The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-28
INDIANA IS
Still SWAMPEO
Relief Work is Well Organized and
There is No Suffering Among
the Refugees Of the
Flood.
LOWER END OF WABASH
Crest Of the Fo> y Southern End
of the g .'oday-Nos
oy stty Dead
peru.
LOWER END OF WABASH

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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Mar.
28.A careful search Of the
houses today in a large part OF
the previously flooded west
side failed to uncover a single
fatality, effectively putting an
end to rumors of large loss of
life. The White river this af-
ternoon was within a few hun
Idred feet Of resuming its own
banks.
INDIANAPOLIS, nd, March 28.-
The fight to relieve flood conditions
in central and northern Indiana was
won today, but along the lower end of
the Wabash river. which the crest had
just reached, their troubles were be-
| ginning.
Not one of the tens Of thousands OF
refugees in cities suffered for lack OF
water, food or clothing. This was the
positive official word from Fort
| Wayne, Lafayette, Peru, Logansport.
Kokomo, Wabash. Terre Haute, Mar
tinsville, Shelbyville and score of
other cities and towns.
With partial communication restor-
| ed came the first direct word from
| Peru that the situation there had been
greatly exaggerated, that while the
! exact death toll is not known, only
three bodies have been recovered and
the toll would not go over fifty at the
outside. Relief had reached Peru
from half a dozen cities on the north
/ and no refugee was hungry.
| Franklin county, in the south, still
/ appeared to be the hardest hit, with
Brookville and several smaller towns
! partly or wholly wiped out 1t Is GER
will not reach over so. Relief work
1 was going on with help from Con-
norsville and surrounding villages and
the situation was decidedly encourag-
| Ing.
In indianapolis, a perfect organiza-
tion cared for two thousand refugees
1 in public buildings which had room
for more. and boats, we'll provisioned,
secured the flooded areas in West In
dianapolis and Broadripple.
This is the rosy but true view OF
the situation in the state today, four
full days after the local floods drove
people from their homes in all parts
Of Indiana, cut off scores of communi-
ties from all communication with each
other, carried away thousands Of
houses, submerged other goods, drove
/ the refugees unprotected to the wet
and cold outdoors, or huddled them by
the thousands in unsanitary buildings
paralyzed industry, destroyed at least
/ $50,000000 in property in tIe state
and gave rise to the widest .umors
that conditions made plausible.
! 1t will be months before ordinary
conditions of life are resumed. In In
dianapolis, for example, the city
bridges, two interurban bridges and
i two railroad bridges were wrecked
/ The destruction Of the West Washing
ton street, and the Meridian stree,
4 bridges, will interrupt for months
! traffic with the west and the north
sections of the city. The rumors o.
great loss of life In West indianapolis
have not been verified, and the deaf,
toll will not go over ten. the police
say. The city suffered from milk
butter and egg famine. and only loca
mails could be delivered, railroad
service being impaired.
/ Small Death Loss.
PERU. Ind, March 2S.- (Direct tt
| Indianapolis. Acute physical suffer
Ing was ended in this flooded city to
day Relief trains from Rochester
Warsaw, Wabash. South Bend an,
several other cities have come clos,
enough to forward their cargoes b.
boat to the refugees on court hous,