| Show iA G i fROM A tATER AlSO SHORT El I Belief elief Committee Appeals for Shipments Shipments Shipments Ship Ship- H ments of Bottled Water Relief Work Wark Is Rushed c AYTON 0 Starch 20 Thc D.-Thc The work ork of rehabilitating began here today f as ns the work of rescue approached its end The all important weather I 1 towed p awed improvement us as viewed by refugees for it was warmer arid and pleasant frost and water chilled bones but the sanitary experts accepted the rise f temperature with mixed feelings for the cold had bad retarded the tho of an animal mal matter and refuse Secretary Secretory of War Yar Garrison conferred with various officials and heads E committees wired President Wilson Vilon that the death leath list would not Breach reach and otherwise otherwise- epitomized the tho situation and departed for Cincinnati Eter ter a n flitting view of the city from an automobile It is probable that will go to Columbus tomorrow W Y E. E Blackwell in charge of morgues t the dead ead at 50 TATER ATER FA FAMINE II n THREATENING I Members of the tile citizens' citizens relief committee arc are apprehensive of a water mine amino mi Jt lt is believed thero is JB little chance that the present supply can made to last until the water mains DUlins are arc in use again R. R II n. Grant head headE E- E Etho t the tho c relief supplies committee tonight lt issued an appeal to all nIl cities in inic inie ic ie ie count country asking that as much bottled water as ns possible be shipped to tor r immediately It is especially desired that this water bo be pure as is practically impossible to boil the dIe water for drinking purposes P Medical Uc ical supplies were reported woefully lly short by Maj T. T V. V Dupuy ho 10 is in charge of sanitary work Drugs here were largely destroyed ed and andic andle ic le c medi medical nl chests of the militia as well as supplies sent by other cities ive ve in many instances been dela delayed ed b by washouts and other mishaps of ofie ie flood However a n trainload of supplies is expected soon from Wash Wash- The f rhe he activity ot or certain local under under- kers cers called calle l forth the wrath of oC Major UPU who Issued a statement In which fe called 1 them ghouls for tor their fever- fever ih h h activity in seeking out the bodies rid find It is in alleged sometimes burying iem em without making ranking report to the I He lie d declared that the they are rere ere t R V to or work a holdup gamo pan pon on h c- c o-l o I friends and relatives of ot use lose w VL 4 ve Ze lost Jost their thir lives U 0 II to M t y T A uy 1 tho various arlous committees es Is toda today In asking that ord rord be b 1 r 4 31 d 1 broadcast that mere are not wanted Irre f T yoa J t uJ J this attitude and aro Te- Te sinS sinS' 10 to accept who canot canot can- can ot show that presence here bore Is Iseo eo There w were er ar thousands of ot In the city today Most of ot th them m mfr ver fr tr froin surrounding towns Tho The SOB Jene gna relief roUe car carS which man many of ot them jre re were manifest forgeries Tho majority of or the tho bodies of or flood tris will wili bo boo found round b burled 1 under the In the Miami canal under groat ou u 01 ut ant ami tar 1 me meI e I Jam Jami I river rl at rg Middletown rid ad Hamilton In the Opinion of ot men ho have examined tho ground bround Few conic were ca caught ht In their home homel Lome as early all I of ot them had received Int nt warning of the approaching disaster die dis aster to enable them to get et out before 10 ie flood assumed dangerous ons ons Th Those se who were crts drowned for tor fore formost e most moet part cau h in the greets either cither while on their way to ell dr p places aces of business and null employ employ- ment or whilo trying to get et to places placE's of safety when forced to flee from their houses Saw Scores Score of oC in 10 River Lieutenant I surgeon of oC the Third regiment nt O. O N. N G. G who went trough through the tho flood In West Pest Dayton Daton said sala that he saw scores of ot dead bodies floating float float- ing lug down the Miami r river cr and ana many people were swimming but there was waa not ono ODO chance In tn ten thousand that these wore saved he said Bald Tho Tim water was wis JC icy cold and lud the tho current terrific The flood he related came camo camo when thousands of persons were ele In tho the thoi i streets tr ets scoffing at t the le idea that a tue levees t teg fU mp rac ah protected them Had Dayton ever had a 1 serious flood noo 11 Why h be alarmed And so 80 tho they were carried to their death How lIo man many of ot course no noone noone noone one knows exactly In ono ono district I It was 8 stated led at sanitary department headquarters dozens doz dos ens us of ot bodies could bo be seen under piles of ot wreckage hero horo a a. hand and there thoro a afoot afoot atoot foot toot sticking out from under the debris Efforts were directed for soy sov- u L 0 0 0 cru crat in an in 10 io get geL ai at 1 bodies but none had been taken out when night fell teU J-D J n Itc cne n Work York The work of extending succor to the marooned inhabitants of ot the districts which still aro are flooded continued during tho the day In man many sections wore to be seen rowboats skiffs skirts and canoes making mak ing their way with extreme difficulty among the heaps of ot wreckage reck e and nd over- over Continued on Pa Page Pago o 2 2 Column 4 4 VA DAYTON IN NEED OF MEDICINES AND DRINKING WATER WATERs Continued From Prom P Page Sc 1 turned houses among tangled meshes of telegraph anti and telephone and electric electric elec eke trio light wires seeking out possible victims who vho had been for Cor Among the organizations engaged In rescue work is the company compan of oC naval reserves from Crom tho United States ship E Essex sex at Toledo un under er command of ot Capt A. A F F. Nicklett The Tho company compan reached reache Dayton on a special relief train from Toledo on Thursday and Immediately imme immo- launched boats In the tho raging torrents which wore were sweeping tho the city from end to end ond Up to 6 o'clock to tonight tonight to- to night the sailors had been constantly on duty ut and had to their thell credit a a. total of J O rescue rescued an and they were wore not think think- ing lug of ot sleep when darkness fell feU Good Work nork noue by liy Sailors One crew In command of ot Ensign B. B E E. E with two boats hoats rescue rescued 75 I persons from the business section and that district Immediately cast of or Main street and west of or Eagle Engle street Many an of or tho people were taken from Crom their homes only ono after aCter tho the sailors had mounted to the tops of ot partly overturned over over- turn turned d houses and chopped their w way y through to tho tue attics where tho the Inmates inmates In- In mates were huddled huddle together waiting for death to enter Another crew under Junior Ross Willoh succeeded c in saving while three boats in command of ot Son- Son lor br Theodore Schmidt rescued i 21 H persons The majority of ot these latter w were ro taken from rom box cars warehouses freight sheds and grain ran elevators In me Ine 06 railway yards It was here nere that tho the water attained its greatest violence rushing whirlpools between tho the Irre ular u- u lar har buildings on either side of or tho the tracks Navigation was extremely perilous on account of oC tho the man many sub sub- mergel box cars care oars flat cars care and over over- turned Several times the sailors were capsized capsized cap cap- sized but managed to keep leep with their boats and right then them again as Not t a a. life lite was lost Jost either among the tho reserve o or am among on tile the hundreds whom horn thc they attempted at at- at tempted to rescue Labored one Seventy Hour hours While sailors worked incessantly to savo 51 lives Walter alter Gayhart also of or the lie ships ship's company succeeded In es as- as s- s a n supply station In E E. E Fifth street where many refugees cs con congregated congregated congre congre- re- re gated s and issued rations to the tho suffer stiffer ers lie He slept tonight after aCter seventy one hours hours- of oC continuous labor Jabor t i Only those doing relief work or haying hay hav ing official business were allowed out of oC doors after 6 G o'clock tonight With 1 the additional military forces which arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived tho the cl city t was thoroughly policed cd The city o was In darkness again to to- to night Even en with the careful policing during the last C few w nights somo some robbing rob rob- bing has hns been heel done clone It has been Impossible Im Im- possible to do llo much relief f work at nt night and the curfew curlew ord order r was duo due in iii particular to the tho advisability nd of or keepIng keep keep- Ing the men where thoy they can protect their own households if necessary Fronts of ot stores have been broken brokon down and merchandise exposed Some of oC this has been stolen Some men ha had gathered gathered gath th ered a n quantity of or Jewelry and wore making away with it In a traveling traveling- bag when arrested Denounce nod Roily Surgeon Major Dupuy made tho the fol Col- fol- fol lowing lowing- statement tonight These snatching body ghouls operating operating oper oper- aung under tho the name of oC undertakers will be prosecuted and anti brought to time If Ie It takes tules the assistance of oC tho medical corps of 01 tho the 0 O N. N G G. G These body body- snatchers grab rab bodies and anti rush them to their establishments and then notify relatives of or the whereabouts of or the dea dead There Thera are a number o of lug hIS establishments who follow fonow and recognize the law of or reporting all bodies recovered There are arc thousands of or lead dead horses and other animals strewn about th tho city said the tho surgeon While Impressing into service largo Jar numbers of ot men It will require many days as a's to dispose of or the carcasses as many of or 1 i these aro are buried beneath great heaps of hea heavy wreckage which It will he be necessary to remove 0 before the tho bodies can bo taken to the Incinerating Incinerating- plants Sorely Surel 1 Needed eded To ad add to the me menace naco of or th the tho situation situa situa- tion ion we wo found Cound that with one ont or two exceptions o every ory ry stock of oC drugs druG's in Darton Dayton Day Dar ton was destroyed b by th the floo flood Many of our officers arc are without medical or surgical supplies A lieutenant doctor came to nie me toda today bogging bog for supplies supplies sup sup- plies lie He said ho Ito had several everal obstetrical neal cases to care caro for besides several urgent surgical sni cases but had hall nothing to tow w WOrk rl with Medical l knowledge o does not hot do a man much lunch good if It ho has not rugs and instruments ments Already there re are considerable numbers numbers num num- bers of ot sick here but we are arc making every ery ef foi t possible to caro care for fr these theto o Patients A maternity hospital has been established In D Dayton View an emergency hospital is Jt being operated operated- under extreme difficulty however In however In the courthouse and a hospital for Cor contagious con con- discuses already Is treating several s cases of ot chickenpox m mumps und and measles There aro arc Innumerable cases of or la Ia grippe e. e pneumonia acute rheumatism and the like being treated b by hI the doctors of our corps and many other ca es have haYe been reported by bv local ph phYsicians ye id ans Sanitary DI been n ft or ir Dupuy stated state that the city has hns divided Into nto six sanitary districts each In n charge chare of oC an officer of or th the tue sun san tar Corps ot of f the national guard As It l will be tie several weeks before the lar sewer sy 18 It In jn operation a again Jal n a large e corps ot of mon men will bo be kept kelt active ac- ac the tive In d disposing of or refuse and amI In dis Infecting all U remises occupied b by refu- refu gees Strict Gt orders regarding the dis- dis ls- ls position i of garbage r have been na the o liao 0 bc been advised b by means ot of f bulletins Posted In conspIcuous mii ous places in CS in the streets tr how ho best to preserve public health A hS small smaIl army of or sanitary inspectors hiss been Pressed into service and eer every effort b be ma made lQ to prevent pre out- out of ota a pestilence It was waH owing to tho the frightful flood conditions throughout through through- out the entire territory of at which Da Day ton is tho the heart making transportation I facilities of at nil all kinds useless that sup plies for tor the medical corps did dil not L reach hero until several sc days after acter the flood lood broke Several cars of limo already al al- al ready have hae reached the city and many moro aro arc en cn route from rom different points A carload of oC am ambulance supplies is tho way from rom Cincinnati on or I Federal In Charge Arrangements for placing placing- sanitary I measures In the hands hanas of or federal officials of of- 0 tic laIR were com completed pIe tell at the confer enco ence between Secretary of or War Yar Garrison Garri Garri- s son on MaJ Gen Leonard 0 Wood I General Rupert Blue an and the local relief t committee headed by John H. H Patter son After Secretary Garrison ha hall had i talked over the telephone with Gov Gov- Cox he lie decided ed that while th the i state militia woul would bo be able to police pollee the city tho thc federal government gO should have lUl charge e of ot tho the sanitation Mr Garrison stated that MaJ Thomas Thom Thom- as Rhoades In operation co-operation with MaJ James C. C would have hac charge of oC Dayton Daton Major hn had ex cx- cx l In furthering relief relict In th thy Mississippi Mis Mis- flood district last year Fifteen thousand persons subsisted to today on rations given out under diree- diree I tion of or tho the relief relict committee Ten Ien thousand thou thou- sand of ot those it is estimated YOlO vore In their homes and roo food was carried to them in boats an and automobiles About are Lulng- Lulng cared for tor it ut the relief relle stations |
