The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
.0HIO'S SGREATEST
NEED IS FOOD
Gov. Cox Sums Up Situation in
: the Buckeye State as
Floods Recede.
DAYTON IS RECOVERING
Supplies Are Needed at Cincinnati.
Trainloads Of Goods Being Sent
from Base at Indianapolis.
by JAMES NJ. cox,
Governor Of Ohio.

by JAMES NJ. COX,
Governor Of Ohio.
Columbus. Ohio. March 29.-The end o.
the week finds the State dazed anG
numbed in contemplation of the tremen
dous and widespread destruction in al
most every section. The situation today
assumed few novel angles. 1t is be.
coming now a problem Of food within
our borders, a condition which demon
strates how impotent even a great
State is when communication Is severed
with the outside world.
Cincinnati, in the fullness of her
bounty, has shipped trainloads of sup
plies into the Lower Miami Valley. and
the southeastern parts of Indiana as
We'll Philanthropy displaced prudence.
and tonight the Queen City of the West
appeals to the State for assistance.
Dayton and GAINESVILLE, the two trouble
some points SO far as extension of relief
is concerned, are in pretty fair shape.
The Western food supply was tapped by
way OF Indianapolis. The Chicago As
sociation of Commerce. at our request.
established a base at indianapolis so
soon railroad traffic was resumed be-
tween Dayton and the Indiana capital
Ten carloads of lime. five car tanks Of
gasoline. and a train load OF bread, veg
SAobAtS' anu are On tUtlr way
10 Dayton now from that point. Lime
is as needful now as food, for the pur
pose of disinfecuon.
West Sends Supplies.
The West also is supplying medical sup
Plies. particularly antitoxin for the diph-
iberia outbreak. Dayton's last appeal
harder to meet this requisition than any
previously made, but the appeal has gone
by wire to Cleveland, Detroit. Toledo,
Lima. and indianapolis.
If the wonderful response that has come
TO every request up to this time is any
index, then We ought TO have 200 automo-
bile trucks. with drivers. in Dayton Mon
day morning. These will be used for the
purpose of distributing the food supply.
The military organization has been of
great service, and the week closes tonight
with some measure of consolation in the
thought that every section that has ap-
pesled to US has hunger appeased
Nfnety-one Dead in Hamilton.
Col. Zimmerman, of the Eighth Regi-
ment. was sent at daylight from Dayton
into Hamilton. and this afternoon he
sends his official report, which is, indeed,
a grewsome tale. Ninety-one bodies will
be inferred there tomorrow. Two hundred
horses were burned in the street Two or
three of the principal thoroughfares have
been washed into bitches twenty feet
deep.
Hamilton will supply a real problem, be-
cause we have reached it until now
Cincinnati 1t has been impossi-
BILE TO get there from the north With
The Cincinnati supply diminishing down
10 the point of need and the Ohio flood
cutting of communication from
both the East and South. We doubtless
face crisis in dealing with the situation
Rt Cincinnati and Hamilton.
Garrison in Dayton.
Secretary of War Garrison reached
Dayton this morning by automobile from
Cincinnati. The sanitary conditions
there are had. and at our request he
has assumed sanitary charge of the city
DR.. Rupert Blue. who was of such service
at San Francisco, has assumed personal
of the work.
The whole country is loud in its praise
Of John H. Patterson. His was the mas
ter mind at Dayton, and through the
organization OF the National
Cash Register Company he was enabled
TO be as potential as even the Federal
and State governments in the first hours
Of the flood.
The power of military forces finally |
bore into GAINESVILLE. That situation de-
"tipptu llt same degree OIL nSrOlSm eN-
hibited elsewhere. Judge Adams. for
nerly of the Circuit Court and now dean
IF the law school in the State University, |
reached his own home at GAINESVILLE by |
horseback and foot, and brought back to- |
lay the first verbal report of the condi- |
ions in the Muskingum Valley
Food expeditions from the north, east
and west of GAINESVILLE were successful, |
so by the transportation OF |
motorboats by train. Many
II the Ohio manufacturing cities have
never until now appreciated the lurking
langer Of congested foreign popula-
ion.
Food Reaches Two Cities.
Youngstown and GAINESVILLE were under
yreat apprehension for A considerable
ime because of the omnous muttering
rom the foreign section. Food is the
olution Of the situation. and it has been
net
Marietta entered the list of soreiy
tricken cities today. The water there
las exceeded the 1854 stage and a goodly
'ortion of the city is inundated The re-
ief commission for the time being has
provided for Marietta
The wire chief operator of the Bell
Telephone Company. Ralph jackson, re-
'orts tonight that an appeal has come
rom Portsmouth. Water in the Ohio
here is siNty-eight feet high, and still
fsing. Report is that the business build
ngs are on fire. In Gallipolis the water
s still rising. At last report il was
ixty-two feet. The telephone building
las caved in and put it out Of commits
ion.
All Ohio towns are wrapped in water
onight Ripley. POmeroy, Middleport ,
nd Gallipolis are heavy sufferers. New
Higginsport and sevan 1i,tla
owns in Clermont County are in trouble.
Arrangements were perfected tonight to
ap the food supplies in the hills Cloth
1C will reach there the early part of ,
ie week. 1t is said that there is not a
ridge standing over either the Muskin-
um or Miami Rivers
400 Dead I'm Three Cities. II
The loss at Columbus will be about 100
YES. The maximum at DAYTON. as II ..
ppears now. will be 200 Hamilton will
IN about $50.
1t is suggested today that the Leeisla- O.,
Ire recess for a week. That body, as .
lie result of labors in the flood districts =
in no condition to transact business ;
nd, besides, the State will need at least .
week to reflect on the constructive leg :
lative measures presented. No such :
nereency has ever presented itself to :
nv American Commonwealth
Estimates have been made this after
1on with considerable care, and il is !,
le belief that property loss In the State ;
i'll aggregate three hundred million dol
RS.
street Car Men Win Increase. .
March 29.-An average in v
case of cents an hour was granted
the 1000 men employed by surface 4