The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-04-03

much worse than had been expected.
Money is needed most of all" ac-
cording to Mayor Kreutzer.
The known dead at Peru number
eight.
Reconstruction Work On.
Columbus, Ohio.-Reconstruction of
the West Side of Columbus, where the
flood of last Tuesday wrought the
heaviest damage, has been begun in
earnest by the ~undaunted citizens of
that district with the assistance of
more fortunate residents.
Twelve more bodies have been re-
covered from the debris, but many of
them have been identified as persons
previously reported dead, so that the
Columbus death list still remains at
Ga.
While ~householders were busy clear.
ing away the wreckage from their
homes, while militiamen cleared the
principal streets of the dead bodies of
animals and debris, and relief commit.
tees continued their ARE of the home
less, plans were set afoot for the pre-
vention of a similar catastrophe.
Property Loss 81, ooO,o 900.
Hamilton, Ohio.-Secretary CARR.
son OF the war department, who is
touring the flood district as the per.
sonai representative of President VIII.
son, visited Hamilton Sunday, com.
ing owe from Cincinnati by automo-
bile. So impressed was the war sec.
rotary with the manner in which the
situation here is being handled by the
citizens and Ohio National guard that
he announced that he would telegraph
President Wilson that nothing needed
for the present emergency is lacking.
The secretary was told that the
death list here will not number more
than 80, with the property loss esti.
mated at $4,000, 900.
5000 Rendered Homeless.
Parkersburg, w. Va.-The crest of
the Ohio river flood reached here with
a stage of 5S.6 feet, six feet higher
than the record of 1884. The river is
receding slowly. Two companies OF
militia are guarding the town.
Belleville, IS miles away, is practi-
cally wiped out and the people are
camping on the hill above the town.
1t is reported that several lives have
been lost.
Two lives is the toll OF the food
waters in Parkersburg. The damage
is foremost. Fully 5000 persons are
homeless here and at Belpre and Belle
vile.
Illinois Threatened.
Springfield, m.-Illinois threatens
to become the center of flood distress.
Startling messages have been receiv-
ed by Governor Dunno and Adjutant
General Dickson, indicating that
Shawneetown and Cairo are In imme.
date danger of being washed off the
map. Other towns are in distress.
Governor Dunno has sent a rush or.
der for 1000 troops to proceed by spe.
cial train to Cairo. Messages receiv.
ed by the governor from Sheriff
Frazier and Mayor Parsons of Cairo
described conditions as extremely
alarming. Fears were expressed that
the levee might break at any minute
with an inevitable heavy loss of life
and an immense property damage.
Peru Death List IS.
Sixteen bodies were found in Brook.
vile and six still are missing. The
food struck that town Monday night
with such violence that all wires were
swept away and bridges wiped out,
and no communication was had with
the outside world until a courier yes
terday took definite reports into Con
norsville. following a rapid fall in the
flood tide.
Peru rescue workers report that the
death list there will not exceed 25,
and some believe 1t will be less.
Vincennes is said to be in great
danger, but all reliable communities
tion with that place has beer cut off
Troy, Ohio, Asks Aid.
Chicago.-An appeal for aid FOL
food sufferers reached Chicago from
Troy, Ohio. where at least nine lives
were lost and 25 houses demolished
Marietta, Ohios-Flood caused a loss
of s2.ooo.oO0 here. Loss Of life un
known.