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NO. 2.
DAYTON, OHIO, SUBMERGED BY FLOOD
10,000 FAMILIES IN INDIANA HOMELESS
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7 FEET
DEEP IN Ml
STREETS OF CITY
Miami nlvcr Levcoj Break anil Flood
Pours Over Dayton With Great
Loss of Life Four Story Block
Collapses BurylrtQ Score In Ruins
City Entirely Surrounded by Water
and Communication Cut Off Help
Wired for
Cl.ltV-:i,A.VI), Ohio, March 35
The office of tliu lllg Four tuit
ion d tulkvil for a low moments (hi
nflHrnoou with tlprlngflold, Ohio.
Tho operator at HprlugfMd mtl.l
mini)' person In J mot death In !
ton. it lit nut known whom the op
erator Kot hi Information a thn
wlr broke bufont thl coiihi &o
li'Arni'il.
roi.ir.MHUB, Ohio, March 35.
MimuiT rrKirin to Governor Cot
from Dnyton thl afternoon caused
(li'orKn lltirlm, the- governor's prl
n(ii x'frrtary, to estimate tho dam
nun tlotiu In Dayton at million of
dollar. Ilnrba believe thorn have
litxon fatalities. Governor Cox llv
i luylon.
Later Oorernor Cox received ir
jioru that thn Leonard building m
Dayton, n four story brick structure
on l.uillow street, had collapsed,
burying n rcoro of person who wcrn
working In varloua office.
Ilnllillng Collapur.
Governor Cox alto was Informed
that tlm li'Vi'o broke; at Main tri'it
nnil that tlm streets were under mm
it foot of water. Governor Cox thin
afternoon wired tho llfd Cross jo
cloty at WanlilitKton for nld for Da)'
ton.
Appeals from riitu.i, Ohio,- for
food and boat reached Governor Cot
hero today. Tho governor I nr
miming to riikh n special train to
I'lMiin.
A I n late hour I hi afternoon Gov-
urniir Cox Issued tliu following state
ment: "Stupendous Mups must bo taken
by tho Hlntn uftrr thn wntor nubsldos
to nllovlnto Hid anfforliiK of thou
winds In Ohio. Tho suffering for
want of food, clothes mid homes
liromlM'H to bo tcrrlhlo.
"From Information reaching me. I
Judgo tho situation Ih worst at !.
Ion, Sydney nnil I'lijun. Wo urn do
In tt nil possible, to mnli Hiippllos to
IIionii polnta from nearby cities.'
PIIONF.TON, Ohio, (six mile no. II,
of Dayton) Mil roll l!."i. Almost Iho
in I in' ritv of Dayton is under from
(Continued on pago a,)
SEAnLE FRAUDS
SEATTLE, Wu., March 23. - War
rants nro out today for fivo election
olioluU who nio charged with whole
Mile I'iiuiiU in llio recent municipal
rlenllon, especially, with roformioii to
tlm count on "proposition T" wliieh
wiih a "proposed partnership ngrcn
niPiit" between tlio city nn it tho Bo.
attic, Konlnn nnd Southern 'I'noifio
Ifuilwny cnmpiiny, TIioho neoiiHi'il
mo Pit ut KeilHlob, A. A. driven, A. II.
(I. Curlin, (, Lund nnil II. W'illiiiniH.
Tho olci'lion offiflnls in tlii pro
rini't nro I'hiUKeil willt huvinj; voted
portions from vueiuit lotn mill Iiouhih,
pei'HoiiK luin-iej'iHtei'eil, uinl on top
of Hint, ilellbenitel.v inihiioiiiiteil tlio
votiiH of qunlifioii oittzoiiH. J'lopobi.
lion A wim favored by Iho traption
I'ouipiiiiy nnil tlio pruoiuul Hhoweil n
voto of 101 to fivo in itH favor, ovury
volor apparently oxpiostiliij,' liiuiholt
on tho iuuuo.
WATER
WARRANTS
NDIANA CITIES
SUBMERGED BY
FEOOD WATERS
Property Loss Runs Into Millions
Ten Thousand Families Homeless
Many Lives Lost All Riven Out
of Banks From Heavy Downpour
Transportation Paralyzed Through
out State Pumping and Lighting
Plants Out of Commission
INDIANAPOLIS, Iml. Mnreh 25
Ton tlioilNnml fninilies urr liniielrts
In Imlliiiin toilny ni the result of the
woot flood in tlio history of tho
fitnto. Tlio property Iokh mim into
the uilllioiix mid all industry, iuvltid
k tniiixirtntlon fneililie, is mis
ponded. Pour iirrNiitik nro tnoirii to linir
hern drowned. Other laruo neetioiiH
of the Mute are rllooteil.
Koine of the litrp'nt citir in the
ntnte will lie in ilnikuoH loniht, the
flood wnton of vnrioiiM rivcrK nut
tiiiK eleelrie liRht and water plnnts
out of eommihtiiin. The floods f.
low n two dnvs' downiwiur wliieh wn
none nil in Indiana an well as adjoin-
ill ktlltOK.
Kokonui Silliioerurd.
K'OKOMO, lud., Mureli ..KiRht
feel of water nro on the strvrU in the
lowlniuN lino. A thousnnd liomoH
nro Milimorced and their iiilinbltnnlH
nre perehed iiMin Iho roofn of their
dwotlitiRi, wultlnj; for aid. I'rnoti
oally all lionlx in tho oily wcio swept
away and tho people in the flood dis
trict nro marooned and foodies.
!)nmnp lo Iho o.xleut of $1,000,000
woh douo hero. I'lionnoiis diuniio
wiin done by (ho Hoods i iil'cru, In
diaiin, nearby.
Torn) llautn Ai;ln Kufforn,
TKIIIti: II Aim:. Ind., Maroh 'J5.
Willi I lie Wiibiihli river nlreudy threo
foot over tlio daiiuer lino mid rnMnii
nt the rate of six iiirhe hourly,
Terro llauto, barely re'oored from;
Sunday'n oyoloiio, lodny foees olio of j
Iho worst floods in its history. Tho .
Hood Mirrn already hnvn driven1
'J,000 persons from heir Iioiiiok at !
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TayIorillo, a suburb.
IliimlrtsU llonioJoso nt .'MiiiiiIo.
Mir.NTIK, Inn., March W. Tho
While liver in Iho hiKlutit in itH his
tory hero today and is risiii; four,
inches hourly. Tlio railroads tlirnuKli
mil tliu dihtrict nro orippled and tho
situiition is fast lieeoiniiic critical.
Hundreds nro homeless hero.
Tho pumping htution is flooded,
euttiiijr off the eity's water supply.
II is feared tho liht plant will ho
flooded soon,
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 25
Five hundred pornons arc homeless at
Moiion, Intl. owiiiK lo tho flood.
TAMPERI
HAN FIIANCI8CO, Cal., Mnrch 'J5.
Convicted on tho chnrRo of tnm
porlnt; with wltnesncs In an ubhiiuU
ease, James Chrlaty, a private detec
tive, Is awoltlnn sontenco today, Tho
rtoutoivco will bo pronounced next
8aturday.
Chrlity vUltod tho homes of MUa
KHthcr Mlntor and MIsm Muelo Hvuhn
who woro (ittncltcd, aupposadly, l-y
Alfred llendrlcks, a chnuftour, anil
attempted to Rot thorn to drop their
cnuo iiKiilnut lluudrlcks,
Iloiulrlolcfi wuh enabled to gnln his
rolciibo throtiKh tho lowering of his
ball by Pollco JiuIko Wullor, This
action of Wollor'fl precipitated' tho
prosont rocnll ctuupulgn iiKalnlit thut
official.
15 ARE KILLED
Y CYCLONE A
ANNA
LLNQS
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Torrential Rain Follows Wind Fast
Freight Blown From Tracks and 25
Cars Dumped in Ditch Ohio Train
Goes Through Bridge
Floods Throughout Mississippi Valley
Cloudburst at St. Louis Penn
sylvania Towns Submerged
ANNA, III.. .March 25. nitfcn
htso ns met death in n cyclone at
Muknudii, III., lost nittht, ucordiii) lo
reMrU just rocriu'd hero. A fust
firihl train wax blown fioin the Il
linois Central (racks and twenty five
onrs dumped into a ditch.
A torrential rain followed the c
clone. KnRinee r WnaRoner and Hit
mnii Andrews of iho wreek train nre
known to lime hern injured.
MTHPIIYSIIOHO, III., Man-li 23.
,Mi. Hud Walker and Miss Ilclwi
Patrick were killed and several othen
were injurnl in a cyclone twelve miles
south of here Inst uiclil.
HKLLKKONTAINi:. Ohio, Murcji
25. Tlie ciiRine of n Pennsylvania
railroad tmiti plmied into (he Mud
river when n hride wns swept away
by flood waters today, AU p.i.S'-eii-uers
esenped injury,
Trnln ThrouRli Itiidco.
COH'MIIl'S, Ohio, Mortdi 25. A
wreck trniu on the IudinunH)lis dii
sion of the Pennsylvania road went
through n bridge near Urbnnn, Ohio,
ncordinj; to advices just received here
nt the company's offices. The train
carried a crow of twenty and only
six of (lint number arc icportcd ac
counted for.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 23. More
than 18 hours of heavy ruin which at
times was almost a cloudburst has
raised (bo Hiver Des Peres, nt tho
western end of Iho city, seven feet
higher than any record. The city's
show place, Forest Park, h uudur six
feet of water.
.Mitlilletowii Kiidangeiril.
CINCINNATI. Ohio, March 25.
Mayor Hcer of Middlctown, Ohio to
day wired Major Hunt of Cincinnati
to rush boats on a special train, ad
ding: "Do it quick, as necessary to save
lives," Tho special trutn vns sent
at once.
PITTSHUKO, Pa., March 25.
Half a dor.cn (owns north of hero are
inundated, Ynuii;stowu, Mondvillo
nnd Newcastle niv flooded aud Iho in
dustrial plants there arc closed.
IS ED FOR RANSOM
NOHTH YAKIMA, Wu., Mavch 25.
llobert Want, superiiitcudent of tho
Mndero's p)Id niino nt Panal, Mex
ico, notified hi sh-tors, Mrs. F. X.
Napier and rrs. Ouy Grafton, of this
city today that ho had been held for
15,000 ransom at 1'orral by tho
Huerta faction of the Mexican nrmy,
hut had secured his release for 300.
INVENTS MACHINE TO
CLEAN APPLES MECHANICALLY-
PORTLAND, Ore., March 25. On
acoiiut of tho cost of Inbor, an inven
tion is being tried hero today which
cleans apples mechanically instead of
by hand. Tho luachine consists of
brushes of hog bristles through which
tho npples pass on n clouted belt.
Tints far tho device haft proved successful,
New Secretary
W. J.
AI
IERRE HAUTE
TER1IE 1IACTK, Ind., March 25.
With twenty known to be dead, fixe
missing and two hundred injured,
Tcrro Haute todny is slowly recover
ing from the effects of Sunday's cy
clone. Moro than three hundred per
sons arc homeless, tho city housing
the destitute in tho public schools,
nyor Gerhardt today was forced to
isnuo a threat to prosecute store
keepers who were caught charging
exorbitant prices for food. They had
advanced their prices in some cases
nearly one-hundred per rent.
Tlio working class districts here
wero wiped out. Tho militia is pat
rolling the district and Kcarehing tho
debris for bodies. A relief fund has
been Mnrted for the suffercre but
subscriptions me coming in elowly.
OAR UNION PACIFIC
LIFE F
SAl.KXf. Or., Murch 23. In an
opinion handed down In tho rnso of
tho Union Pacific I.lfo Innuruuco
company voraus J, V. Ferguson,
ntato Insurance commtsnloner, appel
lant, tho supremo court today re
fused to grant tho company n re
hearing on Its showing that tho
btockholdora and directors by reso
lution had sol apart as a basis of
credit for policy holdora nnil credit
ore ull of tho nssola of tho corpora
tion, amounting to 1 100,000. which
were, declared to bo tlio Bamo n.i
paid up capital. Soma tlmo ago tho
court uphold tho Insurancp commis
sioner In his denial of a llronso o
tho company on tho ground that It
did not havo a paid up capital as ro
qulrod by law.
TO BE IN RUINS
RICHMOND, Ind., March 35.
Soverul portions perishod In floods
destroying Camdon, Ohio, 20 miles
southeast of here, according to a
mebsaBo received hero today. The
message was sent boforo tho flood
destroyed tho wire stjrvlc.
IWBMIY
A
200
INJURED
of State at Work
1IUVAV.
E
Klr of unknown origin complete
ly destroyed tho two story TTirone
rooming hoiibo and one story Wilson
cleaning establishment at Ashland
Monday night. Had It not been for
tho fact that thcro was an Inch of
snow on tho nearby buildings It Is
thought tho fire would havo gained
dangerous headway. As It vas the'
flames mounted high In the air and
attracted attention from all over tho
countryside.
Tho Throne 'rooming houso was
owned by Henry I.. White, who car
ried but SS00 Insurance. A Mrs.
Mahan had been running tho place,
as restaurant aud rooming house and
her loss In flxture-i la qulto heavy.
Tho smaller building. In tho rear of
which tno flro Is believed to have
started, belonged to H. L. Hackct
and was occupied by M. D. Wilson.
Quantities of gasoline and bcntlnc
stored thero aro supposed to have
given tliu tiro udded headway. Tlio
Van Sunt rooming house, next door,
several times was ablato and was
slightly damaged ' by water. Tho
blaxu was discovered at S;30 o'clock
.Monday evening.
FVUU
IN SKY CENSUS
l.ONnON, March 25.- Advance In
formation regarding tho census of
tho sky, upon which exports of
Greenwich observatory havo boon en
gaged for moro than two yo.irs, In
dicates a starry population of some
53,000,000. Photographic plates al
ready developed show 52,000,000,
and It Is expected this number will
bo Increased by more than a million
whon tho photographs of certain
ureas taken by tho Johannesburg oh.
sorvntory aro received.
Tho estimate Is arrived at by
averaging from small squares repro
sotUIng about one-hundredth part of
each plate, In which mi actual count
of tho stars Is mado.
FILIPINO SENT TO PRISON
FOR STEALING FORTIFICATIONS
MANILA, March 25. Found guilty
of stealing military plans of tho Cor-1
regular fortifications, Gnuugo, a Fili
pino is sentenced to nine mouths in
prison hero .today.
LAMES
DESTROY
HON
ROOMING
HOUSE
A NO
0
H
BY GUARDS 0
OMAHA
K
Neoro Said to Have Been Killed
More Bodies Found in Towns Near
Omaha Much Stock Killed Ber
lin Destroyed, S Killed, 20 Injured
Dead Negro Held Pair of Dice in
Hands Require Several Weeks ta
Clear Away Debris
OMAHA, Neb., March 23. With
niuety-nino bodies identified, militia,
soldiers, police nnd firemen redoubled
efforts to clear up debris left by Sun
dny' cyclone
Humors thut a looter was shot by
regular soldiers nre unconfirmed.
Those guarding tho ruins sny that a
negro who attempted to loot one of
the wrecked buildings wns shot
tbrough the eye, but no trace lias,
been found of the negro or the sol
dier who shot him and the officers in
cotnmund rtfu-c to discuss tlio inci
dent. '
Mure FaulltJcs Hourly.
With the rehabilitation of wires,
rrport! nre arrivin' hourly of more
fatalities in adjacent towns. Three
more bodies bnvo been found at Tu
la n, Neb., and' reports from .Berlin
state that probably many farmers-are
dead near there whose fnrailiet have
been unable to communicate with out
side points. Much stock 1ms been
killed on farms in eastern Ncbrnskn,
and hundrds of farm buildinj; were
demolished in that region.
Delayed trains urriving today state
that trainmen in some places were
forced to walk ahead of the engine
and clear the tracks of debris aud
wire.
Ilerlln Iktroyel.
Latest reports from HalMon, n
suburb, say (hat two more corpses
havo been found there besides those
recovered yt-stcrdny. Iierlin reports
thnt the town was wrecked, that eight,
persons arc known to be dead and a
score of others injured.
Hundreds of negroes swarm about
tho morgues whero tho unidentified
bodies lie. The body of ono negro,
removed from Idlewlld hall, held a
pair of dlco In tho hands. Another
negro waa found dead with an uce
up his coat sleeve.
At noon tho rescuers finished their
exploration In tho rulna at Idlewlld
and started clearlug away the debris
of an udjolulng structure. It will
require several -weeks to comploto
thu bearch for bodies.
EXPECTS SPEEDY PEACE
IN STATE OF SONORA
SAN OIKOO, Cal.. March 25.
Governor Francis H. Garcia of So
nora, Mexico, recently nppolntod by
President Huerta, declares that -within
a month uurest In thu southern
republic will havo ended,
"Out of 250,000 residents of tho
state, there nre about 1500 or 2000
who aro fighting tho present govern
ment," ho declared hero Just before
sailing for Guaynius, "They soon
will be overpowered and tho trouble
'hlch has kept the country In a con
stant stato of turmoil for two years
will ond. The people havo hopes In
Huerta."
FROST DEFENSE BEGINS
TESTIMONY IN LAND CASE
CHlOAOO, Mnr. 23. The defence
in tho ctiso of Albert C. Frost of
Chicago nnd fivo others, ohm-gins
with conspiracy In defraud tho gov
ernment out of $10,000,000 worth of
Alaska coal lands, began its testi
mony today after Judge Laiulis had
refused to diieet tho jury to acquit
the accused men.
LOSS OF UFE
E
PLACED AI 128
Only One-flfth of Hemes WreefcN by
Storm Examined ISH Heme, Ex
clusive ef SeHeek and Stem Are
; i'
Wrecked Snow Hampers Weric
Shelter Stations Carlfi for 2176
Homeless Proeerty Damage StHC
Placed at $IO,OO0,OW
OMAHA CYN
f ' '4-
- . Death List Totals 128
OMAHA, Neb., March 23.
" At 4:30 o'clock this ufternoou
it was known thnt 128 resi-
dents of Amnlm met death in
Sunday's cyclone nnd several
" otherrt nre missing, Earnest ""
" Ilickucll, superintendent of ""
" the National Red Crocs so-,
"" ciety, will arrive here lomor- "t
row to take charge of the ""
" rescue work, llusiness men,- ""
"" here are flooded with tele- ""
grams from friends every-
" where in the country asking. ,
" if the city needs financial aid.
"" The Commercial club this, a f-
ternoon asked the United .""
Press to HRiwunoe that. thr
" city was amply able to care "
" for the cyclone sufferem. ""
OMAHA, Neb., Marck 25. With
only one-fifth of the homes wrecked
hero by Sunday's cyclone examined,
a careful check of city morgues to
day disclosed 110 dead In Omaha
alone. The rollef committee, headed
by Governor Moreheid and Mayor
Dahlman, declare that 1669 homo,
exclusive of churches, schools and
mercantile institutions, were either
wrecked or partially destroyed, ami
It is feared that today's explorations
will bring the list of fatalities In
Omaha up close to 200.
Shelter stations today cared for
2179 homclesa men, women and chil
dren. Of this number, 263 reported
thomselves destitute and entirely de
pendent on stato and county nld.
Scores of wagons were lined about
tho relief stations at daybreak to car
ry supplies to the destitute.
Loss Stilt Ted Million.
Yestorday's estimate of $10,000,
000 damage In Omaha still stood to
day. City officials fixed the loss to
homes alone at S3.000.000, mcrcan-
(Continued on page 8.)
SECOND PAINT
SEATTLE, Wn., Mnrch 25. A.
coroner's iiiijuest is being held hero
today to investigate the death of Mrs.
Ida J. Anderson of Stanwood, Wn.,
who, according to her husband, II, C.
Anderson, died from starvation while
under tho treatment of Dr. Linda It.
Hazzurd, the fast cure specialist.
Mrs. Anderson hus been under Dr.
Howard's care for fourteen dnyH,
living nt tho ltnloigh hotel whero Dr.
Ilium vd put her on a diet. She died
Inst Thursday morning, two hours nf.
tor calling Miss Juno Oakcs, a gradu
ate nurse.
A post mortem examination by
Louis Ilubcnsteiu, a chemist, showed
a lurgo amount of alum in hor stom
ach and coroner J. Tato Mason statd
(hut death may have resulted from
starvation nnd neglect.
Dr. Hazzurd is now under man
slaughter conviction for the death of,,
Miss Claire Williamson, and the ciisq
is on appeal in fho supreme ooiirt.
Her license as a physician ha
been revoked, hut she has appealed
from the state medical board decision,
HAZZARD
LOSES
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