The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-28
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INDIANA IS
STILL swAMPED
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square and no one was hungry or
thirsty today. Boats OF all kinds
the surf boats. which arrived from
Chicago and Michigan City, the local
rowboats and canoes-left at dawn to
search for bodies. The mental SUI
fering of the survivors who fear Tor
the safety of relatives and friends was
agonizlng.
Policeman Robert Hunter, on duty
in the crowded court house square,
this morning, is authority for the
| statement that only three bodies have
been recovered and only the corpse
of Mrs. James Hossman identified.
Hunter said that the death toll In
Peru proper will be small and that
the loss Of life in South Peru, which
was wiped out, would not be large. He
would not estimate the number OF
dead, but thought 1t was not over fifty.
4 The survivors in South Peru could
rot come over to this side Of the Wa
bash, and for the most part they fled
to the hills to the south where farm
ers cared for them.
The Peru survivors are not all in7the
square around the court house, which
holds the great majority of them
Hundreds are in the new hospital In
the northwest, an unfinished building,
which was pressed into service for
refugees transported there in boats.
MANY remain in the upper stories OF
their homes.
Relief at Peru.
PERU. March 2S.-Opening OF rail.
road communication over the Lake
!, Erie road made it possible to bring
relief supplies into Peru and start
some sort of organized relief work in
behalf. of the suffering flood victims.
A relief committee and a law and or
der committee were organized at a
. meeting held in the courtrt ON of the
county building.
The city is being divided into dis
tricts with a superintendent in charge
of each. Distribution Of food. cloth
ing and supplies was taken charge OF
. by these committees.
At the organization meeting 1t was
reported that safe was blown las;
I night and that other robberies and
footing had commenced in unprotected
I sections Of the flooded district.
/ More than 1000 victims Of the flood
S already have left the city for neigh
boring towns, A large number of PEG
b pie are being cared for in schoo
houses north Of here. The relief com
e mittee issued an appeal urging out
}. siders who come to Peru as curiosity
l. seekers, to keep away "as there are
l. now more mouths to feed than there
# are provisions"
d 1000 Homeless.
s TERRE HAUTE, Ind. March 2s.--
I, Light and transportation facilitie
are paralyzed and business is at
C standstill here owing to flood condi
q tons The stage Of the river is at 8
:. feet, inches Street cars suspende,
II operations yesterday and the gas an,
C electric light plants are out Of CON
V, mission. Four thousand persons ar
a homeless and the flood is spreading
Many reports OF fatalities are receive,
!. but confirmation Is impossible.
1T
If Ten Drowned.
wi TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March 2s.--
AT least ten persons are known t
have been drowned at TOWNSVILLE, 2
miles south of Eel river. Boats fror
Linton today are picking up survivors
r.
Possibly Fifty Dead.
PERU. Ind March 2S.-Relie
enough to stave Off absolute starv,
tion has been received here and NOR
lis in sight. The number Of dead wa