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L CLKAMX(i I P IN DAVTOX. 4 y The Dead JIay Not Xumber as }Iany As First Though?The Flood | " Story. ' Revised estimates of the losses of life in Dayton, Ohio, give ground for fhope that the dead in all sections affected by the flood will not exceed | 2,000 and may go below that figure. Daring investigators who penetrat-1 ed the flooded section revealed hun-! dreds safe whom it was feared were' lost. Unless swelled by a death list in' the foreign settlement on the north side, as yet unreached, there may not be more than 200 dead in the whole W From other points than Dayton the V death list grew rapidly. There was far heavier loss of life in! the west side of Columbus, Ohio, than V was thought. One estimate placed the I ^ number of dead at more than six hun-j W dred. Apparently authentic reports from Piqua indicated that twenty were dead I there. At Peru, Ind, the authorities -estimate the death list will reach at least 150. From Hamilton fifty persons were! r renorted drowned in the collapse of a W hotel where they had sought refuge. ||> Twenty-five deaths were reported from Troy, Ohio, thirty in Middletown and five at Masillon. frrvm thp flood in Chillieothe I I twill not exceed 25, according to latest advices. Earlier reports were that from 200 to 500 lives had been lost. A report from Linton, Ind., gave sixteen persons drowned at Howesville, 25 miles south ?f Terre Haute. There were ten deaths at Sharon,! Estimates are that 70,000 persons i ?*> TVo T'fAri fl <11 t? Hid I UUI1CU 111 UCLJ LUII O uwuvu Ui?J trict, where 15,000 homes have been | submerged. Rescue stations are pro-. Tiding for 5,000 homeless. The pro-j perty damage in the city is figured at j $25,000,000. Alarmist reports were frequent dur- j ring the day. In most cases these were j quickly contradicted. Rumors that the' -> Grand reservoir near St. Mary's, Ohio, j tad broken proved . unfounded. Simi-; lar reports about the Lewiston reservoir likewise ore found to be untrue. Threatened breaks in both were repaired and reports to Governor Cox, at! Columbus last night indicated that; the danger from this source was pass-j A I w Later reports from Zanesville are | that fifteen lives are believed to have j been lost there. About 15,000 are homeless. A score of buildings col-; lapsed. Fire broke out at one point, but it was not believed it would spread. Twenty were found dead among refugees in the court house at Peru, Ind., the victims of exposure, according to a telephone message. Contagion has broken out among the refua gees, the report stated: , ? I The police and militia report that: ^ looters are working in the central i _ district All persons not able to give j j a satisfactory explanation of their: actions are arrested. Persistent, but; unconfirmed rumors, tell of looters | being shot. Excitement is running' riot. The wildest rumors were in circulation and serious trouble is expected. Many Marooned Found Safe. Dayton, 0., March 27.?All but a few -j of those hundreds of persons who have been marooned in the down-town section of flooded Dayton since Tuesday morning are safe. This was the news "brought out late today by an asso ciated press man. the first to succeed in the perilous task of penetrating as far north as the big Miami river. r Chief of Police J. N. Allaback himself marooned, who has been directing the thermo watIt mvp thp first informa tion as to the situation in what has V heretofore been the waterbound disW trict. % Except for possible los of life on the I north side of the river there will not be more than 200 d-ead in Dayton, acI cording to Allaback's estimate after he had been given information as to r the situation on the south side. jta > r itfiii liiucu;. ^ The work house where sixty primf soners hav-e not had a drop of water f nor a bite of food since Tuesday. The -I rn.. ^ J J ,T/n iiieii ie\unea iuesuay uigui auu uemandea their liberty and a chance to fight for their lives. Since then the vrork house has been a mad house, according to Superintendent Johnson. fThe prisoners repeatedly fought wich Johnson and threatened to kill both liim and his family. Johnson asked that a detachment of the National Guard be assigned to "help him handle the men. He declared that the men would have to be shot if they escaped from their cells. Xo word has been heard from Mayor Philips. The chief of police had been unable to get near the Philips lioiise. and did not know whether the mayor would be found dead or alive. f North of Burns avenue as far as ( Fourth street, the water was found to j be from three to six fet deep. Beyond Fourth street the water has | receded to make it possible in many r Oil rill SLietfl. tu tilt; uig .maim relief work was taken up by a committee headed by Chief Allaback. All of the grocery stores were commandered, and although in many cases, the goods were covered with water, sufficient supplies were found to prevent great suffering among those in the in? tenor ury snip. Probably no Actual Starvation. While there may be many deaths in individual homes which have been without food or drink t ^ was no place but the work house ..here any considerable number of people were held without food. Xo one had had pnnnsrh hut no case aDDroachins: act ual starvation was found. Knowledge that the death list is t likely to prove so low in the downtown section tonight gave rise to hope that even in North Dayton, about which nearly all hope had been aban cloned, there might be comparatively few deaths. The progres of the first canoe in the waterbound district was greeted by appeals for bread and water. In nearly every house left standing wistful faces were seen to be pressed against window panes. All people were asKed whether there had been any deaths, and with only a few exceptions replied there had not. Although heartened by news from the flood zone's interior Governor Cox's secretary, Mr. Burba, was scarcely able to credit the asser uon. From his own investigations of the Southern district he was unable to believe that the death list would be under 1,500. 4 "There are 10,000 unaccounted for on his side of the river," he said, "and if all but two hundred of these are found, it will be the greatest miracle of the time." It was impossible to approach within several blocks of the fire zone, even in the canoe, but there was every indication that the Beckel House had not been burned and that the fire had been confind to the blocks beyond Jefferson and 3rd streets. Hotel Guests Safe. The 300 guests of the Algonquin Hotel have been k-ept physically comfortable, though in continuous dread that the fire would reach them. The water reached the second floor, but all supplies had been moved to places of safety. A report which had been current in the water district south of Main street that Adjt. Gen. Wood had been fatally injured by falling plate glass, proved to be untrue. Gen. Wood now is in full charge of the relief work and although his arm had been badly cut, his condition was not serious. Two hundred women and babies found refuge in a paint factory in North Dayton, where, it is believed they have sufficient food to keep them from acute suffering. An effort is to be made at once to rescue them. The suburb of Riverdale up to Helena street has been penetrated by the down-town relief committee and conditions found similar to those in the southern suburbs. Every one has been crowded to the second floors or roofs of their homes. But few of the more stable dwellings were washed away. North of Helena street has not been reached, but it is believed the conditions there will prove as bad as had been feared. | Nothing is known of the foreign setfl?rnanf in "NJnrfVi "Huvtrm MoSP tfl the j *?4. iivA i.u j Miami river. It was this part of the ! city where the flood first made its way and where the occupants of the houses I had ignored warnings to leave. It was , here also that it was feared most of i the deaths would occur. The only body found was that of Charles Parker, a | liveryman, drowned in the court house yard. ! South Dayton, Ohio, March 28.? ! Eight hundred dead is the average es, timate of seven-eighths of Dayton's undertakers, called together for a con ference tonight. They reported S2 bodies had be?n recovered and now are j at various places in the city. Individual estimates of the undertakers were from 500 to 1,000, but the consensus of opinion was that 800 would be a' conservative figure. ExI I ploration of several recesses of the I city today by newspaper men hardly would iustifv such an estimate. . Orders had been issued for all bo| dies to be brought to a general mor! gue established in a garage. This had not been heeded, as less than half the | number of bodies found, according to j tbs undertakers, had been brought there tonight. There has been keen competition be tween undertakers for possession of ; unidentified bodies, and many of them have beee taken to undertaking establishments not under water. A general call for all undertakers tc meet was sent out by John H. Patter; son, in charge of relief work, in an I ? iBHrB Now and herethere?lies youi The Ford product firklinri htr fwn-9rir] KJJ U II V demand has been four. If you war service you mu: Don't delay. There are more than the world's high ways (testimony to their Prices?runabout $52, ?town car $Soo f. complete equipment. I Phone, write or cal Summer's 1 l?IWWIMWIIB II ! !? ? !! effort to have the work of recovering bodies organized. Thirty undertakers i were present and all said they based ] their estimates of the dead on a gen- ; eral survey 01 me suucn-ivn. j Louisville life-savers made a trip into Riverdale and North Dayton sec-p tions, where it was found there had < I been great loss of life. They did not I find a body and said they believed few j would be found. An expedition of : Cleveland Xaval Reserves brought ] practically an identical report. j As so large a part of the city had < been explored and information obtain- ; | ed failed to bear out earlier estimates i of great loss of life, the announcement | of the undertakers came as a surprise i to those most familiar with the sit- ; uation. mi | I DEATH OK FOl'R A MYSTERY. I * ? I Farm House Tragedy so Far Baffles , >*ew Jersey Coroner. Glassboro, N. J., March 23.?Lying ^ , in the cellar of their ruined home, the \ . i bodies of Lee Wharton, 38 years old, ; i his wife, Mary, 32, and their six-year- J j old daughter, Lillian, were discovered! - ^ 1? 4.^ I following a mysterious nre emiy luday which destroyed the little farmhouse, about ten miles Jrom here. The ] j body of Johnson Hemphill, 42 years ! ' old, a farm hand on a neighboring 1 farm, was found in a shed behind the |; house with a load of shot through his ] . heart. , 1 ! Mystery surrounds the four deaths. 1 : What occurred up to the time Hemp- ; hill was s-hot; how he was shot, tne 1 house set afire, are details which Coroner Stulz today vainly endeavored to ; i ascertain. The bodies of the victims were so badly burned that it was impossible to determine whether or not : ' they had been shot. TRAIN STRIKES WAGON. J. D. Philips Probably Fatally Hnrt ! And His Brother Injured?Baby Has Almost Miraculous Escape. Gaffney, March 24.?J. D. 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