Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-03-28
Hundreds of Thousands Home
less, Vast Areas inundated.
ENORMOUS PROPERTY LOSS.
Mad Waters Sweep Through Dayton,
and Delaware, Ohio; Columbus,
indianapolis and Other Towns
In Indiana.
SUMMARY OF FLOOD SITUATION
: IN OHIO.

Dayton : 5000 persons reported
drowned and 10000 made homeless.
Findlay-Business and residential
section Of city flooded and hundreds
of families driven from homes!
Schools and factories are closed.
pringheld-The Mad River is on al
rampage and scores of families are
homeless.
Delaware-Nineteen persons drown
ed and several hundred others In i'm
minent danger.
Columbus = Ten thousand people
homeless and property loss impossible
to accurately estimate.
Lima-Five hundred people have
fed from their homes.
Zanesyille-The districts about the
edge of the city are flooded.
Napoleon = The Miami River is
raging, having risen IA feet in the,
past "a hours.
Troy-Miami and Erie Canal has
broken its banks, flooding the city.
Akron-Million dollar loss reported.
hundreds rendered homeless.
oungstown-Nearly all the big in
dustries are closed down.
Hamilton = Reservoir gives way.
One thousand reported drowned.
In Western New York and North
ern Pennsylvania numerous towns are
inundated and the aggregate losses are
estimated at over $1,OOO,O0O.
Chicago. ~ Floods almost unpre-
cedented in area following the tor
nadoes and rains Of the last three
days, Tuesday swept four States Or the
n Asres.-. y ~ itesss. ,.l... 4 I, -. .s.l.t
life that may reach into the hundreds
and damage to property amounting to
many millions of dollars.
Ohio and Indiana, and IN lesser
degree Illinois and Missouri, felt the
brunt of the disaster.
At Dayton more than go persons are
reported drowned, following the break
ing of the Miami river levee and the
Laramie reservoir; so miles above the
] city.
Marooned in office buildings in the
centre of the town, hundreds of per-
sons were vainIy awaiting rescue.
Streets heretofore considered miles
from the danger line are running eight
feet of water, the torrentiai force of
which precludes rescue in boats.
Millions of dollars in property dam
age has already been incurred and the
dood is still on the increase.
From indianapolis come reports of
| 100000 homeless throughout Indiana
and a property loss reaching the
enormous figure of $2O.OOO,O00 in
cities, towns and villages alone. This
does not include the losses to farm
ers The loss of life, while not so
great as in Ohio, has not yet been esti-
mated
The climax of the flood in Ohio was
reached at Dayton, where 1t was re-
ported that the water is from 20 to
40 feet deep in many streets; that
bodies were floating past the windows
of office buildings and that the
catastrophe assumed the proportions
Of tidal wave.
A telephone message to Chillicothe
asserted that 10000 of Dayton's in
habitants were homeless and that re-
lief train had been dispatched from
Xenia. Hundreds of fires which could
not be extinguished were said to have
added to the terror of the situation at
Dayton
Governor Cox. of Ohio. received a
message at Columbus from Phoneton,
six miles from Dayton, saying that 22
bodies had been swept into the Great
Miami river. They were supposed to
have come from Sidney, Shelby county.