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TEXAS. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1913. -12 PAGES VOLUME 2, NUMBER 157 3,362 BELIEVED DROWNED BY FIRE DEMON AT WORK ABOVE STA6E OF FLOOD Glare of Flames Over Distressed Districts Present Ghastly Scene at Smarting Rain Increases Suffering. FIGURES OF DEAD OHIO, Dayton 8,000 qua 540 I la ware 100 Middletown 100 Sydhey 50 Hamilton 12 Tippecanoe 3 Tiffin 50 Fremont 11 i Scattering: 200 Total .............................................................3.066 INDIANA. I Peru Newcastle Lafayette i Indianapolis Notleavllle Scattering 150 HELP! HELP! FOOD! CRY 0.

S. AND ITS CITIZENS ENDEAVOR TO SILENCE FI nnn STRONGHOLDS uu FALL BEFORE ATTACKS OF BULGARIAN TROOPS Adrianople and Tchatalja Are Captured After Withstanding Siege of Great Armies for Kills Self. Total Grand total 196 .362 2 Government Arranges to Send 32,000 Tents and 1,000,000 Rations to Homeless and Hungry Flood Sufferers. Chicago, March thousand may have perished in the deluge which swept the northern half of the Ohio River Valley yesterday and today. Probably half a million people were made homeless by the flood in Indiana and Ohio and property damage in both states will be at least $100,000,000.

IDENTIFIED DEAD ME PATH IN Peru, Ind. Rose Whittle. Elate Smith. Tiffin, Ohio. Jaroh cht and family of ejghf.

Kllngshirm and family of four. Dayton, Ohio. Mrs Lucy Abel, aged 50. I- avenue i after being readied near Miami hospital. Edward Rhettler, aged 45, a grocer burned.

ton March 2 that destroyed 19 in tarda tub margad butmtti aacTen tee gbt a rad, glow ovar the alrtehan oty that aodr ta tha faara of thauaanda of and marooned paesana and lad ta a opeit on teat may many pnaaeaea in tha humad bu'idi'ga. boon attar natica pealad tha bssd quarts-a of tha amarga ne com mittaa. arnauncrg that tha eity under "martial and sf arrivad from Ohio Ha aoldiara warp ampioyad to al edgat of tha submerged district and prevent further looting of frood from flood Up to a lata "Our tonight thara had base no mata-ial Roaeua worked practicady today to throw bach vail that tha trua story Oayton numbor of dsad Lata tonight tna arrival af motor gava hap a that by tamo row tha northam ef city, new cut off by thg M-am barrar, may ba and than may bo tha fata of by tha at powrod dawn from broken TaHaton raaarvair. A tread nvertuir victima of the nfpfrp wrath were iwmprtlnl suffer j.gaig today Ut old. fain rife that apiaenred to the tmaineea nee toft tonight aa the Mork bminAed and Third atreeta im Jaffmnit and St.

atraets. In the block are the vtrth Mattonai bank. Ki ana' Whole- and aevraaJ row: ms.salon It Imfioaalhle to get within two of fire and from that dis- 1 latice what appeared to protiaD) of made the hre of larger proportions than It wit It appeared tu about burned itself oat and it not brlieved it would to other bite It to aacertatn even approximately the numtw of pera-ms might marooned In this ve. nom arid who died after being trapped by flood and fire Nevertheless icar tie work went steadily on corner Mam and Vine str-c Cslunybus, Ohio. Wm.A S-X 1 a prol Elsard I Albert flore, mail carrier Mr.

ind Mrs. F. Hay Mrs f.jeorg— 1 and Maek ind Mr and Mrs seven hi birra Oaiswara Ohio. Frank Melehing. Mrs M-lehing.

.1 sons, Ralph and Mrsitiaa Ralth and her aged 7 -mi and daqyht-r. Miss Esther Jones, aged Misa Haxel Dunlap, aged Mrs tosso Will ir) Wm eld lug iff! Washington, March Garrison called on President Wilson today and outlined the flood situation. "We are sanding tente and and said the secretary as ha left the white house, "just as quickly as possible, We will do everything in our power for all afflicted There will be no delay in supplies for the Twenty thousand tants authorized by congress for Gettysburg celebration and 12,000 more for the Confederate celebration at Vicksburg have been packed for shipment. All that remains is to hurry them aboard express cars. The million rations gomg forward at Governor request are sufficient to feed 100,000 persona for tan days It is evident that the relief workers fear pestilence and typhoid in tha flood district.

Among the medical supplies being Lexington, Ky, March were received here today a tornado swept a path two miles wide in Wayne county, south of Somerset, last night, and caused of life has 1 children and one at midnight great ditmag reported. The wind blew a barn against Carolina special on the Cincinnati, New Orleans Texas Pacific, broke out many windows, but did not injure any of the passengers, rushed forward 10,000 vaccine and 5,000 doses of anti-typhoid vaccine loods in Dix I have dated the waterpower plant of Dan- the nation to contribute money to the! ville, a town of inhabitants, American Red Gross, which in turn ap- an(4 it is a red that the people will pealed to the govqrxtors of the states suffer for the of drinking r. to help gather relief funds. A late report from Danville fire Majors James H. Normoyle and broke out in the residence section and James E.

Lane experienced in to destroy the greater part fighting the Mississippi Valley I fbe town. London, March two days' xjc rate lighting Tchalja has fallen into the of the according to a telegram received tonight by the Bulgarian legation at London. Earlier advices ttdtf of the fall of Adrianople, the fcrmer Turkish capital also to the Bulgarians. Bhukrl Pasha, the Turkisl chief in charge of Adrianople, committed suicide after the capture of the city. Adrianople.

the former Turkish capita! withstood th. siege of a great Bulgarian army for over five months, the iirst gut; having been fired at fortress October 5. Shukri Pasha, tha commander in chief, had under him with the encircling forts what was considered the flower of the Turkish ngular army The main jxirtlon of the garrison consisted of the fourth army corps, to which had been added many regiments and batteries who had been drawn in before the advancing Bui gar an ira U. S. OFHCIAL8 RUSH DELIEF.

Government Upon Learning oi Washington, March principal function of the government of the United today was to extend relief to the thousands of homeless of the Ohio and Indiana floods. In quick succession every agency of the government, from tin- president, the retary of war. to every bureau (Lately to Columbus to handle th chief In departments under whom supplies relief expeditions could be organised and fifty-four Jam Maini 60 III REbCUE TAKE SUFFER 1RS FROM ROOFS AND TREES. LIVING FIRST IS AIM MISSISSIPPI IS FAST RISING Fear Flood la Entertained Along Sborsa Prediction er, Werk af taped at Greatest Number Man Be Saved. and si in pis joritv i lone I of refuge them tn bull ash er tonight Prisoners At least parsone ave itnpr.s in and In build It it feared their two dey a with hung Peru.

2nd, March 1 pb 0 to Kkiutto i detalla of the dtMMdruue flood salted i'sru, drew arorta of ita and et sud fright has caused tremendo gendered than hair of The Mood catoe with at. Its n. were 0 1 when m-ia 1 propeiitng tree! ded levita through inulni.it The farta esta Nuailar of jrrstu ble to learn how many are bidden In wh oly umiii Humber of persona Two hundred ami twenty five in removed to a temporary hospital at Plymouth, Ir.d Property t2 AS. Only two of the are ui-ut fied. Roo AS hit tie and I Rftiith, of whet kn- aa ein it Row, ittmj iard of frante I.itni.ica ere drowned, were Niem Many Ammala D'ewnad, Winter of a big circus egertr ilea troy ak out T-oU being drowned, including p- and a collection of Cltiaena finding iawlesatieaa In block of th, above water, organised a vigilance committee, with orders to botera.

Cand.tiene Rei thouenitd perenna atti) tua In the courthouse, hmpltal, fai huildiuaa and other tu-, aue, the I relief ha i 1 carry them three ai ily a tul auf 1 lick of 1 darltnesa, of power and from Peru rr feeble id, clothing arrived on the Werk Perilous. unity of beg nning anything explained by the fact i tie party devoted the en- tying a way aurvi climbed Tffl noli Who had Kir two .1 on Hop of tank wot er works, panlc- of Die tael lost of men fell That auiipli 4 on Memphis. March With the Mississippi at Metnphla several above thr 32-foci tonight and rising at the rate of about an fitch an hour, the prediction of C. Kniery, local weather bureau thut flood of 35 fert will be hed hy E'riday certain of fulfillment. Mr Emery today that housed would not attempt ft prediction of ha Aa minimum, he unofficially mated the record of last 1 li feet, levee collapsed at or more pomts along the uthern of the river and the of farming and a lumber of small tow re be attained For Helena, 111 of forty is In f.

sat and at feet or more. I The flood stage at Helena la 42 icet I at 45. I moved xwtfllv to the to provide food, shelter tend medical Ion for the All the the department of were ordered to hoid in for duty in the flood i dish nr.e million sufficient to 0 poop it lor five least, purchased by the war I a the nearest dr 1 to the Ohio and dlana to shelter at 50.M6 people, of cots, hospital and field auppli.s, being loaded in th. Philadelphia, Pittsburg, 8t. Leu Chicago, Fort Thomas.

and neaiby army and within twenty- ur rea, the devastated W.leorv Exprititi Sympathy. -f svn.p thv exchanged by the president and of Ohio 1 and Indiana w-re followed quickly by a of for help, which promptly by the government The president In office day. In touch with the tion He in constant communi- cation ith Secretary of the war department If. apprised Ghair- Martin of the ainate and Fit gerald of the house appropriations 'hot the government going with emergency on asaiimptiqn that would back up the administration later on They both of hearty support and went out every side for a gigantic work of re- were ordered by Quartermaater Gen- era! to Columbus, to chargt of distributing food sup- for th- ral government. Major FuuntU-roy wag sent iinrne- med Nine medical hospital corps ovnt from th- department of the east, car- lying a big supply of surgical dress- ings, anti-typhoid and the complete reserve medical supply" comprising hundreds of drugs, cent to io.oO# for nmnth.

against the 1 of disease are to be taken by sdnita- 3G0 KILLEO IN Strong. The fortifications, which have subjected all the bombardment by- hundreds of field and siege guns for I nut 160 were vehv strong. They consisted of forty modern ji posing a semi-circle round tho northern half of th- city east to went with minor works between. the south of the city there also was a neries of forts, but much de- ridence whs placed on the uhaiwcter ih- gro trea The citi ibitanfs, half and and Th ed 11 the there, which mis marshes ntains about whom Armenians, xo.ooo in- u-e fiiy lief. Calla Upon All The president i upon people ten experts, Mabel Boardman of the American Red Cross was active at the here, telegraphing orders to at Cleveland and and calling upon other nearby for and Life were ordered from Louisville to Dayton; from Loraine, Dhio, to Delaware, and the public health department distributed Its agents over the afflicted Burleson Postmaster General Burleson directed the department representatives to make every possible effort to instaj) temporary ma 1 service and restore the main routes between the east and the west rapidly p.

Only the I railroad close to Lake Kri- hav- beeji able to get the ma'li I from the west, and there been practically no local service in the territory bounding CUv eland, Toledo, Columbus, Indianapolis, Terra Haute and the Ohio river. All south of the Ohio are reported open. which regularly east and west through the flo ded will 1 be detoured until furth-r notice The postmaster general made a tut 11- effort today to learn the damage to the envelope I tory at Dayton There no danger of stamps are furnished by the bureau of and printing here. With an during the Naco, March 26 timated total of 300 kll fighting iti the American mln town of Cauanea. the late today prevented the troops attempt to take their position by as- More than 1,000 state troops were driven back The Huerta garrison is reported to have lost few men.

fo man of i The city piltre tury A great vie Goths 5 Avar Huns siiins have ils, which formerly surr. und- t.y, had been allowed to fall md since the laut Russian- Iar in DTK the city has ic of de-llne Much of its ndor has disappsnred, but f.iTt" mosques are Liui of Austera architecture, tf had a varied hiatory ts foundation the second een- th- Rogian emperor. Hadrian, tory was won there by tho and another by th in Twice the Rus- occupied the city, flrat in Turkey to giva Greece and again in occupied It without 1629. when the independence 1 lift wh.n resistance. The jrresent siege however, with an army believed to be composed of more of the attackers great, than 100,000 Bulgarians and 30,000 Servians, constantly bombarding tha Report of Currandar, it nit- one of the brightest In Its history The Turkish gnrrison has fought with great valor, In snlte of hunger and which have been even more devastating than the bombardment of the besiegers.

Los Ang- les, March 26 A message to the Western Union company from operator at Naco, A at 10 tonight said he at Cananea had surrendered. Infsst Flood Dayton, Ohio, March 26. A gang of roughs went through the southern par? of the city late tonight Instructing people extinguish all for fear of a gas explosion, and then began raiding. University students from Cin- clnnati and Die p-reed the gang traffic off Main Street in Dayton, Ohio, Now Reported Under IS Feet of Water Mi RED CROSS AGENTS BUSY. Corps of Nurm at Work While Supplies Are Being Gathered.

Washington, March J. Edmonds, Red Cross agent, reporting from Dayton today the urgent need of food, clothing and blankets from nearly cities for the relief of flood sufferers, made no estimate of the of life The Red Cross has a lurge itrps of nuises at Dayton Mayor Dahlman of mi.tha, notified the Red Gross today that outside aid probably would be unnecessary. He said the dead numbered The Red Gross agent, who investigated the situation at Lower Peachtree, Ala, reported that were injured in the cyclone which swept that section and that 200 were destitute. The war department and the public service today awaited reports districts of Ohio and Mob Negro. VI'est point.

March 26. Brown negro, was hanged stairway in the county jail he today by members of a 11 gained entrance to th. pri chi elmg un opening through wall, cus- bri Rasaengar Tram Wrecked. Mt Louis, March train No. carrying Omaha and Kansas City sleepers, was wrecked tonight near Normandy, a few miles out of St I Ti fireman was killed and it was reported the engineer was fatally hurt and that several coaches w-re overturned in a ditch.

Difference of Opinion, Tex March 26 While Gov- Colquitt vetoed th- bill allowing nty run to levy a Ea county p.rk* on the ground that it is urn institutional, Mr. Itevia had an opinion from the attorney general department holding that the bill is constitutional. from the Italiana. All the offici Information through though the liter position Oh Pake 7. had in way of convey ed to them presa dispai chea, a II Cross was in a organization had i.uiijber of from its agem- eacrtblng and heavv of life to Ditaaae Ruegcn Rupe-l th inibite heulth servlce, today dsclareti thai every pmautlon would he taken to prevent epidemie following in vv ikc of connected th- servlce are stu- tlonsd at Cleveland, Detroit, Kvans- ule, Indiane, and other points today un I tonigl and other dispute hed to them for a r-port on Secr-tarv ord-red Surge-oj Wflb.

of th. United Stai. Marine Hospital ut Cleveland, to pro- i ced at once Golumbua to co-op- i rote ith ho rd heaitt' ut prevent Big th- apr-ni of dix-HH. in fliaidad districi of st.it wer- ai so to st marine hospital at go to indiana to co-operate stale Or- 'obb vv 1 1 MAYOR TO RECEIVE CONTRIBUTIONS Witt Accept Any Amount to Be Chen for the Benefit of the Flood Swept Towns of the Middle West. 11.

Mack will Mi to ne die West An Indiani hen have istat ii 1 t.cr* are swollen wateri royed property, at It will take the nd the iter tru help lit at the it nil! of which they the United 8 things are for here has been life. Mayor people, ri funds will the need, Already there has tribtrtlng it istlfy and th. re lived a tn Mi the following lett Hon. Dear Kir Th the daily papers, homeless and that Waco should have met with We enclose our tliis amount If nee- dlate to render ussisuinc Assuring you of our heart approved by your judgment, tpp of th- iking The mayor will re miti 91023232480023.