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Show HUNDREDS 010 PERISH 10 HUNDRED DEAD, H00SIER STATE IS FLOODS DAYTON SCENE OF TERRIBLE DISASTER ONE HIGH SEA FIVE CONSTIPATION HUNDRED Munyon s INJURED AND HUNDREDS HOMELESS . ' Paw-Pa- w Pillsareaniikeallotb- f lavatie rr eatha . tics. They coax tbe liver into activity by T: gentle methods, they People Driven from Their Homes by Rush of Waters, Many Being Drowned in Streets. Dayton. Ohio Hundreds, and It Is believed thousands, are dead as the result or a flood which swept through this city wben the Miami river levee burst Tuesday. That tbe death list will be an ap palling one is apparent, although no one is prepared to stato the number at present. Some estimates place the list of dead as high as 6,000. At least 40,000 are homeless. Bodies may be seen floating down Main street, where for hours the water was from ten to thirty feet deep. A school building that was known to have held about 400 children shortly before the flood rushed in that direction, is entirely under water, and it is believed that all of the little ' ones have been drowned. St. Elisabeth's hospital is reported to have been washed from Its foundation) and the 600 inmates are said to have perished In the flood waters The electric light plant was completely disabled early In the day, and the city was In total darkness, except for the lurid lights of the con various parts of the flagrations flooded district. All groceries and bakeries In the city are In the submerged district, and It Is thought that a severe famine will result, owing to the Impossibility of getting food to many who are marooned In and on buildings sur rounded by swirling, angry waters. The waxhing down of bridges and subsequent collection of debris acted s a dam in the river, later causing the levee lo break and sending the water through the main streets of the city and Into the southern part or town. Oovernor Cox, with the sanction of the state legislature, has sent an appeal to the world for help. The state came mothers In the halls of Its office building Tuesday night. The worst of the flooded districts Include all of north and west Dayton, all of the downtown sections, the south side as far as Oakland and all of the residence suburb of Glendale. The district has a normal population of more than 60,000. Rescuers and those at the hospitals said au estimate of 5,000 dead might be as accurate as an estimate of 100. A flre which started from an explosion in the Meyers Ice Cream company, near Wyoming street, spread and burned the block on South Park about a block from Wyoming. Another big flre burned a downtown block. The Dayton News was under twenty feet of water. The flood rose to the second floor of the Algonquin hotel and all along Main street occupants were driven to the third floors. What happened to them since no one on the outside can tell. House looting began Tuesday nl,ht and while the local militia are oa duty they are wholly Incapable of handling the situation. Incidents without number are narrated of persous In the flooded district waved bandkerchlefs and otherwise signaled for aid. belnz swent away before the eyes of the watchers on the edge of the waters. Many of the rescue boats were swept by the current against what had been flre plugs, trees and bouses. They we.a crushed. How many died In this way no one knows Canoes and row boats shared the same fate. What life exists In the district that the wster covers Is in constant danger and helpless until the flood subsides. 1 Two Operators Are Heroines. Cleveland, O It remained for two girl to be the chief factovs In giving to the world the news of the first day of the flood. Both are telephone operators, but in different lines. One, a telephone operator In the main exchange of Dayton, flashed the last tidings that came out of the stricken city by telephone and also gave the news to Governor Cox which enabled the executive to grasp the situation sna start the rescue work. Tha other la the operator at Phoneton, eight miles north of Dayton, who served as relay operator for the eirl in Dayton. Roth stood to their posts si long as the wires held and the young woman at Pboneton. Mrs. Rena White Eaken. worked all during the day and night. Gaunt Famine Threatened Masslllon. O Hundreds of famlllea here were tnsde homeless Tuesrfa night by the rise of the Tuscarawas river and are being boused In the schools, churches, city hall and private residences. The east aide of the city Is cut off from the south and west sides by broad expanses of water. Property damage will run Into the hundreds of thousands. The pumping station of the city waterworks bas been submerged and a gas, aater and bread famine threatens. Thousands of men are out of work snd traffic suspended. TORNADO STRIKES ARKANSAS. legislature will appropriate 2."0,000 for the Immediate relief of flood sufferers. The department of the National Cash Register company has been turned into a boat manufactory. Ten boats an hour are being nude. Any attempt to estimate the loss of life is homeless It is sure to run Into the hundreds and very likely Into the thousands. The property loss will total m.lllnns of dollars. The flooded district comprises a practical circle with a radius of a mile and a half and In no place Is the In water less than six feet deep. Main street, la the downtown section, the water Is twenty feet deep. ' The horror was heightened by more than a dozen fires, which could he srei In the flooded district, but out of reach of flre fighters. Most of the business houses bare occupant. lK)n town the offices are filled with men unable to get home, and on the upier floors and on some of the roofs of the residences are helpless women and children. Hundreds of houses, substantial buildings In the residence district, many of them with helpless occupants, bar been washed aay or have collapsed The breaking of the Earlton reservoir, which supplies the drinking crater, left the rlty without water, Is declared and iby ilcian great danxer of typhoid In the use of wood-workin- g th-r- the flood water There are no boats In Davton which by flood Which ran resist the current and those on Wind Accompanied Causes Heavy Damage. the ouUlde gave up attempts to rea n the business section. l.ele. Ark A tornado striking How many houses have ben swept eight miles southwest of her Tuesday arway and how many occupants were nicht caused one ksown death. Fire carried to their deaths cannot be ober pers.ws are reported killed and learned until the water recede. even are known to be Injure.l seriousAt Wyoming street on the Houtb ly. Rum lev. a tillage five miles south, Ide, where the National Cah Kegia suffered heave damage. The wind was ter company centered Its efforts st arrompanld by floods which caused rescue, many saved tbeir lives by thousands of dollars damage to farms. crawling on a telephone cable, a bun Men bourly are riding In here from dred feet above the flood. the mountains with stories of the At first linemen crept along the storm's havoc and begging for medical rabies carrying tow rope to whih aid. the flat bottomed boats were at- Lumber Companies Lose Heavily. Cleveland. O. An estimated loss of between iViQ.MQ and fi.OOO.OW by lumber companies as a revolt of the flood of Cuyahoga river was made Tuesday night by several officials of companies that suffered the largest losses. tached. When the fierce that the boats no Inneer were ibl to make way against f me, and women crept along the riMfn to during. safety. Others, le darkness fall and save op hope o' rescue. Those wiirng to risk their life in the attempt to rescue, fwinl fhetn Estimates Dsath List st selves helpless In face of the wa'er O Five to eteM tbott-an-l feventy thousand of Dayton s population. It is reported, are homelrc. people were drowned at Dayton, The National Cash Register ti'ant 1.f'4 at Hamilton and (9 In Plqua on a high hill, offer the only haven by a flood wbicb swept down the III the sou'h end. I valley late Toesday Three women be M evening. flood became no a- -; NEARLY ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PERSONS ABF DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES. Seven Known to Have Been While the Property Loss mated at $200,000,000, Brook and Creek Taking Drowned, is Esti- Every Toll. Death and Destruction Wrought by Storm at Omaha, Hundreds of Homes Being Demolished. Omaha, Neb. More than 200 persons were killed and 500 were injured in a windstorm on Sunday that demolished 650 homes, damaged hundreds of other buildings, and caused a monetary loss of at least $5,000,000. Most of the casualties were in Omaha, which was stricken as never before. Nearby towns in Nebraska and across the Missouri river in Iowa also suffered severely. Wires were snapped off in all directions, and It took many hours to gather and circulate the news of the disaster. Flre broke out in the debris of many wrecked buildings In the Nebraska metropolis, and these were menaces for some time, as tbe flre companies were hindered by fallen walls and blockaded streets. A heavy rain followed the wind, however, and drenched the hundreds of homeless persons, but it also put out the where its path was six blocks wide. the latter section the damage Is complete. Finally, at Fourteenth and Spencer streets, the storm swept over the bluffs, high above tbe Missouri river, demolished the Missouri Pacific roundhouse, leveled the big trestle of the Illinois Central railroad over Carter lake, wrecked a number of buildings near the Rod and Gun club, a fashionable outing club, and disappeared to the northeast. A number of people were seriously Injured when a street car was blown over at and Leavenworth streets. Conductor John Cooper was seriously injured. The motorman, Fred Bentley, Jumped Just as the car started to roil over. The wind picked him up, carried him 200 feet and set him down In a field, uninjured, but considerably shaken. Conductor Cooper says there were at least fifteen people in tbe car at the time- All were Injured. The pathway of the storm, from iree to seven blocks In width, cut ft swath twenty-fou- r blocks long, first through an exclusive residence section of the city, then through a graduation of dwellings until It expended its final energy in the wrecking of a pool hall and a moving picture) show. Tbe total number of deaths In this part of the city reached almost fifty. Within the space of this storm center, which If made rectangular would cover a quarter section of land, 1.200 houses were wrecked, 100 dead bodies have been recovered and workmen are still the ruins for engaged in searching bodies. Several are known to be still In the ruins at tbe end of the storm's path. Estimates of the value of property demolished by the storm vary between $5,000,000 and $12,000,000. Some of the more substantial bouses can be partially rebuilt, but this number Is small, and where the buildings have not been torn asunder, they have been so twisted that even the material is useless for rebuilding. Monday five public schools were out of commission in Omaha. Seven In Indianapolis, Ind. With a hundred homeless, a number dead and property loss of $20,000,000, Indiana is experiencing the worst flood of its history. The entire state practically is one huge sea, and every brook, creek and river Is taking Its toll of damage. Public service corporations of the entire state are helpless, railroads and traction lines having canceled Many cities are nearly all trains. without flre protection and without light. Dwellers along atreams are devoting their labors to rescuing those trapped in tbeir homes and to removing furniture and merchandise to higher ground. Seven are known to have been drowned, two at Lafayette, three at Newcastle and one at Frankflames. fort and one at Rushville. Perhaps 2,200 persons are The appalling swiftness with which homeless and 260 more are destitute. Aside Crom this 3,000 buildings tbe waters bave arisen caught the entire state unprepared. Streams that were more or less damaged, many of were brooks Easter morning bave be- these being church edifices and school come raging torrents. Persons who buildings. Eight of Omaha's public retired apparently safe at home Mon- schools were wrecked. were All forms of communication day night, on Tuesday morning were rescued from second-stor- y windows almost annihilated by the wind and were in only two or three wires by boats. Conservative estimates Tuesday working condition when daylight renight place the number driven from lieved a night of high tension, which their homes at close to 100,000 and at times almost became panic. Solthe property loss, It is said, will reach diers, state and national troops, tbe twenty million mark. These fig- poured Into the city uurlng Monday ures are made up from reports re- to aid in bringing order out of what ceived from towns and villages and for twenty hours bad been chaos. are do not include the probable great These guardians of tbe peace aidpatrolling the residence districts, loss to farmers. Rescue work Is being carried on by ing the police to maintain order and volunteers, police, firemen and tbe relieve such cases of suffering as state militia and every place where come to their notice. The greatest loss of life occurred there Is a dry home it bas been sectlonally. Three points In the path thrown open to the flood refugees. Indianapolis is in the grip of Its of tbe storm offered the greatest sacworst flood. Street cars stopped run rifices. These were at Fortieth and ning at noon Tuesday, at which time Farnum streets, where a crowd bad the water and gas plants were forced Bought refuge in a garage; at Twenty-fourtand Lake streets, where a movto suspend. Two electric plants are operating, but may be compelled to ing picture theater was demolished, and at Twenty-fourtand Willis aveclose down. Seven thousand persons were driv nue, where a poolroom had attracted en from thetr homes here by the a crowd. In each of these places the churches are partially or wholly overflow from White river. Eagle fatalities were large. , Tbe cathedral of the Omaha Epis- wrecked , One private school for girls run. and creek Pleasant Tbey are church was temporarily turned is a total wreck, although the students being cared for by charitable Institu copal tlons and in private homes. The mil into a coffee house. Catholic priests escaped. Tbe rest of the loss is to ' that bad been de- homes. It la Is patrolling the flooded district. visited homes stroyed, in many cases administering Reconstruction was begun Monday aiding the police. Parts of Port Wayne, Lafayette, the last rites of the church, and pub- nisht when at a meeting of the real Terre Haute, lic bodies began tbe organization of estate exchange, a committee was apMarlon Richmond, Muncle. Rushville, Kokomo, Peru, relief committees. nlsht Monda, to take up this work. Connorsvllle, Petersburg. New Castle $100,000 had been subscribed for the pointed Frankfort, Anderson, Tipton, Noblcs-vllle- -, relief of the destitute. Hartford City. Elwood. P.loomGovernor Morehead arrived In tbe DEAD AND INJURED IN THE Ington. Shelbyvllle, Logan sport. Port land and Innumerable smaller towns city early Monday and took personal PATH OF SUNDAY'S STORM are tinder water, with many of the charge of tbe policing of the city residents driven from their homes Three companies of tbe state mlitla and others living on tipper floors. augmented the federal troops, which Chicago. Totals of the dead and were early sent to the city from Fort MUSICA STRIKEN IN CELL. in the track of Sunday's storm injured Crook, and the wrecked portion of sre as follows, according to latest retbe Is law. martial under city New York Importer Arrested on Fraud Mayor James C. Dahlman opened ports: Charges In G.itlcal Condition. Dead. Injured. Place, for negotiations with the governor f00 New Orleans Antonio Musics, New the protection of tbe city and for tbe Omaha and suburbs ,...20'i 19 2n) York hair Importer, who was placed In relief of those who nad been made Terre Haute, Ind S o Jail here last week with bis thret sons homeless, with the result that not Chicago 16 Yutan. Neb New York with state tbe officials became active only defrauding charged 7 17 Rerlln, Neb banks of a large sum of money, suf- In the works but a majority of the Council muffs, la. 12 IJ members In of the legislature. In session llarker, la the fered a severe heart attack 3 I' I Us condition 2 Is re at Llnclon. rame to this city to se- Weston. la. 3 jail Monday. 2 2 ported critical. The tSO.0O cas',t taken cure such Information aa might be Neola. la 5 2 from the Musics family was seized by necessary In taking up tbe work of Glenwood, la. 2 Iteebe. la tbe United States marshal sr.d will be state relief. .. 2 Insurance companies experienced Malvern, 111la. turned over lo the receiver of the 1 a firm. heavy losses, most of their fire poli- Walton, I Sterling. Ill cies carrying a tornado clause. 1 Traverse City, Mich Henwood to be Tired Again. The loss to the municipality Itself Perth, Ind. i will be great Five school buildings Denver. Judge Charles C. Rutler Total bave been partly wrecked and eleven 271 on Monday ruled that Harold F. Mt must stand trial again on the churches partly destroyed. The rest PRAIRIE FIRE IN KANSAS. charge of murdering George E Cope-lan- dences destroyed In the restricted He held that tbe killing of Cope-lan- d Farnum district averaged In cost from and the killing of Sylvester L. $15,000 to $:,0.000 Among tbe finest Flames Flash Over Five Counties, the Loss Being Heavy. von Pbul were two distinct arts, and residences raed were those of George that the fact that the von Pbul charge A. Joslyn. Howard Italdrldge. W. F. Dodge City. Kan. Tbe worst prairie was dropepd does not constitute basis Daron. Charles R. Sherman. C. E fire In Kansas In many years swept for a plea of former jeopardy in tbe Blask. C. H. Pickens, Sidney D. Itarka-low- , over Ford. Hodgeman. Gray. Scott and E. A. Parmalee and O L Ham Copeland case. Finney counties Sunday. The ilamsfe mer. was great, but litl'e stork to Wholesale Slaughter in Mexico. The storm appeared to have started wasproperty burned. One flre started In FinEl Paso, Texas. Wholesale slaugh- at Fifty-fourtand streets. ney county snd went eastward; anter of prisoners and civilians is re- From there It traveled Center north, veering other becan north of Inealls. In Gray line branch the of the slightly to the east ported along railroad between street Then It took to Leavenworth county. Ten motor cars filled with Mexican Central northeasterly volunteers left this city In respons Jimlnet and Parra, south of Chihua- course to Fortieth and aFarnum streets, to appeals for kelp la fighting the hua city, according to reports of reweeping Its wsy through everything flames. fugees, state troops and Huerta n.iii traveling a little east of north. forces are vleing In the slaughter, ac- It covered a course from Fortieth , Killed by'Falling Ct"eey. cording to refugees. street east lo Thirty rourtb street, a III. Clyde Rogers snd Desptaines. distance of six blocks. Sewing Machine Agent Killed. Frank gheridan. brakeman, were killed Remls the! when the chimney of a manufacturing Striking park Chicago Fred C. Cann. a sewing machine acent, wss killed Tutsdav by homes of the well-nMOmahans are plant waa blown down on tbe cah'xise Luther E. Sweeney, who asserted Cann located, the storm turned ah of a Boo Line freight train. Frank bad Insulted1 bis wife when Cann came the east and passed along Parker and ' Zcihms, conductor, was seriously Inuioftfio streets to Twenty-fourtto his borne to repair a sewing mastreet. jured. Forty-sevent- h - h h Hen-woo- fr Mex-IfO- v,', n-- ; - ynt j ' Qt'ININE" Only One "BROMO HOMO ODININM. l,oo cures a Cold ut H. W. I, HOT lolur Cum Uno in Two Imrft. ftc. U l.A.KAilVH 11 When a married man baa a good disposition it's probably because bis wife won't stand for any other kind. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, iurr-ooateeasy to lake at candy, reirulma ind Invigorate stomach, liver and buweii and cure constipation. Adv. No wonder some children never amount to anything; JuBt look at their parents. Important to Mother Exsnune carefully every bottle of safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that It CASTOHIA. a LgrJfe&f" Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years.. Children Cry for Fletcher's CastorU Best Thing. In the water and Jt frightened him." "It is tbe best thing which could bave happened." "How do you make that out?" "If be was dizzy, wasn't bis besd swimming?" "James got dizzy In Private. be started out with the bushel of ashes he walked into a clothesline that be didn't see. When he had picked himself out of the ash pile and recovered bis bs.t be stood In the back yard and relieved Aa bis feelings. "Henry." called his wife. "WellT he snapped. "Don't stand out there to do It. Come straight into tbe bouse and tell me that it's all my fault" Follows A Good Breakfast Try a dish of Post Toasties tomorrow morning. Trxe iweet, thin Liu made from Indian Corn are cooled, toatcxl and scaled in tight packages without the touch of human hand. They reach you fresh and crisp ready o eat from the package by adding cream of , : milk and cprinkling desired. ' if ' disit of lugar, 's rail-ds-e- d suf- fur hs Id Om A Jolly Good Day ' (t. That tertainment" chine- itae Untold agony Is what a woman fers from tight shoes. "Improved" Bull Fight bull fight In Toklo Is quite as much excuse for a gala dsy as a full fight In Madrid. Huslness men leave tbeir offices, and women and children tbeir homes, to harry to the arena. Stripped cf alt the less exciting, or less horrible, preliminaries which characterize tbe Spanish bull light, lb animals are brought la and sent at each other at one. So lbs batll Is shorter, and two or three more fights will follow In quick succession during tbe coarse of an afternoon's "en- '' ; CRANULATED ITCHING LIDS A ho-me- . w e, d. Tornado Strikes Elln. Teple In Revolt. Newark in Grave Danger. Floods In New York. Mail Carrier Caught in Snowslide j in Three s Elgin. Martin Fsj.lnor, joe Mexico City. Newark. the fan- rivers j Rochester, N. T. Heavy rains have P. Endicott. Dolt.e a rural mail wrecked n,i twenty hart' politico of Tepic, bas rebelled and all and rree's intersecting here overflow-floods in New Tork. At Horna-In- carrier between Atlanta and Twin when a small tornado struck Elgin the rtirales o,' Tepic have Joinel him. and riirg hourly, t'o ow dimag ille, the worst flood la a decade swept Pprlnxs, Idaho, was killed Friday ear y Monday. Re(orts from the This brand new and nnlooked for re- snd hnf)r"4 fn drives rmt ofjiown the Canister, Inundating severs) when he was murht beneath a snow-slid- e Sistrict fell of tbe tr.rBrinn f dairy volt will adi tremendoun'y to r 1eir homes Nem;k is ii rjitt sections of the city and tlelng p several miles from Alfanta. Tbe than HHI had of rattle. troubles. U ss of life. of treinewd.-.-- i rosd traffic body has been recovered. Misoue Town Salatsr on the Fence Destroyed. K ". ee. 0ie In Grip ef FleosT Sentenced for Life. J Creditors May Ooerste Plant. Mo The vlllae- - of F1 ft, Joseph. lne Sa'aar. one nt Washington. . Te'ed-tO Tors en the ?klanme j Chicago Prank Methane, 20 years Pavannah, Ga Mor than 15 rep. Firint. north of here, w.s pTactfr&itjr tbe rebel chiefs In northern MeiPo, one (i Miie a Ten "i. of the sitffmobile bandits, reentt!ves of credJors of tbe Amer- dtfmllshed and three of Its rrfek rive. Inhabitants eem Wnde Ided whether be lll rsst ffiwi Ike ntipre- - was ttmai guilty of highway robbery ican Naval Sfcires company hv rj"e-"")) '!e1 by a tornado Furiday n'sn. Tbe hW fortune with tbe Il'ierta farces or j fv ie boire bste rd was sentenced tff life Imprisoa-!- " p'anned to go over the eompssnv s af- oeni ,re Mr and Mrs Armfietd and jwlfb the factions still in arms against ' r 1 rsit od tra'Sr rretit. Three other tnnibri of the fairs and devise nme plan whereby a farmer r.amed Reed, j tnem. life are s at a stan1ii 1. sentence praft'-'serving (band be company ran be operated. puts those organs in a healthy condition and corrects constipation. Munyon 's Paw-PaPills are a tonic to tbe stomach. liver and nerves. They invigorate instead of weaken; they enrich the blood instead of impover-tihin-g it; they enable tbe stomach to get alt tbe nourishment from food that is put into iL Price as cents. All Druggists. And Yet the Dance Halls Thrive. Young Man (approaching a glrll "Er-e- r may I bave this one? Oh, you're too kind. You dtn't mind If 1 hum, do yon? Do you know, I'm Just dippy over this her dip. Tee-beJoke. Floor's swell tonight, sln't It? Gee. but I like to dsnce with you! Tell that to every girl? Not on your life! Seems ss if I must bave met you somewhere before. Wish I bad. though. Well, 111 be; that's alb Short and sweet, yep Just like yon. Tee-be- e. See you later." d hr. do not scour; tbey do not gripe; they do not weaken; but tbey do start all the secretions of the liver and stomach ia a way that soot Toaitie are a Jolly good Nourishing Satisfying Delicious |