Show HUNDREDS PERISH IN OHIO FLOODS DM DAYTON SCENE OF TERRIBLE DISASTER people driven from their homes by rush of waters many being drowned in streets dayton ohio hundreds and it as f believed thousands are dead as th the result of a flood which swept through this city when the miami river levee burst tuesday that tha death list will be an appalling one is apparent although no ono is prepared to state the number at present some estimates place the list of dead as high as at least aro are homeless bodies may be seen been floating down main street where for hours the water was from ten to thirty feet deep I 1 A school building that was was known to have haie held about 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 owned Ir st elizabeths hospital la Is reported to have been washed from its foundations and the inmates are said to have perished in the flood waters the electric light plant was waa completely disabled early la in the day and the city was in total darkness except tor for the lurid lights of the conflagrations flag rations in various parts of the 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 surrounded by swirling angry waters the washing down ot of bridges and subsequent collection ot of debris acted as a dam in the river later causing the levee to break and sending the water through tho the main streets ot of the city and into the southern part or town governor cox with the sanction ot of the state legislature has sent on an appeal to the world for help the state legislature will appropriate for or tho the immediate relief of flood sufferers the woodworking wood working department of tho company has beon turned into n v tory ten boats an hour are being made any attempt to estimate the loss of ufa life is hopeless it la Is sure to run into the hundreds and very likely into the thousands the property loss will total millions of dollars the flooded district comprises a practical circle with a radius of a mile and a halt and in no place to Is the water less than six feet deep in malu main street in tho the downtown section the water la is twenty feet feel deep the horror was heightened toy by more than a dozen fires which could bo be seen in tho the flooded district but out of reach of fire fighters most of the bd houses have bavo occupants down town the offices cesare are filled with men unable to get home and on the upper floors and on some of tho the roots roofs of the residences are helpless women and children hundreds of houses substantial buildings la in tho the residence district many of them with helpless occupants have been washed away or have collapsed collapse a the breaking of the E earlton arlton reservoir which supplies the drinking water left the city without water and physicians declared there is great danger of typhoid in the use of the flood water are no boats in dayton which can resist the current and those on tho outside gavek gave up attempts to roach reach the bual noBa sett lon how many houses have been swept I 1 away y w a y and how many occupants were c carried a r aled to their deaths cannot bo be learned until the waters recede at wyoming street on the south side where the national cash aleglan ter company centered its efforts at rescue many saved their lives by crawling on a telephone cable a hundred feet above the flood at first linemen crept along the cables carrying tow ropes to which the flat bottomed boats boata were attached when the flood became so GO fierce that the boats boata no longer were we able to make way against it men and women crept along the cables to safety others less during daring saw aaa darkness fall and gave up hope 0 ot rescue there willing to risk their aves alvos in the attempt to rescue found them selves helpless in face of tho water seventy thousand of gaytons Day tons population ula tion it Is reported are homeless the national cash register plant on a high hill bill offers the only haven in the south end throe women bo be c came ame mothers in tho the halls of its ita office fice building tuesday night the worst of tho the flooded districts include all of north and west vest dayton all of tho the downtown sections the south side as far as aa oakland and all of the residence suburb the district has a normal population of more than rescuers and those at the bos boa petals said an estimate of dead might be as accurate as an estimate of A fire which started from an explosion in the meyers ice cream company near wyoming streets street spread and burned the block on south paric pane about a block from wyoming another ble big fire burned a alo downtown block tho the dayton news was waa under twenty feet of water the flood rose to the second floor of the algonquin hotel and all along main street sanet occupants were driven to what happened to them since no one on the outside can tell house looting began tuesday night and while the local a are on duty they are wholly incapable ot of handling the situation incidents without number are narrated of persons in the flooded district waved handkerchiefs and otherwise signaled for aid being swept away before the eyeshot eyes of the watchers on the edge of the waters many ol of the rescue boats were swept by the current against what had been fire plugs trees and housea they wea crushed ilow how many died in this way no one knows canoes and rowboats shared the same fate whit what life exists in III the district that the water covers Is in constant danger and hel helpless pleas until the flood subsides |