A CATASTROPHE.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2033, 27 March 1913, Page 3

A CATASTROPHE.

THE DISASTER AT DAYTON

RESULTS OP THE CYCLONE

2000 PERSONS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN DROWNED.

BY ELEOTBIO TBLEGEAPH—COPYEIQET. - PEE PEEfIS ASSOCIATION. New York, Marcli 26. The latest news from Dayton states that 2000 persons are reported to be drowned. The chief streets are a mass of swirling waters. Down-town hotels and buildings are submerged to the third story. People took .refuge on the roof of the school, which 400 children before the flood began, but the school became entirely submerged, and it is presumed that all perished. , ."■■ - The entire Ohio National Guard was called out to help and keep order. Many people escaped by hanging on' to telephone wires and lowering themselves into boats, with which rescue work continued until daylight. - . v 1 The estimate of dead is unreliable. (Received March 27, 12.5 p.m.) " ~ New York, March 26. An area bounded by Lake Erie and the Ohio river, -the Indiana boundary, and Pennsylvania is suffering from flood. Two hundred thousand people are homeless. • - Harrowing tales are percolating through. The stricken people are spending the night in trees and on the housetops, falling into the water when exhausted by cold and wet. Communication is completely shut off at Dayton. Zanville reports 15 people drowned. A conservative estimate of the death-roll is: At Dayton 400, Sydney 20, Delaware 50, Hamilton 20, Piqua 200; and the surrounding villages raise the total to 1000. The worst ravages are at Peru, the entire city being submerged. Bodies were borne off by the swirling waters, none of which have been recovered. •- The neighbouring States are msing relief, but are encountering great hardship in consequence of the lack of railway transportation. The watfer is now subsiding.