The Yale expositor., 1913-04-03
FLOOD SUFFERERS IN OHIO AND
INDIANA ARE RECEIVING
FOOD AND SUPPLIES.
HIGH WATER ~ OTHER PARTS
CAUSES ALARM.
Many People Driven From Homes by
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
Which Reach Record
Mark.

| Latest Investigations tenU 10 COH-
| firm the estimates of fewer than 500
deaths in the floods that swept over
score of cities in Ohio and Indiana
last week.
AS the waters receded from Dayton,
Columbus and other places, leaving a
thick coating OF mud, alarm was caus-
ed by a rapid rise of the Ohio and
the Mississippi rivers, inundating
parts of cities along their banks.
There is not much danger of loss Of
life in these places however, as the
inhabitants have hills 10 fee TO and
are used to floods.
Revised reports indicate that the
number drowned I'm Dayton may not
exceed $50. The death list at Piqua,
Ohio, fell from the estimate of 90 10
13 known dead.
Sanitary experts from the United
States public health service are or
dered to Dayton by Secretary OF War
Garrison to protect city from pesti-
lence. The Water has receded Ia
Dayton and rescuers in some sections
use canoes and fat bottomed boats.
while in other sections relief squads
wade.
People throughout country are urg-
ed by Dayton relief committee not to
send messages of inquiry, as they can
not be delivered because the wire ca
pacity is taxed to the utmost by OFF,
cial and public business.
Brookville. Indiana, is practically
under martial law and 90 men have
been driven out Of the city after loot
ing damaged homes and buildings. Two
hundred and fifty children rescued
from the flood have only night clothes
and wagon trains carried food and
clothing from Connersville 10 the
stricken people.
The work of rehabilitation began at
Dayton and other flooded cities as
the work of rescue approached its
end The all important weather
showed Improvement as viewed b.
refugees. for it was warmer and pleas
ant 10 frost and water-chilled bones
Sanitary experts accepted the rise in
temperature with mixed feelings, foo
the cold had retarded decomposition
of animal matter and refuse.
Access to Dayton is now compare
lively easy and relief trains are arriv-
ing nearly every hour with food. cloth
ing, medical supplies, physicians, and
Red Cross nurses.
No city even in war times was ever
under stricter martial law. The pro-
vost guard sounds the curfew at
o'clock. With it all passes are re-
voked automatically aud none permit
ted on the street. The sleep of the
exhausted stricken was interrupted
continually by the boom of guns. Des-
pite the drastic military measures
many attempted 10 pass the lines and
looters were busy. The militia had
orders to shoot 10 kill after one warn
ing and the continual crash of the
muskets was evidence that the warn
ings would not stop the marauders.
With nearly $4,000 persons in the
towns along the Kentucky side of the
Ohio river driven from their homes
by the rising yellow tide sweeping
down the Ohio valley. and with more
than $500 homes altogether or partly
submerged the food situation in that
vicinity is assuming graver proper
tons at Cincinnati. the water front
buildings are all partly under water
and much damage has been done.
One life has been lost as a direct
result of the high water here. Miss
Anna Smith, the first victim drowned,
lost her life in an attempt 10 reach
Newport in a skiff that capsied in mid
stream. Her three men companions
were rescued.
Newport and Covington, virtually are
suddounded by water. Conditions
there are worse than elsewhere and
nearly 10000 persons have been driv-
en- from their homes,
Relief measures. however, are ade-
quate. In these two cities the only
fear is that health conditions would
be seriously affected because of the
clogging OF the sewage system and the
stagnation of backwater. AS yet the
water works have continued in opera
ton. The electric light plants al
ready have had TO cease, but gas plants
are not interrupted.