Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-03-29
THE FLOOD DISASTER

The mos, appalling disaster in the history Of
the nation. with the single exception ct the Cal
weston flood has been visited on the middle states
states. principally in Ohio Indiana and Nebraska
The situation is admirably reviewed in the fol
lowing editorial from the IT. Paso Herald
Thousands dead: 500 900 homeless. 900
600 out OF work, 500 900 900 property dam
age The property loss is OF asor that cannot be
distributed through the medium OF insurance, as
have been losses OF the great city conilngfaiions
Az San Francisco not life was lost, and the in
surance covered perhaps two thirds OF The proper
ty loss But in these floods, upwards OF 'OOO.
perhaps far beyond that figure will sand a. the
awful death roll and not only Is the property loss
not insured but the 10. OF wages and employ
ment the distress and want ensuing upon the loss
81, will cause a long period OF depression and re
adjustment that will aztec, every industry and
every business. every family and every lnstitu-
ton throughout tina, district.
The only disaster at all comparable with this.
il the Galveston flood OF nearly , years ago he
Galveston flood. like the present floods, was one
OF the very few disasters in which the later news
70 worse than the ifst buncNnN lF 'HiB ""'
leiins were ominous enough, and nameless tears
were aroused by the cutting off Of communications
with the stricken city Then the truth began TO
Tickle in. and the death roll mounted higher and
higher Il was never known with certainty how
many lives were lost. for whole families whole
n.ishborhood.. were swept away leaving no trace
for identifies alton OF the nameess dead, and no
record from which TO check up the casualties he
best estimates however, were more than 5000
dead in Galveston City. and more than 5000 Al
other points along the coast. total OF not Tar
tom 10000 lives destroyed ~ tha, September
storm. The property loss was about $40 900 600
IN none OF the great city conilagraons has the loss
81 lie been large One must recall The loss OF The
titanic. the burning ol the Republic and OF the
hoauoi. ,hsaier 10 find IN the United States hls
tory anything like parallel 10 the drsiruopon Of
VI. IN these great storms
The burning Of Dayton following he lerthls
Hoad. marks the elimaa Of the series OF disasters
that ha. marked the last t~o weeks Gieai storms
hissard.. tornados and Hoods bad already aliIlH
ed the Lake region and caused lmmsnss damage
running into millions and considerable loss 81 his
Then the tornado 81 omaha and 20 fhh tsfar
rsn up death roll Of many hundreds and horu
lisd the nation Tho details were lan iufhnal fl
uad calmly
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ssnt n,a the puhlif mind hsior 'hs nsvsnarr
wsdas public soua gasp sha ihs nmaha 'n'
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