The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-03-26
People Clinging to Trees
and Telegraph Poles.
Fires Break Out.


work.
Fires Break Out.
The big bridge over the Miami river
at Middletown has been swept away.
fifteen persons are missing and scores
of houses are floating down stream 4
Three fires have broken out in the
West Side of Columbus and the flames
are spreading as the firemen have no -
water supply. Two bridges were swept
away by the flood.
The companies of State National
Guard have been sent to Hamilton to
help preserve order. Five were drown
ed there.
I.arue. Marion County. sent an ap
peal for help to Governor Cox. The
town is inundated and people have
sought refuge on the roofs of their
houses.
10 Dead In Delaware.
The number of known dead in Della
ware is nineteen and from thirty-hve
TO forty are missing. 1t is reported
the mayor, b. V. Leas, is among the
drowned
In West Liberty an engine and one
car rolled down an embankment wash |
ed out by the flooded Mad River. The
conductor was drowned and several
bodies were seen floating away, and IT
| is feared a number of passengers In
the two cars were drowned.
| In Akron more than 500 families are
homeless. the rubber factories were
! forced to close down. railroad and
trolley traffic is paralyzed and IT Is
feared that the big state reservoir
south of the city Will break. Only one
death. that of n. O. T. L. llneman,
who was electrocuted, was reported.
l til ThraQ
companies of the Ohio National Guard
| are aiding the police in rescuing fami-
lies from flood menaced homes
First Word of Disaster.
/ The first direct word out of the city
after the breaking of the 1evee was a
Hong distance telephone message to
lRichmond. Ind. from Frank Purviance.
/ Eight thousand persons. he declared.
had been drowned at Dayton.
| They're dying like rats In their
homes. bodies are washing around the
streets, and there is no relief in sight,
he asid.
Telephone communication with Day
ton was tablished for a few minutes
last night then was broken again. One
. report said the water stood twenty to
: forty feet deep in some of the streets.
A telephone operator in the Dayton
| office who established communication
with Richmond for few minutes. said
bodies were floating past the window
of the office. The operator begged the
t local offices to send appeal for aid
: to Governor Cox of Ohio.
Like Tidal Wave
The telephone operator at Liberty,
Ohio. a small town west of Dayton, es-
tablished communication with the local
: Exchange late today. He reiterated the
q story told by the Dayton operator
n Just before the wire to Liberty failed
: the operator said the leyee near the
. Main street bridge had just gone out
|. and the water pouring into the
:, town like tidal wave. He asked
e that aid be rushed to the town.
Railway officials at xenia, twenty
e five miles east of Dayton, received
X word late this afternoon that 10000
l. persons were homeless in Dayton ant
/ that number had been killed. A
Is that time tx still was raining and tn
river rising.
Three quarters of the city is undo
water Four big business building
lare burning one of them being tn
, vast National Cash Register plant. tn
property loss will be $4,000, 900.
q Four suburbs of the city, Edgemon'
North Dayton. Riverdale and Dayto
View. have been inundated.
1t is understood that the catastroph
ly was caused by the breaking of tn
r Lewiston reservoir. north of Dayto.
ty A rush of water from twenty to fort
Y feet deep swept through the streets
re according to this report.
err Relief Train Started.
RS relief train from Xenia was starte
- to Dayton loaded with supplies an
n was expected to reach Dayton befo,
s midnight
re Red Cross officials are being rushe
re to the city from Cincinnati to dire
d the rescue work.
of The telephone operator at Phon'
u town, eight miles north of Dayton. sa
90 last night that reports from Dayto
RS at o'clock were that there was nil
We feet of water on Main street and Il
of water rising.
fc The Central Union depot IS SURROUND
an cd by water and the emploes cann
get out
- The western Union operator at Do,
- son. Ohio. says the office is filed wi
/ men who have fed from Dayton. Loo
Z ers are shooting people down in II
ms streets according to these refugees.
The Fifth street bridge at Dayt'
was washed down against the railro
"a bridge Both bridges are being dyn
IS mited.
AT o'clock this afternoon a your
nd woman telephone operator at DaS'
as was in direct communication with Go
Mt .r,rr GOV OF Columbus She said 8
)ed i. !.
RS was the last persoi Remaining III
exchange building and that there We
: seven feet of water in the main sire
"a at that time
- AS she was talking she said t
"a Leonard building across the street, Q
posite the City Hail. collapsed. ScoI
of person were believed to have be
in the building at the time.