Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-29
TRAGEDIES Barred
ASFLOOD FALLS
At DAYTON
Georgian Correspondent De-
SCribeS Scenes When Waters
Give Up Dead.
Continued Fran Page One.

-WalN tNtlE ROOFS NdN SHOW II bt Do"-t-
recovered to-day In some cases chill
dren had been shot Men killed their
families in the last extremity MANY
marooned in downtown buildings went
insane
North Dayton where the most terri
HE loss Of life is feared was still half
submerged to-day Part Of the front
wall Of the big steele High School
building had fallen. exposing the In
terror from foundation 10 caves In
the middle Of the block between Third
ana Fourth streets on the west side Of
Main a big building collapsed.
\ bottle was found to-day IN the
ruins inc'osing this note.
elem Graves. Mary Graves
Katherine Graves. Katherine FRYE.
Selma Frye. Helen Frye, victims
of flood March "a Notify Grace
n. Cook. 10 Logan street
Church Bells Sound Curfew.
4 horse was washed through plate
glass window iu the front Of a down
town store. Its carcass was found in
the rear Of the building
George Richardson, superintendent of
the state employment bureau here. was
among the dead Identified al the
morgue late last night
Soldiers patrolling the streets are
keeping outside the line all Who are
without passes ON order Of the adj
jutant general curfeW will be sounded
every evening al o'clock By the
church bells
Among those marooned in hotels
were lO0 from New York Chicago. Co
lumbus. Cincinnati. Cleveland. Toledo.
Pittsburg Philadelphia. Detroit. Bos-
ton and St Louis All are safe.
Pathetic scenes, which are SO intense
as to bring tears 20 the eyes Of even
the undertakes. are witnessed hourly
when scores of fear-stricken persons
walk past the rows OF dead lying upon
slabs in the temporary morgue at the
National Cash Register plant
In the Chamber Of Death
Mrs. George McDonaldson. Of War
rem street, tainted when "A sheet was
lifted from a body. exposing the face
of her husband The piteous cries OF
her tive small children re-echoed
through the great chamber Of death.
Five thousand men. women and chill
dren, their faces pinched with hunger
and tongues swollen by thirst were
taken to-day from second stories and
attics TO the crowded relief stations
where plenty OF warmth and care was
provided,
Mrs. Fanny King. lSs Seiger street.
was lifted from the second-story win
dow In her arms was a nine months
old babe, suffering with measles
Neither mother nor child had eaten for
four days
Mrs. Anna Downing of Warren
street. gave birth TO a baby while being
-rowed to a place Of safety Mother
and child were removed to a hospital.
Refugees Faced Death.
y r. Morris, formerly of the Penn
sylvania parole once, who was among
the 200 marooned in the Hotel Beckel
said to-day:
When the water reached the pave
ment in front Of the house rushed
from the first floor Of the hotel to the
fourth. Three minutes later two rooms
above the first floor fell in. hurting
down trunks and furniture so heavy
they would have killed me had / been
Below
Marooned in the building. We we're
terrified when fire broke out on Third
street, just a half block away. With
the flames eating their way toward as.
we sought the roof, descended a nre
escape. with the flames Illuminating the
way, TO lower buildings. upon which we
walked city block TO the freproof Civ
National Bank building crossing an al
ley on a ladder
When it seemed that the fire would
consume that part OF the business sec
ton that the water had not DESTROYED.
the elevator cable was cut am
stretched across Main street from an
adjoining building TO the court house
There we were safe
Diamonds in Muddy Streets.
soldiers have prevented yan6sIe from
lootins ruined store rooms. one man
was shot as he was N the aer Of pull
Ing 4 ring from the fuger Of dead
woman in the rich residential section
The first two floors Of every business
house wholesale and retail .n,
downtown district TWO miles square
are ruined. There Is not a window
glass above the second story in house
IN that devastated district
Nud-fled Main street would og
taken for a diamond FIELD were il not
for the pavement. Diamonds and other
yaluables, washed from stores along
,he thoroughfsre are DUG from the de-
bris and pocketed nHensyer the guards
are not looking