New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-28
Bodies in Ohio's Capital Said to
Lie About Streets in Heaps Of
Hundreds ds-Rescuers Make
Little Progress.
FIRE RACES AGAIN AT DAYTON
Two Hundred Estimated Lost in Earlier Con-
Aagration Dead at GAINESVILLE, Says
Mayor-Disease and Blizzard Add
to Horror at Indianapolis.


Revised estimates Dayton Ohio, received
night give ground hope that the dead in all sections affected
will thousand investigators who
the submerged section found hundreds safe whom was
feared had ped Unless there has been loss the North
yet unreached there may be than hundred
dead from the flood the entire city However, some estimates
place than 1000 is said 200
died in the fire Wednesday.
capital Ohio bids fair be far behind
food 1t estimated that the death
list thousand the part of
city that undertaken elephoned that the dead
lying heaps hundred hundred Vandas
loong the helpless Deputies have been armed with
orders to shoot all robbers
At Dayton property will reach $2SoOOOoo Late
ports say again broken the central district The
has fallen from three five feet 1t discovered that
there actual starvation although great deal OF
misery Sigheers have been warned Tourist
sengers ordered of incoming train They showed light
off the train and stalled outside the city
police militia report that ooters working the central
All able satisfactory eXpa-
nation Persistent but unconfned
of loos being shot Excitement at high pitch
pected almost any
According Dayton refugee foreigners killed their
counrymen members of their families in their des-
perate efforts to obtain food.
night that he would commander
railroad lines Ohio and place their operation IN the
military The Governor did state which
line said that the object would be to have
allow persons having relatives in that city to reach them
PIQUA LIST HEAVY.
Apparently authentic reports Piqua indicated that three
hundred dead there.
authorities estimated the death list would
reach at least hundred and fifty.
At Hamilton Ohio fifty reported drowned in the
collapse hotel where they had sought refuge The Mayor OF
Hamilton says dead in the city
At GAINESVILLE the Mayor estimates 300 dead.
deaths reported from Troy Ohio thirty
Mddletown, and five at Massillon.
Deaths from Chlcote will exceed twenty-five
according latest advce Earlier reports that from two
hundred to i've hundred lives had been lost
report Linton nd gave sixteen drowned at
Howesvile twenty-five miles south of Terre Haue
Aarmist reports frequent during the day. In most
quickly conadcted RumOrs that the grand
ST. Mary Ohio had broken proved unounded Similar
ports the Lewstown reservoir proved untrue
Seventeen reported have been drowned by the
floods Western Pennsylvania and thousands OF worken are idle
IN consequence of the closing down OF industries
An epidemic of diphheria at Indianapolis swelling the
misery there which has been further accentuad by blizzard
weather.
END LIFE WHEN RESCUED.
An eyewitness Peru nd tells of women mad
dened by sights they committing suicide when at last
cued big The elephants escaped and
roaming country The courthouse at Peru is crowded.
is reported twenty refugees died there yesterday
conditions along the Ohio growing Lowlands
Ohio Indiana and Kentucky inundated Still hgher stages
and further damage predicted
Flood conditions West Virginia have become serious East.
ern Pennsylvania suffering severely Many anthracite mines
shut down.
Vandalism West Indianapolis caused threat OF martial law
deaths drowning have occurred Organized relief
work has been begun in Indiana flood districts
Northern and New York Aoodsicken. Heavy
damage has followed the Hudson and Mohawk valleys
and in the part of the southern tier
Wilson announced his readiness to the
the Ohio floods presence aid Under his direction Sec
Washington for Central Ohio
His train delayed by Western Virginia last night
Major General Leonard Wood Quartermaer General Aes
and large party physicians and accompanied
the Secretary of War
Surgeon General Blue of the Public Health Service has