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Show STATE OF OHIO SWEPT BY FLOOD 3 DEATH LIST MAY EXCEED 5000 - Raging Torrents Wipe Cities From Map, Taking Terrible Toll. City of Daytbn Submerged in Water From Eight to Twenty Feet Deep. Omaha Disaster A Mere Incident In Comparison Dayton, Oh March 25. (By telephone tele-phone via Xenla.) Dayton today Is nothing leas than a seething river thrco miles wide, a mile and a halt on each sldo ot Main street, Its principal prin-cipal thoroughfare, while It Is estimated esti-mated that from 2000 to 5000 people have perished. Tbo Algonquin hotel Is submerged In water up to its third story, and above this lovel In the downtown district ofllco buildings, hotel ho-tel and business houses aro places ot refuge. A school building that was known to havo housed not less than 400 school children shortly before the waters rushed In that direction Is entirely en-tirely submorgod and as tar as can bo ascertained all ot those little ones met a watery gravo. Columbus, O., March 25 Governor Cox late tonight Issued an order directing di-recting Drlg. Qen. Speaks to call out I the entire Ohio National Guard tomorrow tomor-row morning for duty In the Hood swept district, which comprises the wholo stato. "If our worst fears nre confirmed, It will bo necessary tor us to call on tho outsldo world for tentB and supplies In order to make provision for tho worst calamlty.that has ever befallen this state,'' said Gov, Cox In a telegram sent tonight to the New York World. Tho governor gover-nor nlso Informed tho Now -rork papers pa-pers that troops woro ordered out for duty In tho capital city, and that tho naval reserves wero dispatched from Toledo to Plqun. The Dayton companies com-panies aro on duty In mat city ho said. Tho Cincinnati companies presumably, pre-sumably, the governor saia In his Jj mossage, will bo dispatched to Ham-3 Ham-3 nton "and Mlddlotown In tho Miami valley, which sent out distress signals sig-nals shortly after noon. Dayton, Oh., March 20. Tho crest of tho flood was reached about midnight, mid-night, water la falling now halt an Inch a hour. Dayton, 0., March 2G. Tho wind veered suddenly from south to north at 3 o'clock and tho fires on Vine stroot Bprang up anew. Thoro aro .numerous unconfirmed reports of men shooting their families and committing com-mitting suicldo when they saw es-capo es-capo Impossible. Dayton, O., March 25 Dayton, ex-oept ex-oept for Us most romoto suburbs, tonight to-night was covered with a seething flood of water from eight to twenty feet deep. Any attempt to estimate tho loss of llfo is hopeless. It Is suro to run Into the hundreds and very likely Into tho thousands. Tho property loss will total millions I of dollars. Horror Increased By Flrea Horror of flooded district Is heightened height-ened by more than a dozen Arcs which can bo seen In tho flooded-district but out of reach of flro fighters. Most of the buslnoes houses and residences havo occupants. Down- town tho officers nro filled with men unable to get homo and on tho upper floors and on somo of the roofs of the residences nre helpless women and children. Hundreds ot houses, substantial buildings In tho rcsldenco district, many of them with helpless occupants, havo been washed away. Hospital Probably Wathed Away Tho St. Elizabeth hospital, l' patients, was reported to have been washed away. Tho building was known to bo in many feet of water and indications are that the report may provo true. Tho electric light plants were put out of business early In tho day and Continued on page oight I . STATE OF OHIO I SWEPT BY FLOOD HH! Continued from page one. HH ' total darkness, coupled with a torrcn- HH tint dowtiour added to tho horrors HH. of tlw night. HH Famlno also becamo an Imined'ntc 1 possibility. All of tho supply and HH grocery houses aro In tho submerged BBj district and at midnight It was said BBlj trero was not enough bread. to last BBS) tho survivors another day. j Cash Register Plant Place of BBJ Refuge BBa John II. I'atterson, president of BBa. tho, National Cash Register company i who headed tho roller work In tho BBl muth end of the city, sent out an BBl; appeal for food supplies and for doc B tors and medicine. Tonight 3000 BBMl homoleHs wcro housed In tho Cash BBM HcglBler olllco. BBli A flo which started from an ox- BBl' plosion In tho Meyers Ico Cream V' company near Wyoming streot, V' spread and burned tho block on South BBB' 1'ark, about p, block from Wyoming. BY, Another big flro Ig reported to havo BBS. burned a downtown block. Bj Tho brenklng of tho Earlton rosor- BBb; voir which supplies tho drinking vrttr HBg' tcr, left tho city without water, and HBg physicians declared thoro was great BBS danger of tyhpold In tho uso of the BBl flood water. BBB There aro no boats In Dayton which BBS can resist tho current and thoso on BBS tho outside gavo up attempts to reach BBYj tho business section. BBS How many houses hnvo been swept BBS away and how many occupants wcro BBB carried to their deaths cannot 13 BBB learned until tho waters reccdo. BBB ..At Dajton three rivers the Miami BBB t Stillwater and Mad, and another BBB stream known as Wolf creek join. BBB For tho most pait the city lies on n BBB level flat with tho four streams meet- BBB Ing n'.most In iho heart of tho placo, BBB and Is protected by levees twenty- BBB live feet high. Tho Iomvj protecting BBB tho Miami river broke about G o'clock BBB this morning, anil the Hood was nug- BBB mented by tho rapidly rlb-.iu; wntcrs BBB of the other tin eo streams, and llnnl- BBB l.v made uncoil rollablo tij tiio break- BBB lng of tho St. MnrjH roseno r, fifty BBB miles nbovo Dayton. BBB Tho waters swept through tho city BBB with tot rifle fore;. One report which BBB however lacked continuation was BBB that tho water In the main street was BBB fifteen feet dejp. All wlro communl- BBB cation except cno slender telephone. BBB wlro to I'honetan, a station six miles BBH away, was broken ofT, and Information BBB regarding tho status of affalrg In Day- BBB ton was dimcult to obtain. BBH Railroad and wagon bridges across BBH the Miami river wcro swept away, BBH and othors wcro In momentary dang- BBH cr of collapsing. Tho river was still HHB rising at a lato hour, and rears wero BBH entertained that Bovcral other towns HHB between Dayton and tho Ohio river HHB would suffer. |