Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-29

are pChio tohtIl W sections not al
fected by the flood.
There is no lack of food. The tele-
phone systems are being restored.
There is much suffering from cold,
but all available fuel has been APP
proprated and there is prospect of
immediate relief.
So TAR there has been no epidemic of
sickness.
One thousand militiamen, arrived,
today have the city in rigid control,
effectively preventing looting. sight
SCENT that will interfere with rescue
work and all disorder
The Log Cabin. 115 years old. tho
first house built in Dayton. stiu
stanCs, although it is on the south
bank of the Miami, right in the path
of tlv flood.
The following buildings withstood
the tpod, furnishing shelter to about
1000 ieople. who were maroone1 in
them from Tuesday un;il Thursday:
Co,pver building, Kuhn building the
Arcad. two Cappel buildings. Callahan
BAND building, Schwind building, Com
merciI building, Mendenhal building.
Rike-,nmier building, Rcihold building
and nited Brethren Publishing Cos.
bulldog.
Non of TIE public buildings were de-.
stroye
The ire loss is positively limited to-
The desruction Of the Dayton Gas. Light
| a CokCo's. plant. the row of two and
three-sory buildings on both sides of
Third street, from Jefferson street to
ST. C1r avenue. the Troy Pearl I.aun-
tun ri bnllep
on thewest side.
A dring robbery was thwarted, to-
| day. wen the police arrested man
| who WIS escaping from the city with
| a satehl containing $4,000 in diamonds
and jerelry which he had stolen from
downtGn jewelry stores.
| The Fourth National Bank building.
(which sas reported several times to
have hen destroyed by fire was un-.
Itouches by the flames, although build
| ing imaediately adjoining was burned.
| JoflnM. Patterson, as aide in charge
| of the puthern military district of Day
| ton, isued an order. today, that all
/ hous eh,ders build cesspools in their
| back ysds. This is the first safeguard
| against disease. Dayton's sewage is
| completely wrecked, Engineers of the
State Militia refused to venture an es-
innate fwhen it might be restored
| West Dayton, Ohio, March 2S.-Mem-
bers of the United States life saving
crew ofLouisville. who navigated along
1 sections of flooded Dayton heretofore
/ unexplofd, returned. today, at noon, re-
| porting Onditions in North Dayton and
| Riverdas quite as deplorable as the
first essmates concerning suffering of
| the peole were concerned. The tour.
however failed to verify fears that
there ha been a tremendous death toll
| in that section.
In Norh Dayton privation among the
maroone, has been severe. but actual
suffering except among children was
negligible
The flooded territory in Riverdale.
which is section of substantial home
owners. approximately is II blocks loAg
and seva blocks wide.
After hving descended the Miami riv-
er Capt. Gillooly reported that in the
south central section of Dayton where
the flood lowed widest on Tuesday night
and Wednesday. thousands of persons
still Were imprisoned in uppen floors of
their hones. He stated that from nu-
merous Inquiries among the people
whose residences had been inundated IL
appeared re life loss would not be near
~ so lare as it was placed by first
reports. This section still was flooded
although te water rapidly was recedine
and while 4 few corpses eddiea out from
the flood s edge, yet in the center of the
area is was stated that only two bodies
had been seen.
Assisted by a representative of The
Associated Press. Capt. Gillooly and his
men distributed food and quantities OF
drinking water to a large number of the
food prisoners, Arrangements. aEo Were
made to provide the needy oness&ith the
necessary Supplies from time toktime UNI
til flood waters have gone. ~
The crew. launched their BIZ boat in
the Miami canal. up which they rcruised
to Mad river. then down Mad river to
the Miami, and thence soutll1o the Stew
art street bridge.
At many different points along the
route stops We're made. apd the crew de-
toured away from fhsx river. 1t was
found many Of these detours could be
.s.sde q foosthc water having SO rapidly
fallen, since last night At no place was
tho water behind the leyees deeper thar
four feet Preparations were being made
at several points to cut the levecs in or
der to drain more rapidly the submerged
districts. -..
While the Louisville life savers were
making their cruise, Capt. 4. II. Hansen
and crew of life savers from the Cleye.
land station were operating a number q
boats in the heart of South Dayton
where condition of veritabie cha oss ex
lists. 1t was in that section in which liy'
MANY of the poorer, class. Few OF tbs
buildings were substantial and when tbs
fury of the Miami and Mad river floods
combined in seething maelstronl, doz
ems of the residences succumbed.
It was expected that the two life say
ing crews would continue their efforts
tomorrow, although the opinion general
ly was entertained that by that time ,ht
water would have subsidized sufficiently
to permit the exit of all persons nov
marooned.
In Riverdale near the Main stree
bridge the levee was cut in three
places, today, in an effort to dram
that section of the city. When it Is
possible to clear away the debris