Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-03-27
TERRIBLE FLOOD CONDITIONS ARE WORSE Than EVE|
DAYTON THREATENED WITH EPIDEMIC IN ADDITION.
LOSS OF LIFE NEVER WILL BE KNOWN.
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children were rescued today. None
of them could move muscle. being
chilled through. They were removed
to the Van CIeve school, where hum
dreds of other rescued persons we're
taken.
"l'd have fallen into the water if it
had not been for daddy" exclaimed
the little girl who was first of the four
to recover sufficiently to talk.
"When the water came into the
house we had to climb on the roof.
Daddy held me and mamma held
brother. Oh, it was cold. ! thought
/ was going to die, but Daddy kept
hold of me-
A little boy, who, during yesterday
and last night, clung in full sight Of
the rescuers, was saved. He probably
will die. The little fellow was dis
covered after the flood had risen so
high he could not weather the waters.
In foreign settlement father shot
and killed his four children, his wife
and then jumped into the flood.
"Very few cases of lootng have
been reported. Two looters caught
by the militia were taken before the
chief Of police.
Don't bring Iooters to me-" the Of
ficer said. "kiII them where caught"
On Tuesday in the business district,
show cases filled with siverware,
costly cut glass and jeweIry fIoated
out Of store going unnoticed down
stream.
From all parts Of Dayton came
stories of heroic rescues.
The stolid volunteers paid no atten-
ton to them. All of them for three
days have constantly oered: ffffffHffff
days have constantly offered their
lives to save others. Several lost
their lives. Watchers on the banks
saw them trying to reach persons in
floating houses, saw their boats up.
set and the men go down.
Late in the day large frame house
fIoated down the river. Four women
were in the windows. As they near
ed the Main street bridge they waved
at the crowds on the banks and the
building struck the piers. There was
a swirl in the waters and little far.
ther down stream the debris appear.
ed but without the women.
Farmers from north of Dayton as
far as thirty miles are answering an
appeal for provisions and bringing
all they can spare, keeping only
enough to provide for their families.
Relief stations are furnishing coffee,
hot soup, sandwiches and clothing to
all who come.
"If the death list is only 1000
will consider it marvellous dispensa-
tion," telegraphed Governor cox's
secretary today.
"If it is ten thousand, / will not be
Horrible as this Is," he
said, "the real suffering will grow
worse for days. There are 10000
homeless. The refugees are being fed
from hand to mouth with less than a
days food supply ahead
REscuER DIES FROM
EXPOSURE TO COLD.
indianapolis, Ind, March 27--Or-
5anized rescue work was resumed aft
er daylight today in the flooded dis
.rict of west indianapolis. Police Of |
icials and rescue workers estimated |
hat 500 persons spent the second |
light of the flood in the second floors
If houses and buildings. Three were !
Known to have been drowned, and a
light of snow and freezing tempera
ure threatened an increase in the .
leath list and is expected to grow |
teadily through the day. The rescue
expected to begin an organ
zed search for the dead by noon.
The known dead:
George Smith. died from exposure.
Charles Rogers, rescue worker,
lrowned.
Bud Boyd, shoemaker, drowned
Smith was a volunteer boat man
Who was thrown into the water when
lis boat capsIzed ard died later from
xposure to the cold of the waters. He
vas found by other rescuers clinging
o the branches of tree.
That section of indianapolis lying
vest of the river is the poorest in
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