Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-04-02

dashed into the river. bat luckily ths
water was shallow At this point and
the passengers were rescued By the
train crew. One man. thought to have
been drowned. was found mile away
from the accident, Owing to the weak.
ened condition Of many small bridges
on their own line. the Pennsylvania
train had been sent over the Big Four
tracks. ;s@ Il
Ten Thousand hemslsss.
Business and residential
section; OF city flooded and hundreds Of
families driven from homes. Schools
and factories are closed. Z
Spring Mad river 10 on .
rampage and scores Of families are
homeless.
Delaware. Nineteen persons
drowned and several hundred others
In imminent danger. e vi 4 4
Columbus-Ten thousand Fl people
homeless and property loss running
Into the hundreds Of thousands.
Lima.-F1ve hundred people have
ned from their homes. n; u
Zanesville-Thed districts about the
edge Of tho city arc flooded Wesley
Klinger, ave years old, was drowned.
Napoleon The Maumee river 10
raging. having risen IL feet in the
past ~ hours ss 5s
Troy.-The Miami river win reach .
record mark. Heart Of the city ID UNI
der water. Is 4.
Troy.-Miami and Erie canal has
broken its banks. flooding the city.
Akron.-Million-dollar loss reported,
hundreds rendered homeless. II Z. 3
Youn81town.-Nearl all the big In
dustries are closed down. u
500 Dead Of psru, Indiana.
Indianapolis. Ind, March ga
statewide flood, appalling in its i'm
mensity and terrifying In the swift
ness In which It came. claimed 500 or.
more lives. made nearly 100000 home
less and has done property damage Of
more than $40. 0O0, 900 in Indiana
Governor Ralston received mes.
sage from Peru saying that the food
there cost several hundred lives. COT
fms were asked for. hi I
Prom what my informant said there
may be % many 40 500 drowned in
Peru" Governor Ralston said.
Il requested Senator Fleming to get
eomns and learned there were only
fifty in Fort Wayne but we hope to
get sum cient in Richmond and Wa
bash. II understand the survivors at
Peru are huddled within two blocks
and in great distress. have ordered
. car load Of food and the Fort Wayne.
citizens are sending another car Of
provisions. &
Helpless from the frst rush Of wa,
tiers, which caught the state unpre-
pared, the following desperate nSht. to.
save life and property seemed incon-
seQuential. 4 u 4 & n h
In many places it was too late to
avert the overflow, but attention was
turned TO rescuing persons trapped in
their homes and heroic work only, has
kept down the death Hist
streams Raging Torrents. B
The White river and several creeks
which surround the business district
in indianapolis, ordinarily little
streams and dry in summer. are raging
torrents, sweeping everything in their
path. When the street car service
was stopped at noon It trapped thou
sands In the business district.
Some bridges are unsafe and closed
| a. 80 u khA ~
over the others defy vehicles and Pc
destrians. .S5 h. Az +.
Hotels of the city are crowded to
their utmost. Az many. ~ ten persons
are sleeping in . room. sS,S 5.i
The power plant OF the local street
car company and the pumping station
of the waterworks were put out Of
commission BY. the food. The city
now IL without IRE protection and
street car service. n; .,@s. ,ss
Governor Ralston has received . dis
patch containing an appeal for help
from Connersville. Ind, saying the
Whitewater river there has broken
over it, banks. causing great loss OF
life. The railway station was carried
away. The telegram stated the citi-
sens are In great distress. s
Msnacss city's Water supply. 4
South Bend. March Is. With the
water OF the st. Joe river flooding the
nrst floor Of both city pumping sta,
tons and rising ct the rate Of three
inches an hour. South Bend faces the
danger OF having til water supply cut
OF. Both Howard and Leepsr parks
have been inundated, and unless the
river suddenly begins to recede. fears
are expressed for the safety Of the
dams at Hen Island. Mishawaka and
South Bend .s "a. .sS
II the river cuts through the soft
gravel bank ct Hen Island. all the
South Bend and Mishawaka factories;
located along the banks will DO forced
to close. In this case. the South Bend
dam would also be endangered.
Student Drowned at Lafayette. III
Lafayette, Ind. March 76.-The VS.
bash river has reached Z stage OF thir-
| ~ feet, and the entire Wholesale dis
trict Of Lafayette 10 inundated. many
people have been forced to abandon
their homes on the levee. L. p. Wool
cry, Purdue student whose homo 10
in Indianapolis. was drowned while
trying to rescue two men who were
morooned after the Brown street
bridge went down. The canoe cap
sized and Woolrey sank in ten feet Of
water. 5s. 4.
River Rising ut Hammond.
1 rs1 81 ~
Calumet river 10 80 high that city Of
"details have ordered emergency pumps
put at work to prevent streets from
being flooded, and property destroyed.
Little Calumet river has risen six feet
in two days and gone over Its banks.
Gravel roads are being washed away
and Monon, Erie and Nickel Plata rail-
road bridges are semi-submerged.
Water reaches rails and timbers are
shaking. In both Little Calumet and