DAYTON DISASTER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1710, 29 March 1913, Page 5

DAYTON DISASTER.

FIRE AND FLOOD. WATER STILL TWENTY FEET DEEP. DEATH-ROLL PUT AT 1500. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Dayton, March 27. A renewed blizzard is adding to tho horrors of the storm. C'ead bodies arc stalked three deep on the river-banks, where they Were recovered. Tho fearful fife which destroyed ft large section of the city is still raging. Twentyone city buildings have .been destroyed. Several scores of people perished in tho flames. ,

The disaster is assuming the proportions of that after the San Francisoo earthquake. The death-roll is estimated at 1500. Driving snow is hiding tho flame-lit town, and rolicf workers are helpless in the face of new disasters every hour. Water is still in the streets twenty feet deep, and it is impossible 'to render aid to th'o people.. Boats are unable to' live in'the . raging torrents.: . A..hundred persons who took refuge in a workhouse became, semi-hysterical when the flames threatened the building. Their peril,' however, was not immediate. Prisoners in tho 'gaols are half frantic, and are appealing for -release. 1 The Lewiston 1 reservoir, is reported to have burst, and the flood from it is certain to increase the loss of life greatly. The Grand reservoir, situated at Celifta, is weakening. Further floods are feared. ' Canadian towns are pending relief. Columbus, March 27. Tho dead number six hundred. Tho town of Franklin (Ohio) is burning. Floods prevent assistance being sent. THE WATERS SUBSIDING. , SCENES •OF FRANTIC GRIEF. (Rec. Si arch 28, 6.40 p.m.) ' Wow Y6i l k, March i,7. . Continuous reports of disasters arc arriving' at IndiaiiapoliS. ', Sixteen have been drowned at Howcsvillo. . Thirty , are marooned on housetops, and -twenty-five drowned ,at Chillicothe, where six bodies' have been recovered. .

Tho latest reports, from Dayton state that the flood, waters are '■ within control, and farther loss of life is unlikely. 1 ZaneSville is submerged to a .depth of 30 feet'.' The death-roll is definitely stated at. 150, while fifteen, .thousand -are homeless! '. , , ; I'ifty btxliea have been recovered from the . Great Miami Itiver. 1 Five hundred persons hav6 been, rescued from tree-, topi find wrecked houses. .Hundreds are still marooned on house-tops, beyond tho r'eacb of succour. ■ . Tliei fire in tlie business'section.of the city has. been'extinguished, the blizsard preventing its spread. The flood waters are falling, and reScuo work is proceeding-slowly. ' , .■ Temporary morgues have been, established. There were scenes of fr'antio grief jWlifcn the bodies arrived. Belief trains are relieving hunger, and sanitary authorities are organising health squads to prevent pestilence. Numerous outlying points are cnt off by inundations, throughout tho State. The loss of life is unknown, but it is believed to.exceed.fifty.. ' (Keel March 28, 0.40 p.m.) ' _ Wiishirigtin, MaTOh 28. 1 The Secretary for War has organised widespread relief measures, ami tents, foody and ambulances have been dispatch-, ed to the stricken centres. The President'has appalled, to the nation for. filnds to relieve the distress. It'is now stated that tho loss of life at Hamilton is less than 100. It was 1/reviously given' as 1000. ~