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W I L L C O U N T N A TIO N ’S CASH. FLOODS SUBMERG ING DAYTON, OHIO OHIO H E A D W A T E R S RAGING. ny)oflfci/id£¡a | Two to Four Months' Work for Many All Small Streams Out of Their Banks Employes. and Grave Danger Seen. Washington.—The greatest count of Pittsburg, Pa.—With a continued j money and securities lq the history of |heavy rainfall In Northern and West-! the world will begin at the Treasury ern Pennsylvania, the flood situation department on April 1, when John is growing serious and heavy property I j Burke, ex-governor of North Dakota, damage has already resulted. Oil City, takes the oath of office as treasurer of Bradford, Warren, Titusville, Green-1 the United States. ville, Newcastle, Sharon and the low To safeguard the nation’s wealth, lands of this city and vicinity are Uncle Sam required that the retiring battling with flood water. treasurer’s record of the transfer of Many points are without electric funds be verified by a count of the light, water, transportation lines and Fire Add« to Dayton’s Distress - notes, coin and securities in the treas gas. A score of bridges throughout Only Two Kailroads Open — ury. Secretary McAdoo will appoint a the state were swept away. committee to take charge of the vaults Reconstruction Is Begun. The situation at OH City, Pa., Is and each vault and safe will be sealed grave. The dam at Spartansburg has on April 1 in preparation for the count. let go, sending a great wall of water Only money enough to keep the wheels toward Oil City. The Allegheny River Chicago. — Three thousand people of the government revolving will’ be at Oil City has reached 16 feet and Is perished in the deluge that swept the laid aside for daily use while counting rising a foot an hour. Oil Creek is northern half of the Ohio River valley Is in progress. out of its banks, and a large portion the past three days. It generally requires from dwo to of the city is under water. Probably 500,000 people were made four months to make thq count. A All small streams around Bradford homeless by the floods in Indiana and government mathematlclaff has fig Ohio, and property damage. In both ured out that it would take òhe per Famine Impends, as All Groceries are out of their banks. Sections of the city are under water and hundreds and Supply Houses Are Inun states will be at least $100,000,000. son 300 years to verify the records. of families homeless. These figures were compiled late Ordinarily, every note, bond and other dated - Housetops Crowded, At Greenville, Pa., more than 500 Wednesday from reports received here security is counted. Unless a shortage persons are homeless. Office Buildings Filled. from various points In the stricken dis of error is discovered the gold and sil At Sharon, Pa., the town is under trict. Further reports may Increase ver stored in bags containing $1000 water and a dozen or more bridges are the number of dead, and it is unlikely each, Is usually weighed, a test bag be wrecked. The loss of the United States that any decrease in the loss can be ing balanced against all others for ver Dayton, O.—The crest was reached Steel Corporation at Farrell, a suburb, expected. ification. Armed guards stand over the estimated at $200,000. A report South of Indianapolis the flood is counters and workmen to protect them about midnight Tuesday. Water is is now falling at the rate of half an inch reached Sharon that a wreck train said to have caused death In several from interference. and a crew on the Lake Erie road small towns and villages. Losses seldom have been found in an hour. went down with a bridge near Mead- Fire at Dayton added to the finan these counts. When the treasurer was Dayton.—The wind veered suddenly ville, Pa. cial loss caused by the flood. Early changed some years ago, $000 wps south to north at 3 o’clock and estimates, placing the damage In Ohio stolen in the course of the official from the fires on Vine street sprang up T E R R E H A U T E T W IC E D ES O L A TED and Indiana at $50,000,000, were re count. A laborer engaged to lift‘ the anew. vised to show double that amount. heavy bags of coin, substituted leaden Railroad .officials were authority for discs for silver dollars in several bagst Dayton.— (By telephone via Xenia.) Flood Follows Cyclone Disaster and the statement that lines converging in necessitating a five ''months’ count of —Dayton 1 b nothing less than a seeth Many Surrounded by Water. Indianapojls would have to stand a every dollar of the $115,000,000 In the ing river, three miles wide, a mile and Terre Haute. Ind.—Hardly recover big silver vaults. The laborer was con loss of $25,000,000 In that city and vi a half on each side of the main street. victed of the theft and the retiring Its principal thoroughfare, while it Is ing from the daze of the tornado of cinity alone. Railroads were chief sufferers from treasurer relieved by congress of the estimated that from 2000 to 6000 peo Sunday that claimed 20 lives, injured 250 and did property damage amount property damage. It was said by en responsibility of the loss. . ple have perished. ing to $1,000,000, Terre Haute Tuesday i gineers and construction bosses pre The Algonquin Hotel is submerged faced its second disaster In 48 hours, paring repair trains for the flooded CITV A W A IT IN G A T+ A C K . in water up to its third story, and when the waters of the Wabash left districts that strips of railroad more above this level the downtown district than half a mile long had been washed Notice of Eighteen Hours Given Fed- office buildings, hotels and business tbelr banks, flooding part of the resi dence district. away in several places in Indiana. erals in Cananea. STOCK houses are places of refuge. Many families whose homes had es Concrete and iron bridges, their sup A school building that was known Cananea, Mex. r-<- After failing to caped destruction In the tornado were ports undermined, crumbled before the force a surrender from General Ojeda to have housed not less than 400 SEE a mountain” exclaimed strength of the torrents hurled against at Naco, on the Arizona, border, state school children shortly before the surrounded and the residents were the first daring white naviga forced to flee for their lives. them. troops under General Obregon again waters rushed» in that direction is en The river has passed the 25-foot tor who rounded from the The loss through cessation of traf threaten Cananea. The groups under tirely submerged, and as far as can be broad Atlantic Into the mouth fic cannot be estimated. Only two Obregon and Colonel Cabral returned ascertained all o f those little.ones met stage and is rising at the rate of five inches an hour. Railroad traffic Is of the Rio de la Plata and roads, the Michigan Central and the to Del Rio, between Cananea and a watery grave. practically suspended and interurban searched the northern bank. Juan Lake Shore, maintained communica Naco, and sent another demind for traction servlo^e has been abandoned > Dlaz de „ 8a)d t0 have thus Ball. tion with New York over their lines, surrender to Colonel Moreno here. Mayor • Heer of Middletown, Ohio Residents of Taylorville, Robertsvllle . . __ . . . . .. those farther south finding mile after wired ’.Mayor Hunt of Cincinnati to The message received by Colonel and West Terre Haute have deserted j ed M d maylwp he made use of the mile of their right of way under a Moreno from the state troops’ chief rush boats on a special train, adding: their homes. Five hundred houses are e*Presston, If he was personally on fathom of water. "Do it quick, as necessary to save Bald that an attack would be made water and the coal mines near Hi® lookout. At any rate whosoever Men and material are being rushed within 18 hours. Obregon also noti lives.’’ The special train was sent at under here are flooded. ! said It and notwithstanding the fact by the railroads to every accessible fied the United States consular agent once. Relief stations established near the} that the mountain Is little more than point where damage has been reported here. Obregon suggested that all non- Through Safety Director Cash of flooded districts are swamped with ap- a good-sized hill, the Latin expression and active work will be begun as soon combatants be removed to places of Cincinnati, the Chamber of Commerce plications for aid. stuck, and its two words, now welded as the floods recede. safety, especially residents of the at Hamilton, Ohio, today asked that together, form the name of the splen table land, where the 35C federal Governor Cox be requested to order T O T A L LIV ES LOST NEAR 7675. did little modern capital of the Re a battalion of militia to Hamilton. troops are entrenched. public of Uruguay. If Oregon attacks from the east, the That body also adopted a resolution government troops will find them asking Governor Cox to declare Hamil Estimated Figures Based on Unveri- Little capital? Well, yes—when selves between two fires. The Insur ton under martial law. tied News From Two States. compared In population with Its two Three bridges over the Miami river Dayton, O.—The fire in the business gent forces moved their trains to with at Hamilton have collapsed. Chicago.—Unverified reports from . b‘8 T nelg,hbor"' Bueno* Aires and Rio section was still burning fiercely in four miles of Cananea, while cav A bill appropriating $100,000 for the flood-swept cities in Ohio and Indiana “ Jane*ro but even at that Just Thursday morning. It seems to have alry moved to skirt the town. A few relief of the flood sufferers was intro show the following estimated loss of ®bout as big as the capital of the giant changed Its general direction from remaining American women and chil duced into the Ohio legislature, it life: , ot a*l republics, the United States of northeast to straight west. Efforts dren have sought places o l safety. The is estimated that there are 5000 people Ohio—Dayton, 100 to 5000, Plqua (ru- America. In fact. In point of popula- to ascertain If buildings housing refu Mexican White Cross Society members homeless in the state. mored), 540; Delaware, 60 to 100; Sid- tlon, Montevideo and Washington are gees have been burned were in vain. are prepared for the expected battle. ney, 23 to 50; Middletown, 15 to 20; very nearly twins, each claiming It was impossible to approach closer FLOODS CO VER INDIANA. Hamilton, 12; Tippecanoe City, 3 to 5; near approach to the 400,000 mark. ASK PR ESIDE N T T O AID. than a mile to the blaze. _____, / . • — scattering, 16; total Ohio, 759 to 7175. However, the Impression made upon At 1:15 A. M. a state guardsman Indiana—Peru, 200 to 500; Newcas shot and killed a man attempting to Illinois Vice Commission Present Find Thousands Homeless In Kokomo, tle, 3; Lafayette, 2; Noblesville, 2; the tourist Is that there Is nothing Muncie, Terre Haute and ings at Washington. loot the homes on Fifth street. Frankfort, 1; Fort Wayne, 1; Rush- ■mall about the Uruguayan capital. Marlon. WASHINGTON.—The whipping post Its fine, substantial houses are large. 1; total Indiana, 210 to 500. Indianapolis. Ind.—Jen thousand ville, Dayton, O.—That a fierce fire which for white slave traffickers and seduc Grand total, 969 to 7675. ,ts streets are wide and well paved. families are homeless in Indiana as appeared to be sweeping through the ers of women, more careful training of The homeless, most of them tem- and its parks and plazas are beautiful half-submerged business district of children and abolition of Joy-ridés and the result of the worst flood in the porarlly, are estimated to number up- and spacious, while the liberal hospl- Dayton early Thursday had destroyed ragtime dancing were . advocated as history of the state. The property wards of 100,000. I tality of its people shows that their the Beckel House, where there were remedies for the social evil at a hear loss runs into millions, and all In The property damage is roughly esti- j hearts are large as well supposed to be more than 200 flood ing conducted by the Illinois Sena dustry, including transporttaion facil mated at $25,000,000 or more. refugees, was the consensus of opin torial Vice Commission, which came ities, is suspended. Ideal Location. All the great railroad systems run Four persons are known to have ion of scores of watchers on top of the to Washington primariiy to interest The city has an Ideal location on a ning through the flooded states are been (jrowned. Other large sections National Cash Register building, near President Wilson in a Nation-wide fine bay, the eastern side facing the of the state are isolated, and it is tied up by floods and washouts. ly two miles from the scene of the vice crusade. Atlantic and the southern fronting the flames. The commission secured the promise fearad the death list will be materially Thousands Rush to Safety. Rio de la Plata. It Is built on a penin Investigation of the fire at close of President Wilson to consider their Increased when communications is re range was an impossibility. request for him to call a «inference of stored. , Cleveland, Ohio.—Washouts are re sula that Juts out Into the waters and Some of the largest cities in the ported everywhere, and all Interurban forms the eastern extremity of this More than a mile of flood water in governors and representatives of vice tervened between the point where the commissioners of various states to state trill be In darkness for some and railroad traffic Is ‘ at a stand semicircular bay which forms the days, the flood'watqn# of various rivers still. staunchest boats dared to venture and study the social problem, the confer actual port, while on the ocean side ence to be held in Washington as soon putting electric light and water plants The Cuyahoga river Is badly swollen. the coast sweeps directly north for the area of flames. out of commission. Jhe floods follow In Muskingum county a boy was quite a distance, and It Is here that as practicable. Representative Hill, of Illinois, agreed on request of the com a two days' downpour, which was drowned while attempting to ford the are located the fine bathing resorts of SERUM MAY BE GIVEN O UT. mittee to introduce in Congress a bill general In Indiana as well as adjoin stream In a buggy. V Police Captain McGowan was which more anon, writes a correspon a commission to look into ing slates. Dr. Friedmann Considers Instructing creating Five hundred persons are homeless drowned at Findlay while trying to dent for the Pan American Union. vice conditions in the District Qt Co at Marlon, Ind. At MlssisSnawa, Ind., rescue marooned families In the low Physicians in Use. Promptly at 8 o’clock we left the lumbia. •. !.. river burst the levee on the east lying districts. Two feet of water Is ▼eBsel for the wharf carriages awaited At the hearing, attended by many the New York.—The advisability of dis side of the city, ahd factories there tributing for general use by physicians prominent women and meqi Interested were forced to shut down. Kokomo reported In several Findlay districts. u s for a sight-seeing tour of the city. At Cincinnati, Valentine Boet, 22 the tuberculosis vaccine discovered by In social welfare work, the low wage is without light and water, and a Our drive took us first to the Plaza Dr. Frederick F. Friedmann was dis question as a cause of girls going mile square area in the center of the years old, was drowned In the Miami Matriz, a pretty square Inclosed by and Erie canal. cussed at a conference between the wrong was discussed, several of the city is flooded. The Scioto river at Columbus If far, some fine buildings, among them be- German specialist and several phy witnesses decrying the idea. Insisting The school» are closed 'there and lack of education and resisting the militia are patrolling the streets. above the flood stage, and is rising 'J*8 “ ® Lablldo or Parliament house; sicians, whose identity was not dis rapidly. Scores of factories are closed. Hie Club Uruguay, the leading social closed. Under a proposed plan, phy force had much more to dp with the The known drowned in the state up More than 500 residents were forced organization for the wealthy Uruguay- sicians from various parts of the downfall of women. Men, too, were to noon were Ray Rothenburger and country might be Instructed in the blamed as primarily responsible for his brother, Roscoe, Frankfort: Wal to abandon their homes at Akron. Sev- ana; and the fine old cathedral, one of eral parts of the city are under water, the ancient structures of thé city Friedman method of Inoculating pa the degradation of girls. lace Garrison, Burlington; John Dag- Seven hundred families were driven ! which dates baék to the Spanish r » tients. ner, Newcastle. from their homes at Mount Vernon K,me 8nd ln whlch repose the remains Bamboo Growing Advised. when the Koskosing river broke - , remains Wabash Train Wrecked. Oroville, Cal.—According to Super through the dike. n h ! of republlc Levee Breaks In Three Places. _________________ and those of the first archbishop. Our St. Louis.—The Wabash passenger intendent J. R. Beagles, of the United Dayton, Ohio.—Thousands are home time was too limited, however, to stop States Plant Introduction Garden, the train, No. X, carrying Omaha and adaptablltiy of California conditions less in Dayton and vicinity and are Many Drown at Delaware. here, and we proceeded to the Plaza Kansas City cleepers, was wrecked for the grdwth of bamboo on a com being sheltered In tents Snd public Delaware, O.—Between 75 and 100 Independence, This Is a beautifully near Normandy, a few mjles out of SI. mercial scale has been proved beyond buildings following the breaking of the persons were drowned ln the flooded : kepb garden of trees, shrubs, and flow- Louis. ' peradventure of doubt. Actual official big Miami river levee in three places. The fireman was killed and it is re measurements of bamboo growing goofeet Here* may mTv^e ®00 gov- by The river has passed the flood depth Oletangy . River, . .. according _ to estl- . 600 *e«L " Here be about seen the ported the engineer was fatally hurt at the Plant Introduction Gardens and is still rising. Scores of factories mates made by the police Tuesday. ernment house-whlch Is also a relic and that several coaches were over show a timber growth among the bam are closed. Three companies of mil More conservative reports place the Gf colonial days—the resident of the turned into a ditch. boos of 17 inches in 24 hours. The were ordered to aid the police. number of dead between 30 and 60. president of the republic, the splendid Fifteen passengers were injured, al bamboo could almost be seen growing. itia Rlverdale, North Dayton and other though it is not known how seriously. Officials at the garden say that in the suburbs are inundated. Tuesday night The names of only 28 of those believed Teatro Soils, and the national museum The wreck was caused by water growth of bamboo there is an oppor couriers were sent throughout the to be dead have been obtained. Scores In every clty Tl8lted ln South Amer1 a theater to ^ loosening the roots of a tree, which tunity for practical timber conserva threatened districts warning the in of persons are still clinging to tops of we found th8 ,„adl trees, roofs of houses and other avail- , . . De fell across the track. The dead fire tion by obtaining a new supply. habitants to flee. The river is the able footings. At night fires were on® ° f the costliest and handsomest man was O. W. Butts, of Moberly, Mo. highest It has been in 40 years. built along the banks of the river to »tructures, and the Solis Theater was Extra Session May Be Long. cheer the marooned ones, while d e» j therefore not such a surprise. It Mayor Rescued From Pole. Washington.—Democrats have ex 300 Homeless In Terre Haute. perate efforts to rescue continued. ranks with the finest In the world, and Delaware, O.—Mayor Bleaae was pressed the view that the extra ses Terra Haute, Ind.—With 20 known -------------------------- such great artists as Patti, Bernhardt, rescued from the top of a telephone sion of congress would be a prolonged to be dead, five missing, and 100 in Fire Aids Rescuers. Caruso and others, have appeared pole, to which he climbed to rescue affair. This was on the assumption jured, Terre Haute la slowly recover Hamilton, O.—The Champion Coated there, for Montevideo’s amusement- others. Delaware is in great need of that President Wilson would recom ing from the eflect# of Sunday’s cy Paper Company, a $2,000.000 concern, loving public must have the greatest bread, as well as gasoline with which mend to congress consideration of the clone More than 300 persona are to cook. currency question as well as other homeless, the fclty housing the d e » took fire early Wednesday morning : artiste In the world to cater to Its The village of Stratford, five miles matters of pressing importanae. Inso tltute In the public schools. Mayor and It Is at the mercy of the flame» cr1tlcal U8t reaard,e88 of Th ,__ _ _ , south, has been wiped out. The total far as their discussion wonld not Inter Gearhardt was forced to Issue a as all flre-flghtlng Is out of the que» lion. The glare of the fire helps k J , , . l° cate^ .clo*e population of 100, It Is reported, has fere with the right of way of tariff threat to prosecute storekeepers who somewhat ln rescue work. Twelve b B <,e.tbe 8 "* Theater. Is worthy of been drowned, but this has not been revision. The President has indicated were caught charging exorbitant prices more than passing notice, for It Is one confirmed. Fifty are dead in Tiffin, it within the past day or two that he for food. They had Increased their persons are known to have been of the most Interesting and Instructive is also reported, and the village of will urge other needed legislation price« In some caeee nearly 100 per drowned, while It Is believed over a placet ln all Sooth America. Here are score or more are dead as a result of Prospect, 10 miles to the north, is un when the tariff Is out of the way. cent. The working class district here the flood of the Miami River that gathered specimens of Uruguayan art. der water._________________ was wiped out_____ ■ . swept Hamilton, and Is rushing natural history, geology, and hundred* "Sava the Babies,” Is Cry. through the street* to a depth of from 0f objects of historical Interest The Mississippi Now Rising. Fifteen Killed In Illinois. New York.—"Save the babies” will three to six feet.__________ | collection of Indian "boloa" alone Is Memphis, Tenn.—"With such a vol be the motto of the organizations affil Anna, 111.— Fifteen persons met ume of water coming Into the Missis iated In the Babies’ Welfare associa death In a cyclone at Makanda, 111., Five Dead at Hamilton. a remarkable exhibition, for among sippi from above, people along the tion taking part In the coming cam Monday night, according to reporta re Hamilton, Ohio.—Five persons are Hie hundreds of these primitive weap- Mississippi River should prepare for a paign for a "spring clean-up” of New ceived here. A fast freight train was known to be dead here and several ons may be found specimens of every great flood,” said the Memphis weath York City. Societies conducting milk blown from the Illinois Central tracks others are reported drowned. Half stone formation known to this section er observer. stations, day nurseries, baby hospitals and 25 cars dumped Into a ditch of the city Is already under the flood of the continent Other weapons and "It will be a big river," said he. "I and other Institutions for Infant wel A torrential rain followed the cy water* of the Miami river, and to j primitive utensils of the aboriginal believe the flood stage will be reached fare are to take part In the prellmln clone. Engineer Waggoner and Fire make matters worse an old reservoir I fmlnd ta tte „ „ „ t r y , mounted at Memphis Thursday morning, if not ary campaign of education now start man Andrews of the wrecked train on the banks of the river burst today,1 before.” ing. flooding over 40« acres of farms. are known to have been injured. Half Million Are Homeless While $100,000,000 Is Damage. U ruguay ' s F ine capital 2000 to 5000 Feared Dead and Millions in Property G o n e - Streets 20 Feet Deep. HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS LO ST “I FIRE SWEEPS FLOODED DISTRICTS OF DAYTON, 0. lx c h a n g l specimens of the fauna of the country, relics of the wars of colonial day» and ln the art gallery paintings by the early Uruguayan artists, as well as some of the old masters of Europe, may be seen. Several days could have been spent here In profitable study and enjoyment, but only a hasty glance was vouchsafed to those who were trying to see something of Montevideo ln less than two days. Modern Business Houses. From the Plaza Independencla our route lay up the fine Calle 18 de Julio, the street whose name perpetuates the date of the adoption of the constitu tion. This we found to be a broad street, lined with a succession of mod ern business houses. The first residential section of the city we saw ln the Paseo del Mollno. and all were most favorably Impress ed with the clean, carefully kept vtllaa Invariably set ln gardens of flowers. One of the handsomest structures we passed was that of the Argentine Le gation. From the Paseo we drove through a double line of fine euca lyptus trees to the Prado, the Bols de Boulogne ot Montevideo. This park Is the pride of the beauty-loving citi zens of Montevideo, and very Justly so. The rolling plain has been tran» formed Into a veritable garden of spacious extent, where groves of mag- Dlflclent trees shade grassy dells and placid lakes. The well-known trees of our northern forests mingled with the natives of the semltroptcs. A grove of oaks was neighbor to a clus ter of horsechestnuts, while the state ly palms and slender bamboos might be seen close to the giant eucalyptus, and flowering shrubs and snowy wa ter lilies lent more color to the scene. In many shady nooks rustic benches Invited the weary to rest, and time alone was needed to enjoy the charm of the seclusion offered ln this breath ing place of the Uruguayan metro polis. < The route from the Prado to Pocl- tos, our next stopping place, was lined with handsome "quinta»” or vallas, set ln exquisite gardens. From the Prado we proceeded to that most fashionable of Montevideo's bathing resorts, Pocltos. Here we stopped at the hotel, on whose spa cious verandas we lunched. We next drove to the Cemetario Central. A fine chapel is located here amid the cypress trees and beautiful monuments, and It Is In the large sub terranean vault underneath this struc ture that repose the remains of the hero of Uruguay, Jose Gervaslo Artl- gas. We were permitted to descend Into the vault and to see the tomb. Here also Is the tomb of Gen. Eugenio Garzon, whereon Is placed the urn which holds his ashes and a glass Jar which contains the heart of the great soldier, preserved In alcohol, and ex posed to the gaze of the visitor. While Intended to honor the courage and greatness of the dead, the sight Is unusual and rather gruesome to the unaccustomed beholder. Not Encouraging. They were holding a bazaar, and Jenks, who did not always say Just what he meant, was told off to look after a sideshow. Towards the end of the evening he was discovered singing out In a loud voice; "Step In. ladles and gentlemen, step In! Take my word for It, you will be highly delighted when you come onL” A Minus Quantity. "When young Sappleigh compiali of not being able to make money. Mr. Codgers advised blm to exerc bis wits.” “ Ha! Ha!" "Why do you laugh?" "Advising young Sappleigh to ex else hla wits la like advising a begj to exercise hit team ot Arab horses.”
