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those two cities. This means that no
connections can be made over the New
York Central with Nashville. Louisville
and points south. This traffic normally
passes over the Big Four lines to a
Junction AZ Cleveland.
inc wolverine. from chicago and
Detroit. was an hour late In reaching
the New York terminus. IL came
through Ontario on the tracks OF the
Michigan Central.
Train No. .. normally the southern
train connecting with Louisville. Nash
vile and Cincinnati, came In two hours
and ten minutes behind time. practically
nothing but q Cleveland local. All Can
adian trains routed down from Buffalo
were delayed because Of congestion and
the flood menace up state
Every incoming train sepogsed heavy
aownpour. ali along ths line north Of
Albany. with sleet AT R6,chsstae. yhich
~as ,h,.at.nipv the virea
Tb. "I,roadwav So.ci.rs ns,A AAin
No % ano,her fa., c,h,c.ro. NovsYOrk
train isrt Chicago isae niwht - one
train. travelling In two sectiona. and
man,~.d tn yrt through ~ 0ouied
scction' I, was due NJ Harriebura. - a.,
M $40 o'clock This morning. HnS Il
wa. snid MT tho psmnaylvanda train
de.patch.rs' office In thio CITY Sfst the
train had no, arrives. an rheduled
time.
Announcement WA u,>6>-GanH after.
moon a., ,h. incai oflC. ~ prac1d ant
Samuel re-. of IN. pann.vivanla Raal.
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EYEWITNESS
TELLS Of HORRORS
ALL THROUGH OHIO
Drowning Men Tossed in
Yellow Foam Seen From
Car Windows.

Walter Born. travelling salesman.
was the only passenger on the Twen-
tieth Century LIMITED arriving from
Chicago to-day who had been able to
reach the working railroad lines from
the flood wrecked districts. All the pas
sengers who could crowd into the cafe
car stayed up until long after midnight
listening to the narrative Of his expert
ences since he left Cincinnati Monday
evening to so to CLEVELAND. Tuesday
noon found him In Columbus. and he
reached Cleveland only last evening.
II think must have travelled almost
every mile Of railroad track In northern
and eastern Ohio" he said, 1T would
be impossible for me 10 make a map Of
the route l took. ! changed from train
to train. trying TO work out OF that
Statewide lake with the persistence
Ct bird seeking the north In the
springtime. Trains ran wild under the
orders OF conductors. instead Of dis
patchers at central points.
THE conductors post was usually on
the pilot OF the locomotive instead Of
in the coaches with his passengers. We
got through all right, lSit It Is I'm
possible to believe that there were not
frlghtfu wrecks In some OF the places
which were out of communication.
Once when we were running up a
river trying to find u bridge still stand
ing on which We could cross to the
other side to go down again. a tree
no
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syIvania and Wheeling. W. Va. face a
grave Hood situation. The Pennsylvania
towns are completely under water. the
height at some points being fifteen feet
wheeling Is practically isolated from the
outside country except for a few shaky
telegraph wires.
Al sharon ten persons are known to
be dead. The victims, mostly foreign
ers. were crushed or drowned when their
homes were wrecked by flood water. In
the small towns surrounding Sharon the
situation Ia known to be serious Efforts
to establish any sort of commune ton
with adjacent points have been futile,
Accurate conditions existing at New
castle. Pa, are not known. 1t Is re-
ported that the waters from swollen
Shenango River reached one OF the many
blast furnaces In that city. causing a
terrific explosion. The same report inti-
mated that other furnaces might be ex-
ploded In the same way. Serious loss
OF life from the explosion of the fur
naces 10 improbable. as the workmen
had previously been driven from the va
rious mills by the oncoming water. A
family OF four, however. were drowned
at Newcastle when their home was
swept away.
Wheeling. w. Va. to-day is confronted
with one Of the worst food situations
In its history. With the Ohio River
gradually rising and a great portion of
the city already under water. IA stage ot
forty-hve feet 10 expected at Wheeling
before nightfall, Many hundreds OF
families are homeless and high water
has already made great inroads upon
property. Six fatalities occurred there.
The river stage In this city this fore
noon Is 2s,5 feet and rising slowly. A
wide area Of Allegheny County IL mum.
dated. while a number Of streets In the
downtown business section are under
water.
Troop d. Pennsylvania State Constab.
ulary. Is policing Sharon. Troop A en-.
trained at Greensburg early this morn.
ing for destinations throughout the
Beaver Valley. below Pittsburgh. whers
the hood situation u causing anxiety.
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TOO DEAD At GAINESVILLE:
@ GREAT BRIDGE TORN DOWN:
81 8. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
Cement Structure Over the Muskingum
Crumbles in Fragments and
IS CrusheS Homes

GAINESVILLE. O.. March ~ (By
Telephone and telegraph via Cambridge.
D)-The Muskingum River has beeen
rising all day. New channels have been
torn through tho hills OF the town since
the disasters in the railroad yards and
business and tenement districts this
morning. and are striking through the
Putnam residence district The torrent
u tapping at many knoile on the tops
Of which are hundreds Of people who
though; they had reached certain
safety, but who are now In peril Of
their lives.
TIE steel 3rs.ms building OF the Nun.
con Music Company was the latest Of
afternoon.
- Zane,vi.les dead already num- Der
0norc than hundred. only seven
bodies have heer recovered. Three
hundred are IN i.arinent peril Of their
hves and beyond the hope Of rescue
The great cement bridge over the Mus
kangum River broke las, night and the
homes of hundreds Of workingmen.
crushing the houses as though they
had been matchDoxes.
Before dawn to-day the Muskingum
was increa spd nv the waters from above.
Q yellow, seeth!ng wall Of water. With
@n an Incredibly short time the river
was at a level ffty-eiSht feet above its
normal level. Tho real menace OF the
coming food has no. been guessed at.
There are three hundred worxlngmen
on an slet IN the lower part Of the city
out Of communication. The depth o.
water there and Their chahA for NE
can only be guessed. Ever part Of the
city IL under from fifteen to twenty
feet OF water.
The Mayor has declared martial law.
end volunteers are helping tho regular
nremen in making such effortu IS are
.possible to stop the fires which are
$tsrting In every part Of the factory
district. where big natural gas mains
which feed the hre. Of the furnaces
have broken and have become roarins
, fountains of flame.
: More than 5000 are homeless al.
ready and the water 10 still risins.
erhs bodies OF seven dead have been
recovered.
Mr.. and Mrs John Carr and their
twO children.
An unidentified man. woman and
child.
There are stories of from one to
three hundred drowned along the flats
s-msn and women who were slow In
.Aseding the warnings.
The Third street bridge. 500 feet long.
vas swept away and deposited on the
river banks five miles away. The
wooden mills were ripped from their
foundations.
4 floating warehouse rammed the
Sixth Street Bridse and with an ear
splitting roar the bridge broke locst
and disappeared.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Railroad bridges collapsed soon
Oftsrward.
The Baltimore and Ohio depot Is twen-
~ feet deep In water and the Reggie
House and the Clarendon here are under
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ESQ THE LATEST ESTIMATE OF
HAMILTON DEAD.

TROY. O., March T.-PiQua was OBJ
tanned on the wire here this morning
and reported four feet Of water on Main
street. At one point IN the city water
is eighteen feet deep. No mention was
made Of the disastrous fire that was re-
ported last nigh. The estimate Of the
dead Is between 60 and 100.
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tryins to get 70 New York ms he was.
but who had not been as lucky In chang
ing trains which would get them out to
safety and comfort. lie passed three
hysterically confused theatrical COM
panies which had abandoned their
routes to return to New York.
The eject OF the floods and storms on
business. he said. would reach far into
next winter. All plans for fall business
between the Aileghenies and the Rockies
nave already gone by the board, he said
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Deaken frst telephoned straight to the
main offices OF the company here au-
thent!c news Of the bursting Of the levee
along the Great Miami River in Dayton
which inundated the city and Gut It off
from all Geographic comm6nica ton
with the outside world. After the tele-
graph wires went down In the first
wash Of the angry waters the telephone
spark was the only one that still burned
and the only communication between
Dayton and the outside world lay
through the Phoneton switchboard.
STUCK TO HER POST TILL LAST
WIRE WAS DOWN.
From That time Mary Deaken and 11er
little stan have jugsled the trunk lines,
reaching out with all the rapidly dis
appearing hlaments Of the telephone
system In . constant effort to grip some
s'ars point through which the news that
was coming to their ears could be sent.
A few lucky Newspaper correspondents
who found themselves unable TO reach
the flooded city. settled down In the
offace OF the telephone building al
Phoneton and there snstched at every
scrap OF news that came In from Day
ton. Gov, Cox Of Ohio came to Phone.
ton to telephone to the outside world
his pleas for aid and his descriptions
Of the wide havoc.
But last night the last link between
Phoneton and New York began to fail
Just after Mary Deaken had received
the farewell message from the heroi,
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EVERY TRAIN FROM NORTH
AND WEST DELAYED.

Every train from the north and west
into Grand Central was late to-day.
due. according to the railroad people.
to congestion on the lines west OF Bur
falo rather than food conditions. The
New England trains. however. over the
Boston and Albany line have been de-
layed by Hood conditions north Of the
capital city.
The Twentieth Century. In from Chi
cago over the Lake Shore. was an hour
and twenty-five minutes late: II came
in two sections. The Beaver, from
Cleveland and with Pittsburgh and
Toronto sleepers attached. was an hour
and fvs minutes late. The Fast Mail.
normally carrying St. Louis and Gin
cinnati sleepers, was three hours and
twenty-five minutes late and minus its
connections from two Western cities.
All traffic over the Big Four between
Cincinnati and Cleveland Is suspended
because Of the wide food zone between
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TRAVELLERS TELL
Of HAVOC CAUSED
IN MIDDLE WEST
Crack Trains From Chicago
Over the Pennsylvania Ar
rive Many Hours Late.

The two crack Chicago New York
haitian iAmited and the broadway Spe-
cfal-which were due TO arrive here
carly this morning. did not pull In UNI
III s.,s this afternoon. Then they came
consolidated AZ one train.
Passengers told of the scene OF DESC.
lation at Alliance. o.. through which
they passed last night. Water appar-
emily ten feet deep stood In the streets
Of the city and not n light CLEANED
from the houses. A panlc-strlokcn lit
tie group at the station told the train
crew that many had met death and
that those who survived were confront
ed with the prospect Of famine.
Herbert Cowing. who started for
New York from Kansas City with his
wife and eight months-old baby. one
Of the passengers on tho broadway
Special. had n rough trip. West OF the
Mississippi his train was held back by
the tornado havoc. and east Of the
river the flooded condition impedsd
progress. washoutH around Cantan,
o., mode necessary a detour through
the northern end Of the state. Even on
these comparatively clear tracks the
water had risen.
At places II appeared that the rails
were a foot beneath the surface. TIVE
lookouts on either side Of the engine
stopped the train and went forward e
Investigate whenever tho track aheat
seemed dangerously undermined.
| Not a passenger on the train slep
during the night. Word came from tn
rear from time to time that section
of track which the train had passe'
safely had been swept away
NEW YORK CENTRAL HAVING
HARD FIGHT.
The New York Central Railroad, con
trolling the only two open lines betwee
New York and Chicago. IN fighting des
perately to-day TO keep these remainin
links from being broken within tn
limits Of New York State itself. Be
tween Albany and Buffalo grave men
valleys. but railroad ofYicials at Gran
Central to-day took an optimistic Vie
80 the situation and declared that ar
ieso the long continued rains ,Ip-Sta,
should hold Cor several days lonss
tho railroad will win its night with tn
elements.
Communication with Chica9o va IN
Now York Centrai system IL kept ope
through the Lake sshore and Micrhga,
Southern and tho Michigan Centrs
through Detroit and the province Of On
/
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water to the middle of the second story.
M1DDLDTOWE. O., March 27-A
paralyzed community Of $4,000 souls.
Middletown awoke this morning to
face periis that threaten her very ex-
istsnce. Ten thousand persons are
homeless and unsheltered. Cooked
food Ia unobfainable
Thirty persons arc known to be miss
ing Eleven more are said to bs un-
accounted Tor. This does not include
the people who may be mnrooned in
their ow', homes whom the relief com.
Inittec has not yet been able to reach
The reflections Of the fires at Frank.
lin and Dayton last night served to in
stil moro fear into the hearts Of the
vGpeople. MiddIetown 10 entirely without
Are protection.
FLOOD DIVIDES GAINESVILLE
INTO THREE PARTS.
The city 10 divided by the water into
three separate communities. No com.
munication BY railroad 10 available and
only once or twice a day has II been
possible to establish telephone commu-
nlcation with outside points. All the
bridges between this city and the Ohio
River In the Muskingum Valley are
out The big Bridge IL under twenty
feet o. water and 1t Is not known
whether II is stiil standing. All rail-
road tracks are likewise submerged.
Separate relief committees have been
organized In the three, sections of the
city. but there 10 little these can do be-
cause OF the absence Of food and wear.
Ing apparel. There Is no gas or electric
lights. and only high powered motor
boats can make Roadway In the current
Of the river. which Is rushing through
ihe town at u rate of twenty-five miles
an hour.
The river rose about FIVE inches an
hour. II was thought at noon that Il
had reached the crest from the Tus-
caravans and Washington Rivers. but
there are fears OF a rush from Willis
Creek.
c. u. Schyrock, marooned news
paper man. telephoned the Associated
Press that. while 10 actual number of
lives lost Is known. the general convic.
, ton OF the community Is that a hun.
drsd or more have been drowned. Be.
fore any names Of missing could be OBJ
tanned the wire failed.
$50 THE LATEST ESTIMATE or
HAMILTON DEAD.
HAMILTON, Ohio. March c7.-Ter
bodies were recovered from the ruin,
OF this city In the first hour OF the
search this morning. Figuring on thi.
average 1t Is believed no less than "a
persons have lost their lives here. Amonl
the first to be recovered were the bodies
of two detectives and three policemen.
The Lake View Hotel In the residence
part of the town collapsed this after
noon. 1t is said that fifty people had
, taken refuge there earlier In the day
DEAD At PlQUA NOW RE.
PORTED At 50 TO 100.
TROY. O.. March T.-Pioua was OBJ
tanned on the wire here this morning
and reported four feet Of water on Main
street. At one point IN the city water
10 eighteen feet deep. No mention was
made Of the disastrous fire that was re-
ported last nigh. The estimate Of the
dead is between 20 and 100.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
SAILORS SEND THEIR THANKS
Letter Received From Captain Roy c.
Smith of Batteship Arkansas.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Little Rock.-Officers and men Of
the battleship Arkansas have express,
ed their appreciation of the library re-
Gently presented to them.
A letter was received by the Nicho-
las Headington Chapter, Daughters of
1912, and signed by Captain Roy C.
Smith.
After addressing the members and
officers of the chapter, captain Smith
says:
The books themselves, | under
stand, are to be forwarded by the gov
eminent from the navy yard, New
York, and ought to be received very
shortly.
In behalf of the officers and men
Of this grand ship allow me to thank
you for your generosity in making this
most acceptable gift, and above all
for the kind thought that inspired the
act
The books, ! know, will be very
much appreciated by everyone, and es-
pecially during these long cruises
away from home.
Nothing pertaining to the state OF
Arkansas is Indifferent to this ships
company, and especially is this true
of the fine women constituting the ma,
tional society of the state"
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
HORT|CULTUR|STS
MEET IN Fl. SMITH
Potato Growers Organize in conjunc-
ton With Fruit Raisers-John-
son Reelected.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Fort Smith.-For the first time in
its 80 years of existence the Arkansas
Horticultural Society reelected it's
president. The society's bylaws for.
bid two successive terms for one per
son for this office, but the admins
tration of Bert Johnson, the peach
king, of Highland, proved so success
full that he was reelected
Fort Smith was awarded the 1914
convention.
The convention adopted resolutions
asking the legislature to adopt a com
pulsory spraying law, appointment of
state horticultural inspector and kin
dred needed legislation.
One direct result of the convention
was the first organization of sweet
potato growers in the state, an asso
citation that was perfected with the
election of G.. c. Nordin of Russellville
president; E. F. Waldrip of Nashville
vice president, and G.. G.. Watkins of
Fort Smith, secretary treasurer. These
officers will constitute the executive
committee. The organization has for
its purpose organization among grow
ers, the collection of information per
tanning to sweet potato culture and
the marketing of the product. Among
the chief aims of the society will be g
campaign educating Northern people
to the value of the Southern types o.
sweet potatoes
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
ECZEMA FOR TEN YEARS

1909 Little Walsh St., Baltimora
Md was afflicted with eczema for
about ten years, the most tormentins
and agonizing. 1t was dry eczema. all
itching. 1t was scratch, scratch
scratch and burn, burn, burn. By
scratching brought sores which
scabbed. I tried all remedies which |
knew CT heard Of: some gave me tenn.
porary relief. but none permanent
cure. couldn't sleep for scratching.
after which there was burning. saw
the advertisement for free samples OF
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
and wrote for them. They did ne
good Immediately and then bough. 4
box OF Cuticura Ointment and a cake
Of Cuticura Soap. was cured in two
weeks" (SignedD George Wooden,
Jan. 81, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
tree. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura. Dept L, Boston
Adv.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
COUNTIES BENEFIT
BYAPPORT|0NMENT
TABLE PREPARED SHOWS THE
AMOUNT OF SCHOOL TAXES
COLLECTED IN 1912.
INCREASE OVER PAST YEARS
Some Receive More Than Trey Pay
Purpose of EquaIizne
Shown,

western Newspaper Union News Service
Little Rock..-Superinte of Pub
lie Instruction Geo. B. Cook has pre-
pared table showing the school tax
es paid by each county in 1912 and the
apportionment of same.
Fully two-thirds Of the counties in
Arkansas receive more than is paid in.
The table shows the purpose Of the
state tax in equalizing school condl-
tons for the less-favored communi.
ties. 1t is also notable that this table
shows the total school tax paid in
1912 to be $4,000 more than that
paid during 1911, and that the tax is
greater for the latter year in every
rounty except Dallas, Boone, Howard
and Mississippi counties.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
Banks Named in swlndle Suit.

Hot Springs Arkansas Nation.
al bank the Security bank, Ed Spears,
a prominent sporting man and politi.
clan, and l.. D. Cooper. a local com.
mission merchant. are made defend.
ants in suits filed by Chas. H. Mack
Of Bonneville. Mont, who alleges he
was fleeced ou' of $4,000 by a fake
horse race, on which he bet in Little
Rock He alleged sharpers met him
in Hot Springs anG induced him to go
TO Little Rock.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
Railroad Nav Enter HeIen,

Helena.-The report from Washing.
ton that the Memphis, Dallas and Cult
railroad had adjusted its differences
with the Interstate Commerce Com,
mission and that that road would be
reinstated as trunk line and begin
work Immediately upon the extension
of its line, was received here by local
business men with great satisfaction.
as the present plan of the road is to
ultimately build into Helena. Local
business men are prepared 10 meet
the requirements in the wa" OF bonus
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
LOWER RATES FOR MEMPHIS
Merchants of Little Rock Say City
is Now on Equal Footing.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Little Rock.-Effective February 20
reduced rates governing freight ship
ments between Memphis and points In
Arkansas will place the Tennessee city
in position to compete more strong
ly with Little Rock for the trade from
cities and towns in the state. For two
years the Memphis Freight Dureau
has attempted to obtain a 'uction
in rates to Arkansas points, IT was
not successful until last week, when
the Rock Island agreed to the use of
the lntrastate court tariff rates.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
Ealr to ALL.

Recently" says a Richmond man,
7 received an invitation to the mar
Rage of a young colored couple for.
merly in my employ. am quite sure
that all persons similarly favored
we're left In little doubt as to the atti-
tude of the couple. The invitation ran
- follows:
You are invited to the marriage
sf Mr.. Henry Clay Barker and Miss
Josephine Mortimer Dixon at the
house of the brides mother All who
cannot come may send. "-Lippincott's
Magazine.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
Has Two Narrow ESQ apes

Fort Smith.-After being knocked
down and almost killed by an auto
mobile, Louis Adams, local railway
employee. was almost electrocuted
The auto ran into Adams bicycle and
the collision hurled him 30 feet. The
machine then bounded against a street
car pole, swapping the pole in two and
throwing two heavy trolley wires to
the street. Adams dragged himself
TO safety an instant before the wires
fell. The auto driver was not injred.
but the machine was badly wrecked.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31
Cash Basis Saves Money.

Paragould.-At the weeks meeting
OF the city council. r. w. Merriweth,
er, ]. II. Mcpherson and S. p. Nc.
Haney, acting as trustees for the city
in borrowing funds with which to assist
the city in getting on cash basis. re.
ported that during the five months the
city has been paying cash instead OF
deprecated scrip the saving to the
city has been more than $4,000. A to.
tai OF more than $4,000 in old and new
scrip has been taken up with about
$4,000 in cash. There is now no out,
standing scrip, and all fines, licenses
and taxes are paid in cash.
The Forrest City times., 1913-01-31

Fort Smith.-Two men were IN
stantly killed and two others died later
from injuries as a result of an ex.
plosion of $500 pounds of powder in
a pressing mill at the Equitable Pow.
der Company's plant, four and a half
miles south of this city last week. All
of the dead are negroes. The expIo-
sion occurred as the men were re.
moving the powder from the machine.
The powder had been pressed into
cakes under hydraulic pressure OF g.
600 pounds to the square inch when a
flame flashed near the floor