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RESCUE numES in m MO i* SHIM WEST HIES FDR FMD Ml IMS " T'OROGR APHIC : SKETCOFHE LOOOEO RiEG While the death Hat In thl» region Is not likely to be as large as at first estimated, it is feared It may reach two thousand. In every town and eit> j Shown on the map there has keen loss of life and property. , GOV. COX WRITES THRILLING STORY OF FLOOD DISASTER By JAMES M. COX. (Governor of Ohio.) Columbus, March 28. —The consen sus of opinion is that the property loss in Ohio will exceed that sustained by Ban Francisco. This apparently in credible statement is easily under stood wheu the widespread destruc tion to railroad property is calculated. It is safe to assume that more than half the large railroad bridges in Ohio are down. The waters are receding at Dayton, Piqua, Zanesville, Fremont, Tiffin, Chlllicothe. Hamilton, Middletown and Columbus, and while the cold weather which came was welcome, because of the certain deterrent effect It would have on the rising tide, still the pinch of the cold adds to the difficulties, be cause untold thourands of people are homeless. Besides, the fall of the water will bring the real tragedy of the whole situation. The indications are that the list may not run as heavy as forecast at Day ton, but there are grave fears that a tremendous tragedy will be revealed beyond the Scioto River, where the western part of Colutnbus is complete ly devastated. Dayton is relieved in one respect. The ten or twelve thousand persons penned up in the business buildings were freed, the relief trains coming in from the North, the Lake Shore hav ing surmounted the difficulties from Toledo south. From the west of Dayton troops and » supplies came from Eaton. From the | northwest 600 troops, with stores,' came byway of Troy and Tippecanoe City. The good effects of this relief work added much cheer to the dis- j tressed The city was alive with j boats controlled by hands that defied j the element*. People were rescued j from the residential sections of North Dayton, Rlverdale, West Dayton. Edge mont and South Park, and the main ; streets of the city were alive with : craft tilled with people. In the main business section the j water receded to about 12 inches, and j with some difficulty foot traffic was resumed. Columbus awoke In a blizzard, which gave a cheerless aspect to things, but the first word from Bell, the hero of the whole situation, the operator who has stood by his guns throughout, were: "Good-morning, Governor. The sun is shining in Dayton." He was still at his post, and apparently firm in his faith that things would still come out all right. Adjutant-General Wood was heard from for the first time The circum stances attending his imprisonment give a good idea of the precipitant movement of the waters, and show bow It was that the whole business population was trapped. General Wood was within a square of his residence on North Main street, and yet it was Impossible for him to get home. He took refuge with Dr. C. W. King, and remained there until Thursday, when be attempted to join his family, The boat was upset and he was compelled to swim into the Dayton City Ctfb. It developed that the lire engine and dynamite sent from Springfield really saved the city from destruction by Are. The greater part of one city block Is destroyed. It Is bounded by Sec -ond. Third, Jefferson and St. Clair streets. The square immediately south, with Fourth street the south ern line. Is pretty badly gutted, but the Are Is under control. North Dayton has furnished some surprises. The water there in many parts of the residential section was over 20 feet deep, but, very strangely, few bodies were found. The recession of the waters revealed only two bodies In the business sec- V- . , tlon. General Wood requested 600 cof fins. This we accept as a gruesome index to the situation. The citizens of Dayton have organized a relief com mittee and are preparing to co-operate with the outside world In bringing suc cor to the suffering. The call fame all day for warm clothing, food and water. Kvery available engine on the di visions close to Dayton was called into service and water was carried in the tanks. Zanesville presented a problem, making the nearest approach to the Dayton situation. Communication was cut off from that city. The complete isolation of the place gave rise to all manner of reports. Communication was procured byway of Cleveland. It developed that the six or eight relief sections encountered rather un usual difficulties about fifty miles north of Springfield. At West Liberty a railroad bridge was out and a relay had to be made. The farmers re sponded, but by the time the last sec tion arrived carrying the life saving crew from Cleveland, teams and driv ers were worn out, the result being that a new force had to be recruited. That delayed the life saving crew for quite a while. A complete Relief Commission has been formed under the combined aus pices of the State and the Red Cross Commission. Railroad traffic is almost at a stand still, and the separation of travelling men from their families is bringing Copyright Underwood and Underwood, N. Y. ' FLOOD DANGER IN EAST. The photograph shows the Pott Office and general store at Helena, N.Y., partly submerged. many piteous appeals every hour for facilities to get them home. Uiverdale, because of the large num ber of houses that were washed away and upturned, may turn out to be the greatest sufferer from human loss. The water is still high in that section. On the west side 100 bodies were found in a bunch on Williams street. Cleveland Is paralyzed by the flood that hau inundated miles of territory, made hundreds homeless, flooded a hundred factories, cut off the city from outside communication, and caused millions of dollars of property damage. Lumber valued at $600,000 was ■wept down the river. Eight miles of docks were inundated »t a damage of $200,000. Nearly every factory and plant in the Cuyahoga Valley was flooded, j Twenty thousand men will be out of j work for at least a week. NEW YORK FLOODS BREAK RECORDS I GENESEE RIVER DOES MUCH DAM -1 AGE IN THE BUSINESS SECTION 1 OF ROCHESTER AND BUFFALO. ; FLOOD K ALBANY WORST i . IN A HALr CENTURY i .«••• L Rochester, N. Y. Unprecedented ■ floods are sweeping New York State, i Tlie whole country between Buffalo r j and the Pennsylvania line 1b affected. At Albany It is predicted that the j Hudson will pass the high-water mark of 1857, which was 21.16 feet. Part of Schenectady, N. Y„ has been abandoned. Rivers In the Adlrondacks have caused great damage. Part of | the International Paper Company's dam at Glen Falls has given away, , The flood in the Hudson River at . Castleton, nine miles south of Albany, , caused the abandonment of the New I York Central's Hudson River division . for through tralnst. [| Most of the trains from Albany and I [I the West were sent over the Harlem ! division byway of Chatham,, but sojne used the West Shore to Weehawken. The floods along the Central held up most of its milk trains. The flood record of 1865 has been broken in western New York, and from nearly every hamlet and town come tales of damage and suffering. In Rochester the Genesee River overflowed Jts banks and flooded Ply- j mouth avenue and Front street, the I latter in the heart -of the business sec tion. At Lyons-ths Clyde River has risen 11 feet, and many families have been forced to leave their homes. Barge canal work, representing thousands of ; dollars, has been destroyed. Canadaigua, Seneca and Keuka lakes j ■ arfe at the highest level ever known. The Erie, Pennsylvania and New | York Contral railroads and trolley lines are badly crippled throughout l this section, and schedules are merely a matter of "luck. The (!eiiesee Vallley, south of Roch ester, is a vast lake, and hundreds of head of livestock have perished and fully 200 families are out of tlieU homea. Buffalo.—A cold wave and cleai weather have checked the floods In western New York, and streams ii Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Wyoming, Niagara and JOrle counties receded al most as rabidly as they rose. Hun dreds of families driven by the high waters are returning to their mud filled homes. From Buffalo, Olean, Hornell and other cities gangs of laborers are being sent to repair washouts and to strengthen railroad bridges strained to the breaking point by unprecedent ed high water. "AT niean (lie damage is estimated a $200,000. Hundreds of miles of highways ar still impassable and as many highway bridges were destroyed. Normal con- | illfions cannot be restored for several weeks. Three great barge canal gates ai 1 Fort Plain have been swept away. White River Junction, Vt.—Flood* ; in the Connecticut River Valley drove i people! from their homes In Rutland, [ I West Rutland, Chittenden, Darnel, I White Rivef .Junction and at Woods i ville. N. 11. i | Service on the Boston and Maine j Central and Central Vermont railroads was demoralized. ] Telephone service in many places was interrupted and heavy property damage was done. The population of Chittenden, near Rutland, were forced to flee 'lb high land when the East Creek went over ! its banks. ,1„ ... I. Jl'4„ . ■«....- How Oayton Was Overwhelmed. For the most part, the city of Day ton lies on level ground. Three rivers, the Miami, Stillwater and Mad, join ! with another stream, known as Wolf I Creek, almost in the centre of the city. | When the dam at the big i rtservoir, 50 miles above the elty, j broke an avalanche of water went i rushing down the rivers and joined in ; one great torrent to overwhelm dwell -1 lugs and buildings of all kinds. J HAVE COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE ACT I MR. JOYNER'S CONSTRUCTION HAS THE APPROVAL OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. ■ • ' ■ WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT LAW I The Stat* Superintendent More Rhet orical in Statement, Perhaps, But Not Leu Emphatic in Hit Construc tion of the School Law. ♦- Raleigh.—'That North Carolina lias a state-wide compulsory school attend- I anoe law that Is effective and not one | that Is optional with the county boards i of education Is tiie construction that I Hon. J. Y. Joyner, state superintend i ent of public instruction, puts on th i poiapultiory attendance law, passed | by the recent legislature, which waH ! reported to have been so amended at to leave the whole matter of coni ; pulsory attendance optional with the : county boards. Mr. Joyner's construction has the \ approval-of the attorney general. He reported that the amendment that war reported to have the effect of leaving j the application of the law optlona' ! with the county achool boards really | permits the boards to make changes i in the machinery for attaining the at | tendance of all the children of the j school ages prescribed; but prescribes j that this attendance of the children | for the four months of each year must be enforced. In other words, the county boards can change the ma | chlnery for attaining attendance, but j are none the less required to enforce this compulsory attendance. Furthermore, lnslstance on the pari of a board of county school commls sioners that the whole matter Is op tional with them, It Is Intimated, might result In the whole amendment I being thrown out as unconstitutional, in that the legislature could not dele gate legislative power to the county boards. Therefore the machinery for compulsory attendance prescribed in the act would have to npply. ; Edgecombe Teacher* Meet. A very interesting and instructive I meeting of the Edgecombe Teachers' | Association was held at Tarboro re j cently. This being a meeting of mud I importance, owing largely to th» | schedule address of Prof. X. V. Judd I county superintendent of Wake, thi j teachers of the county attended In i largo numbers. Professor Judd's stiT)- | Ject was "Conservation" and ho dem i onstrated his ability to handle It in n, | very creditable manner. The keynote I of his address was soeial service, and | the possibilities of the teacher as ( ! molder of the character of pupils, ant! ! the development of their dormant pow ers was abiy set forth. ! Cutting Affray Near Newton. A serious cutting arrray occurred a' j the closing of a school in Cline's town I ship recently. John Fox, a deputy, un I dertook to part two men who werr | quarrelling. One of them, Robert Mar I tin, turned on the officer and cut hire i three or four times with a poeket-knlf I Inflicting a number of serious wounds. | In spite of Ills serious wounds, Fo> ; ran after the young man, and hooi J caught him and In company with an | other young man started at once for I Newton jail with his prisoner. Not uu i til he was safely lodged behind tin I. bars did the deputy trouble about hit ! wounds. May Lose His Pension. | A Confederate soldier holding a tlilr ! ty dollar pension and now serving r I term in the penitentiary, will doubt leas lose his stipend under the at tor- I ney general's interpretation of the I law. The Confederate Is Charles Hon eycutt, of Yancey county, a man iii the seventies, who was convicted last year of a crime that called for flvi years In the penitentiary. Treasurer Benjamin R. Lacy asked Attorney General T. W. Bickett if he thinks, under the law, that the soldier is en titled to a pension. Mr. Bickett does' | not tlilnk so. i Union Warehouse for Catawba. More than a hundred representative | farmers of the different Farmers Un | ion locals met in the court house at Newton to.conslder plans for the erec tion of a union warehouse at some central point, preferably Newton. Notli Ing definite was decided on, but the erection of the warehouse is a cer tainty, as some of the very best farm ers are back of the movement. Mr W .B. Gibson, manager of the ware* house system of Iredell county war present, and explained the working of their system. Shooting Scrape at Lumberton. Emory McNeill was shot and fatal ly woupded by Garfield Prevatt, for whom a posse is scouring the country i Prevatt is about 21 years of age and ■ lives about three miles from Lumber- ] ton. He is said to have been drink- ) ing heavily. Witnesses state that he I met McNeill, who Is the son of one l of the town's most prominent citizens, i in front of Ills home and promptly drew a revolver and fired four shots, i one taking effect, entering the front i of the neck and coming-out In the i back of the head. I BARACA-PHILATHEA MEETING Sixty Charlotte Classes Will Entc«* tain Young People in State Con vention in Near Future. Charlotte. —The 60 Bar&ca and Phl lathea classes of Charlotte will en tertain the 1,00 claases of the state at the third annual Baraca-Philathea state convention that la to be held In this city April 12-15. It is expected that there will be 1,000 delegates in attendance, which will make it a gathering of exceptional Interest from the standpoint of personnel as well a 8 topics to be considered. Several hun dred names have already been sent in to the Baraca-Ph llatha headquar ters In Greensboro and it is believed that the majority of classes will be represented at this meeting. The v Baraca-Philathea movement with ideal plans and methods, is In terdenominational in character, the only aim being the promotion of the Lord's cause on earth. It was organ ized for the purpose of reaching those young men and young women who were found to bo gradually drifting away from the ohurches and the Sun day schools. The growth of the movement has been rapid, and North Carolina has the distinction of being called the 'Banner State," having more than 1,000 classes in churches of ten different denominations, 4SO. of which havo been organized in the past two years, and 300 in the past 12 months. Eight weeks ago a class or ganization campaign was iuaugur&ted by the general secretary, Miss Flossie A. Byrd, of Greensboro. The result is that the goal of 300 new. classes for the year has been reached, 100 of which have been organized ami re ported during February and March, which Is the greatest showing on record. Rowan County Commencement. Led by four small boys riding Shet land ponies, and with 2,700 school children and as many other interest ed visitors In line, the parade of the first Kowan county commencement was given at Salisbury recently! It was one of the most Interesting pa rades ever witnessed In Salisbury The thousands of school boys and girls from more than 40 schools in the county were in the height of glory. The parade was more than two miles long and traversed the prin cipal streets of the el{y, leading to the Salisbury graded school building, where the exercises of the day were 'i.eld. The exercises were presided >ver by County Superintendent R. O. Klser, who for the past six weeks had iven much time and effort to—the program and other arrangements. t Craig Receives Telegram From Cox. Gov. Craig, who was at Asheville 'o attend a good roads meeting, re ceived the following telegram from r 3ov. Cox of Ohio in response to a telegram of sympathy sent by the Xorth Carolina governor: "Columbus March 28. His Excellency Locke Craig, governor of North Carolina: Your telegram just received. The situation in Ohio Is desperate. Our railroads are paralyzed. Property 'oss will reach hundreds of millions Two hundred pnd fifty thousand peo pie are homeless tonight. Send any ontributions to Col. M. L. Wilson treasurer relief fund, Columbus, O (Signed James M. Cox, governor of Ohio." Rain Has Various Effects. The severe rains of tire past week have had varying effects upon the to bacco section of the state. Reports 'rom Wayne, Lenoir, Greene, Jones ind Duplin counties are to the effecef t.liat lirtle damage lias been rone to Hie crop in those counties, especially in the lir.st three. In Wayne, Green mil upper Lenoir, where the rainfall was lighter, the precipitation and ac companying sultry temperature have been conducive rather than detri mental to the young plants, hun - lieds of acres of —which are being planted in excess of last year's crop because of the unusually firm tone of the market last season. Fayetteville.—The grand jury of the Superior court', at tho direction of fudge Ferguson, returned a bill of in lictment against the commissioners of Cumberland county for neglect of duty In not repairing the county Jail and :ourt house. Two Years For Killing Father. Judge Carter in Wake superior court imposed a sentence of two years ;n the penitentiary on Haywood Weathers, who killed his father, J. T. Weathers, a few weeks ago, near lOagle Rock, this county. He submit ted to the charge of manslaughter, after the prosecuton had prepared for trial oil the charge of second degree murder. Judge Carter expressed the view that there was a possibility that the young man might get off on the plea of self-defense. If he went t trial, yet there might be conviction. Officers Capture Distillery. Revenue officers captured a com plete distillery outfit just outside of the corporate limits of Durham, and with it five men. For some time I» has been rumored that there was a moonshine plant in operation, either In, or near the city, and the oflWrs. both state and federal, have been do ing considerable sleuthing. They de cided they had located the outfit, and without warning swooped down on the place. They found a complete whiskey-making plant and five mer there getting ready to make a "nm."
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