Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1913-03-28

Hundred thousand persons homeless
in Indiana. Property loss may run to
s2O,OOO,OOO.
Terre Haute, indianapolis, Lafay-
cite, and Peru, in Indiana, and Dayton,
Delaware, Columbus and Hamilton, in
Ohio, particularly stricken.
Railroad and wagon bridges are
washed away.
Governors of Indiana and Ohio order
out the national guard to aid the suf-
ferers.
Dayton, Ohio, March 25.-Dayton to-
night is nothing less than a seething
river eight to 20 feet deep, three miles
wide, a mile and half on each side
of Main street, it's principal thorough
fare, while it is estimated that from
1000 to 5000 people have persisted.
The Algonquin hotel is submerged
in water up to its third story and
above this level in the downtown dis
trict office buildings, hotels and bust
ness houses are places of refuge.
A school building that was known
to have housed not less than 400
school children shortly before the wa
ters rushed in that direction is entire
ly submerged and as far as can be as
certained all of those little ones met
a watery grave.
The flooded district comprises a cir
Gle with radius of mile and half,
and nowhere is the water less than six
feet deep In Main street, in the down
town section, the water is 20 feet deep.
Fires Break Out.
The horror is heightened by more
than a do en- fires which can be seen
in the flooded district, but out of reach
of firefighters.
Most of the business houses and
nearly all of the residences have occu-
pants. Down town the offices are
filled with men unable to get home,
and on the upper floors and on some
of the roofs of the residences are help
less women and children. Hundreds
of houses, substantial buildings in the
residence district, many of them with
helpless occupants, have been washed
away.
The st. Elizabeth's hospital, with 600
patients, was reported to have been
washed away The building was
known to be in many feet of water and
indications are that the report may
prove true.
Light Plants Out of Business.
The electric light plants were put
out of business early in the day and
total darkness, coupled with a torren-
tial downpour, added to the horrors OF
the night.
Famine, also became an immediate
possibility.
All of the supply and grocery houses
are in the submerged district, and al
midnight it was said there was moi
enough bread to last the. survivors an
other day.
No Water to Drink.
The breaking of the carlton reser
voir left the city without drinking
water, and physicians declared there
was great danger of typhoid in the use
of the flood water.
There are no boats in Dayton which
can breast the current, and those OF
the outside early gave up any attemp
to reach the business section.
How many houses have been swep
away and how many occupants wer
carried to their death can not b.
hn rnCnna
ohio Towns Flood Stricken.
Chicago Sweeping up the Ohio va
ley from the west, the third storm i
10 DAYS devastated different section
between Louisville and Cincinnati /
Kentucky and extensive districts /
Illinois. southwestern Ohio and Ind
ana.
The property loss today was est
mated at several million dollars in tn
sections mentioned. The wind was a
companied at times by an almost to
rental downpour of rain.
Wood river at Alton, ILL.,, ran rio
during the day and overflowed.
A number of persons were reporte
killed at Makanda, H., although the r
mort could not be confirmed.
Ten Miles of Trains Stalled.
Other cities affected by the floC
and storm are:
Lima, Ohio.-Flood by the Ottav
river. Ten solid miles of trains he
ND there by washout at Middle Poir
Springfield, Ohio.-Mad river al
Buck creek are both out of their BAN
and several hundred houses floode
Many factories were compelled
close.
Larue, Ohio.-lnundated; many p'
sons are homeless and much sufferil
is reported among the poorer class'