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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
7
Special to The Washington Post from Dayton Ohio describes rescue scenes under General Wood as the city drowns. Guardsmen die or vanish while protecting refugees mostly women and children. A school housing hundreds is said to be collapsing. Heroism, panic, and harrowing deaths mark the flood's toll.
Columbus dispatches describe Ohio facing the worst flood in state history. Daytime rain, isolation of cities from Dayton to Delaware, and thousands trapped by swollen rivers. Reports of deaths vary. cordoned towns include Sidney, Tiffin, Zanesville, Chillicothe, and Massillon as communications collapse and rescue work stalls.
In Brookville Franklin county Indiana last night a flood from the White Water River flood plain swept through the town as currents carried people from streets and alleys downstream. Five children clung to a bed post before vanishing with the main stream. Five wagon bridges and a paper mill collapsed. Fifty summer houses were destroyed and no bodies have been recovered. Survivors report men women and children tried to flee by lantern light after the electric plant was swamped. The town is cut off and appeals were sent from nearby communities.
A Western Union telegraph message from Zanesville Ohio reports the entire city underwater and a nearby building collapsing as officials fear for safety. The note ends abruptly with a call to leave the office.
Cambridge Ohio March 26 via telephone to Pittsburgh dangerous conditions in Muskingum valley worsen hourly as communications fail. Telephone wires are going down one by one and the line to Zanemville failed at 3 46 pm while the river keeps rising with seven deaths reported earlier in the day not yet increased by the outage.
Delaware Ohio March 2 The Olentangy River flood has killed fourteen people and left fourteen missing as the city copes with two million dollars in damage. Names of the dead include Frank Melching and family members from nearby households. Major Bleas was rescued from a pole. National Guard in charge, bread and gasoline scarce, bridges washed away, volunteers from Ohio Wesleyan aid flood victims housed in churches and the YMCA.
Fort Wayne Indiana March 26 four children inmates of the orphans home were drowned when a rescue boat capsized while transferring them to the county infirmary. Esther Cramer 14 Alice Madden ? Arda Wood 15 and a seven year old named Wise perished. Three others were rescued as St Mary's River rose further while Maumee remained steady and a flood crest was expected tonight.
Sandusky Ohio dispatch reports Fremont flood toll rising to eleven with Main Street water at fifteen feet. A special train has been sent with watercraft and crews to Hood conditions worsen in the city as floodwaters rise and rescue efforts continue.
Reports from flood stricken towns describe mass displacements, improvised clearing houses, and volunteer aid led by John H. Patterson of National Cash Register. Thousands housed in factory refuges, babies born, heating and water scarce, rescue boats ferry survivors while efforts to locate the dead face daunting odds. Local officials, including Lt Gov ONeill, emphasize saving the living as the priority. Persistent hardships threaten sanitation and warmth as relief pours in from elsewhere.
Refugees and rescuers battle the rising Ohio flood. Daylight finds Dayton cut off, with boats and trucks set to deliver food as marooned residents plead for aid. Messages from captives reveal thirst and hunger while dam fears and heroic rescues unfold.
Thirteen carloads of national guardsmen from Lima Ada Van Wert Kenton Bucyrus Galion and Kenton eight companies travel to Dayton for flood rescue work and are stranded at Sidney Ohio awaiting transport to Piqua then Dayton. A train from Cleveland and Mansfield reached Lima at midnight via Creativne.
A night of crashes left four injured as a speeding car struck 12 year old Clarence Warwick at Second Street and O Street Northwest. Warwick suffered rib injuries and a punctured lung after the vehicle fled the scene. Henry Ashton, 59, was knocked down near Fourteenth Street and Rhode Island Avenue Northwest. taken to Emergency Hospital with non serious injuries. Sylvester Reeves and Edward Reed, both Negro residents, were injured in separate collisions, with Reed a two year old hospitalized after a front curb impact on New Hampshire Avenue Northwest. Police hunted for the hit and run driver amid gusty winds and rain.
Columbus, Ohio, Mar 26. Floods from the Scioto and nearby rivers roil the city with 100 to 160 believed dead as a western bridge collapses. A storage dam north of the city reportedly broke, triggering mass panic before officials denied the claim. Police blame military links for the rumor while authorities insist the dam remains intact and holding.
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