The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-28
Measuring Conditions in AffIiCt- ed Region Property Damage
 Greatly Reduced Relief for Needy Pouring In from All Parts of Country Floods ReCede;; Skies
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Dayton, March 2s.-The flood situa-

Ooy IJlls AsOs-1kl6 IIOOO SlLuA- ton in Dayton, today, is this:
 Previous estimates of the number drowned were greatly exaggerated.
 Property loss from fire will not ex- ceed $1, ,5OO,OOO.
 The damage caused to mercantile business, factory and residences will run anywhere from $15,O0O,OO to $2O, O,OOO, 900.
 The water has receded from the business section of the city and from a large portion of the residence sec ton.
 Residents in portions still inundated are being taken to sections not af- fected by the flood.
 There is no lack of food. The teIe- phone systems are being restored.
 There is much suffering from cold but all available fuel has been ap- propriated and there is prospect of immediate relief.
 So far there has been no epidemic of sickness.
 One thousand miIitiamen arriving, today, have the city in rigid control, effectively preventing footing, sight seeing that will interfere with rescue work and all disorder.
 Touring the business sections, to- day, Associated Press men found the high stage of the flood had been nine feet at the corner of Third and Main streets which is in the very heart of the city.
 The onrushing water flooded the first floor of every store in the busi- ness district.
 South Dayton, March 2S.-The loss of life in Dayton by flood will not be more than 200. This was the general agreement here, today, after govern ment HfesaVing crews had penetrated every part of the water bound city. E1aNEI have been recovered. Twenty of these were in R1VerdaIe, IS in West Dayton, five in the business section and five in the south side residence section. Three deaths from diphtheria were reported, today and there is fear of an epidemic
 This constitutes the chief financial loss. The tower of Steele high school was 1evelled and the Leonard Build ing on Main street was undermined that it collapsed. Many houses were swept away in Rfverdale, West Dayton, North Dayton and Edgem ont.
 The following buildings withstood the flood, furnishing shelter to about 1000 people who were marooned in them from Tuesday until Thursday:
 Conover Building; Kuhns Building; The Arcade; two Oppel Buildings; Callahan Bank Building: iSchwind Building; Commercial Building; Men den Hall Building; ReiboId Building, and United Brethren Publishing Com pany's Building.
 None Of the public buildings was de- stroyed.
 The fire loss is positively limited tr the destruction ot the Dayton Gas, Light Company's plant, the row of two and three story buildings on both sides of Third steet from Jefferson to St. Clair avenue, the Troy Pearl Laundry plant and two apartment house fires in west side.
 A daring robbery was thwarted to- day when the police arrested a man who was escaping from the city with a. sa,tcheI containing $50, 900 in dia.- monds and jewelry which he had stolen from downtown jewelry stores.
 South Dayton, O., March 2S.-Com- parative1y few dead were found in North Dayton, today, by the Louisville HfeSaVing crew, the first to cross the Miami into the section where it was thought the heaviest loss Of life would be found.
 Indications there and. in Riverdale now are that the total loss of life by flood will not be more than 200 per- sons.
 Alarming reports that IOoters, we'll armed, are active in the district from which waters had partly receded, have reached the headquarters of the emer- Sency committee. Militia are pre- pairing expedition to queII dis orders.