Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-04-04

much worse than had been expected.
Money is needed most of all &C
cording to Mayor Kreutzer.
The known dead at Peru number
eight.
Reconstruction Work On.
Columbus, Ohio.-Reconstruction Of
the West Side of Columbus, where the
flood of last Tuesday wrought the
heaviest damage, has been begun in
earnest by the undaunted citizens OF
that district with the assistance OF
more fortunate residents.
Twelve more bodies have been re.
covered from the debris, but many OF
them have been identified as persons
previously reported dead, so that the
Columbus death list still remains at
GA.
While h~ouseholders were busy clear
ing away the wreckage from their
homes, while militiamen cleared the
principal streets of the dead bodies Of
animals and debris, and relief commit.
tees continued their care of the home,
less, plans were set afoot for the pre-
kyenGon Of a similar catastrophe.
Property Loss $4,ooo,o 900.
Hamilton, Ohio.-Secretary CARR.
son of the war department. who is
touring the flood district as the per-
sonal representative of President vii.
son, visited Hamilton Sunday, com.
ing over from Cincinnati by automo
bile. So impressed was the war sec
rotary with the manner in which the
situation here is being handled by the
citizens and Ohio National guard that
he announced that he would telegraph
President Wilson that nothing needed
for the present emergency is lacking
The secretary was told that thu
death list here will not number more
than so, with the property loss est
mated at 81 1000, 900.
5000 Rendered Homeless.
Parkersburg, w. Va.-The crest o
the Ohio river flood reached here will
a stage of $50 feet, six feet highe
than the record of 1884. The river j
receding slowly. Two companies o
militia are guarding the town.
Belleville, IS miles away, is pract
cally wiped out and the people ar
camping on the hill above the tow
It is reported that several lives hav
been lost.
Two lives is the toll of the foo
waters in Parkersburg. The damag
is foremost. Fully 5000 persons ar
homeless here and at Belpre and Bell,
vile.
Illinois Threatened.
!, Springfield, nl.-Illinois threaten
=. to become the center of flood distres
Startling messages have been recei
ed by Governor Dunno and Adjutal
is General Dickson, indicating thi
S~hawneetown and Cairo are in imm
e diate danger of being washed off II
u map. Other towns are in distres
Governor Dunno has sent a rush c
y der for 1000 troops to proceed by sp
Id cial train to Cairo. Messages recei
ed by the governor from Sher
OF Frazier and Mayor Parsons of Cal
described conditions as extreme
De alarming. Fears were expressed tn
III the levee might break at any mimi
IN with an inevitable heavy loss of Ii
IS. and an immense property damage.
Peru Death List IS.
u Sixteen bodies were found in BroC
be Vile and six still are missing. T
We flood struck that town Monday mig
by with such violence that all wires we
A swept away and bridges wiped o
no and no communication was had w
the outside world until a courier y
terday took definite reports into O.
n~orsville, following a rapid fall in
'er flood tide.
re Peru rescue workers report that
he death list there will not exceed
ar and some believe it will be less.
ST. V~incennes is said to be in gr
ms danger, but all reliable communi
om ton with that place has been cut
ms Troy, Ohio, Asks Aid.
Chicago.-An appeal for aid
flood sufferers reached Chicago fir
re- Troy, Ohio, where at least nine Ii
wa were lost and % houses demolish
Marietta, ~Ohio.-Flood caused a |
the of $2,OOO,000 here. Loss OF life
.-n4xyn