removed and incin-
Grated.
| Wood to Guide Sanitation.
Washington, March Silt was an.
nounced at the war department that
Mai, Gen. Leonard Wood, who drove
| yellow fever out OF Cuba and put an
end to cholera epidemic in the Phil
ippines. will give his personal atten-
ton to the sanitation of the food dis
tricts In Ohio and Indiana
General Wood and Secretary of
War Garrison made an inspection
tour which included Hamilton, Ohio.
Here is the substance OF the report
made by Secretary Garrison to Presi.
dent Wilson:
The force of the water here was
very great. The food area was wide
and the destruction to property very
large, Forty-fve bodies of the
drowned have been so far recovered
The debris has not all been searched
as yet. but think IT safe TO estimate
that seventy TO eighty will be the out.
side limit OF the number Of the dead.
commends Public Spirit.
THE public spirit displayed here IS
OF the highest and most commend
able quality. and the citizens are
enthusiastically cooperating with the
National Guard oficer In command
Of the situation Our officers are
working in concert, we having med
zeal officers, hospital corps men. non
commissioned officers Of the line, and