The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-26

temporary hospital, and $50 at the
Miami Valley hospital. and In the
schools OF the Brothers OF st. Mary.
The reports OF deaths In the nood
continued to come in with the arrival
of every rescue worker. Most or the
deaths reported were due TO inaDliity
on the part of the refugees TO ngnt
the food on RATS In when tney
sought TO reach places OF safety.
Others were overwhelmed by the rush
OF waters before they had chance
to attempt TO escape. On the noors
OF the cash register plant. there slept
last night the wife OF the dry goods
merchant and the wife OF the hod
carrier. while in the mems quarters
there fraternized the homeless Ia
borer. and the homeless lawyer
There il the story Of George II.
Schaefer, a rescuer who went out
J into the food with skiff and saved
| a woman and baby.
"A house that had been torn from
it's foundation came floating up be-
hind u.s." said Schaefer. The woman
was frightened. ! told her there was
no danger.
Jumps with Baby In Arms.
! Suddenly. she stood up and jumped
over with her baby in her arms. She
went straight down and never came
up again.
Then there was the horror that
"Hill'' Riley, salesman for the Ma
tional Cash Register company, saw
himself
I'VE saw a very old woman stand
| ing at the window OF house waiting
for rescue" said Riley. I'VE rowed
up to her. Suddenly the house parted
and the woman in It was engulfed.
1T was the last we saw OF her.
Then, there was man who was
nearly rescued. who had stepped into
the skin and then walked back into
his home which short time later
hoated away with him.
And the story Of the colored moth
er. who was being rowed to safety
with her two babies when the skin
struck a tree and the little craft cap
sized so that the babies were drown
ed and the mother was rescued by
Robert Burnham, the owner OF the
skin, only to die before she reached
the hospital.
John Scott, an employee OF the Ma
tional Cash Register company, who
came recently from Butte. Mont,
assembled a telegraph pole and guided
across the cable TO places OF safety
men, women and children rescued
from flooded houses.
Scott had guided a dozen persons
across the swaying bridges OF wire
when the explosion that started the
flre occurred, and the shock knocked
Scott from the pile and he fell into
a tree.
THE last I saw of him he was try.
ing TO get into the window OF an
abandoned house by way OF one OF
the branches Of the tree said Frank
Stevens. a fellow employe OF Scott.
THE house was In the path OF the
nre."
Girl Dressed Like Man.
What Is your name? asked the
registrars who received the refugees
at the National Cash Register plant,
Of a slender young person In mems
clothes.
Norma Thuma," was the reply.
Norma" they asked.
Yes, I'm a GIRL" was the answer.
She had put on mans clothes In or
der to cross the perilous span OF
wires unhampered by skirts.
She came in with Ralph Myers. his
wife and their little baby. Myers
had climbed the pole first He let
down a rope TO his wife. who tied 10
1t meal sack. which contained their
baby, three months old.
Myers pulled the rope with It's
precious burden mp. and then let 1t
down again. to aid his wife 70 ascend
With the meal sack over his shoulder
and his wife behind him. Myers. hold
Ing onto two thin wires. walked
across the cable a full block before
he reached safety.