FLOODS SUBSIDBNG.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 75, 29 March 1913, Page 5

FLOODS SUBSIDBNG.

THE OHIO HOLOCAUST. RESCUES FROM HOUSETOPS ' I THE FIRES EXTINGUISHED. RELIEVING STRICKEN AREAS. (By Cable. —Tress Association.—Copyright) (Received 11.10 a.m.) NEW YORK. March 28. The floods at Dayton arc subsiding. A thousand militiamen control tho relief situation adequately. j Numbers of looters have boon arrested. The tiros have now been extinguished. , The property loss iv Dayton alone is estimated at '.wo millions sterling. ' Fifteen thousand arc homeless iv Zanosville, but relief is forthcoming. Other areas affected by tho Hoods have boon relieved. Five hundred people have been rescued I from the tree tops and the wrecked lionises. i Hundreds arc still marooned on tho | house tops .md are beyond the reach of I .succour. J Relief trains are bringing food for the hungry inhabitants. The sanitary authorities are organising health squads to prevent the threatened pestilence. A rcpuTt from Indianapolis states that continuous reports of disasters are arj riving. I Sixteen persons have been drowned at j llowesville. and thirty have been j m.irooncd in the Vioukc tops. | Twenty-five people have boon drowned lat Chillicothe. Six bodies have boon reI covered. Zanosville is submerged by 30ft of water. Tho death roll there is definitely I stated a: I.">(). Fifteen thousand people are homeless. Fifty bo.lbs hive been recovered from tho Oroe.t Miami River. Temporary morguot, have boon established. There were Keener* of frail", ie grief when the bodi.ts arrived arid were identitiod by tho bereaved ones. I Numerous, cm;lying towns have been cut off from communication by the inundation* throughout tho Suite. The less of life in their case is not known, bur it is believed that it exceeds fifty. Tho Secretary for War has organised j widespread relief measures. Tontr.. fond. and amlnil mors Ji.-ive boon dispatched to ' . the si riokon cent ros. I | President Wilson has appealed for a 'j national fund to relievo the distress. I It is now stated that the loss of life 'j at Hamilton is los* than 100.