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Show DAYTON ON FI i Entire Business Section of the City Will Be Destroyed Columbus, Ohio, Mar. 26. -Governor Cox received ford from Dayton at 2.47 this afternoon that the entire business section of the city is on fire and that indications are that it will be destroyed. People were retorted to be jumping jump-ing from roof to root of buildings keeping out of the way of the 1 lames. TROOPS NEEDED. Columbus, Ohio. Mar. 2(5 . That great disorder prevails in Dayton was tfc information coneyed to Governor COX this afternoou bj his secretary, Qsorg-e F Burba, h--n he to!d the goernor that the demand for troops Is imperative. (Continued on Page FiKht i DAYTON ON FIRE (Continued from Page One.) WATER REACHES THIRD FLOORS IN DAYTON Phoneton. O . March via telephone tele-phone to Chicago Unexpected communication com-munication was bad with Dayton over Ian independent company's telephone line, when an attempt was made to , get information here concerning the , situation at andalia. A wire was set up from Phoneton through Tippecanoe city and Troy and sent back to Yandalia. When this circuit was completed a man's v oice was heard on It "Where are you"" asked Phoneton. "Homo Telephone office, Dayton," he said. The man said he had rigged up B telephone and got In on this Vanda-Ha Vanda-Ha circuit. He said the water was near the third floor of his building, and that ho and about 40 others were marooned In the fourth story The only sign of life, he said, was in tho Cnltcd Brethren building across the street, where several men were marooned. ma-rooned. The two parties were oom municatlng by shouting across the flood swept street. The Dayton man says that the water wa-ter was plowing through the streets in a mad rush and that he bad bad nothing to eat and very little water to drink for 43 hours. He said his name was Davis Davis said that corpses of human beings and numerous dead animals bad floated by the building Davis added that the Kquort building build-ing In the rear of the Home Telephone Tele-phone company's building bad collapsed col-lapsed and caught fire. The building in which Davis and his party are imperiled is at tho corner cor-ner of Jefferson and Fourth streets, next to the olfice of tbe Dayton Journal, Jour-nal, which concern as well as the Dayton News is half under water Big sheds, small houses and other buil'. ings were drifting past the ref-! ugees, said Davis. The Phoneton operator reported that at this stage of the conversation Davis' voice trailed off into indistinct indis-tinct ivencss. People Driven From Roofs. The Deckel house is burning and tbe buildings on the east side of Jefferson Jeffer-son from Third street to the Western West-ern Union office aie on fire The Dav ton informant said that people on roofs where they had escaped from the flood were leaping fiom roof to roof to avoid tbe new tenor STARTED BY OIL. Phoneton Ohio, Mai. JO tVia 1 Telephone to Chicago) A bad fire ihas broken out in the central part of' the business district of Dayton The I area threatened hy the flumes is in I the midst of the flood district and I chances of successfull v fighting the I blaze are not good This message) 'was received over the telephone from Dayton at 3:30 o clock this afternoon. EXPLOSIONS DUE TO FIRES. Indianapolis, End . March 26 V further fur-ther message from Wolf Creek, O., says "Every hour or so explosions occur in Dayton, due to fires The conditions condi-tions are simply frightful and Indescribable." Fire Chief Drowned Columbus, 0 . March 26. George P. I Burba, In a message from Dayton to Governor Cox, said that Frank Ram- ! bo. chief of the fire department of I iDa.vton. is believed to have been drowned, and thai Vdjutant General Wood cannot act, as he is maroon- I ed. The Dayton police, said Mr Burba, are unable to cope with the situa- i Hon, therefore the presence of troops ! is Rreatlv needed The message came to the governor govern-or from officials of the Home Telephone Tele-phone company The governor, upon j receipt of the message, requested the ' Associated Press to notify the mayors ol all cities and towns surroundini: , I lay ton who could reach thai point In any way to make baste with boats, j as buildings of Dayton are burning ' up with people In them Main Part of City Submerged Wolf Creek, o. March 26. -The wa-ter wa-ter !n Dayton extends from River street on the north. Summit street ! on the west and High s'reet on I he e;ist down past the southern borders I of the city This covers the main part of the town and the most thick - ' ly populated st ction. It is reported that a woman has been marooned on top of a moving van in the middle of Broadway since 10 o'docU yesterday morning She and two men were attempting tl BS 'the flood in the moving van when I the vehicle tipped. One of the men I was drowned, the otbei pot on the! jhorse. and it is thought he reached! j safety The woman clung to ibe topi I oT the van. The Doytou fire department worked from boats and dynamited the upi -r I stories of several bulldincs in orderl j to halt tho tlame.s. Ml but one or two railroad bridges ; leading into tbe city have been wash-ed wash-ed away. |