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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1913
Page
8
The death list grows with estimates around 2000 and a shifting tally. Early figures from Dayton are questioned. At Peru Indiana three hundred reported dead. Bodies are seen drifting downstream in many locations. Food and water shortages cause widespread suffering.
Chicago March 26 Governor Cox received telegrams from Dayton and other points detailing flood devastation across Indiana and Ohio. Early counts place deaths from 200 at Cincinnati to 1,000 plus in Dayton with many towns like Peru and Warsaw heavily submerged. Reports caution the death toll may reach into the hundreds more as rescue and relief efforts continue.
President Wilson issued a national appeal urging immediate aid for flood victims in Ohio and Indiana. The Red Cross offices in Washington and local treasurers will collect contributions to support rescue and relief efforts. The War Department ordered tents, hospital tents, medical supplies, and one million matrons deployed to Ohio with Major Normoyle and Lt Hou coordinating relief.
A relief committee from Dayton north of the rivers sent a phone appeal to Chicago on March 26. An American Telegraph & Telephone Co. employee and the Dayton postmaster attempted a horse and buggy drive, but the telephone man cut in and transmitted the appeal.
Governor Cox received word from Dayton that the city’s business section was ablaze by 2 47 pm with indications it would be destroyed. People reportedly fled by leaping from roof to roof to escape the flames.
In Columbus the death list expanded as reports from the west side confirm a drowning disaster. Names include WM. A. Sexton, Enwin D. Daniel, Albert Gore, Elmer Hayes, George Cook and baby, L. W. Mack and three children, George Eckart and seven children, and E. M. Melching with Mrs Melching and seven children among others. Hamilton lists include attorney Robert Sitane, N. C. M. Roberts, Herman Tijman, Dr. Leon Puta, plus three unidentified women and two unidentified men.
Sofia reports Adrianople captured after five months of bombardment. Shukri Pasha reportedly killed himself after the fall. Bulgarian Schipka regiment led the entry as fires rage through the besieged Turkish fortress and eastern fortifications collapse under Bulgarian artillery.
In Springfield on March 26 Col J Hamilton Lewis a Democrat today received a constitutional majority of the votes of both Houses for United States senator. The fifteenth ballot for the long term showed Lewis 4 and Sherman 22 with others scattered. Sherman was the likely choice for the short term despite mixed indications.
In Gratton West Virginia on March 26 a Baltimore and Ohio telegraph operator relayed a message about a train on the Cincinnati line that passed two bridges near Loveland. All on board, about twenty people, were reported killed or injured as the wreck occurred after a failure in transmission. Weather data from the same update notes a high of 24 and a low of 12, with temperatures a year earlier at 41 and 30 respectively.
Omaha leaders organize relief and rebuilding after the March tornado. Nearly 100 funerals take place amid wrecked churches as families seek loved ones. City officials, real estate groups, and business leaders plan coordinated aid and housing while Dayton sends a sympathetic telegram.
A large fire late yesterday destroyed the Chemistry Hall at the Town State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Ames Iowa. The loss is estimated at 100000 dollars. The blaze is believed to have started from chemical combustion. The building was among the campus oldest, constructed in 1870.
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