Show I FAMINE STALKS IN FLOODS FLOOD'S WAIf DAYTON NOW SUFFERING FROM FRON WATER FAMINE AFTER BEI BEING G SWEPT BY FLOOD Relief Committee Appeals for Shipments Ship Shipments Shipments I ments of Bottled Water as It is Practically Practically Impossible Ible to Boll the W Water ter for Drinking Purposes j I Dayton Ohio After After being swept bone bj by bjone one of the most disastrous floods in inthe Inthe th the hist history ry of at the co country the streets str being from thre three to thirty feet water at one tune time during the past week causing a loss of lives it seems strange strang that the people of the city should be appealing to otner cities for wat water r but such is the case Members of the citizens' citizens relief committee committee com are apprehensive of at a famine water famine water for drinking and culinary culin cull ary purposes is being exhausted It is believed there is little chance that the present supply ca can be made mace to last until the w water ter mains are In use again R R. H. H Grant head of the relief relic supplies committee committee has issued an appeal to all cities in inthe the country asking that as much bott bottled ed water as possible be shipped to Dayton imme Imme- It is especially desired that this water be pure as it Is practically impossible to boll the water for drInkIng drinking drinkIng drink drInk- ing purposes J Medical supplies were reported woefully woefully woefully woe woe- fully short hort by Maj T. T V. V Dupuy who Is I in charge of at sanitary work Drugs here were largely destroyed and the medical chests of the militia as as' as aswell well a as supplies sent by other cities clUes have In many instances been delayed by I washouts washouts' and other mishaps at of the flood However a trainload of supplies supplies sup sup- plies s is expected soon fr from m Washing Washing- ton While approximately persons r are being baing cared for by the re relief let committee committee committee com com- there are more than homeless persons In in Dayton who are caring for themselves as best the they can None of ot the banks are are- open for business and for the most part the refugees had little or no money with them when the flood came upon them All AU the grocery stores and food supply houses have has b been n taken over by the military and there are areno no fresh meats eggs or milk Ilk available at any price Members l of at the United States lifesaving lifesaving lIfesaving life- life saving crew of Louisville who navigated navigated navigated navi navi- gated along sections of flooded D Dayton Day Day- y- y ton heretofore unexplored returned Friday at noon reporting conditions in North Dayton and Riverdale quite as deplorable as the first estimates indicated as far as the suffering of or the people was concerned The tour however however however how how- ever ever failed to verify fears that there had been a a tremendous death toll in that section In North Dayton privation among the ma marooned OJ ed has been severe but ac- ac UaL except among children was was nog Cruising the southern end of Riverdale where it was feared there would be found a big death list Captain Gillooly in charge of the crew reported c conditions paralleling those in other se sections of at the stricken city but only two dead bodies were reported to him as having been eyed ered from that ids The flooded territory in dabe Riverdale which is a se sec sep sep- tion Uon of substantial home owners a approximately ap ap- ap proximately Is seventeen blocks long and seven blocks wide |