HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1913-04-04, Page 7TATE or 01 I UNDE WATER
Dreadful Loss of Life and Property in Inundated
Districts
,,d' 'A despatch from Dayton, Ohio,
`says: All persons but a few of
those hundreds of persons who have
' been marooned in the downtown
:section of flooded Dayton are safe:
,This was the news brought out on
Thursday by an Associated Press
staff man; the first to succeed in the
'perilous task of penetrating as far
north as the Big Miami River,
which runs through the centre of
the town.
Chief of Police J. N. AlTabeok,
himself marooned, who has been
directing the rescue work, gave the
first information as to the situation
in what has heretofore been the
waterbound district.
Except for possible loss of life on
the north side of the river, there
will not be more than 200 dead in
Dayton, according to Allaba•ck's
estimate after he had been given in-
formation as to the situation on the
south side.
, The worst condition found near
the centre of the flood was in the
,workhouse, where. 60 prisoners have
not had a drop of water nor a bite
of food foe two days. The men re-
volted and demanded their liberty
and a chance to fight for their lives.
Since then the workhouse has been
a mad -house, according to Super-
intendent Johnson. The prisoners
repeatedly fought with Johnson and
threatened to kill both him, .nd his
family.
May Have to Shoot.
Johnson asked that a detachment
of the National Guard be assigned
to help handle the men. He de-
clared that the men would have to
be shot if they escaped from their
cells. :
North of Burns Avenue as far as
Fourth Street the water was found
to be from three to six feet deep.
Beyond Fourth Street the water
has receded to make it possible in
many places to proceed on foot.
From Fourth Street to the Big Mi-
ami River relief work was taken up
by a committee headed by Chief
Allabuok. All grocery stores were
commandeered, and although in
most eases the goods were covered
With water, yet sufficient supplies
were found to prevent great suf-
fering among those in the interior
dry strip.
No Cases of Starvation.
While there may be many deaths
in. individual homes, which have
• been without food or drink, there
was no place but the workhouse
where any considerable number of
people were held without food.
None had had enough, but no case
approaching actual starvation was
found.
Knowledge that the death list is
likely to prove so low in the down-
town section gave rise to a hope
that even in North Dayton, about
which nearly all hope had been
alka.ncioned, there might be compar-
atively few deaths.
The progress of the first canoe
into the waterbound district was
greeted with appeals for bread and
water. In nearly every house left
standing people were asked whether
there had been any deaths, and
with only a few exceptions all re-
plied that there had not.
Beekel Hotel Not Burned.
It was impossible to approach
within several blocks of the fire
zone in the canoe, but there appear-
ed every indication that the Beckel
House had not 'been burned, and
that the fire had been confined to
the blocks beyond Jefferson and
Third Streets,
The 300 guests of the Algonquin
Hotel have been kept comfortable
except for the continuous dread of
fire. The water 'reached to the se-
cond floor, but all supplies had
been moved to places of safety, and
those in the hostel experienced little
discomfort.
Two hundred women and babies
found refuge in a paint factory in
'North Dayton, where they found
sufficient food to keep them from
acute suffering. An -effort is to- be
made at once to.rescue them.
Victim's Cheerful Spirit.
One of the remarkable features
was the cheerful spirit with which
flood victims viewed their plight.
This was Dayton's first big flood in
many years. Much of the sub-
merged area had been considered
safe from high water, but as the
majority of residents of these sec-
tions looked out on ,all sides upon a
greaat sweep of muddy,
swiftly-
$ng -water they seemed undisturbed.
In some of the poorer sections the
attitude of the marooned was not so
,Cheerful.. As a motor -boat passed
beneath .the second floor ofone improved, the light plant having
pertly submerged house a man
leaned out and threatened to shoot
unless they took off his wife and
baby that had just been born. The
woman, almost dying, was let down
from the window by a rope and
taken to a place of refuge.
Further on members of a motor-
boat party were startled by shots
in the second floor of a house about
'which five feet of water. swirled.
The boat was stopped, and aman
fired from the window.
"Why are you shooting?" he was
asked. "Oh, just amusing myself
shooting ,at rats that come upstairs ;
when .aro you going to take me out
of here I" he replied.
Situation is Brighter.
According to city officials, it is
impoessibl•e to estimate the number
who perished in the fire which
swept the entire district on the
north -side of Third Street between.
Jefferson Street and the canal, a
distance of more than a square and
a half.
All patrons of the Beckel House
are safe. Police and volunteers
constructed a bridge over alleys
and the tops of adjoining buildings
to a point of safety.
The water receded rapidly. An
occasional snow flurry and biting
gusts of wind added to the discom-
fort of the rescue crews, but they
remained steadily at work.
Estimate of Conditions.
The following is a tabulated esti-
mate of conditions :
Dead - Accurate estimates
impossible, probably un-
der 200
Marooned 70,000
Residences submerged 15,000,
Miles of streets inundated. 120
Persons provided for in
rescue stations 5,000
Horses killed 500
Automobiles damaged 1,000
These were tentative figures of
damage that placed Dayton's pe-
cuniary lass at $25,000,000, esti-
mated by persons who had explored
parts of the flood area f
Houses damaged to extent
of .$2,000 each 2,000
Houses classified under
damage figures of
$1,000 6,000
Cannot be repaired under
$500 each 7,000
Damage to buildings in the busi-
ness district were set at $2,500,000,
and it was believed this amount
would apply to stocks of stores.
Figures available at manufacturing
plants placed damage under this
head at $1,000,000. The loss on
automobiles was set at $500,000.
It was believed the damage to
household goods would amount into
the millions, because in many sec-
tions of the submerged area the wa-
ter reached to the second floor of
hundreds of houses.
25 'Victims at Columbus.
A despatch from Columbus, Ohio,
says : Twenty 'five persons were
drowned and great property dam-
age was wrought by the Scioto
River floods at Chillicothe, which
had been cut off from communica-
tion until late on Thursday, accord-
ing to the statement of G. W. Per-
ry, editor of the Chillicothe Ga-
zette, over long-distance telephone.
Mr. Perry said that while many
persons were missing, the known
death list will not exceed 25. A
great part of Chillicothe is under
water.
Fifty Bodies Found.
A despatch from Columbus, Ohio,
says: Coroner Benkert, after a
trip through the west side on Fri-
day afternoon, estimated the total
death list in that section would
reach two hundred. Of the fifty
bodies recovered at that time
twenty were at the temporary
morgue, thirteen at the State Hos-
pital, eight at the Hilltop engine -
house, and the balance in the pro-
cess of disentanglement from debris
in 'backwaters.
The Dead at Chillicothe. '
A- despatch from Chillicothe,
Ohio, says : First authentic infor-
mation regarding the loss of life
shows that eighteen persons are
dead. Already eleven bodies have
been taken from the wreckage of
homes in the east ee d, where many
railroad men live. With field glass-
es seven. more bodies were discov-
ered • hanging from the Kilgore
bridge, three miles south of here,
but it has been impossible to re-
cover them. Conditions aro much
CIRCUS DAY IN DAYTON, OHIO.
Main street, one of the great business thoroughfares, is here shown
. Torrential sweeps of water rushed through this same avenue.
on one
of its gala celebrations.
been able to resume service, and
the water sup -ply is also edeuate.
.The estimated damage to property
is one million dollars. Clearing of
the wreckage has begun.
Half of City Submerged.
A despatch from Zanesville, Ohio,
says: With communication being
slowly restored rumors are rife of
loss of life, but there are only four
known deaths in this city es a re
sult of the flood. However, practi-
cally all of the Seventh, Eighth stud
Ninth `Wards• and a large proportion
of 'the First and Second Wards are
still under from ten to thirty feet
of water, and few boats have dared
brave the waters. About half the
entire city is still submerged. The
property loss in Zanesville is esti-.
mated at between $6,000,000 and
$8,000,000.
Floods at Troy, N.Y.
A despatch from Troy, N.Y.,;
says : Martial law has been practi-
cally declared in Troy, and mem-
bers of two military companies, are-
patrolling the streets and relieving'
the tired.. firemen and polies'; masses
of whom have been on continuous
duty for 48 hours. Meyer- Burns
has not slept in two nights, having
taken charge in person of the pub-
lic safety department. Fires on
Friday added to the seriousness of
the flood situation, and firemen
were kept busy all day answering
alarms in the flooded district.
Damage estimated at thousands of
dollars was done by fire on Friday.
Heavy Loss of Life in Peru.
A despatch from Lafayette, Indi-
ana, says: A special telephone mes-
sage to friends here from C. D.
Emmaus, General Manager of the
Northern. Indiana Traction Com-
pany, who is stranded in the flood -
stricken city of Peru, said that
twenty have been found dead
among the refugees in the Court
House there, Smallpox and diph-
theria broke out among the hun-
dreds of persons packed into the
Court House and one entire corner
of that building was quarantined
and all the rescued persons suffer-
ing from contagious disease's were
removed to that additional con-
finement.
Cleaning tp.
A despatch from Dayton says:
The military authorities began on
Sunday morning the cleaning up of
Dayton and organizing it against
the possibility of epidemic. Acting
under Secretary of War Garrison
and Major-General Leonard Wood,
Major Thomas L. Rhoades divided
the city into ten sanitary zones and
placed a competent man in charge
of the work in each zone.
In Riverdale and North Dayton,
where the flood waters attained the
greatest depth and degree of de-
structiveness, several thousand
persons waded knee-deep in slimy
mud, rummaging their desolated
homes foe clothing. All this was
soaked and plastered with mud,
but it was dried on the hillsides,
where the populace has taken re-
fuge. In some places in these dis-
tricts the water had so far receded
as to render possible the beginning
of the work of cleaning the lower
floors of mud and debris, so that
in a few days fires can be built
within the houses and the premises
dried out. But it will be. a long
time before all Deytonians again
live in their own homes.
It is .believed that if the work of
cleaning up can be done quickly
the possibility of disease will be
lessened. So far there are no more
than a ";formal- number of cases of
contagions disease.
PRICES
_F FARM PPO ACTS
REPORTS FROM THE LEADING
CENTRES OF AMERICA.
TRADE
Prices of Cattle, Crain, Cheese and Other
Produce at Home and Abroad.
Breadstuffs.
Toronto, April 1.---Flour--90 per cent.
patents, $3.90 to $3.95, Montreal, or To-
Lionto freights. btanitobas--First patents,
jute bags, $5 20; second patents, in jute
bags, $4.80;. strong bakers', in jute bags,
$4.10.
Manitoba Wheat -No. 1 Northern. 971-2c,
on track, Bay ports; No. 2 at 95c; No. 3
at 921.-2e, Bay ports.
Ontario Wheat ---No. 2 white and red
wheat, 93 to 94c, outside, and sprouted, 75
to Mc.
Oats -Ontario oats, 33 to 34c, outside, and
at 37o, on track, Toronto. Western Can.
ada oats, 401.7x; for Ivo. 2, and 39c for No.
3, Bay ports.
Peas -$1 to $1.05, outside.
Barley--Forty-eight-lb. barley of good
equality, 52 to 53e, outside. Feed, 40 to 50c.
Corn -No. 3 American corn, 671.2c, all -
rail.
Rye -No. 2 at 60 to 62e, outside.
Buckwheat -No. I at 52 to 53e, outside.
Bran -Manitoba bran -$20 to $20.50, in
bags, Torouto freight. Shorts, $22.50, To-
ronto.
Country Produce.
• Butter -Dairy prints, choice, 2$ to "26c.;
do., tube, 23 to 24e; inferior, 20 to 21c;
creamery, 51 to 320 for rolls and 29c for
solids.
Eggs --20 to 22o per dozen for new -laid,
in case lots.
Cheese -141-2c for large, and 14 3-4e for
twins.
Beans -Hand-picked, $2.60 per bushel;
primes, $2.25, in a jobbing way.
Roney -Extracted, in tins, 121.2 to 13e
per
to $3lbperodr ozen fordo 119 aand $2 40b or$No.
2.
Poultry -Well -fatted, clean, dry -picked
stock: Chickens, 18 to 20c per lb; fowl, 13
to 140; ducks, 17 to 190 per lb.; geese, 17 to
18o; turkeys, 20 to 21o. Live poultry,
about 2c lower than the above.
Potatoes -Good Ontario stock, 65c per
bag, on track, and Delawares at 75 to
771-2e per bug, on track.
Provisions.
Bacon -Long clear, 14 1-2 to 14 3-Ic per lb.,
in case lots. Pork -Short cut, $26 to $27;
do., mass, $21.50 to $22. Hams -Medium
to light, 18 to 18 1-4c; heavy, 1612 to 17c;
roils, 151.2c; breakfast bacon, 19 to 191-2c;
backs, 22c.
Lard -Tierces, 14 1-4c; tubs, 141-2c; pails,
143.4o.
Baled Hay and Straw.
Baled Hay -No. 1 at $11.73 to $12, on
track, Toronto; No. 2, $10.50 to $11. Mixed
hay is quoted at $9.50 to $10.
Baled Straw -$8.50 to $9, ou track, To.
route.
Winnipeg Market,
Winnipeg, April 1. -Cash prices; Wheat,
No. 1 northern, 861-2c; No. 2 northern,
831-2c; No. 3 northern, 801.2e; No. 4 773-4c;
No. 5, 72c; No. 6, 66o; feed, 671-2o; No. 1
rejected seeds. 78 3.4c; No. 2 do., 76 3-4c;
No. 3 do., 733-4e; No. 1 tough, 791.4c; No.
3 do., 741.2c; No. 4, do., 701-20; No. 5 do.,
651.2c; No. 6 do., 691.2c; feed, tough, 50e;
No. 1 red winter, 88c; No. 2 do., 850; No.
3 do., 820; No, 4 do., 791.4c. Oats, No. 2
C. W., 32 3.8e; No. 3 C. W. 291.2c; extra No.
1 food, 30 5.8o; No, 1 feed, 29 5 -Be; No. 2 feed,
261.4e. Barley, No. 3, 471.4c; No. 4, 45 1.4o;
rejected, 40c; feed, 39c. Flax, No. 1 N. W.
C., $1.09 1-4; No. 2 C. W., $1.06 3.4; No. 3 C.
W. 98c.
Montreal Markets,
Montreal, April 1. -Oats -Canadian West-
ern, No. 2, 411-2 to 42c; do., No. 3, 391.2e;
extra No. 1 feed, 391.2e; No. 2 local white,
380; No. 3, do., 37e; No. 4, do., 36c. Barley -
Manitoba feed, 61 to 63e; malting, 73 to 75c.
Buckwheat -No. 2, 56 to 680. Flour --Mani-
toba spring wheat patents, firsts, $6.40;
do., secoude, $4 90; strong bakers', $4.70;
Winter patents, choice, $5.25; straight rol-
lers, $4.85 to $4.90; do., in bags, $2.20 to
$2.25. Rolled oats -Barrels, $4.35; bag of
90 lbs:, $2.05. llillfeed--Bran, $20; shorts,
$22; middlings, $25; mouillic, $30 to $35.
Itay-No.' 2, per ton, car lots, $11.80 to
$10:60. Cheese --Finest westerns, 13c; do.,
pasterns, 121.4 to 12 3-4c, Batter -Choicest
creamery, 291.2 to 30e; seconds, 25 to 27c.
Eggs -Fresh, 24 to 260. Potatoes - Per
bag, car lots, 60 to 70c.
Minneapolis Wheat.'
Minneapolis, April 1% -Wheat -May, 861-4
to 86 3.8c; July, 88 1-2 to 88 5-8e; September,
89c, Closing cash -No. I. hard, 87 7.0c; No.
1 Northern, 857.8 to 873.8o; No. 2 North-
ern, 83 6.8 to 85 3.8e, Flour -No change.
Corn -No," 3 yellow, 48 to 4812o. Oats -No.
3 white, 30 to, 30 1-2e. Rye -No. 2, 63 to.
55 1.2e, • Brhn--$16.60 to $18.
Live Stock Markets.
Montreal, April 1, -:Choice butcher cattle
weal, from $6.50 to $6.85, medium butchers
from $5.75 to •$6.25, and common from $4
to $5. Good butcher cows, $4.76 to $5.50,
and inferior stook down to $3 per ewt.
Bulls- ranged from $3 -to $5.25, canners
from $2 to $2.50, and cutters from $2.50 to
$3.50. Milkers and springers sold from
$40 to $76 each, according to quality;
breeders from $5 to $5.50, heavy feeding
bulls from $2.75 to $4.25, stockers from
$4 to $5.25, and yearlings from $3 to $3.50.
Calves went at from $8 to $9.25 for good
veal, and poorer stock down to $3.50. Light
ewes brought $6 to $7.25, heavy ewes from
$5 to $6, and lambs from $8 50 to $9.75 for
the best. Hogs, $9.85 for fed and watered
stock, $9.50 f.o.b., and $10 for hogs weighed
off cars.
Toronto, April 1. -Cattle -Choice butcher,
$6.50 to $6.85; good medium, $5.75 to $6.25;
common, $5 to $5.25; cows, $4.75 to $550;
bulls, $3 to $5.25; canners, $2 to $2.50. $3.-
25
3:25 to $3.75. Calves -Good veal, $8 to $9.50;
common, $3 to $3.25. Stockers and Feed-
ers -Steers, 700 to 1,000 p ands, $2.75 to $4.-
25; yearlings, $3.10 to $3.50 Milkers and
Springers -From $30 to $72. Sheep and
Lambs -Light ewes, $6 to $7.25: heavy. $5
to $6; lambs, $8.25 to $10; bucks, $4.50 to
$6. Hogs $9.85 to $9.95 fed and watered,
$9.50 to $9.60 f.o.b. and $1010 off cars.
ADRIANOPLE TAKEN.
Arsenals and Stores Destroyed by
Defenders.
A despatch from London says :
Adrianople has fallen to the com-
bined Bulgarian and Servian
armies, after one of the most stub-
born defences in the history of war-
fare, and Tchatalja, according to
a telegram received by the Bulgari-
an Legation at London, has suffer-
ed a Iike fate. Shukli Pasha, the
defender of Adrianople, who held
the town for 153 days against great
odds, which included, besides the
investing armies, disease and fam-
ine, handed his sword on Wednes-
day afternoon to General Savoff,
the Bulgarian Generalissimo -not,
however, before carrying out his
stern threat to destroy the town
rather than let it fall into the hands
of the Bulgarians. From all ac-
counts the arsenals and all the
stores and a great part of the town
are in flames. Gen. Savoff has been
made commandant of the city.
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FLY TO PIECES.
The Effect of Tea and Coffee on
Highly Organized People.
"I have been a coffee user for
years, end about two years ago got
into a very serious condition of
dyspepsia and indigestion. It seem-
ed to me I would fly to pieces. I
was so nervous that at the least
noise I was distressed, and many
times could not straighten myself
up because of the pain."
Tea is just as injurious, because
it contains caffeine, the same drug
found in coffee.
"My physician told me I must not
eat any heavy or strong food and
ordered a diet, giving me some
medicine, I followed directions
carefully, but kept on using coffee
and did not get any better.
"Last winter my husband, who
was away on business, had Postum
served him in the family where ha
boarded. He liked it so well that
when he came home he brought
some with him. We began using it
and I found it most excellent.
"While I drank it my stomach
never bothered me in the least, and
I got over my nervous troubles.
When the Postum was gone we re-
turned to coffee, then my stomach
began to hurt me as before and the
nervous conditions came on again.
"That showed me exactly what
was the cause of the whole trouble,
so I quit drinking coffee altogether
and kept on using Postum. The
old troubles left again and have
never returned."
"There's a reason," and it is ex-
plained in the little book, "The
Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A ntiv ono
appears from time to time, They aro
genuine, true, and fuulll of human interest,
The Cataract Power Company
has r'dured ists commercial lighting
rates 25 per cent,
TIE NEWS [i A PARAGRAPH
1tAI'PEArING9 Vp:tDl4>[ ALL 01E11
TUE GLOB; IN A
Ni;TSIUIRLL N.
Canada, the Empire and the World
In General Before Yong
Eyes.
• Canada.
Fire did damage estimated at
$150,000 in the business district of
Montreal.
Montreal organizations are coms
bining to eliminate slums within a
few years. -
Sleet storms did heavy damage in
Brockville and in Prince Edward
and Hastings counties.
The cost of living in 1912, as
found by the Department of Labor,
was the highest in a generation.
• Two young Indians named Soney
were drowned while crossing John •
-
son's Channel, near Walpole Is-
land.
Premier Borden intimated that
the Government might propose the
-establishment of a Federal Depart-
ment of Health.
Dean W. S. Ellis of Queen's Uni-
versity,. died of pneumonia at his
residence, Kingston, on Saturday,
aged fifty-seven.
J. Komedina, an Austrian, was
buried under tons of- rock by a
slide at the 300 -foot level of the
Timiskaming Mine.
Donald D. McColl, an Aldbor-
ough township farmer, contracted
fatal blood -poisoning from a small.
scratch on his hand.
A tariff reduction on drainage
machinery may be obtained, the
Minister of Finance having assured
its advocates of consideration.
Philip Kelly, Clerk of Durham
township, and an ex -Warden of
Brant County, died at New Dur-
ham on Friday, aged fifty-four.
St. Catharines' ratepayers de-
feated a by-laws to build a viaduct
across the old Welland Canal to the
G.T.R. station by 593 majority.
Creat Britain.
The Duke and Duchess of Con-
naught arrived at Liverpool on Sat-
urday.
Mr. Lloyd George admitted hav-
ing purchased 3,000 shares of Mar-
coni wireless -stock.
General.
The Balkan allies are making de-
termined attacks upon the Toha-
talja lines.
A bill providing for alarge in
crease in the German army was
-adopted by the Federal Council.
BRITAIN WOULD CALL HALT.,
Winston Churchill Proposes a Holi-
day in Battleship Construction.
A despatch from London says:
Announcements of policy of the
highest importance were made in
the House of Commons on Wednes-
day by Winston Spencer Churchill,
First Lord of the Admiralty, in in-
troducing the Imperial 'naval esti-
mates for the year. Following are
some of his most striking state-
ments : Britain, in her capacity as
the strongest nation in the world,
and that best able to bear the strain
of continued increase in the build-
ing of armament, proposes a "naval
holiday" for a year, so far as con-
cerns the construction of new capi-
tal ships, and suggests that Ger-
many co-operate in effecting the
idea among the Governments of
Europe. The five Dreadnoughts
shortly to be added to the Imperial
navy by Canada (three). New Zea-
land (one) and the Federated Malay
States (one), are to comprise a new
squadron of five similar ships, to
be called the Imperial Squadron.
The three battleships to he laid
down this year by the Home Gov-
ernment will be identical with those
given by the dominions, thus com-
pleting a, fleet of eight ships without
equal in the world. It is proposed
to have long-range airships of the
rigid type constructed in the mm -
mediate future. Time. Admiralty has
arranged to lend guns, ammunition
and gunners to first-class British
liners for purposes of commerce
protection in time of war.
OWEN SOUND ARMORY FM.
Rifles and Clothing Sacrificed in
Destruction of Building.
A despatch from Owen Sound
says : The old wooden armories of
the 31:5 Regiment was totally de-
stroyed by fire which broke out
shortly after 1 &'clock on Sunday
morning. The firemen could save
nothing, as the flames had made
too great headway before the alarm
was sent in. The arms and clothing
of the five companies having head-
qua•rter,s here were stored in the
building, and nothing was saved,
,
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