TERRIBLE FLOODS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15261, 27 March 1913, Page 7

TERRIBLE FLOODS.

2000 LWES REPORT TO BE ;> "m<>-!• ' .-lost; ; : ;"...;. » ; .; .SCHOOL- SUBMERGED. 400: CHILDREN PROBABLY . DROWNED. " • /.OTHER* TOWNS .FLOODED. . By Telegraph.— Association.— , (R*ceiT«d March 26. lMop.m.) • '■'•;'%* New York, March 26. -Disastrous - floods have occurred in Ohir»' and the 'vicinity as. the result of a cloudburst, which turned' the River Ohio and its tributaries into raging torrents. The City of- Dayton (a town of about 100,000 inhabitants) is the principal sufferer from the floods. The latest' despatch states that 2000 people.are reported to . have been drowned. ;': ■ )?" :: - The chief streets' are a mass of swirling waters. "■ Many of the hotels and other buildings are submerged to the third. storey. v 1 People. on Telephone Wires. ; i Many people escaped; from Wyoming Street by hanging to the . telephone wires and lowering themselves into a boat* with which the rescue work was continued until daylight. ~■•■'.'.•' The estimates ;as to the number of people drowned are- unreliable. ' ■ People, are taking refuge on the roofs of; the building Si' The school, which contained £00 children before the flood began* is entirely submerged, and it is .pre-. wmed,.-that all the"•• -children have perished;'',;'': ; '•_ .- . The entire Ohio National Guard has been called out. Several Small Towns Inundated. . A "telegram : rom Indianapolis states that there is. 30ft of water in the "streets at Dayton:";" The city i* in darkness. - - lives are reported, to have, been lost. Thirty thousand residents at Dayton and the surrounding country are reported to be homeless. The water is still . rising and all } communications have, been cut off. Fort Loganpbrt, . Terre Haute, and ether small towns have been inundated. The loss of life in ..these towns is unknown, but, it is Relieved that were' received. ' \.\ -/ ,*.'•' ;; Seven people, are stated . to be homeless as the result of the overflowing of the White River. " Befugein Trees and on Boots.

Nineteen people were drowned at Delaware by the overflowing of the River Olentaugg,- Scores of-, people were marooned trees"; and v on housetops. - All the bridges in ; <the neighbourhood have been destroyed. ■ The country-presents the appearance of a battlefield. Bodies are floating down the ; Miami River, which is 'almost • with the wreckage of houses;' . j '~. ; . Unconfirmed.reports;asserfcthat 60 people were drowned along' * the levees (river emhankments):;; Bequest for 600 Coffins. ' The local authorities in the town of-■/ Peru v (Indiana) Indianapolis at midnight last night asking for the despatch of > 600 coffins, A. relief train has been

sent.-.,. . «, , Many Ohio arid 5 ;/Indiana-bridges have been carried away andmiles of farmjng ? country inundated.. ; The train, services .were, . stopped; by washaways. • \,y/i ';:.- *-' v^