The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-29

| experts from the federal health SER
vice shall be brought to Dayton. Sec
rotary Garrison is to order the experts
to report here at once. The secre-
tary of war is to remain until relief
| and sanitation has been systematized.
Identification Work On.
| Official reports and Identification of
flood victims poured in steadily today.
AS fast as the bodies were identified
they were buried. The revised list so
far reported showed the following
| dead:
ALEXANDER FORD.
| MRS. BOWEN.
| / MASON.
MRS. HAWKINS.
| MISS HAWKE
| MRS. JAMES WALLACE.
| S. S. CUPP.
| CHRIST POLK
| VIRGINIA SNYDER.
| HOWARD SNYDER.
| MRS. CLEMENCEAU, of Clemson.
GEORGE MORGANTHALER.
GEORGE BLITZ.
MR. QUINL.AND.
MRS. YOUNG.
B. E. MAR.READER.
FRANK c. SCOTT, 8 years old.
JOHN MCCONNELL.
More than a thouands militiamen,
under command of Adjutant General
Wood, have the afflicted sections thor
oughIy patrolled and little or no dis
order is reported. The city is divided
into four military zones as follows:
Zone NORTH Dayton-Colonel VOll-
rath.
zone EAST South Dayton-Colonel
Catrow.
Zone a-Central Dayton-Major Hub
Ter.
zone 4-Leutenant Colonel McQuigg.
Digging bodies out of the mud was
the chief work of reScuing parties to-
day. The water had drained off from
almost all of the flooded area, leaving
thick layers of mud. In some in
stances the mud, piled up by the ed
dies, was several feet deep.
1t soop began to dry up in portions
of the streets exposed to the sun
shine, but for blocks the searchers
for bodies waded through a sea of
oozy mud. Brilliant sunshine made
uncanny today the scenes in the areas
where the homes of $4,000 people
were swept away or toppled over. A
view down almost any street revealed
among the debris tumbled over houses.
pianos, household utensils and dead
horses brushed together in indescrib-
bodies of two horses were seen still
caught IN the tops of trees, where
they had been swept.
over on the north side of Dayton
view, where a relief station was es-
tablished under martial law in the
Longfellow schoolhouse, thousands of
homeless people gathered for supplies
of food and clothing. Every able-bod-
led man was pressed into service. "A
man with a megaphone stood at the
door calling out orders. At least
thirty people were killed when the
Leonard building collapsed Wednes-
day night, according to the statement
of Detective Kincaid today. Kincaid
was marooned by the flood in the city
hall just across Main street from the
Leonard building. Standing in the
window of police headquarters he was
watching pasSerSby on the street be-
low prior to the coming of the tor
rent He saw twenty people, he says,
enter a saloon which occupied one
third of the ground space of the Leon
ard building. Not one got out. Other
people had entered other stores in the
building and some were on the upper
floors Kincaid felt sure that there
were at least thirty-five in the struc-
ture and possibly more. When the
waters came a portion of the crowd
caught in the building found way
to the roof AS the walls began to
tremble Kincaid heard continuous
shrieks for help.
Leaped Into Flood.
Two men leaped into the flood, a
distance of four stories, and were in
stantly killed. The other persons
Kincaid said that the police were
taking steps to examine the interior of
the ruins.
More than twenty persons were res
cued from the market houses near the
city Thursday night by Edward
Schaeffer, who sat astride his horse
and swan into the markets, carrying
a rope. About twenty persons who
were imprisoned in the markets were
endeavoring to keep dry by standing
on meat blocks.
Schaeffer fastened the rope around
one person after another The police
officers and detectives in the building
pulled the men to safety.
Swarm Through City.
Citizens of Dayton swarmed through
the central part of the city today for
the first time since Tuesday morning,
when the flood rushed over the town.
The military announced that those who
patches of flood in the hollows might
the city without obtaining official per-
mission.
Business men, professional men, men
of all sorts and conditions hurried in
to ascertain the conditions at first
hand a reporter who walked a mile
along Third street, one of the main
business thoroughfares, found block
after block of wrecked interiors, but
walls and roofs for the most part were
standing The fire loss in the center
of the city covers only four blocks and
is within the district bounded by JEFF
ferson. ST. Clair, Fourth and Second
streets. The Western Union succeeded
today in establishing a telegraph Of
flee in the Beckel House in the center
of the city and was Immediately