Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-04-03
TEY THOUSAND ARE
UNACCOUNTED FOR

COLUMBUS, o. Special Ten
thousand persons are missing through
out the flooded district OF Ohio.
This estimate was made today by
George l.. Burba. private secretary
TO Governor Cox. who is at Day ton I
helping the relief work.
Flood refugees at stricken Dayton \
are facing starvation. a dispatch \
from there stated that food supply /
was practically exhausted.
seventy thousand Hood sufferers, at
Dayton. are exposed TO the cold
weather Scores have succumhed 10
sickness brought on by the cold.
I'VE must have food and warm
( clothing" was the urgent message
received at the State House from Mr..
Burba-
II is not believed the dead at Day
ton will exceed 1000.
Deaths all over the State may so
I over 1000 ~ estimates as TO the
7 heavy casualties here prove correct.
The property loss at Dayton alone
I will lie S25.O00.0OO. The weather
forecast for the flood zone in Ohio
today was colder. with brisk north
west winds
Fire is stim burning IN Dayton. but
danger of destruction OF big section
OF the submerged city was averted
when buildings in the path OF the
flames were blown up.
Prisoners in the wOrkhouse at Day
ton are going insane from hunger.
thirst and fear.
/ Many OF them have not touched
food since Tuesday.
SO EAR as actual danger from flood
Is concerned the situation IN Dayton
showed great Improvement.
The thousands OF refugees who had
/ been penned up ia buildings I'm the
business district and It's edges were
, liberated.
The waters IN parts OF the city was
only a few inches deep today. and
, persons with gumboots began search
/, ing through mud and debris for
Getting Death Toll.
IL was expected that the death toll
, at Dayton would be established with
/, tolerable accuracy before night and
that the actual property loss by the
: torrent would be known.
Better conditions prevailed IN Zanes-
, Vile, Piqua, Fremont. Tiffin, Chill
licothe. Hamilton and Middletown.
where the floods were receding.
D. Along the Ohio Valley. however, on
the southern edge OF the State, the
/ situation was worse. Both WellsVille
and East Liverpool. two Ohio River
= towns. were in darkness last night
I, both being partly submerged.
Fifteen thousand were homeless
. / there and IN the immediate vicinity.
u President Wilson is holding himself
= ( ready 10 come and establish a White
- House IN TINS ClAlt 1T ms presence
: would do any good.
. one hundred and sixty persons who
/ were penned up ia the courthouse at
> GAINESVILLE BY the flood waters OF the
e Muskigum We're liberated today. The
e f small towns Of Boston and Peninsula,
e twenty-five and twenty-eight miles
o south Of here, have been inundated
u by the bursting OF a dam.
y Two hundred and fifty persons were
e reported drowned. but as the flood
~ n f.nIr.
phone wires this report could not be
confirmed.
Revision OF earlier estimates gave
the following fatalities. Massillon. s.;
Troy. rs; Middlet0wn, so; ChillicOthe
25; Hamilton, so; PlQua, 30; Millers-
burg. 3; GAINESVILLE. zoo 70 800. Scat
y tering reports gave about $50 dead OF
missing.
secretary Of War Garrison. accom-
panied By Major General Leonard
l. wood. 4. S. A.: QuartTmaster Gen
eral Aleshire and party Of army
surgeons are on the way here. but
d have been delayed By washouts.
ohio u Rising.
~ LOUISVILLE, KY Special The
Ohio River is rising today az an I'M
urecodFntcd rate ANA there is every iu
the next forty-eight hours wiz sune
a. the most disastrous Hood in its recorded
Fiood sta~- already has been reache,
49, here and when waters from the ohll
- rivers Join the 033d crest the river an
6oubtedly VIII reach the highest stag
~ ever known.
"a ohio Kissing Rapidly.
be CINCINNATI D. Special Thl
10 United states Weather Bureau here is
.d sued this morning "a statement that a.
al Ohio River. which az a. IT. stood a.
, 81 feet and was rising rapidly, VII
q within fortv-clgnf hours. pass stg high
% est record of ~ feet made ln 1855.
~ ft s feared shat tremendous prODert
az loss VIII result
F~ucct Fairly Relief.
OF PTTTSBERG. IA Special Earl
"a relief from famine danger is in pros
a. recf for sAo flood refugees or DaytoI
Il, 20. The pcnnsyivonia ffaiiroad Official
~ announced early TODAY that routes ia
f" been established for lraflic from Pitts
De burg 20 Chicago and that way ha