The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-28

Jutant General WOOD mad been fatally
injured by falling plate glass proved
untrue. General Wood now is in full
charge Of the relief work and al
though his arm was badly cut, his
condition is not serious.
Women and Babies.
Two hundred women and babies
found refuge in a paint factory In
North Dayton, where it is believed
they have found sufficient food to
keep them from acute suffering. An
effort is to be made at once to res
cue them.
The suburb of Riverdale up to Hell
ena street has been penetrated by the
downtown relief committee and con-
ditions found similar to those in the
southern suburbs. Everyone has been
crowded to the second floors or roofs
of their homes, but few of the more
stable dwellings were washed away.
The district north of Helena street
has not been reached, but it is not
believed conditions there will prove so
bad as feared. Nothing is known OF
the foreign settlement in North Day
ton. close to the Miami river. 1t was
part of the city where the FLOOD first
made it's way and where the occu-
pants of the houses had ignored
warnings to leave.
1t was here also that it was feared
most of the deaths had occurred.
Only one body was found.
Tho following is a provisional tab
loid of conditions tonight:
Dead, accurate estimates impossible.
Persons %marooned, 10000.
Residences submerged, 5000.
Miles Of streets inundated, 1920.
Persons provided for in rescue sta
tions, 5000.
Horses killed, 500.
Automobiles damaged, 1000.
New figures place Dayton's loss at
$25, 100000; they were estimated b,
persons who had explored part Of the
flood area. Several estimates set the
loss at a higher figure, but the best
informed agree on $25, 1000, 900. It is
said 25,0O0 residences are damaged to
the extent Of $1,000 each; 5000 homes
are classified under damage figures Of
$1,000, and it is said 1000 could not be
repaired for less than $500 each.
Damage to buildings in the business
district is set at the conservative fig
ure Of $2,000,000, and it is believed
this amount will cover stocks Of
stores. Figures available at manu-
featuring plants place damage under
this head at $1,0o0,o00; the loss on
automobiles at 100000. The damage
to houses and goods will mount into
the millions because in many sections
Of the submerged area tho water
reached the second floor of hundreds
of houses.
military aides from Columbus this
afternoon and Immediately took
charge of the m%ilitiamen. At least
five more companies will be here to-
morrow, according to Colonel Catrow.
Governor Cox ordered that no more
sight-seers be permitted in Dayton
and when Colonel Catrow attempted
to have railroad coaches of an arriv-
ing train vacated many passengers
showed fight and refused to leave.
Orders were given the trainmen to
cut off the two rear coaches and they
We're left standing on the track.
One of the remarkable features was
the cheerful spirit with which flood
victims viewed their plight. This was
the first big flood in years. Much of
the submerged area had been consid
cred safe from high water. but as the
majority of residents of these sections
looked out on all sides upon a great
sweep of muddy, swiftly-moving
water, they seemed undisturbed.
In some Of the poorer sections tho
attitude Of tho marooned was not SO
cheerful. As a motor boat passed be-
fore the second floor of one partly
submerged house a man leaned out
and threatened to shoot unless they
took off his wife and a baby that had
been born yesterday. Tho woman, al
most dying, was lot down from the
Of refuge.
Farther on, members of a motor
boat party We're startled by shots in
the second floor Of a house about
which five feet of water swirled. The
boat was stopped and a nan peered
from the window of the house.
why are you shooting?" he was
asked.
"Oh, just amusing myself, shooting
at rats that come upstairs; when are
you going to take me out Of here?" he
replied.
Captain Of Police II. F.. LackharI
declared that water in North Dayton
Miami City and East Dayton haC
reached the housetops. His estimate
of the number of dead in that distric'
was 300.
The bodies of a woman and a bah,
were seen floating down jefferson
street, one of Dayton's main thor
oughfares.
1t vas thought they came from TIL
district north of the river. Accord
ing to city officials, it is impossible
to estimate the number who persisted
in the fire which swept the entire dis
trict on the north side of Third stree
between jefferson street and tn
canal last night, a distance of NOR
than a square and a half.
All in tho 6eckeI hotel are safe. Elk
tensive preparations were made las
night for their rescue whom the build
ina was threatened BY fire. Polio