Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-26
CRIES FOR HELP ARE HEARD on ALL SIDES AS One after ANOTHER FALLS INTO
WATER AND IS SWEPT WAS One OF TERROR With FLAMES FROM
BURNING BUILDINGS MAKING GHOSTlY LIGHT ON DELUGE
PRESIDENT WILSON CALLS UPON ALL
STATES OF UNION TO EXTEND HELP

lage in the state follows with a oeat
roll that cannot be totalIed until tn
raging waters subside.
The most serious news early toda
was that the town of Miamisburq
with a population of 1000, had beel
washed away. Heavy rains continued
through most Of the state last night
Governor Cox estimated that mort
than 25o,oo0 people have been mad'
homeless. The state is unable to cop
- th> the titu.atA. - ia, entirety ant
the governor has called on the Nation
al Red Cross society and on adjoining
states for aid.
The property damage cannot a
present be calculated, but 1t will rur
far into the millions. This include!
total loss by fire and flood and pros
pective loss where farming lands havs
been inundated and in many cases
washed away.
Narrowing tales are fItering in ot
/ families who spent the night in 9
drenching rain in tree tops or on the
roofs of their flooded homes.
/ Many of those marooned in tree
tops are believed to have been worn
out from cold and fatigue and to have
dropped from their perlous position to
death In the flood below.
TRAIN FALLS INTO
! RIVER AND ALL ARE LOST
Grafton, W. Va, March 2C Tho
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph opera
tor here has received from the Balti-
more and Ohio passenger station at a
tower near Cincinnati message say
ing that a commutor train from ove-
land, Ohio. to Cincinnati. had gone
through bridge and all on board,
about 200 persons, apparently. had
been lost
AT LEAST A THOUSAND
DROWNED AT DAYTON.
Wolfe Creek. Ohio, March 26.--(Two
miles west of Dayton) to
reports that have reached here at
least one thousand persons lost their
lives in the Dayton flood. Most of
the victims were residents of North
Dayton, who were caught like rats in
a trap and had no warning. Today
the city is under fifteen feet of water
and although the flood is recednr the
rain is beginning again and the
chances are that the flood will remain
at the present level until the rain
ceases.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY
DROWNED IN COLUMBUS.
Columbus, Ohio, March 26.-At least
$50 persons We're drowned IN Colum
bus as a result of the flooded Scioto
river, according to reports from the
west side flooded district this morn
ing. These reports came as the result
o. partial restoration of telephone
communications with the west side.
Numerous persons who are consider
ed conservative, assert that they saw
scores of bodies float down stream and
dozens of persons carried away in
houses.
Governor Cox received message
by telephone from Dayton shortly
before II O'Clock today from John Fell
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