New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-02
GOES INSANE ON FINDING
F|ANCEE DEAD IN FLOOD
Springfield Youth Had Made
PerIous Journey to Dayton
to Save Sweetheart.
NOT FEW HAPPY REUNIONS
Little Girl Picked Up Playing
Home, Sweet Home" on
Piano in Street Re-
stored to Mother.
BY Telegraph 10 The Tribune.

I BY Telegraph 10 The Tribune.l
DAYTON. Ohio. April 1.-Tear-compolling
stories Of the hood arc heard hourly.
John BaTtell. a Young man who lives at
Springfield. entered the Longfellow School
on Sunday night. He was covered with
mud and nc could hardly stand. He was
engaged 10 Martha Davidson. who was
among tho missing when the waters re-
treated.
He reached Mariha's home in boat.
In the attic he found the girl dead John
foil by her side and when the miltiamen
caught him he laughed. Reason had fled.
Hazel Solomon was married tn Henry
Klu'insky on Sunday evening in the hos
iftal ward of church She died after
the ceremony and her husband left her
bedside Weeping
I'VE had planned 10 ne married to-
day" he said. and we were
William Hoffner found his mother In
the Van cleveland school. where s
fathc, ." he asked. II don't know" his
mother said. 10th went away. The father
Is in the moreuc at the National Cash
Register Company
John Schanor staggered into a house In
Falrv,ow avenue There were several refu-
gees sitting by tho window. rs MY w!fc
hcrc?" ho asked "IIcr name is Mrs
t.lsi" Schaffer.''
She's in tho bedroom back there" one
81 The women answered.
John found his WIFE She was I'm bed
slee ping and baby lay ny her side. The
baby had been born on the boat tnat
rescued tho mother.
Harry Baldwin walked and waded
through the city for three days looking
for his aged father He went every
where except tho morguc. The cider
Raldwin's body is there. but no one has
told his son.
one Of the militiancn heard some one
playing piano in the street. little
girl was picking out Home. Sweet
Home" She WAS arrested" for being ~
large without military pass and was
taken 10 the Presbyterian Church, where
she was put To sleep When she awoke
she asked: where's mamma
DO YOU want a mamma asked a
woman near her. Il was "A mamma. but
lost my baby"
The two lett the church together II
was the childs mother
John II. Patterson. president Of the re-
lief committee. wired Secretary Of War
Garrison to-day that the food situation
was much worse than had been expected
and that the committee would look To the
national government for supplies. II is
estimated that between 5000 and 5000
refugees are being fed daily. Three
bodies were recovered to-day. bringing
the toll Of the flood up 10 l2s. according
To- an ostimai. 10y Coroner J. W. Nc
Kenny
Speaking Of tentative plan 20 ask the
federal government FOR loan of from
s2O....p 20 sp"'0Jo for reconstruction
work. Mr. Patterson said:
AT meeting of bankers and officials
of the building associations this evening
il was decided to make an appeal for
federal aid. The banks and building AS
sociations have so.ro.ooo worth OF assets
which they will put up as collateral W"
feel that the disaster j. an emergency
which would Justify extraordinary action
on the part Of Congress
we must have ratlons for more than
one hundred thousand people for an IL
definite period" Mr. Patterson added. IN
explaining the emergency.
Columbus. ohio. April 1.-The toll Of the
food disaster on the West Side stood AT II
tonight The number OF missing remains
large. and three food victims have died
within the last twenty -four hours.
Martial law has been withdrawn from
considerable part Of the food swept
area. Constructive work will now be the
object Of the relief organizations. accord
ing to Governor Cox. 4 definite plan will
be formulated tomorrow. when the state
relief commission will confer with Gov
ernor cox. Miss Mabel Boardman, ma
tional secretary of the Red Cross. and
Ernest =. Bicknell. national director OF
the Red Cross.
GAINESVILLE. Ohio. April Girls promi-
nent in society here are busy washing
and taking care of babies so that the
mothers Of the infants may clean their
homes
The GAINESVILLE Furniture Companys
plant was found twelve miles below here
Daniel y. Gary. the owner. who was con-
sidcrcd wealthy. Is pennilcss.
\ man named Simpson who lost every
thing. became insane to-day.
The damage to the city is estimated at
$4,000