The Glenwood post., 1913-03-29
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Peru. Ind.-Ses deaA-
r.pSa..s fcoS:d e % ios s.:d city
b. LGuis: Ae-xany driven from
Grab creek break embank ments: steel
mills flooded; l!.eeo men made Idle.
indian.poiis' ind;;E;saSnEb. nd. flooded:
Fort W.yHs; Ina:mss: ;, @ joseph, M.u.
lighting plant destroyed; cit City u in 0daI aarI:
Columbus. .O-Bridge. over scioto
"e'' Aeh"Ay u2ttio
.Haarion,, Ind.-Leyee breaks, driving
Lima, o.-Ten solid miles of rail-
Puiimans filled with tourist. returnin.
~ from winter In the South. stalled by
Akron. ,o-hsm breaks; hundred. of
ffi.rmers finI ,a In, IN valley warned in time to
Lsrus. ,o:-city inundated: great
Rokomo. ind.-southern half of city
Middletown. OIL missing: city in
Greet Reached at Dayton.
Dayton. Ohio. March 26.-Ths crest
was reached about midnight. The wa
ter 10 falling half an inch an hoar.
Dayton. Ohio March 1s.-Daytoa y
sothing lsas than . sesthing river
thres miles wt6a. mile aaA Q haN
O saah sids Il 1aiA aeasst, ~ Nh.
saSal tb0vus1AfasV. NAI5G 4 = esti.as.
- that froa l.ooo to 5000 psrsoas
has psrished.
The Algoaeuin hotel 10 submsresl n
water up to IT. third story and above
this level In the downtown district oe.
dec buildings, hotels and business
houses are places Of refugs.
A school building that was Known 70
have housed mot less thon 400 school
children shortly before the waters
rushed in that directioa II entirely sub
merged. and. ~ far ~ can b. ascse-
tainsd. all Of those little ones net
wStery grave.
The flooded district comprises q
practical circle with . radius q q mils
and half. and in NO place IL tie W.
ter less than six feet deep.
In Main street in the downtown 80
tioo the water ID twenty fest deep.
Cincinnati. Ohio. March 16.-rsn
thousand persoos lost their lives; &.
600 in Dayton. Ohio, 1000 in FIaniltes,
Ohio; 800 In Peru. Ind: $50 in Piqua,
Ohio. Is IN Delaware, Ohio. with prop
erty loss Of scores Of millions Of dol.
lars. in unprecedented floods that
swept four states yesterday.
1t was the most horrible disaster
that ever has visited the Miami val.
ley. 1t 10 impossible At this time to
more than estimate the number q
lives which were snuffed out, bat X y
copservatively placed At 10000.
1t was known that the levees 1t
Piqua had given way and that nun
ber Of lives had been lost tAsrs. 1t
was hoped that this break would 70
lieve the pressure somewhat.
The great power plant reservoir
north ot Dayton was full to overflow.
ing and was carefully watched. Bud.
denly. with hardly = moments warn
Ing. the big dam cracked under the
eaormo1s pressure. then with q snash
which could be heard for Miles went
out and the millions ol galloas o( wa
ter in . white crested wave teA fest
high, swept like . very denoa a d.
stractioa down the doomed valley, car
rying horsss, cattle and hundreds q
human beings On its foaning ersst.
There was not time for tie Deopss q
H. lower part of Dayton to sseaDs.
HanAreas e then werO cangAt II H.
owiYiiAg waAsrs which hAA sooa tnrDsd
a estreets inte rushing. DaFAsguo,
cofpseladen ffvefs.
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