The Washington herald., 1913-03-30
Human Interest Gleanings
From the Ohio Flood Zone

Columbus. Ohio, March 2-Becaus
they were caught overcharging, q nun,
Der of farmers and merchants at Zanes
vile today suffered the loss of thei
goods through confiscation by the militia
simultaneously with the identification
of three flood victims, an aged womal
and a married couple, at Columbus to
Cay, came the story OF how Wilber Nor
ris. living at 361 Glenwood Avenue, frs
fled from the onsweeping waters to. tn,
hilltop, then waded back, waist deep
through the swift current and unsuccess
fully begged Mr.. and Mrs. Walter c
Howard and Miss Cordelia A. Carrager
aged seventy-four. to desert their home
They stoutly insisted that they were pro
visioned for a siege, and that they wert
not afraid. All three met death in q
watery grave
Semi-conscious, his name beyond tn.
pale of memory, an old man, aged sew.
enty years, was found today dying from
illness and exposure In a house on the
fiood-affiicted West Side at Columbus
No one was found who could identify
him. and he was taken to an insane asy.
lum.
Eyewitnesses today at Columbus told
how they watched scores of persons fall
into the raging torrents as their heads
hit against the lone rail while the roofs
of houses upon which they were floating
passed through a break in the high en-
bankment of the Baltimore and Ohio
tracks. Some Of the houses in passing
through the large opening were dashed
to pieces.
Fifty-two persons today were taken
out OF a West Side drug store at Column
bus, where they had been marooned fouS
days Their supplies had given out and
they were suffering from hunger.
Here is the prize story of how one
family prepared against starvation when
the flood came up. 1t comes from the
home OF George Roller. 70 Dakota Ave-
nue.. in the heart of the flooded West
Side, at Columbus: When they saw the
flood coming they persuaded the family
COW to enter the kitchen and ushered
her upstairs, where they gave her
private room. They also laid in a supply
Of corn and hay. Result: Plenty of fresh
milk and some to spare to the neigh
bors.
Taken from a tree and supposed to be
lead, C. A. Turner. of S55 Glenwood Ave-
nue., Columbus. was removed to the tenn
porary morgus at Greenlawn Cemetery
and laid with the corpses to await identi-
fcation. small boy standing by
thought he detected slight motion in
Turner's body and called the doctors at
.ention TO il. Restoratives were quickly
applied. and after heroic work Turner
was returned to consciousness and taken
10 the home of friends.
Policeman Frank Zimmerman, of CO.
umbtfs. had his clothes torn OF by being
pumped about in the flood. Not a stitch
was left, and he came over to the East
side in an ambulance, dressed in do
lated underwear and socks.
From o'clock Tuesday afternoon until
learly nightfall Wednesday, Charles w.
a carpenter Of this city, held
wo babies in his arms while he clung
o the branch of a tree. near the Green
avn Cemetery, where he had been car
led. fully a mile. by the current. One
,aby was his own: the other belonged
o a neighbor, and as he clung to them
le saw his own twelve-year-old daughter
N another limb of the same tree weaken
waying Imply as it hung over the
ranch He also saw a woman refugee
n the same tree weaken and fall into
he swirling waters. Underwood and the
abes was finally rescued alive, although
n the drenching rain over twenty-four
Iours. Mrs. Flossie Proudley, with a
ve-months-old babe in her arms, clung
o the same tree until rescued.
Plan to Install SearchIight.
Arrangement was made tonight for in
falling a big sixteen-inch searchlight
n top of the twelve-story Harrison
Suilding, opposite the State Capitol, for
he purpose of lighting up a large sec
lon OF the flooded district at night. This
Ian is hoped TO reduce looting to a
and enable the continuance of
elief work at night.
Two hundred and thirty-three souls
escued and now Inarooned in the build
lg of the Sun Manufacturing Company.
ucceeded in sending out a note by mes
anger praising the excellent work of
ohm Brady, who, with skiff, after his
ONE was swept away, rescued 200 men. |
omen, and children and brought them |
, the Sun plant. |
Morris O'keefe, father of seven chill |
rem: Hubert Hempy, and Henry Hedri |
ept 150 from starving by getting sup
lies in a boat from deserted houses and |
boxing the food in a driving rain on |
lie railroad bank few feet away.
Elijah Six. an attache OF the State |
chool for the Feeble Minded. told how
2 stood marooned on hill and watched |
,ad bodies float by on incubators. dress
S, sections OF roofs. outbuildings, and J
l manner of RATS. The grewsome sight
ade him heartsick. and he was COM
lI,l f,,r, I,te
Sec Bodies Drift Past.
Persons at Circleville, on the Scioto
liver, about twenty-five miles below
have reported seeing at least
ali dozen bodies floating down
ream. The bodies are believed to have
zen those of Columbus drowned. An
effort was made to rescue
le remains by the Use of pike poles.
Mrs. L. H. Mack and three children.
ter floating about for hours on the
de of their house. were rescued in West
,lumbus and cared for at a farmhouse.
r. and Mrs. II. o. Mathiason. who
ere carried down stream on their
,use, were rescued and taken to q
rmhouse after seeing a Mrs. Cooper
ID her two children drown.
Mrs. Emil Wallace, living southwest ,
the city. in the low lands, ran toward
hill when she saw the onrushing wat [
s. She reached safety just as the 4
,ter was reaching up to her neck. Her
me was almost completely submerged 4
A saloon was carried away with five {
en- on the roof When the roof went s
pieces several hours later, four of the {
en- saved themselves by catching on to {
iftwood and branches of trees, while
e fifth man was drowned. e
street Car Washed Away.
4 street car was washed a quarter of a
lie away from the track. The conduc-