Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-30
TRAGEDIES Barred
ASFLOOD FALLS
At DAYTON
Georgian Correspondent De-
SCribeS Scenes When Waters
Give Up Dead.
Continued Fran Page One.

ward their roofs was shown by bodies
recovered to-day. In some cases chill
dren had been shot. Men killed their
families in the last extremity. Many
7narooned in downtown buildings went
insane.
North Dayton. where the most terri
bic loss Of life is feared, was still half
submerged to-day. Part of the front
wall Of the big Steele High School
building had fallen, exposing the in
terror from foundation to caves. In
the middle Of the block between Third
ana Fourth streets on the west side of
Main a big building collapsed.
A bottle was found to-day in the
ruins inclosing this note.
elem Graves, Mary Graves.
Katherine Graves, Katherine Frye.
Selma Frye Helen Frye, victims
OF flood March "a Notify Grace
H. Cook. 10 Logan street.
Church Bells Sound Curfew.
A horse was washed through plate
glass window IN the front of a down
town store. Its carcass was found in
the rear Of the building
George Richardson, superintendent OF
the state employment bureau here. was
among the dead identified at the
morgue late last night
Soldiers patrolling the streets are
Keeping outside the line an who are
without passes. on order of the ad-
jutant general curfew will be sounded
every evening at 6 o'clock by the
Church bells.
Among those marooned in hotels
were 100 from New York, Chicago. Co
lumbus. Cincinnati. Cleveland. Toledo.
Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Detroit. Bos-
ton and St Louis. All are safe
Pathetic scenes, which are so intense
as to bring tears TO the eyes Of even
the undertakers. are witnessed hourly
when scores of ar-stricken persons
walk past the rows of dead lying upon
slabs in the temporary morgue at the
National Cash Register plant.
In the Chamber Of Death.
Mrs. George McDonaldson, of War
rem street. tainted when sheet was
lifted from a body, exposing the face
of her husband. The piteous cries of
her five small children re- echoed
through the great chamber Of death.
Five thousand men, women and chill
dren, their faces pinched with hunger
and tongues swollen by thirst We're
taken to-day from second stories and
attics to the crowded relief stations
where plenty Of warmth and care was
provided.
Mrs. Fanny King. lSS Seiger street.
was lifted from the second-story win
dow. In her arms was a nine MONTHS
old babe. suffering with measles.
Neither mother nor child had eaten for
four days
Mrs. Anna Downing OF Warren
street gave birth 10 a baby while being
rowed to a place OF safety. Mother
and child were removed to a hospital
Refugees Faced Death.
d F. Morris formerly OF the Penn
sylvania parole office. who was among
the zoo marooned in the Hotel Beckel
said to-day;
When the water reached the pave
ment in front Of the house, I rushed
from the first floor Of the hotel TO the
fourth. Three minutes later two rooms
above the first floor fell in. hurting
down trunks and furniture so heavy
they would have killed me had / been
Below.
Marooned tn the building, We were
terrified when fire broke out on Third
street. just a half block away. With
the flames eating their way toward us.
We sought the roof. descended FIRE
escape. with the flames Illuminating the
way. TO lower buildings. upon which we
walked city block 10 the ireproof City
National Bank building crossing an al
ley on a ladder
When it seemed that the fire Would
consume that part Of the business sec
ton that the water had not DESTROYED.
the elevator cable was cut and
stretched across Main street from an
adjoining building 10 the court house
There we were safe"
Diamonds in Muddy Streets.
SoldierF have prevented vandals from
looting ruined store rooms. one man
WAS shot as he was in the act OF pull
ing a ring from the finger Of a dead
Woman in the rich residential section
The frs, two floors Of every business
house wholesale and retail. in 5he
downtown district TWO miles square
are ruined. There is NOT q window
glass above the second story in q house
that devastated district.
Mud-illed Main street would be
taken for a diamond field were it no,
for the pavement Diamonds and dther
Yaluables. washed from stores along
the thoroughfare. are dug from the de-
bris and pocketed whenever the guards
are not looking.