TALES OF DEATH AND SUFFERING.
1000 PEOPLE DROWN'ED. 200,000 HOMELESS. (Received 27, 12.5 p.m.) ew York, March 26. X Tiie. area bounded by Lake Erie and the Ohio river on the Indiana boundary and Pennsylvania is suffering from flood, and two hundred thousand people are homeless. Harrowing tales are percolating through of stricken people spending night-s in trees and on housetops and fading into the water when exhausted by the cold and wet. Communication is completely cut off at Dayton. Zanesville reports fifteen persons drowned. Conservative estimates of the death roll at Dayton are 400, Sydney 200, Delaware 50. Hamilton 20, Piqua 200. The surrounding villages raise the total to a thousand. The worst ravages are at Peru, where the entire city was submerged and the bodies borne off by the swirling waters. None have been recovered. The neighbouring States are organising relief, but there is great hardship in consequene of the lack of railway transportation. The water is now subsiding.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 86, 27 March 1913, Page 5
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