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Show Essanay Camera Men's Experiences Braving Death By Drowning and Shooting ?o Get Films for the Motion Pictures Dangers and Hardships They Encountered in Dayton and Otl ier Ohio Cities Disregarding innumerable hardships, the hampered transportation facilities and the dan, rs attendant upon the reign of martial law in Dayton. Colum- j bus and other Ohio flood cities, an j Lssanay camera force of four men es- 1 tablished a rem.irkal.lc record in sccur- ( ing vivid pictures of the flooded districts., When the first news of the disaster reached Chicago, Charles Kaufman, of the Essanay camera staff, left for the scene on the official newspaper train He was forced to leave the train near Peru, Indiana, when the water reached an alarming stage. Traveling overland in quick jumps by automobile wagon, boat and tram, he finally reached Dayton twenty -eight hours after the news ox the disaster had reached the outside world. Meanwhile an auxiliary force ot Esaanay men had come on from ( Imaha, Neb , where they had been "cleaning up" on the tornado disaster there. 1 red H. Wagner A Lupcrti and G T. Dillon comprised the second division, which left Chicago twenty-four hours after Kaufman Thirty-six hours after the Hood had broken they were at work in DaytOll covering every interesting feature fea-ture to be photographed in the stricken city. Trouble with the militiamen on guard in the flood district was experienced expe-rienced more than once. At one point the entire working force was put under military guard Several times they were shot at as supposed looters. Riding in boats through the worst flooded districts, wading in other places where the mud was ti.rcc- and four feet deep-, climbing over and through wreckage, wreck-age, the entire Dayton situation was covered by the Essanay force in twenty-four twenty-four houri Kaufman had meanwhile left for Chicago with the first batch of ncgativ e After "cleaning up" in the Dayton district dis-trict the Essanay force succeeded in loading their paraphernalia and themselves them-selves into an empty coal C3r. Ihc trriM, Anallo ,...ll.wl f.-.r Vcni.T Ohio. and for 20 miles the picture men danced in the cold car to keep warm As each military camp was reached, the four stowaways popped down out of the huht and crouched in the coal dust From Xcnia the start for Columbus was made, the force arriving in time to "clean up oil the Scioto River floods there Arriving Mondav morning at Chicago the negative passed throuah the developing develop-ing process in time to release the Essanay Essan-ay Flood Special Monday evening, for the bivgcst motion picture "scoop" of the year. Idaling thc entire trip in three days, over three thousand feet of negative was secured ami the entire flood district covered. The pictures give a complete 'dea of the flood disaster in Ohio |
