FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPAE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12878, 27 March 1913, Page 5

FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPAE.

CABLES.

OAVfON CITY OVCR- . WHELMED.

RESERVOIRS BURST AND RIVERS

OVERFLOW.

HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST.

30.000 HOMELESS

COUNTRYSIDE DEVASTATED

(United Press Aasociation. —Copyright.i

NEW YORK, March 25

Reports from Cincinnati state that the cloudburst turned the Ohio River tributaries into raging torrents. The water is many feet deep in the Dayion streets. ; ~ Thousands are homeless in Ohio and Indiana. Bridges were carried off tana whole areas of farming country are inundated.

INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 25. Thirty feet of water covers thestireets of Dayton, Ohio. Th© city is in darkness. * Scores of lives are reported to have been lost. The water is still rißn;g and all communications are cut off.

Fort Wayne, Logansport, the Terrehauto and other small towns are inundated. The loss of life is unknown, tut it is believed .to be heavy.

Frantic appeals for help have been received. '

It is reported that the reservoirs ot Hamilton broke and the rush of water overwhelmed the town, and that a largo part oT the population, num-. liering a thousand, w.as drowned.' Confirmation is impossible, owing to the disorganisation of communications.

Seven thousand are known to be I omeless".. After a while the river overflowed, and. 19 Avere drowned.

At Delaware, the overflowing of the River Oflen'tagy. caused scores -to be marooned in trees and on house tops. All the bridges ill the neighbourhood were destroyed. The country has the appearance of a battlefield. Bodies are floating down the* Miami River, which V* almost choked with 'the wreckage of houses. . ■ . . .

Unconfirmed reports state that 60 Vcro drowned along the levees iand that 80,000 aro'homeless-at Dayton and in thn surr.oundir«.w country. ' . '

Lewieton reservoir broke after .''the terrific storm, flooding the -city. The, damingo .to. proiiertv is incalculable. Local,authorities in. the town,of PeruIndiana, telephoned to Tndinnopolis at midnight asking for the despatch of six hundred coffins, and j,that< a.." relief -train be sent. . . , ' . v