The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-25
Forty Persons Reported Killed
at Dayton.
INDIANA is ALSO STRUCK
Mayor and 20 Citizens Drowned
in Delaware.
Huge Property Losses Attend
Rushing of Waters.

tant areas of Ohio and Indiana today,
bringing for the loss of life in their
trai nand driving thousands of people
from their homes
At Delaware, Ohio, 20 persons were
drowned. The property loss will run
into the millions. In the flooded dis
tricts rivers were out of their banks,
dams were bursting and inhabitants
of the Iowlands fleeing for their lives.
Governor Cox called out the militia to
protect property and keep order. The
loss in live stock has been heavy.
Following is a resume of the situa-
ton:
Dayton, Ohio, dam above city said
to have broken; five feet of water in
the streets.
Delaware, twenty persons drowned;
militia ordered to patrol streets Re
lief supplies being sent.
Columbus, Ohio, bridges near Co
Iumbus, on Scioto river, washed out
and railway traffic paraIyzed-
Lima, there are ten miles OF rail-
road trains of all kinds stalled by
washouts between Lima and Lafayette.
The Ottawa river is on a rampage.
Akron, dam north of city broke.
Horsemen rode through valley warn
ing farmers, who, with their families,
fled by the hundreds to higher
La Rue, Ohio, inundated.
Kokomo, Indiana, southern part OF
city flooded; city in darkness last
night when electric light plant stop
ned. Use of militia authorized.
Indianapolis, hundreds of persons
living in suburbs driven from homes
by rise of Eagle creek and White
river. Thousands of head of live
stock in state perished.
Marion, levee broke and 500 people
flee for their lives.
EIlwood. three hundred homeless by
floods.
Lafayette. bridge washed out. Many
persons missing. Detention hospital
flooded. but inmates escaped
st. Louis, one person drowned and
many families flee from western part
of city because of rise of river Des-
perse.
The stream ssprad over the lowlands
and inundated much of the territory
from Forest park to the Mississippi
river.
Hundreds of houses in South st.
Louis are surrounded and the police
were busy all night warning families
to leave their homes.
A negro caught in the current was
carried down stream and drowned. A
Ievee broke at popping street and the
Iron Mountain tracks and the water
rushed through the gap, forming an
immense lake that inundated ten
blocks.
Missouri Pacific and Frisco tracks
in the southwestern part of st. Louis
were flooded.
A patrolman rescued five persons
who had been marooned on a roof five
hours.
a report reached Phoneton, Ohio,
this afternoon that 25 were dead in
Dayton, the result of the flood. 1t
also was reported that Troy and Tip
pecanoe City, north of Dayton, were
both flooded and that many had TAX
en- refuge on roofs.
Columbus, o., March Ex-Governor
Cox telegraphed the Red Cross at
Washington today appealing for aid
for Dayton on representation of great
loss of life there.
Columbus, o., March 25.-Informa-
ton was received at the capital build
ing from Dayton that forty persons
had been killed as a result of the flood
in that vicinity. Adjutant General
Wood issued an order directing that
the railroad bridge over the big Miami
river be blown up.
According to reports received, the
Main street bridge, steel and con-
crete structure, has already been
swept away.
Columbus, o.. March 25.-B. V.
Leas, mayor of Delaware, o., town
of 10000 inha bitantS. 25 miles north |
of here, is reported to be drowned. |
The town is said to be completely |
flooded, all telephone and telegraph |
communication being cut off owing to
river, which has left its banks Just
before the telephone centrals left their |
switch hboards they reported that all |
its inhabitants were fleeing to the |
hills.
Twenty persons, besides the mayor, |
are reported to have perished at
Delaware.
Dayton, Ohio. March 25.-(By tele- |
phone to Cincinnati. dayton is seeing |
the deep muddy waters of the Miami !
rier rushing through her downtown !
streets. In front of the Algonquin |
hotel. standing on the corner of Third |
and Ludlow, on which stand beside the |
great hotel a magnificent church. the |
great Y. NJ c. A. building and the hotel |
Atlas. is many feet deep and impa ssible |!
except by boats. The principal corner, |
Third and Main streets. is three feet |
under water and the courthouse is like |
an island in a sea of mud.
The Mad and Saltwater rivers are |
swelling far beyond their banks and |
they have hurled their walls of water |
into the rapidly rising, always feverish |
fmpetuous Miami.
The railways at 10:40 a m. Cancelled !
all trains to Dayton. They announced !
it was impossible to reach the city be- |
cause of flood conditions. Efforts to |
reach Dayton also from Richmond, Ind /
by automobile interurban or train |
were futile
Appeals for Help.