The Sentinel=record., 1913-03-28
MAIN SECTION of STRICKEN CITY OF EXPERIENCES SOME RELIEF FROM CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE pRsvA.,en
 THERE DURING PAST FOUR DAYS
SITUATION IN NORTH DAYTON 4 MYSTERY
GENERAL OPINION PLACES THE OF FATALITIES IN THAT CITY AT 2ooo-FooD WATER BEING SUPPLIED
 TO REFUGEES RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE

North Dayton where it is believed
 they have found sufficient food tc
 keep them from acute suffering. Ar
 effort is to be made at once to res
 cue them
 The suburb of Riverdale up to Hel
 ena street has been penetrated by
 the down town relief commission and conditions found much similar to
 those in the southern suburbs. Every
 one has been crowded to the second /, floors or roofs of their homes. But
 few of the more stable dwellings were washed away The district north of Helena street has not been reached but it is not believed the conditions there will prove as bad 1 as had been feared. Nothing is
 known of the foreign settlement in North Dayton, close to the Miam river.
 It was this part of the city where
 the flood first made it's way and
 where the occupants of the houses had ignored warnings to leave. Il was here also that it was feard most of the deaths would occur. The only body found was that of Chas. Parker 8 liveryman, discovered in the couri house yard. The following is tabuated est. mate of conditions tonight The Dead:
 Accurate estimate impossible Seventy thousand persons ma l reaned
 Fafteen thousand residences sub
 merged
 One hundred and twenty miles ol streets inundated
 Five thousand persons provided | for in rescue stations
 Five hundred horses killed. One thousand automobiles damag ed
 These were tenative figures of the damage that placed Dayton's pecun l iary loss at $25,000,00o estimated by persons who had explored part ol the flood area.
 Several statisticians set the loss al
 higher figure, but most expert opinion agreed on $25.Q00.000 Il was said 1000 residences were dam aged to the extent of $2,O00 eacf six thousand homes were classified under datiage figures of s1,000 and it was believed 1000 could not be repaired for less than $500 each. Damages in buildings was set al
 a conservative figure of $2,000.00t and it was believed this amount would apply to stocks of stores. The | figures available at manufacturing plants which suffered placed dam age under this head at s1.000, 900 The loss on automobiles was set al | $500,000. this figure having beei based on an estimate Of at leasl 1000 machines being damaged. It was believed the damage to household goods would amount into the millions
 because in many sections of the sub
 merged area water reached to ths second floors of hundreds of houses
 Col. H. c. Catrow arrived with hi: military aides from Columbus this lafternoon and immediately took il charge the militiamen on duty. Al
 feast five more companies will be 1T
 Dayton by tomorrow, according ts | IlOi. 1+fltOA.s lCAliRVtdA1 4dat ttt ( l have been established at the Huff
 man avenue school house.
 1 Gov. Cox ordered that no more
 sight-seers be permitted in Dayton l When Col. Catrow attempted to have
 railroad coaches of an arriving trair
 vacated many of the passengers l showed fight and refused to leave Orders were given the trainment ts
 cut off the two rear coaches ana they were left standing on the track Parts of Main street are impassa
 ble because of debris. At severa
 points it is comprised of outbuildingi
 that had struck more stable build iugs and been dashed to pieces.
 One of the remarkable features
 was the cheerful spirit with whicl flood victims viewed their plight
 This was Dayton's first big flood il
 many years. Much of the submere
 cd area had been considered saf'
 from high water but as the ma1orit, of residents of these sections looke' out on all sides upon great sweel lof muddy, swiftly moving water, the seemed undisturbed.
 In some Of the poorer sections tn attitude of the marooned was net s
 cheerful. As a motor boat passed DC meath the second floor of one parti submerged house q man leaned ou and threatened to shoot unless the took off his wife and baby that ha heen born yesterday. The woman. a
 most dying. was led from the Wihuo'
 ! ~.,~,.,,lro os pAcr TIVE.