The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-30

retary of the Treasury with Surgeon Gen
eral Rupert Blue, tonight gave the As
sociated Press the following outline of
the sanitary conditions existing in the
city:
"A survey of conditions in Dayton to-
day shows that the sanitary situation
is not so bad as was at first thought
Citizens have been warned to boil all
drinking water and to bury refuse. City
water is now flowing under % pound
pressure. Sewers in some sections are
again in operation. The city expects to
have others working tomorrow.
The city has been divided into IS sani-
tary districts and tonight physicians who
lsrve heen sworn in as district sanitary
officers are being instructed as to their
pi eclse duties as heads of these dis
tricts.
Blue and Rucker will go to Hamilton to.
morrow to observe the situation there.
The federal sanitation officers are re.
ceiving the complete cooperation of the
medical officers of the Ohio national
guard
OF the thousands of remarkable es-
eapes the experience of Miss Flossie
Lester stenographer who was ma
rooned on an overturned moving van in
Edgnont suburb of Dayton. is consid-
cred as one of the oldest With several
men, Miss Lester was imprisoned on the
top of passing van which she mounted
when the flood came Tuesday morning.
Eventually the van. was overturned and
the party was thrown into the icy
waters. The horses, which had been
hauling the van, broke loose and separ-
ated, swimming for their lives. One Of
them passed close to the woman, who
erasped dangling strap and succeeded
in climbing astride the animals back
For more than a mile and a half Miss
III. 49, .1.f1..t h.
horses neck until at last he reached q
high approach OF the levee near a farm
house. Here Miss Lester dropped tc
the ground unconscious and was taker
in. by the farmers family. The horse
was taken to the barn. Miss Lester TOLD
reseuers that she will buy. the horse Il
its owners can be found.
rirs.. Clinton Wallace and her thres
children at No. g. Zinck avenue. had al
experience of another kind. They were
marooned without food when the floo,
came on Tuesday and were rescued las
night. All that time they subssted OF
grape fruit box of which they secured
as it floated up to a window.
G. II. Pfeffer, treasurer. and c. f. Cut
lip. division superintendent of one o.
the big Detroit, Mich, automobile com
nanies, who hurried as best they coult
through the flooded districts from ths
Michigan metropolis to Dayton 10 rescu
Pfeffer's sister. found her this after
noon. She and another woman, botl
with their babies in their aims, wer'
discovered in the roof of the formefi'
home in Riverdale, their feet resting il
the. caves trough.
There was seven feet of water il
Riverdale, Pfeffer said, and 300 or 10
persons marooned in second stories. II
offered to take a boatload from on
house. but as there was not room fol
everybody none OF them would leave.
Difficult to Return
While Daytonians have had adven'
lures enough to last them the remand
er of their lives. frantic fathers ant
husbands, wives and mothers out o
town when news of the flood rea chez
them. had troubles of their own in at
tempting to return. With railroads ou
of commission in the Omaha tornado
district and floods rampant from west
ern Pennsylvania to the Mississippi
they found it difficult to return.
w. r.. Sullivan. a prominent Daytoi
business man on his way to Denve
heard of the flood At Grand Island
Neb He returned to Lincoln. Neb.