The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-03-28
Dayton Covered With From Eight
to twenty Feet Of Water--Two
Hundred Drowned at Peru, Ind.
Levees Break at Indianapolis
10000 Homeless at Columbus
Great Bridge Blown Up and
Many Others Washed Away.

Torential rains over Ohio, Indiana md other points in tho Middle wos.
caused all rivers o cave their banks and flood numerous titles M millions
OF acres OF farming lands, bringing death to thousands md destrovino nronpr.v
beyond estimate
BULLETINS ON OHIO FLOOD.
An unconfrmed report from Springfield. Ohio that. 600 ,vo. cd hon
lost at Dayton and 500 at Pqua.
A report apparently more fully authenticated from lndiananors saw. that
from 200 to 500 had been drowned at Peru, Ind.
A message received at Phoneton, Ohio, that the reservoir at hamilton had
broken n tina 1000 persons had been drowned. Continued efforts for te
vriHcaton were futile. An unconrmed but persistent from Marion
Indp that te grand reservoir at Celna, Ohio, had gone OUT, causing al IN.
pecedented flood in the Wabash Valley.
Late reports from Delaware, Ohio. said that n to ,o were load Nuo
conservative figures III these reports in half.
In few cases was it possible to race these reports tt n definite source
At Delaware scores Ire reported dead md many missing. b. V. Leas
mayor of that city, reported drowned, has been saved lie estimated tho ds,,h
list at from 25 to rs.
Vito, a hamlet Of 100 persons, ws said to be destroyed, and the fate
OF the inhabitants unknown. The death list in many cite nd towns, includ.
ing Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Richmond, Marion, Munhe, Kokomo, Connusvile
and IoganspNt, totaned 49,
At Lafayette the loss extends to millions.
Richmond is in darkness, AM 20 bridges in Wayne county were destroyed.
and residence districts.
At KokOmo the property loss was estimated 1T a million dollars, and 500
persons ire living in the second stories of their houses. Similar conditions
were reported from Anderson Marion, Upton, Noblesvile and Peru.
Fmlay-Business ad residential section of the city flooded and hundreds
driven from homes. Schools and factories are closed.
Columbus-Ten thousand people homeless and property oss unnin into
the hundreds of thousands; II drown.
Lma-Fve hundred people have fled from their homes.
ZanesvIle-The districts about the edge of the city are flooded. Wesley
Keinge, 5 year old, vas drowned.
Napoleon-rhe Miami river i. raging having risen IA feet in the pas.
"a hours.
Troy-Miami nd Erie canal has broker its bank, flooding the city. Heart
Of the city is under water.
AkroE-Miion dollar loss reported, hundreds rendered homeless.
Youngstown-Nearty all the big industrial plants are closed down.
Hamlton-Many bridges washed away; 10 dead.
Whippe Hnl-Three dead.
Dayton-Except for its most remote suburbs, Dayton vas covered from
eight to twenty feet with a seethhng flood of water. Any attempt to estimate
he loss of life is hopeless. 1t is sure to rn into the hundreds and very likely
into the thousands. The property loss will total millions of dollars. The flooded
district comprises a practical circle with a radius of a mile and a half, and
in no place is the water less than six feet deep. In Main street, in the down.
town section, the water is 90 feet deep