Flood Devastates Indiana Cities Leaving Thousands Homeless
Flooding across Indiana kills at least 125 with many feared dead, as White River and White Water flood districts devastate Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Logansport, Lafayette, Terre Haute, and Peru. Rescue operations expand with boats and derelict public services hampered by the disaster.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Grove
Trenton
Peru
South Bend
Fort Wayne
Logansport
Lafayette
Terre Haute
Pape's Diapepsin Offers Quick Stomach Relief
An advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a fast remedy for indigestion gas sour stomach and upset bowels. It promises rapid relief within five minutes and a money back guarantee on a fifty cent package, claiming unmatched safety and broad household usefulness.
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Pape
Wakefield Families Anxious Amid Tornado Flood Reports
Anxiety grips Wakefield residents as relatives visiting in Indiana Ohio and Nebraska linger after tornado and flood damage. The Rev Claude McKay seeks word on his uncle James H Brown last heard from Terre Haute Indiana. Additional worried figures include Rev A R Connell in Columbus Ohio and salesmen J D Guillow and Scott Wade in Dayton.
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Wakefield
Indiana
Nebraska
Claude McKay
Greenwood Church
James H. Brown
Terre Haute
Boston
Xenia Organizes Refugee Relief For Dayton Arrivals
A relief committee has been formed in Xenia Ohio and is sending supplies to Dayton. Local churches are being prepared to house refugees expected tonight, with several hundred to be cared for.
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Xenia
Dayton
Harvard Students Anxious Over Ohio Indiana Flood
Nearly 100 Harvard students living in the flood area of Ohio and Indiana besieged Harvard Square telegraph offices seeking replies to quiet their anxiety. No telegrams or information arrived, and students called Day ton Columbus and other flood zones plus railroad offices for personal news but found none.
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Harvard
Ohio
Indiana
Harvard Square
Dayton
Columbus
Boston
Harvard Students Seek News From Flooded Homes
The Federation of Harvard Territorial Clubs seeks definite news on the whereabouts of students relatives in flood hit cities. Harvard students with homes in Dayton Indianapolis Richmond and Newcastle fear for family members as telegrams and reports fail to reach them.
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Harvard Territorial Clubs
Associated Clubs
Harvard
Eugene J. B. Gorman
Randolph Hall
Dayton
Indianapolis
J. J. Daniels
F. L. Mayer
H. E. Mann
EF. E. Schortemeier
R. H. Simpson
L. C. Tyree
R. A. Walcott
E. C. Ehren- Sperger
Cedric B. Long
K. F. Pantzer
A. N. Levin
Verre Haute
Ll. D. Tennant
Graduate School of Business Administration
Terre Haute
D. B. Johnston
B. Knollenberg
H. C. Reid
H. M
Indiana man seeks news of Peru wife and children
Lowell March 26 eM Carter of Peru Ind who came to Lowell to visit his sister Miss Catherine Carter of this city anxiously sought to learn if his wife and three children in Peru were safe but had received no telegram reply by late tonight.
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Lowell
Em. Carter
Peru
Ind
Catherine Carter
Floods Rise Across Rochester Area As Waterpower Fails
Floods over the Genesee River surge to peaks unseen since 1902 with Rochester industries halted by water power losses. River towns report vast farmland inundation, canal breaks trigger oil slicks, and Olean crowd evacuations follow Canisteo and Seneca River overflows.
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N. Y
Genesee
Hornell
Canisteo
Olean
John Cook
Erie Canal
Waterloo
Seneca Falls
Port Byron
Seneca River
Lehigh Valley Railway
Cayugea Lake
Aubuga
Ithaca
King Terry
Mustingum Valley Cut Off From World
Cambridge Co March 26 Conditions in the Mustingum valley grow more serious as all lines of communication fail. Telephone wires used to reach the outside world are going down one by one. The line to Zanesville failed at 3 45 this afternoon. The river was rising then. The death list remained seven.
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Cambridge, CO
Mustingum Valley
Zanesville
Missouri Rivers Flood Rise Hits St Louis Area
The Mississippi River was 2½ feet above low water mark at 9 am, rising five feet in 24 hours. The Illinois and Gasconade rivers flowed high, with La Salle eight feet over flood stage and Beardstown three feet over. Snowstorms blanketed St Louis and parts of Iowa Missouri and Illinois, melting snow to worsen floods. Thousands of farm acres in south St Louis County flooded. Dardanne Creek breached a levee near St Peters inundating the town, no deaths. About 1200 residents in Washington Park district marooned by a dike breach from Rose Lake.
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Mississippi River
Illinois River
la Salle
Ill
Beardstown
Gasconade
Missouri
Iowa
Illinois
Dardanne
St. Charles County
St. Peters
Washington Park District
East St. Louis
Rose Lake
Relief Train Prepared for Flood District Aid
The government loads a freight train in Philadelphia to be rushed to Columbus for distribution. It carries 4000 tents 2000 blankets 11000 cots a hospital outfit including 400 patient tents and food and other supplies for soldiers and militiamen. Additional shipments from the city include hundreds of stoves.
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Philadelphia
Columbus
Tuscarawas Flood Worst in History Hits Dennison Area
The Tuscarawas River flood is the worst in history with all low lands submerged. A highway bridge west of Dennison collapsed this afternoon. Two Baltimore and Ohio bridges near Ulrichsville were washed away, isolating Lockport. Supplies are exhausted and two men are reported drowned.
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Tuscarawas
Dennison, CO
Tuscarawas River
Here
Baltimore & Ohio
Ulrichsville
Ohio
Lockport
Start Food for Dayton to Aid Flood Stricken Ohio
A carload of provisions left Cincinnati for Dayton today via the Cincinnati Lebanon and Northern railroad with two more carloads planned. Food, cots, blankets will be sent to Hamilton, Ohio after appeals to Mayor Hunt. Doctors and nurses will follow, as Cincinnati remains cut off from north, east and west by floods with telegraph and telephone lines down and interurban lines crippled. Only southern services are functioning.
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Cincinnati
Dayton
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railroad
Hamilton
Hunt
This Pinex cough syrup recipe promises fast relief
A home cough remedy mixes sugar syrup with Pinex to create a pint of cough syrup for two fifty. It claims quick relief for coughs including whooping cough and offers tone, appetite boost, and mild laxative effect. The ad notes pine extract benefits and guarantees satisfaction with Pinex available via druggists or The Pinex Co.
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United States
Canada
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
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