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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
12
Yale swimming team remains missing after floods halted travel from New Haven. The squad, slated to swim in Cincinnati, did not appear as trains were stranded in Ohio. Team members on a western swing toward Chicago face a delayed return before college resumes after Easter.
A note marks 1823 as the year the finest whiskey you ever tasted was first distilled, signaling a long tradition behind the spirit. The claim frames 1823 as a landmark in whiskey history and craftsmanship.
The note marks 1913 as the year when the whiskey gained protection, highlighting its status as a landmark product with longstanding registry and protected status.
A vintage note extols the rye from a non-refillable bottle as unchanged in quality for ninety years, urging readers to visit the next place and request a drink of rye from such a bottle.
Washington on March 26 reported the government mobilizing to extend relief to thousands of homeless survivors of the Ohio and Indiana floods. From the President to department bureaus, agencies moved swiftly to organize expeditions providing food shelter and medical care to the affected.
The War Department mobilizes one million rations for 200000 people and tents for 50000 as floods devastate Ohio Indiana. Military units, medical staff and Red Cross aid coordinate from Philadelphia Pittsburgh St Louis and Chicago with urgent relief orders and postal service restoration.
An improvised telephone link from Phoneton to Vandalia relayed a Dayton man's report of residents marooned on the fourth floor as floodwaters surged through streets. Davis described near-starvation, lifeless bodies, drifting buildings, and a fire threatening the Quert building near the Home Telephone offices. Authorities pursued swift relief as water and debris overwhelmed Dayton area streets.
Postmaster General conducts a futile effort to learn the damage to the government stamped envelope factory at Dayton. Officials say there is no danger of stamp shortage since all adhesive stamps are supplied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Hudson River rising rapidly but not at flood stage in the Albany area. Upstream sections report danger near the headwaters of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. Rail traffic north of Luzerne disrupted as three miles of track washed out and several bridges lost. State Engineer Bensel dispatched deputies to Yost and other flood-affected locations along the Mohawk and canal system.
Four picked men from the United States life saving station at Louisville with a large lifeboat and gear will depart Louisville for Dayton via Cincinnati early tomorrow, to assist in Dayton rescue work under Treasury Department instructions.
The Merrimack River swelling from heavy rains rose a foot in an hour and was expected to climb further by morning. Officials at the Amoskeag Falls dam reported the river reaching five feet five inches above the 15 foot high structure.
Since the Johnstown flood, the nation has endured about 15,000 deaths and over 100 billion dollars in property losses from twelve major floods and cloudbursts in the last quarter century.
The Johnstown flood of May 31, 1889, followed warnings that were ignored. A high reservoir owned by a hunting club failed under swollen currents, sending a wall of water 40 feet high through Johnstown and forcing 175,000 from homes.
A towering 300 foot high wall of water races down 18 miles of valley toward Johnstown. It destroys entire villages in minutes, carries away forests and buildings, and leaves hundreds of corpses and wreckage drifting past towns below the scene. Some residents escape to hills before the torrent hits.
Thirteen car loads of militiamen from Lima Ada Van Wert Kenton Bucyrus and Calion eight companies on the way to Dayton to aid flood rescue are stranded at Sidney Ohio tonight. They will wait for transport to Piqua and then march to Dayton in the morning.
The main dam across the Hudson at Palmer's Falls broke this afternoon, more than half of the 250 foot structure being carried away. No fatalities or property damage reported. The dam powered International Paper Company mills and they may shut for months for repairs.
A relief train departed Chicago tonight carrying lifeboats to Fort Wayne Indiana to rescue occupants and aid orphans affected by disaster. The convoy aims to reach the city to assist stranded residents and provide emergency rescue capacity.
A March 26 bulletin from South Bend city comptroller P J Joyce to Mayor Charles Goetz reports 2000 people stranded on the courthouse square three miles from dry land. With no heat light or water and sanitation failing the scene blocks relief efforts as the lone motor boat is out of service amid dangerous currents.
A historical recap lists major U S floods from the Galveston 1900 tragedy to the Ohio Indiana floods, noting the 7000 deaths and $17 million loss in Galveston, the Austin Penn flood with a 49 foot dam breach, and deadly cloudbursts in Hepner Oregon Clifton South Carolina and a May inundation covering an area the size of three states.
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