New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-29
Dayton, Ohio, Heaviest Sufferer,
with 200 Dead, While Colum-
bus Reports Sixty Bodies
Already Recovered.
RESCUERS REACH NEARLY ALL
Llesaving Crews Penetrate Submerged Districts in
Dayon--Food and Water Carried to Marooncd
in Other Cities-Nation Responds Gen
eroIsIy to Calls for Relief.


Flood waters rccedcd sufficiently light that the
persons all the affected cities in Ohio and
Indiana may exceed five hundred.
While many still missing friends and relatives
made date indicated that safe who had
been thought lost
In Dayton careful placed the number Of deaths
hundred fewer although meeting OF the ndertaers asserted
that might eight hundred This figure ndosed
by those familiar with the situation Relief work went
rapidly Dayton and all parts of the city reached
While approximately persons being cared for by the
relief committee there than $4,000 homeless persons in
Dayton who caring themselves hest they
Columbus will have the the largest loss of fc sixty
bodies having already been found the inundated portion of West
Columbus.
Unveri6ed figures Mamisburg give fifty
all other flooded cities the figures fell off rapidly expeditions
covered the ground
Hamilton Ohio reported many hundred
and fifty dead, did put forth any figures yesterday.
Mount Vernon did confirm its previous of fifty dead
confirmation had for hytwo reported drowned
Venice Ohio
Chilcohe Tn Ohio, where there had been reports of
fyor found eighteen bodies up midnight
The best figures from Piqua give death toll of fifty
Mddetown Ohio each has fourteen dead MaSson
five, GAINESVILLE four and Troy nine
The Indiana total drowned receded fewer than fifty dsrib
follow: Peru twenty Brookvi Fort Wayne
No bodies been found in West Indian
apois where many two hundred deaths at time
reported
aleviated the flood swept dis
cts of Ohio and Indiana threatened tonight the
At Cincinnati the Ohio sweed by its tributaries north and
although situation had reached
reports from negborng Kentucky towns indicated
that warning had been issued to the inhabitants points
In Indiana felt the valleys of the Ohio, Wabash
White but ample warning served reduce
the panic
of the flooded districts
Columbus excellent progress made in distributing food
and clothing When darkness forced suspension of the
trips several of the blocks had not yet been
reached
Since rescue began children been born
among refugees The city opened maternity hospital yese
day. and mothers and little being we'll cared for
States fesavng succeeded yesterday reaching
submerged Of Dayton Ohio They found conditions
Dayton Redae and elsewhere quite deporabe had
been estimated but they failed to verify the earlier tears OF re
mendous loss of life
Onehalf of the city of GAINESVILLE
dtion are slowly improving Military believe the dead will
exceed fifty but the city authorities fear the number will be
greater Property from S6O000O0 S8O00000
hundred homes oated down the river and the waters
several buildings have collapsed
partly submerged, while many other cities and
along the Ohio flooded predicted that
by Monday will have reached the highest mark
tanned Cincinnati there fears of heavy losses
danger Wheeling, W. Va, is believed to have been
passed thousand homeless being cared for by
officials of the city
indianapolis and Peru Ind quarantine the autho-
ties fearing outbreak of disease flood sufferers
Fire peri of the flood Troy N Y, and hun
thousands dollars worth of destroyed The
city is practically under martial law
Albany partially inundated and great damage reported
the Adirondack region the Mohawk Valley The how
recedng the of the upstate flood believed
have passed
being Ohio and Indiana from all parts of the
country bearing clothing their way from
Washington Lynhburg, Va Cincinnati and other places I'm
quantities provisions have already been distributed among
the sufferers Doctors army officers have from
numerous points aid combating disease and organizing the
relief work.
Secretary the War Department is slowly making
his way through Virginia the flooded districts He refused