The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-29

Dayton, O., March 29-The city wa
 ter works, which have been out of commission since Tuesday morning,
 were restored at noon today, reIiev- i ing what has been one of the most serious phases of the situation here George F. Burne, secretary to Gov. Cox, has teIegraphed the chief exc l cutive the following: The situation is rapidly improv- 1 ing. Ninety bodies have been recov- cred and the work of digging for | corpses from the mud and debris is progressing
 Official reports and identifications 1 of flood victims poured in steadily to- 1 day. As fast as the bodies were iden- | tified they were buried The revised list SO far reported showed the fol- l lowing dead:
 Alexander Ford
 Mrs. = Bowen.
 I. Mason Mrs. F, Hawkins 2ss.s g | Miss Hawke.
 Mrs, James Wallace. | s. Cupp.
 Chris Polk. k h 1 Virginia Snyder.
 Howard Snyder
 Mrs. C1emenceau Cor CIensonn)
 George Morgentha1er. John Blitz. l MT. - Quinlan. l Mrs. Young. | B. B. Harkreader.
 | Frankie Scott, years old John Snow Mcconnell. Over 1000 rni1itiamen under com
 mand of Adjutant General Wood have
 the afflicted zones thoroughly pa | trolIed and little or no~disorder is re-
 ported. The city is divided into four l military zones
 The water has drained off from aI- 1 most all Of the flooded area leaving
 thick layers of mud. It soon be-
 gan to dry in portions of the streets l exposed to the sunshine, but for the
 most part searchers for bodies waded through body of oozy mud. - A brilliant sunshine threw an un- canny light over the distorted scenes
 in the areas where the homes of 75, ,O0C peopel were swept away or toppIed over A view down almost any street revealed, among the debris, tunhled
 over houses, pianos, household uten- sils and dead horses brushed together in indescrfbable confusion. At two points. the bodies of horses were still caught in the tops Of trees where they had been swept.
 Over on the north side of Dayton | view, where a relief station was es- 1 tablished under martial law in the
 LongfelIow schoolhouse. thousands ot 1 homeless people gathered for supplies
 Of food and clothing. Every able
 bodied man was pressed into service. l At least 30 people were killed when the. Leonard building collapsed, We'd
 nesday night, according to the state
 ment of Detective Kinkeid, today Kinkeid was marooned by the flood l in the City Hall just across Main | street from the Leonard building 1 Standing in the window of police head quarters he. was watching passersby on the street below prior to the com | ing of the torrent. He saw 20 peo- ple he says, enter a saloon which oc- cupied one-third of the ground space
 of the Leonard building. None got out Other people had left their
 stores in the building and some were on the upper floors. Kinkeid felt l sure that there were at least 35 in the structure and possibly more. 1 When the waters came a portion of | the persons caught in the building
 made their way to the roof. As the | walls began to tremb1e these let out | terrible shrieks and calls for help. 1 Two men 1eaped into the flood, a dis l tance of four floors and were killed l instantly The others went down 1 with the building. Kinkaid said that i the police were taking steps to exam l inc the interior of the ruins More
 than 20 persons were rescued from the | market houses near the city build
 ing, Thursday night, by Edward
 Schaeffer, who sat astride of his 1 horse and swan into the markets
 carrying a rope. About 20 people l were trapped in the markets and 1 standing on meat blocks. Schaef fastened the rope around another and
 the police officers and detectives in | the building pulled the men to safety Secretary of War Garrison arrived at noon and conferred at once with
 John H. Paterson, chairman of the
 committee of 15.