Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-29
OVERNIGHT
FEDERAL
WIRELESS
To the Advertiser

The dead by flood and fire in Day
ten will not exceed 500 persons. This
statement Is based on an inSestiga-
ton today which has covered all parts
Of the city Those districts which had
been expected to show the longest
Toll of deaths have been found almost
free from death.
Some Streets Clear.
For the first time since the food all
Nater is of the street in front OF the
Algonquin Hotel The water reached
the second story the first two days.
The downtown streets were crowded
today with hungry citizens. The pee
pie reioicedtin the ruined streets, they
are glad to be alive The survivors
joked and cried and laughed BY turns.
Most OF them had prepared to die BY
either fire or water.
The bodies of two women clasped in
q last embrace were found in one of
the flooded houses here today A note
| pinned on the dress of one of the
women said, Hawke, mother and
, daughter"
Indiana Recovering.
Encouraging reports from flood
swept Indiana were received today.
Although it will be months before the
normal conditions are restored, it is
/ believed that relief has reached all
| food refugees in central and northern
Indiana.
The most discouraging reports today
came from the lower end OF the Wa
/ bash river. 1t is reported today the
! flood crest had reached this section
and trouble there was just starting.
Better Conditions at Peru.
! Relief expeditions are arriving close
1 enough to forward supplies by boats to
/ those suffering there. and conditions
/ are being rapidly bettered.
A search is being made for bodies.
4 The head of one of the principal re-
i lief squads thinks the fatalities will
h approximate fifty. There are scores
Of refugees in the hills south OF here.
WelI-knowns Are Safe.
Harry Payne Whitney, John Fox Jr.,
Peter Finley Dunno and others who
| have been marooned in a hotel at
/ French Lick were reported safe to
day.
Free Transmission.
i The Federal Wireless Telegraph
| Company yesterday announced that i
il, prepared to transmit free of cost ali
contributions intended for the suffer
ers.
Improved conditions everywhere
throughout the. flooded districts Of
| Chic and Indiana are reported today
/ Rapidly receding waters and cessa
ton of rains made explorations By
rescue parties possible.
GAINESVILLE Still isolated.
GAINESVILLE is isolated and 1t is i'm
| possible to verify reports that one
Hundred and fifty are dead there ant
many others starving. Special trains
manned by state troops are making
frantic efforts to reach GAINESVILLE.
With the river recording 62.9 feet
| 13 feet over the danger line and still
Using, Cincinnati faces serious food
Residents in the low-lying districts arr
! fleeing.
| Lack of familiarity with steamboat
resulted in the swift Gripping o
Mexico's latest rebellion, inanguratet
yesterday in the State of Tobasco.
One hundred and seventy men o
the Third Infantry, commanded b.
Colonel Valome at San Juan Bautista
revolted with the cry of ''Vive Ma
dero." They looted the houses ant
Irobbed the branch Of the Nationa
hs nix and then embarked on a rive
steamer. The boat foundered a shor
distance from shore and los OF thu
rebels were drowned.
It is rumored that troopship, car
rying Mexican federals, has beei
blown up and sunk by the rebels.