The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-27

inhabitants, hemmed In by raging
Hood and menaced by nre.
Althugh only a little more than a
mile from the section where il Is fear
ed there has been great loss of life,
hundreds Of willing men and women
looked on helplessly.
Even during the early hours of the
third day of the flood, my estimate of
the number who have perished viii be
mere guesswork. Thousands are ma
rooned How many nave survived lao
one knows.
Numerous fires have sprung up
since ,he water bursted the reservoir
and penned in tens of thousands. Dut
the worst blaze started yesterday af-
ternoon about 4:30 o'clock and this
morning stll was claiming its toll
of property and doubtless many lives.
The water went down perceptibly
each hour after noon yesterday and
last night. and unless other reservoirs
break, which is feared, the well or
ganized force of relief workers should
have a large section Of the city eX
pIOItd DtlOTe nlBnt ldll
Fire Adds Grim Menace.
Fire added a grim menace last
night and today. From what could be
seen through field glass from the
blaze started in the Patterson Sup
ply Co.'S plant Early today II had
consumed at least parts Of three
blocks The Patterson plant is at
third, near Jefferson. The fire burn
ed northwest for q time and then
shifted directly west.
II has been conservatively estimat-
ed that $50 persons We're marooned in
the Bickel House. which is believed
Ia have gone up In flames. This, how
ever has not been definitely ascer-
tanned. Two expert oarsmen took n
boat into parts of Third and jefferson
street Yesterday and saw persons in
every building who pleaded to save
them. They did not traverse the por-
tion believed to have been burned
Word has been received that sixty
motor boats. with men 20 operate them
are coming from Cleveland and few
from Cincinnati
Reports today from Lewiston were
that the huge reservoir was expected
to break al any minute \ high wind
is blowing the water over the banks.
the dams are weakened and people are
fleeing To high ground. Lewiston Is
seventy miles from Dayton hut il is
predicted here II the reservoir there
gives way, a worse food than that
which ha= overwhelmed the city
would sweep down upon the inhabi-
tants now lighting for life.
Thief is Shot Dead
Most of the people Of Dayton have
been submitted 10 cold wind. driving
rain before IT, since Tuesday noon.
| Early today there was snow and Il
] decided drop in temperature
The city was proclaimed under mar
| tial law yesterday afternoon. Last
night, thief. caught robbng homes
Of flood victims. was shot to deani
| by a guardsman doing patrol duty.
| Persons taken from flooded homes are
well cared for. Although grocery
stores outside the flooded district sold
their stocks yesterday afternoon, food
| soon came from other cities
| Fearing that i'm the event the noo1
| should subside enough To allow mel
and teams 10 make their way to the
fire that they would prove Intellectual
90 combat such "A conflagration as is
seen to be raging. Vice Mayor Huber
today called nearby towns for fire
fighting apparatus and dynamite tC
blow up buildings surrounding the fire
Fire Sweeps Business Section.
Dayton, O., March 27.--ln the snow
and bitter cold hundreds Of refugee.
are being taken out of Hickory stree'
houses. Fire is sweeping almost the
entire downtown district. The flames
are leaping hundreds of feet in the air
The conhagration has destroyed sew
eral blocks I'm the business section. q!
indicated from observations from th'
roof of the National Cash Registe,
building
Until today relief measures exceeded
requirements, but only because IL wa
impossible To rescue thousands ma
lrooned with the waters receding rap
idly and the torrents in the busines
section lessened people were brougn
out by hundreds today and the relic
staff is very busy. Many doctors an,
nurses have come from nearby towns.
Money BY Telegraph Needed.
Columbus. O.. March ei.-Tha
money by telegraph is the urgent nee
, Of Ohio's food swept districts. is th
, substance Of proclamation by Go'
-. kt.ft l..