The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-30
RELIEF FLOOD
NOW PoURs IN
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three days.
Some relief was brought by train
Of eleven cars which arrived today
At least three more cars are on the
way. Canton Is sending fifty barrels
of flour, forty casks of hams cloth
ing and bedding Troops of the Ohio
national guard are patroling the
streets.
Eight bridges and number of fac
tories have been swept away, several
plants destroyed and the entire town
thrown out of employment It will be
weeks before a single factory can
| operate
| The city is divided into three sec
tons by the Licking and Muskingum
rivers. Communication is difficult, be-
ing carried on by "wig-wag" signals
For this reason a complete list OF dead
cannot be secured
The known dead are:
MRS. SUSAN SLOAN, 6s, drowned
in attic of her home. Body recovered
/ ROLAND R. HOFFMAN,, 81, died
from exposure while being rescued.
Five unidentified foreigners.
100000 From Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 29-Chicago ha,
|, donated 100000 and expects to adj
, 100000 more, making total of 5000,
600 towards the relief of the floot
, victims Carloads Of provisions an,
clothing are being sent daily by char
, ity organizations.
In Columbus.
a by staff correspondent United Press.
. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 29.-On
hundred and thirty are dead fro1
Il drowning in Columbus, according to
4 count made tonight by Colonel Byro
q Barger in charge of rescue worf
a Bodies believed to be from the floct
4 ed west side of the city have bee
. sighted as far south as Circlevill,
, twenty-five miles away
4 Word comes to Governor Cox fror
Colonel C. X. Zimmerman, in Hami
ton, that ninety-one bodies will b
buried there Sunday and he is burnin
= the remains of two hundred horses t
: check possible epidemic.
% An urgent appeal for life savin
~ equipment for Newport, KY, acros
the river from Cincinnati, was recei-
. ed by the governor tonight.
a Portsmouth. Marietta, Wheeling an
! other Ohio river points sent in appeal
for help, with the information thu
II the Ohio river is higher than ever i
y its history. Five hundred tents an
. battalion of engineers are to /
~ sent to Ohio river points from Ne
u York, on order of Governor Sulzer
y Franklin, Ohio, village OF thirt
"a five hundred, swept by the same floc
10 that wrecked Dayton, wired the go
e ernor today asking for funds to fee
e. homeless citizens.
Pomeroy. Ohio, now is under ma
tial law ahd the water is flowing
second story windows, says a messas
- from Burr Forrest, manager OF IL
r telephone company here. No loss
eff life has been reported.
n The actually known dead official
ID reported from the floods here was r
tn duced to sixty-two tonight, throug
d. the discovery of duplication in r
ports. A careful canvass, howeve
al shows eighty others have been mis-
III ing since Tuesday, and not more thu
be ten of these can be in flooded hous
at not yet reached by rescuers Seven
ne of the missing have definitely bee
given up, as dead
is Baby Walter Taylor will have Ia
III to tell when he grows big. He W;
ed found floating. alive. in the attic OF
house, two days ago, with note pi
ned to his little night shirt giving h
= name. Tonight his father and moth
la were rescued from a house In whit
IL they had remained without food +