DELUGE AND AFTER.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1882, 29 March 1913, Page 5

DELUGE AND AFTER.

INTENSE SUFFERING

WORSE THAN 'FRISCO.

Pre« A"® 11 —By Telegraph—Copyright New York, March 27.

T.he blizzard has been renewed at Dayton ChY, thus adding to the horrors. Snow is facing heavily, and the suffering is inte>. use - Relief is beginning to arrive, scores are perishing of cold and f&vigue. A fearful fire a large section of tie tcro'n, and is still raging. Scores of people have perished in j the flames.

The disaster is asstiraLng the pro portions of the San Francisco earth quake.

The water is still in the streets to a depth of twenty feet r m.aking it impossible to render aid. People in boats are unafcie to live in the raging torrents. Driving snow is hiding the flame lit town. Hundreds of relief workers at Dayton are helpless in the face of the new disasters occurring every hour. It is estmated that the death roll has now reached fifteen hundred. Fifteen thousand people are now taking refuge in the hospitals, waiting for the flood to subside. STACKS OF DEAD. New York, March 27. The dead bodies at Dayton are stacked three deep on the river bank, where they were recovered. The fire destroyed twenty-one city buildings. A hundred persons taking refuge, in a workhouse became semi-hyster- 1 ical when the flames were threatening. The peril is not immediate. The prisoners in gaol are half frantic, and are appealing for release. At Lewiston the reservoir is reported to have burst, and the flood therefrom is certain to increase the loss of life greatly. The grand reservoir, situated at Celina, is weakening, and further floods are feared. Canadian towns are sending relief. Sis hundred are dead at Columbus. Franklin, Ohio, is burning, and the floods prevent assistance being rendered. West-Indianapolis reports that 150 were drowned there. \ SLOW HEADWAY. GRIEF AT THE MORGUES. Received 9.20 p. m. New York, March 27. Fifty bodies have been recovered from the Great Miami river; five hundred were rescued from the tree tops and wrecked houses; and hundreds are still marooned on housetops beyond the reach of succour. 1 The fire in the business section is extinguished. The blizzard prevent- ; ed its spread. The flood waters are falling, and 1 rescue work is proceeding slowly. Temporary morgues have been established, and scenes of frantic grief occurred when the bodies arrived. Relief trains are relieving the hunger and the sanitary authorities are organising health squads to prevent pestilence. Numerous outlying points are cut off by . inundation throughout the State, and the losss of life there is unknown, but it is believed to exceed fifty. SMALLER HAMILTON LOSS. Indianapolis. March 28. Continuous reports of disasters are arriving. Sixteen were drowned at Howesville, thirty are marooned on house tops, and twenty-five were drowned at Chillicothe, six of their bodies being recovered. Latest reports from Dayton state that the flood waters are within control, and further loss of life is not likely. Zanesville was submerged 30 feet. The death roll there is definitely stated to be 150, while fifteen thousand are homeless.

Washington. March 28.

The Secretary for War has organised widespread relief measures, and tents, fflod, and ambulances have been despatched to the stricken centres.

The President has appealed to the nation for funds to relieve the distress.

It is now stated that the loss of life at Hamilton was less than a hundred. It was previously given as a thousand.