The Red Cloud chief., 1913-04-03
FOOTING UP DAMAGE.
ACTUAL FATALITIES LESS THAN
At FIRST ESTIMATED.
OHIO RIVER ON A RAMPAGE
Fifty Millions viii Cover Property
loss-Fiood Waters Recedino-
Fatalities In Indiana
Are Cut Down.

| WdIeTS UaNe EcCtucu cui
hciently to show that the number Of
persons drowned in all the affected
cities in Ohio and Indiana may not
exceed 500, While many persons still
are missing to friends and relatives,
investigations made to date indicate
that many were safe who were
thought to be lost.
In Dayton careful estimates placed
the number of deaths at 200 or fewer.
although meeting OF undertakers
asserted that the total might reach
500. Relief work went on rapidly In
| Dayton and all parts of the city were
reached.
Columbus will have the next largest
loss Of life. sixty bodies having been
found in the inundated portion Of
| West Columbus
Unvorifed figures OF Miamisburg.
o.. give fifty dead. but In all other
flooded cities the figures fell OFF rap.
idly as relief expeditions covered the
ground.
Mount Vernon did not confirm its
previous report of fifty dead, and no
confirmation was had OF thirtytwo
reported drowned at Venice, o.
Chillicothe ard Tifiin. o.. where
there had been reports Of fifty or
more dead. each had found eighteen
corpses up to midnight.
The best figures from Piqua give a
death toll of fifty persons. Middle
town and Fremont, o., each has four.
teen dead. Troy four. Massllon one
and Masonville four.
Irdiana's total drowned receded TO
fewer then fifty, distributed as fol-
lows: Peru. 90; Brookville, 16; Fort
Wayne. s: Terre Haute. 4. No bodies
have been found in West indianapolis,
where at one time as many as 200
deaths were reported.
Crave Conditions at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati. O.--As the waters Of
the Ohio river continue TO rise. In
creased in volume by the flood waters
from tributaries east and north OF
here. this city Is facing the worst food
in it's history. The river stage was
sixty.four feet Friday. with indica.
tions that before many hours the
gauge will have reached seventy feet,
almost the mark of 1884. the record
year. Weather forecasters here ex.
press the conviction that the river
would reach sixty-eight feet and
would go to the seventy.foot mark
early in the week.
Floods almost unprecedented In
area following the tornadoes and rains
Of the last few days swept the Missis-
sippi valley. causing loss Of life that
may reach into the hundreds and DOM
age to property amounting to many
millions.
Ohio and Indiana, and in lesser
degree, Illinois and Missouri, felt the
brunt OF the disaster.
At Dayton. O., scores Of persons
were reported drowned following the
breaking Of the Miami river levee and
the Laramie reservoir nifty miles
above the ciyt. Marooned in once
buildings in the center Of the town,
hundreds of persons were awaiting
rescue.
Millions Of dollars in property dam.
age has already been incurred and tho
flood is reported still on tho increase.
From Indianapolis came reports Of
lone hundred thousand homeless
throughout Indiana and q property loss
reaching the enormous figure of $10..
100000 in cities. towns and villages
alone. This does not include the
losses to farmers. The loss Of life.
while not SO great as In Ohio, has not
been estimated.
The climax Of the flood in Ohio was
reached at Dayton. where It was re-
ported that the water is from twenty
to forty feet deep In many streets.
that bodies were floating past windows
of"office buildings and that the catas.
trophe assumed the proportions OF q
tidal wave. A telephone message to
Chillicothe asserted that thirty thou.
sand Of Daytons Inhabitants were
homeless and that q relief train had
been dispatched from Xenia. Hun.
dreds OF fires which could not be ex.
tinguished were said to have added to
the horror OF the situation at Dayton.
At Delaware, nineteen persons were
reported dead, many missing and four
hundred families homeless.
Sixteen or seventeen dead at Hamil.
ton. O.. where conditions similar to
those at Dayton. render rescue work
impossible. Otto, hamlet OF 100 per.
sons. was said to have been destroyed
and the fate OF the inhabitants un.
known.
Hundreds OF lives have been lost In
Indiana.
Columbus, OhiO.-"If our worst
fears are confirmed 1t will be neces.
sary for us to call on the outside