The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-30

sNehihs out possible victims
 Among the organization engagad
 III rescue work is the company of ths
 naval reserves from the Irnita,
 states ship, Essex at Toledo nnda,
 command of Captain A. F N,crlat,
 me company reached Dayton on s
 special relief train from Toledo
 ihursday and immediately launched
 q number of boats in the raging tor
 rents which were sweeping the citx
 rom end to end. Up to 6 o'clock to
 hlght the sailors had been constantly
 on duty and had to their credit oI SIS lives saved and they were not
 'hihking of sleep when darkness l fell. One crew in command of Ensign
 F. r. Diebald, with two boats. rescu. ed 375 persons from the business section and that district immediate " east of Main street and West of Eagle street. Many of the people were taken from their homes only alter the sailors had mounted to the tops of partially overturned houses and chopped their way through the atties where the inmates were hud- died together waiting for death to enter
 Another crew under Junior Lieut.. Willough succeeded in saving 360, while three boats in command of Senior Lieut. Theodors Schmidt reE cued PA persons. The majority of these latter were taken. from box cars. warehouses. freight sheds and grain elevators In the railroad yards. It was here that the water attained its greatest violense, rushing in whirlpools between the buildings on either side of the tracks. Navigation was extremely perilous on account of many submerged box cars, flat cars and overturned sheds.
 Several times the sailors were cap- sized, but managed to keep with their boats and right them again. Not single life was lost, either among the reserves or among the hundreds whom they attempted to rescue. While sailors worked necessarily to save lives, Lieut.. Walter GayhArt, also of the ships company succeed ed in establishing supply station in East Fifth street. where many flood refugees congregated, and is- sued rations to the suffering. He slept tonight after seventy-one hours of continuous labor.
 Only those doing relief work or having official business were allow ed out of doors after o'clock to- night With the additional military forces which arrived, the city was thoroughly policed The city was in darkness again tonight. Even with the careful policing during the last few nights, some robbing has been done. It has been impossible to do much relief work at night and the curfew order was due in part to the advisability of keeping the men where they can protect their own households, if necessary.
 Fronts of stores have been broken down and merchandise is exposed. Some of this has been stolen. One thief gathered a quantity of jewelry and was making away with it in d travelling bag when arrested. Maj. Dupuy is angered at certain under takers and expressed it in the fol lowing statement:
 These body snatching ghouls who operate as undertakers will be treat ed as they deserve If it takes the entire military power at the com mand of the medical department of the Ohio National Guard. There are a number of reliable undertakers in Dayton who have complied strictly with the order to report the recovery of all bodies but there have been re- ports received here of numerous in stances of undertakers grabbing the bodies and rushing them to their own establishments. Then they either prey upon the grief stricken relatives or the public who will have to pay for the burial of the unidentified dead
 'sAll medical and military officers have received orders to promptly ar rest any undertaken or other person who recovers body and does not i'm mediately report it to this depart ment"
 Maj. Dupuy stated that he fears an epidemic of some kind unless the most rigid sanitary rules are en- forced.
 There are thousands and thou sands of dead horses and other ami mals strewn about the city,. said the surgeon, and while we are impress ing into service large numbers or men, it will require many days to dispose of the earcasses, as many or these are buried beneath great heaps of heavy wreckage which it will be necessary to remove before the bod les can be taken to the incineratina plants.
 ITO add to the menace of the sit nation. we found that with one or two exceptions, every stock of drugs in Dayton was destroyed by the flood, Many of our offices are with ont medical or surgical supplies Z lieutenant doctor came to me today, begging for supplies. He said he had several obstetricai cases to be cared for. besides several urgent surgica. cases. but had nothing to work WILL Medical knowledge does not do a
 man much good if he has no drugs and instruments.