Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1913-04-02

553t Cleveland, Ohio. March t26,---More
than 1000 lives we're lost Id the fierce
food which swept through Ohio lesy-
Ing In It's trail damage estimated far
Into the MILL Ions. s.s5; - q
The state is paralyzed. Railroads,
trolley, telephone and telegraph trahc
IL blocked and the cities In which
hundreds OF lives have been lost are
cut on almost entirely from COM
smunication with the rest of the world.
Rumorsd 6,54o Drowned. Fl
According to- reports which are be-
lievsd authentic, 5000 were drowned
In Dayton. fully 1 700 In Hamilton and
$40 In Piqua Y :$l &. IS 4 B,
Millions 81 dollars damage has
been done to property. fully $4,000
people are homeless and appeals for
aid have been sent out I'd the Red
Cross. S In Dayton alone 1000 people
are homeless. 81 i T.
Reservoirs Give Way.
The four days continuous rain
filled every reservoir In the state and
i number OF them undermined dams
ana poured their contents Into the
valleys. "a wall OF water seven feat
high rushed down Into Miami valley.
The levees along the Miami river
broke and the: residents Of Dayton
along the river were forced TO nee
J for their lives. ~ The rush OF water
was 30 great. however, that houses
were undermined and carried along IN
the swift current. Hundreds we're
drowned before they had . chance to
seek places of safety. as Z. 81 n
ThaS atep4c repts higher and higher,
and nnally n was thirteen ieet deep
II the Union station. Some parts Of
the city were under thirty feet Of va
ter. :5 81 II; I \.
q Mayor says 5000 Lost. 81 ID It'll N
Il vas at Arst reported that 5000
were drowned In Dayton. Later 2
message was received from . tsle-
phone operator In the Dayton ex-
change that he could see hundreds
Of bodies floating through the street
mast the telephone building. The may
or OF Dayton, who had escaped from
the fiood. sent q message declaring
that 5000 persons were drowned IN
i the city. that 10000 were homeless and
that the situation was appalling:
AT. ten o'clock last night the dam OF
! 1 reservoir north OF Hamilton burst,
I ana = great flood swept down upon the
I city. According to word from refu-
gees, more than one thousand people
were drowned. Ss
A $40 Dead at Piqva. 1.
In Piqua the river burst the levees.
poured through the town ana trapped
hundreds Of people in their homes.
The swift current undermined the
homes, and It l. estimated that t40
were swept to their death. .: 81
InsDelaware, the Olentangy river be:
came ! lake which covered most Of
the city. It IL estimated that fully
! one thousand were drowned. 4 , } IA
+ 4 People were left clinging to trees.
roof-topa and telegraph poles. crying
I Tor assistance. Owing to the swift
current in the river, the work Of res
cue was dumcult. 33 Z .4t a( 81
Damage il Cleveland 5000, 900.
In Cleveland. while no lives
were lost, the damage win reach 81
100000. The Cuyahoga river swept
through the manufacturing district IN
the mats, closed down hundreds OF
mills and left more than nifty thou.
sand workers idle. The East Third
street bridge was destroyed when 9
big steamer was swept from IT. moor
inxs and crashed into It.
Thousands OF dollars worth Of lum-
ber was swept from the river and out
\ into the lake. Firemen were kept
busy dynamiting lumber jams at the
bridges. II Il 4
In Youngstown. Is, 900 workmen
we're forced to quit work when most n
of the biz industries we're shut down
Ny the food. All bridges in the city
are guarded. 81 3
fifteen Missing at Middletoyn.
The big bridge over the Miami river
ii Middletown, was swept away, fifteen
persons are missing and scores cores N u :
a 81 AFNy