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"I LAST EDITION rxra jtxr warmer. unrlf 5:21 Sunset. 1 1 1 imT "VT TT7t M'MKKU WHOLE 13.E2 LUUL JUU.UUW Li Extent of Loss of Life and Property Dam age 'Not Known' and May Not Be Learned for Many Days. I BULLETIN) 1 DAYTON, March 27.r Many bodies are being removed from the water at RiTC rdale, They are being stacked three deep along the bank, according to word received at the Western Union headquarters. It started snowing ajain this afternoon.

The estimate of dead, 5,000, apparently ia about correct. The total number of dead never will be known and Dayton dreads the day when receding waters wiiKlay bare the full extent of the disaster. DATTON. a. lUrchT.

The Cre which started In Dayton yeMerday aittfnoon nd burned all right wafc under control at noon today. The flamei ewpt several tlocks In the bueiness and residence scc 'tloni, and "becauM thee building wre nurrounded by deep. rift2y running water tha fire Cthten were almoit helplesa. The chiet concern wa for the marooned Inmatea of the burnine buUdlnga. "Whether any who card the perished In the Camel not known; The wtather as told early today and anow added to the terrora of the water.

Many refageea wer cared for and hundreds of jenone were reacued from perilous portions. For Ik time the flames leaped hundreds of feet tnt9 the Jr. Cuttlri3 Treea for FueU jf the death, Ust Is oV.ly one thouaand I will consider it a manreyous dispensation, telegraphed Governor Cox's secretary today. "If it is ten thousand I will tot be iurrrUed. "Horrible as this is." he aald.

"the real suffering will grow worse for days. There are seventy 'thousand hoaneless." Tersons with bass, wheelbarrows, tubs wasons were keirlrTg themselTes to ail taat wasatandlna' la the Pennsylvania yards today. Over In the Itlverdale seo tlon the fuel situation became so acute that shade trees were tut down in the street Glare of the Fire. The glare of the Are in the business section lighted tie sky for miles around last nlirht The Slow ould come and ro. Many times a column of black smoke would boom up In the gjlare and from It would burst forth a ehower of sparks not unlike an ImmenM skyrocket.

The burning; district was said ta include the city hall, Johnson Bhelton, AUier Chllds and Surprise stores and the Western Union Telegraph Company's main office. Helpless, Thy Looked On. a tmall rart of Dayton's cltlxene, from their refuse on the highest po'nt of the Icity, swalted anxiously to learn or tne faie ef at least of the city's Inhab itants hemmed In by rasing flood water and menaced by. fire. AUhough little more than a mile from the wrtlon where it was feared there had ben preat loss of hundred of men and women looked on help lcely.

Even during the early hours the third day of flood, any estimate of the cumber who perished would be mere guesswork. Thousands have been How many 'hare' survived no one knows. Firs Still Burning. Numerous fire had sprunj up since the water from a bursted reservoir Panned In lens of thousands, but the wotyt fire started yesterday afternoon. Although water from swollen streams lowly had be UP on the outlying sections i( the vlty for hours, the catastrophe came within thirty minutes after the Tarleton reservoir broke.

The ureets soon became basins for swelling torrents of water, in which boatscould nut live. Those safe from Hood hare had to wait until the water subsides. Field Glass. The water went down perceptibly each hour after 'noon ycMeiMay and during laft r.ieht. and i.nles other reservoirs trfak, the well organized force of relief workers should J.ave a large auction of tie city ei lorod before nightfall.

Fir added a grim menace lot r.lsM and tfKlay. From what could be aen through tield glass from top of a tall build ing more than a mile a ay, winM as Hi" bse started hi the Iatterson Sup a rlnfc JTvlar faAaJ? 'f. SIXTEEN PAGES consumed at least parts of three blocks. The Patterson plant is In Third street, near Jefferson. The Are burned northwest for a time and then shifted to directly west.

Pleaded to Be Saved. It has been conservatively estimated that TJ persons were marooned in the Deckel hotel. which was believed to have gone up in flames. This fact, however, could not be definitely ascertained. Whether many persona were in other buildings in the vicinity is not known.

Two expert oarsmen took a boat into parts of Third and Jefferson streets yesterday and saw persons In every build ing who pleaded with them to save them. They did, not "traverse that part believed to have been burned. Word was received early today" that sixty motorboats. with men to operate them, were coming from Cleveland and a few from Cincinnati, Unless conditions should become worse it was believed practically all of the submerged section could be explored before night. Big Reservoir a Menace.

Thst conditions will Improve, Is not ss sured. however. Reports today trom the vicinity of Lewlstown were that the huge reservoir was apt to break any minute. A high wind was blowing water over the banks, the dams were weakening and Lewlston people were fleeing from their homes for high ground. Lewi 8 town is many miles from Dayton, but It is predicted here that if the jeser olr there gives way a worse flood than has overwhelmed the city will down on the inhabitants now fighting for Should this catastrophe before the water now hemming In thousands subsides enough to allow boats to get to the stricken people, it Is predicted thst it will be Impossible to reach them for days, Snowing and Colder.

Most of them have been subjected to a cold, penetrating wind driving rain before it. since Tuesday noon. Early today there was snow and a decided drop In the temperature. The city was proclaimed under martial aw yesterday afternoon. Late last night a Continued on Page Fourteen.

WEATHER INDICATIONS. UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU. InHanapnlla. March 77. 1113.

1 URNSOU 00D HOI Temperature March r. 3I March 13. a. 7 a. 21 li tn.

T1 I p. 9 I p. m. 18 Barometer a. S9.S7 in.

99. t3 i p. m. Forecast Ivocal forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for tbe twenty four hours ending 7 p. March Fair tonight and Friday; rising temperature Friday.

Hourly Temperature. a. tn a. a. m.

a. 10 a. ra. II m. 1 tn.

1 p. m. a INFORMATION BUREAU. Tli'e genera relief committee has estaVlisbed s' bureau In Tomlsoa hall for the purpose of giving out authentic Information concerrlng refugees from the flood and all fiood sufferers The bureau is In the charse of Will J. Dobyns, who requests all refugees to phore blm their names in order that Information may be given to friends.

The bureau telephones are: Main Old phone, and New phone. FLOOD RELIEF FUND. "ATSft of the contributions already made The Indianapolis News fund for the relief of the tood victims i Indianapolis will be und on Page relief corrmittee contributions will be found on Page 1 1T TPh 1 1 4 JL' Available Supply of Provisions for City May Be Ex "hausted. SITUATION UP TO RAILROADS Some Necessaries Can Be Hauled by Wagon.T but Roads Are Poor, and t. Steam Lines Must Help Indianapolis, is having' a shortage in the milk; supply, which, seems sure to grow worse, is facing a shortage In fresh meats probably Within thirty six hours unless railway traffic la opened, and is almost at the verge of an egg and butter shortage, according to thoee who are familiar with the food conditions In "the city.

Along with the flood apd the isolation of the clty; came the familiar and oft repeated skyrocketing of the potato TOar ket. The steward of ene of Indlanapolls's largest eating houses sal potatoes had been selling cafes. restaurants arid the larger establishments at SL80 but that the commlsaion "nien today put the price at 2 a bag to these same establishments. A bag contains about, two bushels and a cv i. aaaA a rotatoes eoosieu.

i Bogu. secretarj'', of the Indianapolis Business Men's Association, also told of the boost on "potatoes. He said many persons would try to blamethe grocers for iV' but that the grocers were in no way responsible. PoUtoes were brought Into this, city fte tatter part of last week at CO cents a bushel, said Mr. Bogue, but the commission men put the pntcea to the grocer up to a bag.

which Is tl a busheL 1 Most of the smaller grocers In thet clt art members of the association. Potatoes have been retailing at from 60 to 73 tent a. bushel, said MrBogue. As long as the potatoes bought at the lower prices iwere on hand the members of the association expected' to sell at' the same prices: that have prevailed the last few days, he aald, but afer that the product musl go higher beca.e the commission snen Were de maPding tbe high price. Under the tendency of the wholesalers shown today potatoes will be from.tl.S0 to $2 a bushel In 'm city In a very short' time, Mr.

Bogus predicted. At Mercy of Wholesalers. With the outside supplies cut he pointed out. the grocers and. retailers are absolutely at the of the commission men and wholesalers In ths matter of price.

was said by commission men thst the potato supply in' Indianapolis was not sufficient: to run a week, and that, the commission, men were limiting their! customers to a few bags at a time. A. Hit, of George Hits Co said the firm had a few potatoes that it was selling at US a bag, but was selling Jn only a limited way, and trying to distribute them 'as well as it could. The potato men had made no preparation for a break in the supply, he said. Potatoes were selling at 11 a bag last week, and had been gradually rising.

until the firm's price of (IS reached today, he said. Only In Small Quantities. John 1L King, of Vondersaar said that the firm mas selling sit a bag. but was Only selling in small Quantities. He aid the potato sucprr in Indianapolis Continued on P3e Four.

N. Ji MM 'Mil HIGH WATER lANAPQJLIS THURSDAY EVENING, 1 1 IN RIVER AVENUE NEAR KENTUCKY Pa re3 ts A re Sa i td selyes When Their; if Special to The Indianapolis JfeWs Marchr Z7 jD rect news from FrankHn county, where Brookvllle. Metamora. Cedar Grove New Trenton were swept oy the White water river flood. Is stin unobtainable.

Reports reaching here in a roundabout way ray that five grieving "and despondent over the hw of their. children, committed 5 Lists of and supposedly dead at Brookvllle are being slowly Increased. Fifteen bodies have been recovered and a few others are: In sight, sbutca'n't not be reached. v. i Three.

Men Disappear. Three believed to be Adam Her meler. Allen and Joseph Ken who were marooned In a tree far out" In the" stream, were gone this morning. A coat left on an upper branch was taken as a signal left by them that they had. succumbed.

'7 A consisting of Charles Fries, his wife and three children alt the bodies havebeen recovered. Many people are still In the houses which were their death Floatlng'ln Back From, the Brookvflie 'nights may, be seeri thirty houses with cars, barns oil tanks. haystacks and small buildings of descriptions floating together In the backwater south of town. The rescue work on' by means of Appeal For TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANi iPOLIS The extent of the disaster to the city is far greater than was thought yesterday. Every report intensifies the hardship of the situation which the cold weather is" adding to.

number of persons heeding immediate help increases, every hour. In 'response to ou appeal of yesterday, thi committee has received twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00) up to this morning. From present appearances, this falls far short of what will be required, i We beg therefore for quick and liberal assistance on your part. No sum is too small, but give all that you can afford, remembering what you would wish done for you in the same situation. Checks may be sent to A.

Fletcb or may be left with any bank or trust company, and will be acknowledged in the daily papers. F. M. AYRES, i S. A.

FLETCHER, Finance Conimittee of the IARCH 27, 1913, I CTnl t. Have Killed Thern 7 boats and rafts, and 'eight men are re ported through accidents." whole lower quarter is gone. A 'few1 stone houses which were submerged are now In sight; having withstood the Bodies are being taken out of them. A dosen farmers with families, sr valley; near were marooned Monday afternoon. All' are thought to bW'iosif 'j Main Part of Village GoneV Communication Is cut.

from mora, Ave miles north of Brook thitewn Is believed to have been flooded, though many, inhabitants escaped" hll s. Cedar Grove, south of Brookyirie, caught the full breadth of the flood. Two thl rds of the village Is somewhere down sti earn and the number of dead la tin kn wn. Louis Brown, es county corneal isloner.t and his wife are among the victims. Property damage all along the "vTiitewater "valley is heavy.

The Big Four railroad tracks have disappeared. I. 1 Relief rf communication, with the flooded regie is severed save Indirectly, to 'the northward with ConnersvIIle. through two villages. Belief Is being extended by these villages and a high' and dry neighborhood northeast! The food situation; Is growing" serious, ana efforts are being made to get supplies from this neighborhood Into Brookvllle.

The courthouse has been turned fnto an emergency morgue. More Money LOUIS HOLLWEG, CHARLES J. LYNN. JOHN H. HOLLIDAY, General Emergency Committee.

A 1 on OUUIU NEWS SIXTEEN T7 31 nl AVENUE it S. i Only Two Foot Fall Needed for Water Plant Furnaces to Be Fired. MANY WIRE LINEMEN BUSY Few More Street and Interur bant' Running Numerous Steam Trains Start From City. Railroads Keeping Up (Service to the Suburbs It was announced today that the Monon and Big Four railway companies would continue their suburban service until the city street cars began running again The scheduled two trains to IrvlrJgton at 6 and o'clock p. to too' at State avenue.

LaSalle street and Audubon road. Trains were to' leave Irv Insrton Fridsv morning at 8:30 arid 7:30. If the city car service was not resumed fully at that time. The Monon trains were scheduled to leave 'for Thirty fourth street at tlo. 8 and 12 noon and 5 anT6.15 p.

returning from Thirty fourth street at 7:30. 1:30 and 11:30 a. m. and 12:30, 1:30, 4:30 and 6:30 p. The Big Four expected to start trains to Brightwood at 6 and 6:20 p.

scheduled to leave Brightwood at 6 JO and 7:30 p. m. The Indiana Union Traction Company had two cars in operation between Indianapolis and Broad Ripple. Commuters' trains, with a 5 cent fare, were to be run by the IL I at 3:30, 5 and o'clock this afternoon, from the union station to Tibha avenue at the west end of HaughvHle. Trains were scheduled to start from Tlbbs avenue for the union station at :30.

7:30 and 10:10 Friday morn ink. The H. D. brought to the union station, todav the first train to. arrive from" the west since the floods became oaiiKerut.M.

Th train came, from Monte xuma. and hereafter service to that point will be from the union station. There will be two trains a day on the Pennsylvania to FJchmond. It was believed today that a fall of two more feet In White river would enable the Indianapolis Water Company to start fires in t'hei furnaces of its plant at Riverside. Officials of the company were Informed that White river had fallen four feet since late yesterday, and that Fall creek had fallen four and one half feet.

Preparations were made'to start fires in the furnaces Just as soon as the water gets low enough, and it was hoped that workmen could get into the boiler room by this evening During the morning there was four feet of water on the' boiler room floor. Work for Fire Protection. Experiments were being made at the West Washington street plant with the hope of resuming temporary service for the protection of the downtown district fiom fires. But it was noted that if the pressure could be resumed from that plant today it could only be slight, and citlxens were requested not to use the water except under the most extreme circumstances, as fire protection waa deemed of first importance. It was announced that the company would be able to afford sufficient service by night to fill the downtown' fire cl tern and keep them filled 'in case of fire.

Water company employes at Uroad Rjp pl reported thai the river there had tali en three feet and two inches since last nlilit. i.nd that a fall of one more foot' would ytop the water from flowing into the oanah officials of the company wre afixTous that the public should thoroughly under stand that when the water is put into the rrniimied an Paq5 Seven. UTILITIES SLOWLY COVER of In I PAGES 0ENVEARNED Inn3 mm Officials Also Are Considering Plans to Head off the Skyrocketing of Food Prices. ME 5 Militiamen, acting under the direction city officials and under the orders of Governor ttalston were patrolling West Indianapolis late this afternoon, while" a proclamation declaring martial law was being held in abeyance, ready, to be Issued at a moment's notice, if necessary. Saloons In the.

vicinity of the flood were cloned by order of city officials. Two relief trains were on their way Into the flooded district over the railroad lines. The police and others were doing everything In their power to prevent looting and the officials were debating drastic actlon'to prevent the prices of foodstuffs Indianapolis "being rsised above a reasonable level.r Waters Receded Rapidly. White river and Fall creek were receding rapidly, backwater was going out of flooded districts, rescuers were hetetofore isolated' districts and tarrying food to the suffering. The sun had shown a welcome face and the temperature risen 'considerably above the mark at, dawn, when a driving snow had given indications of another period of severe suffering.

The general committee on relief of the city "was gathering money, clothing and food and developing plans for the better care of the thousands of homeless who were sheltered in public buildings and PROCLAMATION OF MARTIAL IAVREADY Governor, However, Decided Only to Call Troops to Prevent Lootm HIGH PRICES IN MIND 'ALSO Question of Radical Actleh If Necessary In Commission District Received Consideration. I Other of the fiood will be found on Pages 3, ,7. 8. 5. 10.

and 14. Governor Ralston prepared today to Issue a proclamation declaring all of West Indianapolis under martial law. for the purpose of preventing looting of the hundreds of deserted houses In the Hood district The proclamation was written, but he then decided that conditions di not make this action necessary. However, two companies of the Indiana National Guard were ordered to proceed to Indianapolis at once. This decision was reached after a conference with Superintendent of Police Hy land.

The troops called wit were to come on to the city In spite of the fact that the proclamation was not Issued. They will do gusrdnd patrol duty. Field for Vandals and Thieves. Early In the day the Governor received Information to the effect that the situation in West Indianapolis wasuch as to make an Invltink field for vandals and thieves to loot the homes of the flood sufferers. He thought the situation would justny mm in dectarlng the place under martial law.

Later he learned that tbe police department had established a strict patrol line around the flood. district and no one was tllowed to leave or enter tne triCt Who COUla noi Bie wusntiuw account of himself. All saloon west of! float Just undr the surface of th wafr. the river were ordered closed by the po tarried 1. her and thither by.tbe trach lice lepar.ment..

cros currents tat lie every her. The Governor also had said he was I Great stretrhes of lun ready to tke drastic a tlon in to and urniture nt struts, the food' lltuitlon if he found it 'neces 'j driven iy the W.n!H and current tary to do so. 'Reports had reached Branches of trs and tan 1 of lteavy increases In the pwces some Continued on Paje Fourtein. Daily pair circulation for January and February. 13 ......107.12 IndiannDoti' alone' I TWO CENTS rnT KK i Known West Side Dead GEORGE SMITH, flutter koat mb, eapelsed la reses work, died later frern expeare.

CHARLES ROGERS, drwwaed whii. kc wii trrtw ts res ewe others Xm flrat day lo4. WILLIAM CETER, attempted wisa freas Bern Im Xvrdyk svtsse, drsiwrned. cared for by health officials and Yolua teers. Utilities Partly The railroads were moving a ts Xfintr.a In and out of the city, the street car company had succeeded In obtairnr power from outside sources to move a limited number of cars, the gas companies were both furnishing gxa.

and the water company was arranging to provide fire protection with every lnd.xstion that In a few hours the normal pressure wouM be restored" on all lines. Searchers who had traversed the greater part of the flooded district declared thit there wero no bodies visible Iq tfce houses, and expressed serious doubts as to possibility of wholesale drownings. Several reports had been received cf bodies floating In the current, but so far as known none had been recovered. No Bodies Are Found. A close search of the.

West Ind.anspolfs flooded district made In a canoe, with the water dropping below the tops cf windows in first stories of homes, today, revealed no bodies of drowned victims. 6f tha flood. Despite the scenes of devastation and wreckage Indescribable ia Oliver avenue. Division street. IIoL'y avenue, Morris street, River avenue.

Arbor. avenue and several other less prominent streets, n' bodies could be seen in the interiors of houses. It was spparent from a close scrutiny pf the district that victims of the flood would not be found In large groups la thx thickly populated sections of the floodel districts, thanks to the tireless work of hundreds of rescuers. The bodies, if any are found, probably will be Snj the mofaT' isolated sections, here swift currents made It impossible for the light boats of the rescue forces to go. Men la boats through the section, who had spentthe greater part of the laat tbreV days on the flood, said "a doxen or so" would cover the number of the drowned.

"Some old people, or sick people, or children, who wero caught where, they could not bs helped, may hsjr teea drowned" said one man who steadied hJ canoe gainst a tree at Oliver and Arbor avenues. Hole In Roof Jella of Escape. 4 A report that four bodies were house In Morris street was Investigated by The News canoe. No bodies were found, but a hole in the roof that marked th path of escape was found. Henry Lyendecker, 18 ij Oliver avenue, looked out of one of bis windows upstairs, then stepped' out with a broom In hand to sweep "his veranda." IIia ver anda during the flood was tha roof cf the veranda cf ordinary times." Lyendecker answered a hail from the canoe cheerfully.

"We're all rlght but we want some bread say. bring us some he said. Just then Mrs. Lyendecker thrust" her head out at the door to see who the early callers were. The two alone weathered the flood wilh a hole cut in the roof for use In case of emergency.

The hole was used only once or twice by Lyendecker, but he did not wish to be rescued. "I'm. going to be right at home all the time, he said. Dangers of Rescue A new phase of the flood that reveal the dangers encountered by the men who manned light craft in rescue work, realized when one pr rows I here ana mere. prent.n., riv.p'sw Continued on Page Eint.

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