The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-28
WHILE ESTIMATES IN CITIES WERE LARGE MANY REPORT
 ED FROM SMALLER PLACES.
NEWS SILL UNAVAILABLE
Nothing Like An Accurate Estimate of Fatalities Can be Secured-- General Resume of the
 Flood Situation.

Revised estimates of the loss of life in Dayton, Ohio, received last night give ground for hope that the dead in all sections affected by the flood will not exceed 1000 and may go below that. figure. Daring investigators who penetrated the flooded section reveal ed hundreds safe whom it was feared were lost.
 l Unless swelled by a death list in the foreign settlement on the north side, as yet unreached, there may not be more than 200 dead in the whole city. l From other points than Dayton. the death list grew rapidly yesterday and last night.
 l There was far heavier loss of life l in the west side of Columbus, Ohio. than was thought. One estimate plac- ed the number dead at more than 500. Apparently authentic reports from | Piqua indicated that 20 were dead l At Peru. Ind, the authorities esti- mated the total would reach at least 1 l50.
 l From Hamilton, Ohio, fifty persons were reported drowned in a collapse Of hotel, where they had sought refuge.
 I Twenty-Five deaths were reported from Troy. Ohio. 30 in Middleton, and Hive at Massillon.
 Deaths from the flood in Chilli cothe will not exceed 20, according lto latest advices. Earlier advices were that from 200 to 500 lives had 1 been lost.
 A report from Linton. Ind, gave 16 persons drowned at Howesville, 25 miles south of Terre Haute. ! There were ten deaths in Sharon, Pa.
 | Estimates are that 10000 persons were marooned in Dayton's flooded district, where 15.000 homes have been submerged. Rescue stations are pro viding for 5000 homeless. The prop erty damage in the city is figured at 25,000.0 900.
 1 Alarming reports were frequent dur ing the day. In most cases these were quickly contradicted. Rumors I that the Grand reservoir near St. Marys. Ohio. had broken proved un- 1 founded. Similar reports about the Lewiston reservoir likewise were found to be untrue Threatened breaks in bot hwere repaired and re- ports to Governor Cox at Columbus 1 last night indicated that the danger from this source was past. Later reports from Zanesville are that 150 lives are believed to have been lost there. About 1,500 are home less. A score of buildings collapsed. Fire broke out there but it was not i believed that it would spread.
 Fires in Dayton's flooded district 1 subsided yesterday but broke out again last night. Flood conditions
 along the Ohio river are growing
 much worse.
 Flood conditions in West Virginia have became serious. Eastern Penn l sylvania is suffering severely. | Vandalism in West Indianapolis, \ caused threat of martial law. Sew eral deaths from drowning have oc- ! cured.
 Northern aud western New York are flood stricken Heavy property damage has followed in the Hudson
 and Mohawk valleys and in the west | ern part of the Southern tier.
 President Wilson has announced his readiness to go to the scene of
 the Ohio floods if his presence will aid. Under his direction Secretary
 of War Garrison left for Central l Ohio
 Gen. Leonard Wood. Quartermas-
 ter General Alesshire and party of
 officers, physicians and surgeons ac- companied him. Surgeon General | Blue of the Public Health Service
 has gone to- the scene to take per | sonai charge.
 | A big signal corps detachment will help open communication. The navy department ordered marines,
 physicians and others at it's recruit. ing stations in the central west to
 cooperate with the army medical staff.
 Trains are moving with food, med. ical help, supplies and other neces- saries into the flood region.
 The railroads are working hard to make repairs.
 Relief funds are swelling through
 out the nation. Hundreds of thou.
 sands of dollars are already availa- iLle.
 Seven states are seriously affect
 cd by the widening flood area. They
 are Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia,
 Pennsylvania. New York, Kentucky
 and illinois. In all of these rail ] road traffIe Is paralyzed or greatly