The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-26
FLOODS OVERWF1ELM CITIES OF OHIO
Storms Develop Into
 National Calamity

DAYTON, O., Mar. 26, 2:45 p. m.-The dead in this city may possibly reach 10000.
 WOLF CREEK, Mar, 26, 2:45 p.m,---The Western Union operator at Dayton telephoned here: Explosion in middle of Dayton. The town is on fire. People are burning. No way to reach them.
 COLUMBUS, Mar. 26At quarter to three today Gov. Cox received a message saying the entire business section of Dayton is on fire. The people are jumping from roof to roof. Hun dreds are perishing.
 WASHINGTON, Mar. 26---1:45 pm. Secre- tary of War Garrison has ordered that 5O,OOO tents and million rations be rushed from Phil adelphia to Ohio.
 CLEVELAND, March 26. 1lO D. m.-Devastaon extends for eighty up down the Miami valley The homeless Tn the State of Ohio may reach 5OOOOO
 WASHINGTON March 26, 40 D. m-President Woodrow Wilson has appeal the nation to come to the aid o the suffering in Indiana and Ohio He says the conditions Tn those States the proportions of national calamity
 COLUMBUS, O., March 26, 1:s5 D. m.-Privae Secretary Burba wiring to Gov. Cox from Springfield says:
 "The deaths in Dayton may reach 2OOo tlver thefe IS four miles wide. It is awful
 COLUMBUS, O., March 26 = The entire Ohio National Guard has been called by Gov Cox The governor chara ees the situation "he worst calamity that has ever be- fallen To the necessities of the occasion it would call out the tent supply of the world quarter million are homeless"
 XENIA o. March 26-Refugees arriving from Dayton this morning say that between and 1000 have met death Tn the flood at Dayton There have been several fires there
 Mamisburg has been completely washed away
 COLUMBUS o. March 26-John Bel fire chief at Dayton, eephoned Gov Cox this morning that 800 had drowned
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 26.-Two hundred thousand are homeless in this State.
 CHICAGO March 26Figures revised at noon today place the dead in Ohio and Indiana at 1900
 CoNNELLsvILLE Ind, March 26. - Forty persons were drowned in the flood at Brookvlle
 INDIANAPOLIS Ind March 26-This morning the Asso-
 ed Press estimated that dead and property to the val e of OOOOOOO has destroyed result o the floods Ill this State.
 PERU Ind March 26-The mayor has ordered 200 collins to meet the emergency here
 CINCINNATI March 26-Floods in Ohio and Indiana have cause the death deemnabe number o persons ana nave done unknown millions dollars worth of damage to property The Ohio river and all it's principal tributaries and all the long rivers flowing northwad into the Great Lakes nave "oe p yond control of their banks Levies have been broken where and cities flooded The deapateo co ton telegraph and telephone wires makes ayng
 
 wrought of the question.
 So far as known Dayton, Ohio has suffered more severely than any other town The early reports from here coming
 round about way agmenay and ncoherent manner pacea the dead in that city 00 While this estimate has not been denied it discounted by the Associated Press and the Western Union Telegraph Company It known that the deatn list will be very large Mayor Lease was among the hrst +o nersb The city is by Is feet of water Looters are doing their dasardy work and have so far as to shoot neonle when necessary continue their operations Columbus Akron, Lima Middleton and Springfield all m Ohio are under water. Il Two hundred houses are submerged at Middleton
 Twenty persons were drowned at Deleware, Ohio
 Ten miles of railway trains stalled at Lima by the |washouts.
 el Indianapolis Suffers. : INDIANAPOLIS Ind March 26-Fifteen hundred families been driven from their this city by the floods that large portion of the city The damage to property here has large
 225 Killed CHICAGO March 26The known dead in Nebraska Iowa l.ora ltaft tlcc tnrrnS nf