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Show OHIOAHS GOING BACKTO IIS WITH RECEDING OF WATERS AT, DAYTON THE WORK OF REHABILITATING RE-HABILITATING HAS BEGUN. Qreateat Danger Now is From Impure; Water and Sickness Which May Follow Harrowing Week of Flood and Famine. Dayton, Ohio. The work of rebabll. Hating has begun bore. It Is believed that there Is no danger of the terrible floods of last week being repeated. The greatest cause for worry for the future Is the lack of pure water for drinking and culinary purposes, and tbe fear of an epidemic of sickness following tbe receding of the waters and the decomposition of animal matter mat-ter and refuse. The undertakers of the city now e tlmate tbe number of dead at ISO, while othera placo the number at low as 160. Dayton't period of reconstruction will run Into months, according to engineers Just returned from the flood districts. DlBposltlon of dead animals and the disinfecting of thousands thou-sands of submerged homes Is ' the moRt pfenning problem. No attempt at tbe rebuilding of the sewerage system will be made for several sev-eral days. Until this Is accomplUhed the menace of disease will not be entirely en-tirely lost sight of. Great dUtress among the survivors was caused by the separation of families fam-ilies and the consequent dread that tbe missing had been drowned. Since the rescue work began, nearly 100 children of the flood have been born. The authorities nave opened a maternity hospital where the new mothers with tbelr babies are being cared for. None of the public building were destroyed. Among these are the Dayton Day-ton club, Victoria, National and Colonial Colo-nial theatres, city hall, courthouse, Deckel, Phillips, Algonquin and Atlai hotel, Manonlc temple, postofflce, T. M..C. A. and all churches. The fire ions is positively limited to the destruction of the Dayton Gas, Light & Coke company's plant tht row of two and three-story building! on both aider, of Third street from Jefferson street to St. Clair avenue, the Troy Pearl laundry plant and two apartment bouses on tbe west side The Fourth National bank building, which was reported several times to have ben destroyed by Ore was untouched un-touched by the flames, although building Immediately adjoining It wai burned. The newspaper offices, the News Herald and Journal buildings, are safe, but are not Issuing pspers. Money Is of no ue In Dayton at present Every facility Is free to iveryone without cost Refugee not living In Dayton art leaving tbe city by tbe hundreds 00 foot. Tbe city Is without meana of gen iral transportation; there la not an ilectrlc light In the place except tho f the National Cash Register company. com-pany. There Is no adequate water upply. the sewer system Is ruined, the available fuel supply is limited iad tbe supply ot natural gas used lor -Hiking baa been shut off since Tuea ir. |
