The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-04-03
ONLY ABOUT 500
PERSISTED IN FLOOD
ROLL OF FATALITIES IN OHIO
AND INDIANA is VERY MUCH
SMALLER THAN THOUGHT.
$4,000, 900 PROPERTY LOSS
Revelation Comes With Recedinq
Flood Waters Showing Marvel
Gus Escape of Thousands.

Cincinnati, Ohio-The flood waters
have now receded sufficiently to
show that the number of persons
drowned in all the affected cities in
Ohio and Indiana may not exceed
500. While many persons are still
missing to friends and relatives, in
vestigations made indicated that
many were safe who had been thought
lost.
In Dayton careful estimates placed
the number of deaths at 200 or fewer,
although a meeting of the undertakers
asserted that the total might be 500
Relief work went on rapidly in Day
ton and all parts of the city were
reached
Columbus will have the next to the
largest loss of life, sixty bodies hav-
ing been found in the inundated por-
ton of West Columbus
Chillicothe and Tiffin, Ohio, where
there had been reports of fifty or
more dead, each found Is corpses.
Figures from Piqua give a death
toll of so persons. Fremont and Mid
dletown, Ohio, each had IA dead; Mas
sillon s, GAINESVILLE 4 and Troy 9.
The Indiana total drowned receded
to fewer than so, distributed as fol-
lows: Peru 20, Brockville 16, Fort
Wayne and Terre Haute f. No
bodies have been found in West IN
dianapolis, where as many as 200
deaths were at one time reported.
At Cincinnati the Ohio, ,swelled by
its tributaries north and south, caus-
ed alarm, and, although the situation
had not yet reached an acute stage,
reports from neighboring Kentucky
towns indicated that warning had
been issued to the inhabitants to
seek points of safety from the ris-
ing water.
An Indiana alarm was felt in the
valleys of the Ohio, Wabash and
White rivers, but ample warning serv-
ed in measure to reduce the panic.
Loss of Life at Dayton Will Not Be
Over Two Hundred.
South Dayton, Ohio.-Dayton's loss
of life probably will not exceed 200.
This estimate is based upon a per-
sonal canvass of almost a hundred
of Dayton's leading citizens, men of
unquestionable judgment and RELIABLE
ity who have been engaged in relief
and rescue work in every section of
the city ever since the rising waters
invaded the business section
At Rushville half a million dollars
IF damaoa was dono in tho b,,e;noeo
and residence districts. At Kokomo
the property loss was estimated at
million dollars and five hundred per-
sons are living in the second stories
of thei1 homes. Similar conditions
were reported from Anderson. Marion,
Upton, Noblesville and Peru.
Conditions at Indianapolis, Fort
Wayne, Kokomo and other places in
central Indiana were the worst in
many years From every part of the
state there were reported disastrous
foundations.
At Peru property damage of half
million dollars was done by the food.
it was reported. Logansport also was
under water. Governor Ralston re-
ceived a frantic appeal from Corners
vile, Ind, for aid for many sufferers
from the flood. 1t was said White
river had broken over it's banks and
great loss of life had ensued.
Sweeping up. the Ohio valley from
the west the third storm in ten days
devastated different sections between
Louisville and Cincinnati, in Ken
lucky, southwestern Ohio and Indiana.