New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-26

rt i men and women crept along cables safety Others
less daring saw darkness fall and gave up hope OF rescue
Those willing lives in the attempt to rescue iound
themselves the face OF the water
Seventy thousand OF Daytons population IT reported DC
homeless
The National Register plant on high hill offers the only
South End Three women became no'hers IN inc "
of its Office building tonight
who fortunate enough to have escaped
the first rush being fed tonight on short aoS
and appeals for help being by of the leading men
of the city -
Three snoad of foodstuHs arrived from Xena but as
vet there has chance deliver them and suffering from
hunger exposure bound to occur within the next re"
hours.
The rain continues and the still rising.
The Union Railroad bridge that admits all except one OF the
railroads into dynamied this afternoon put TIC c'e''
felt any marked degree
In the woodworking department the National Cash Register
nnv boats were being of ten an hour and
these were rushed the had crossed Main street "
Of gully.
But the crcp and the strength OF the current was Id
too strong for the runts though they the best that 'oo
made in a hurry.
Trim after trip was made hundreds of the refugees were
taken from this stretch Of houses
Then flames Vine and Main streets The me u"l wan
street houses other side soon aiame
few frame houses that hao pe u
These sw1ed about o '"' anu " ~ s.
of the section by ire they were cast mo "
the ,..
Persons rooops where they had been driven Y "
Rood TO the rooftops O adjoining houses e.
Then the dcsoate weird hgt from III" "
showing as frorlo ucs isolated against the SKY ~
The safety sliding his body along the telegraph
was man The first the women was MIS- 'o
Meyers She il vrdow with boy in knee oreeches
He got out on the wire and with inc sny " ;hI more aware
But the her boy and possibly more "
of the danger below the boiling torrent beneath n
swayed slipped and the crowd stood by with oad ~
By lucky back her in time that she c0uo
grasp of the - ~
Hand over hand she was able slowly herself to the nearest pole
hsre she rested her aching arms making the trial This time
she did not a picked by the at the fur'heS'
mole toward safety limp and physical exhaustion
Then came had watched the performance OF the
adviC OF
they looking and were not subjected 10 n n ~ w
woman passenger and his wife The wife ne sent
first and safety she refused get into the ambulance with
her baby ~
ground pillow slip and the ounger celebrated his
arrival by followed to safety
includes all Of North and West Dayton
the South Side as far Oawood and all OF the
Glendale The district has normal population OF more
than fifty ,
Rescus said estimate Of FIVE thousand dead
might be an estn O. hundred.
inundated districts the ran from eight to ten
deep this that would be twenty or thirty ee downtown
marooned the Offices and hotels are no immaculate
drowning food drinking water can h them until the
water recedes
The body of one gray only few
feet South Park caught guard rope but
swept gone before could be recovered
The this after the residents had
spn night the Big Miami broke Webster
street o'clock An hour later the through dozen
places and wall through the
above the unu OF the Big where the
of Saltwater poured Miami the food reached its height and
rolled int business section, wall twenty feet high
The the food
to the second all along Main
pants the third floors What has happened to them since no
one outside tell
House footing began local militia
duty they are wholly incapable CT handling the situation
Incidents persons the flooded district
waving signalling for aid being
t the eyes Of the watchers on the margin Of the waters Many of the
what had repugs
and crushed How died this knows
tonight Canoes rowboats shared the fate
the district which the
danger md helpless until the food subsidies
rDOnnNHICCOI 1DJD OWED tn