OCR Text |
Show Y In the face every moment II sobbed itroDg man's sob be told his tali of death and desolation; of floating wreckage bearing man, wobid and children doomed 1 to death; of dead bodlaa born upon tba creet of the waters; wa-ters; of piteous sights. In themselves enough to unnerve tba bravest of man. Hut ba ituc)i to bla pout. The Man en the Roof. There were two heroes on tbe Dayton Day-ton floods. Their namea are M. H. btohl and C. D. Williamson, and they are employes of the American Telegraph Tele-graph and Telephone company. StobI la a wire chief at Dayton. He reached the Dayton office of his company com-pany late the nlgtt before the floods came. Tbe rush of the waters put all tbe telephone batterlea and power out of commission. Forgetting thoughts of escape, Btohl rummaged around until be found a lineman s teat set. With this he rigged up a sending and receiving apparatus, and cut In upon 1 tba wire on tbe roof of 'the four-story building. Thla wire connected him : with Pboneton. a testing station eight miles away. Thus be established communication com-munication with Williamson, whose ' batterlea were still working. 1 Then Btohl sent messages from the 1 flooded city, otherwlae cut off from communication with the oulalde world. All night he etuck to his post All next day he remained. The following noon i found him atUI oa the roof of a build- ! tag whose foundations were being 1 sapped by the waters, j There he stayed In the rmla and cold, srK& the prospect of death staring him |