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Survivors of the Flood Disast;
Proud of Record Made by
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NEEDS OF OTHERS PUT FIRST
No On Ha Cautt to Be Ashamed of
Spirit Displayed In Agonizing
, Tim Soma Faarful Experl
ncaa Brought to Light
Chicago. "Women and children
flrt"
: This world-old cry, mad mora mem
orable when the Tltanlo dlaaater
thrilled the world, echoed over the
flood-stricken districts of Ohio and In
diana. Refugees who reached Chicago
told Innumerable stories of men risk'
lng their Uvea to aav the women and
children.
...
me unwritten law of the aea was
. observed on the Inland rivers. The
entire tenor of stories told by refugees
was one of bravery, aelf-aacrifloe and
devotion to the weak and unprotected.
"Women and children first." .
Only One of Many,
"What la your name?" aaked the
reglaterer who received refugees at
Dayton, O., of a alender person In
men's clothing.
"Norma Thurma," was the reply,
Norma came in with Ralph Myers,
ma wire and little baby. Myera had
climbed a telegraph pole first He let
down a rope to hla wife, who tied It to
a meal aack which contained their
baby, three months old. . Myers pulled
the rope with Its precious burden up
and then let It down to aid hla wife
Holding on to two thin wires, he trav
eled across the cable a full block to
afety.
Whole Families on Roofs.
All of the first terrible night, while
the city of Pern, Ind., was in Inky
darkness because of the cutting off of
the gas and electric light supply, men,
women and children, and In some In-
. stances entire families, lay flat where
they had crawled to the roofs of their
homes, watting for daylight to bring
relief. Hundreds of others were
lammed In the courthouse and lodge
buildings, which were In the only four
blocks of the city not under water. '
The first thought of rescue parties
was to send Into the town boats to
carry to aafety those who were threat
ened with drowning. Telephone com
munication had. been opened with
points in the residence and business
districts and from those marooned In
buildings It was learned that many
persona. Including some women who
; held their children in their arms, had
been on roofs exposed to an almost
freexlng temperature all night One
man telephoned he had seen several
fall from exhaustion and alip Into the
water. It was the purpose of the res
cuers first to reach those In greatest
. danger. Hundreds of others huddled
together at the courthouse, although
In want of food and water, were to be
taken later.
Heroes In All Classes.
If a great loss of life waa averted
at Peru, this is due to some heroes of
the Owen Wlster type, river men and
water rats from aurrounding lakes,
who by unbelievable prowess with a
pair of frail oars' rescued the doomed,
and In splendid harmony with their
virile efforts ahinea the spirit of worn,
en who valiantly helped, supremely
oblivious to distressing surroundings.
Among the latter are Mrs. R. H.
Bouslog, Mrs. R. C. Edwards, ', and
Mrs. Albert Shirk, all three wives
of local millionaires, and also leaders
(n the self-sacrifices required to pro
vide sandwiches, coffee and smiles to
a panio stricken multitude In emer
gency quarters.
Among the boatmen two brothers, i
Charley and Ted Knight, are praised
on the corners left In Pern. Ted, with
W. A. Huff, a dentist, braved the tur
bulent waters of the Wabash - river,
cutting off ' Peru on the . south side
- and rendering uncertain the fate of the
Inhabitants of South Peru. According
to the report the two rescuers reached
the opposite shore alive, after having
been overturned several times.
The Men on the Roof,
There were two heroes on the Day
ton floods. Their names are M. D.
Stohl and C. D. Williamson, and they
are employes of the American Tele
graph and Telephone company.
Stohl is a wire chief at Dayton. He
reached the Dayton office of his com
pany late the night before the floods
came. The niBb of the waters put all
the telephone batteries and power out
of commission. Forgetting thoughts
of escape, ' Stohl rummaged around
until be found a lineman's teat , set.
- With this he rigged up a sending' and
receiving apparatus, and cut in upon
the wire on the roof of. the four-story
building. This wire connected him
with Phoneton, a testing station eight
miles away. Thus he established com.
munlcatlon ' with Williamson, whose
batteries were still working.
Then Stohl sent messages from the
flooded- city, -otherwise out off from
communication with the outside world.
All night he stuck to hla post. All next
day he remained. The following noon
found him still on the roof of a build
ing whose foundations were being
sapped by the waters.
There he stayed in the rain and cold,
with the prospect of death staring him
Optlmlstle View.
"Too bad!" aald the optimist to the
man next to him on the 'bus. whose
bat had been blown Into .the river;
"but it might bave been worse."
' "I can't aee bow," replied the bat
las one. with a stare.
"Why, it might have been my bat"
DEED
He Knew It Already.
- Wife (bitterly) When you married
aae you didn't marry a cook.
Husband Well you needn't rub It
to- ,.
In the face every moment. He sobbed
a atrong man's sob as be told his tale
of death and desolation; of - floating
wreckage bearing men, women and
children doomed to death; of dead
bodies borne upon the orest of the wa
ters; of piteous sights, In themselves
enough to unnerve the bravest of men
But be stuck to his post
Surgeon Tails Graphlo Story.
Dr. Ray B. Harris, a police surgeon
of Dayton, Ohio, and one of the chief
workers among the injured immedl
ately after the cyclone, told a graphic
story of the sufferings of the bun
dreds who were hurt.
"When we began to collect the bod
lea we realised for the first time the
fearful state of affairs," said tjie phy
slclan. "It was as grewsome task
as I ever worked at. Some of the
bodies were twisted Into frightful
shapes and some bad pieces of
wreckage wood and iron drlveu
through their bodies. 'Dozens were
smothered to death, some were
burned, still other were crushed and
beaten to death by the flying timbers.
"Every physician In the city, and
even the medical students, were at
work, Sunday night and all day Mon
day. I Impressed two dentists myself,
although I didn't want any teeth
drawn. They worked like Trojans
too.
"Some of the taxlcab driver thought
It waa a golden opportunity to reap a
harvest, and demanded huge sums for
carrying the injured to the hospitals.
The doctors wouldn't stand for any'
thing like that, and I personally
thrashed two drivers who presumed
to baggie.
Another husky young doctor had an
argument with a chauffeur, who de
manded $5 apiece for conveying two
Injured women to a hospital. When
he would not yield the physician
seized a piece of board and knocked
the man senseless with It Then he
took the chauffeur to the hospital with
the women and ministered to htm
It Is such Incidents as this that evl
dence the fearful night of terror and
panic and the day of sorrow that fol
lowed.
Hang to Roof Thirty Hour.
After hanging to the roof of their
home for thirty hours, with a strong
wind blowing and a heavy snow fall'
lng, August Schmidt, wife and two
children were rescued. None of them
could x move a muscle, being chilled
through. They were removed to Van
Cleve School, where hundreds of other
rescued were taken.
I'd have fallen Into the water if it
hadn't been for daddy," exclaimed the
little girl, who was first of the four to
recover sufficiently to talk.
When the water came Into the
house we had to climb on the roof.
Daddy held me and mamma held
brother. Oh, it was cold. I thought
waa going to die, but daddy kept
hold of me."
A little boy, who, during the night
clung In full sight of the rescuers,
was .rescued. He probably will die
The little fellow was discovered after
the flood had risen ao high he could
not weather the waters.
Herolo Rescue Common.
From all parts of Dayton come sto
ries of herolo rescues. The stolid
volunteers pay no attention to them.
All of them for three days have con
stantly offered their live to save
others. Several of these men have
given their Uvea on rescue work.
Their names are unknown. Watchers
on the banks saw them trying to
reach persons In floating houses, saw
their boats upset and the men go
down. "
Late In the day a large frame house
floated down the river. Four women
were In the windows. As they neared
the Main street bridge they waved at
the crowd on the banks and the build
lng struck the pieces. There was a
swirl in the murky waters and a lit
tle farther down . stream the debris
appeared, but none of the women.
. Vlctlma Are Cheerful.
One of the remarkable features was
the cheerful spirit with which flood
victims viewed their plight. This was
Dayton's first great flood in many
years. Much of the submerged area
had been considered safe from high
water, but as the majority of resi
dents of these sections looked out on
al aldei upon a great sweep of muddy,
swiftly moving water, they seemed un
disturbed. : !; .. ;
In some of the poorer sections the
attitude of. the marooned was not so
cheerful. As a motor boat passed be
fore the second floor of one partly
submerged bouse a man leaned out
and threatened to shoot unless they
took off his wife and a baby that had
Just been born. The woman, almost
dying, was let down from the window
by a rope and taken to a place of
refuge.
Further on, members of a motor
boat party were startled by shot's in
the second floor of. a house . about
which five feet of water swirled. The
boat waa stopped and a man peered
from the window of the house.
"Why are you shooting?" he was
asked. - ' '
i "Oh, just amusing myself shooting
at rats that come upstairs. When are
you going to take me out of here?"
he' replied.
The bodies of a woman and a baby
were seen floating -down Jefferson
street, one of Dayton's main thorough
fare.. It wa thought they came from
the district north of the river.
, Go Insane, 8ly Families,
There were stories of insanity caus
ed by the flood at Dayton. ' A father
had killed hla four children and
hla wife and then leaped into the
flood.
Children had been born In boat
that were carrying their mother to
,An Aspersion.
'I've found that Jinks 1 a bard
drinker."
"You surprise me. . I thought his
reputation for sobriety' wa above sus
picion." . , . .. . -
"But you see, Irs can't get any other
kind to drink but hard water." .
Taking an Oath. ;
1 Knlcker -"Feel strange taking an
oath?" 'Bocker "No, you Just hold up
your band as though you were going
to hang on a subwaStrap." - -
place of aafety, and on th roofs
of buildings, only to die from expos
ure.
The suffering of the survivors bud
died together In the marooned build
Ings . was awful. Food and - water
could not be taken to them.
Foreigners killed their country'
men and even members of their fam
Ilies In their desperate efforts to ob
tain food, according to John Volbrecbt
of Yukawa street, In North Dayton,
who was taken from the one remain
ing abutments of the Herman street
bridge. ' Volbrecht ssld be was at bis
home with his family when the flood
struck North Dayton. The house was
picked up by the current and car-
noa against tne Herman street bridge.
Volbrecht said he clung to the bridge
and didn't know what became of his
family.
One woman with a ten-day-old baby
climbed over the roofs of three bouses
to reach the rescuers.
Many Rescued by a Cable.
Many thrilling stories were told by
the Dayton refugees who had been
trapped in their attics and on their
roofs In the, very heart of the flood.
A. J. Bard of Belmont avenue, who
waa penned In. the City National
Bank building on Third street, near
Main, Tuesday, was rescued.
"One hundred and fifty of us were
caught In the building," said Mr,
Bard. "We remained there until the
Are started, then we began to plan an
escape."
. "We cut the elevator cable and ob
tained a ball of twine and some small
wire from one of the offices. We at
tracted a boatman, who risked his life
to come to us. We gave the boatman
one end of the twine and he rowed to
the old courthouse. He then pulled
the wire over and after that the heavy
cable.
"One end of the cable was made
fast in the bank building and the
other in the old courthouse. Then,
with only the light of the burning
structure, the 150 persons in the bank
building made their way, hand over
hand, along the cable over the swirl
lng torrent to the courthouse. I be
lieve every one, men and women,
made the trip In safety. During our
Imprisonment I had two crackers and
a slice of chipped beef to eat"
Only Doctor a Drug Fiend.
Terrible scenes were reported from
West Indianapolis. Conditions In the
flooded district were made worso by
the fact that the only physician who
was there to attend sufferers waa a
victim of the morphine habit. In the
Methodist church a woman rescued
from the bottoms gave premature
birth to twins. The physician, what
with the horror of bis duty and his In
ability to obtain more of the drug.
went insane, and after making three
unsuccessful attempts to Jump from
a window, waa placed In a straight-
Jacket
Forty Dead at Bridge.
Richard Lee, an 1 engineer on the
Pennsylvania, who brought in the last
train over that line from Logansport
reported a terrible condition at the
Pennsylvania bridge over the Wabash
on the outskirts of Logansport
'Thla bridge is braced across an
Island and la as near indestructible as
a bridge can be made," aald Mr. Lee.
It is eighteen miles down stream
from Peru and has caught all the
debris from that town.
"I think we saw . the remain of
more than 100 bouses stacked up
against this bridge, with the current
tugging and pulling at them. We
could make out thirty or forty dead
bodlea in the crushed lumber, and it
seemed as if some section of Peru
must have beea overwhelmed sudden
ly and swept down stream to destruc
tion."
' Robber Prices of Boatmen.
Boatmen in Peru, Ind., reaped for
tunes by carrying flood sufferers
from the danger sone at exorbitant
prices, according to M. S. Scott, a
traveling salesman of New York, who
arrived from Peru with two other
traveling men.
The condition at Peru," said Mr.
Scott, "cannot be told." I was at a
hotel across the street from the court
house and last night six babies were
born to 'women who lay on the bare
floor of the building. When we learned
of this we had them rowed across the
street and gave them our rooms. The
boatmen charged $5 each to row three
women across the street We paid
$15 to be hauled three miles, and
were lucky to get off that cheaply."
' Passenger Give Refund Money.
The flood relief fund collected In
Chicago was Increased $152 by the
two hours' delay of the Twentieth
Century Limited from New York. For
every hour the train is late the pas
senger are given $1 by the company
It arrived in Chicago wo hours be-
mna time.
J. L. Daube of Philadelphia con
ceived the idea of giving the $2 which
would be refunded by the railroad
company to the fund. He made known
his intentions to Joseph Hofowlti of
New York and Fred K. Townsend of
Rochester, who also were passengers.
They became enthusiastic and formed
committee to collect the refund
slips of all the passengers on the train.
Out of eighty passenger seventy-
six readily gave up their slips. Among
the four was an Englishman Just ar
rived. .. The flood situation - was ex
plained to him and Daube pictured the
sufferings of the victims.
I dont believe it" declared the
Englishman. "It Is some bally Ameri
can Bcneme to aerraua strangers.
Show me your credentials. I never
heard of any flood. I know all about
your scheme in this country to de
fraud traveler."
Keep Your Eye on Your Hat
Bill The ancient - Britons often
wore the dragon, or serpent as a hel
met crest
Jill In those days, when a fellow
went Into a restaurant be wouldn't be
so apt to have head-gear exchanged as
he Is now, I should say."
.- Rival Ambition.
First Manager 1 am going to gel
my star a 8kye terrier.
Second Ditto And I am going U
get mine a moon calf and' a sua do
SURVIVORS TELL
OF FL00DJHRILL3
Lecturer Saw 28 Bodies Recov
ered at Delaware, 0.
MEANEST MAN A BOAT OWNER
College Girl Retat Death Scenes
and Herolo Rescue Work by the
Students Stories, of Other
Refugees.
Chicago. Thrilling stories of the
flooded districts In Ohio were told by
Rev. E. O. O'Neal, who returned to
this, city from a leoture tour. He
saw rescuers take 28 bodies from the
river at Delaware, O
"All of the small towns along the
river have been swept away," he said,
"The greatest problem Is food. The
victims are starving and freezing to
d?ath. Those who are able to work
are making every effort to rescuo and
help others. There Is no communica
tion between towns.
"When at Delaware I saw college
students make many thrilling rescues
by swimming out into the swift cur
rent and swimming back with a flood
victim. One young man swam out and
and rescued 30 persons in one day. He
was the bravest fellow I ever saw.
Women and Children Afloat
I saw a bouse with one woman
and three children clinging to the roof
floating down the stream. The bouse
was whirling and bobbing up and
down In the water. The woman was
screaming for help. Persons on the
edge of the flood had a small boat,
but they could not row fast enough to
caech up with the house.
'The house bore down on the Penn
sylvania railroad bridge and crash.
ed against It. The mother caught the
bridge and went down. The children
went down, but came up again near
a tree.- The eldest child helped the
other two and help on to the tree. The
boat put out and rescued all of them.
"A few minutes later a bouse with
a man about 75 years and bis wife
floated down the stream. The woman
was lying on the roof. The old man
was holding her. Suddenly the house
struck a tree and the brick chimney
fell off. Then we saw the bid man
lift his wife In bis arms and carry
her to the chimney hole In the root
and let her down Into It When the
rescuers put out in a boat and caught
up with the house, one of the res
cuers inquired of the woman.
"'She is dead,' aald the old man.
She died two, hours ago, and I was
afraid to let her lie on the roof be
cause the water would carry her
away.'
8ee Man and Woman Drown.
I law another house with a man
and woman clinging to the chimney
to keep from falling off. The house
struck a tree and the chimney crum
bled. , Both went down before the
boat reached them and we never saw
them again. These are only a few
Instance of the horrible things seen
in the flooded district'
I went from Delaware to Prospect,
and the same tragedies were repeated.
At Prospect I saw the meanest man
in the world. The meanest man, I
think, i a farmer who owned a boat
at Prospect. He lived across the riv
er from the town. He lent his boat
to a Baptist minister who used it for
rescue work. Tbey saved more than a
dozen women and children during the
day. It war-the only boat in the
town. ' ' t
Farmer Demands HI Boat
'Although ' the minister could res
cue but two persons at a time be
was doing noble work. Many persons
were swept away before the " boat
could reach them. Late in the after
noon the farmer came to the shore
and announced he wanted the boat.
He declared he would take the boat
by force. He said he wanted the boat
to go across the river and attend to
some business.
"The minister refused to give up
the boat, but offered to row the farm
er across the dangerous river, if he
could keep the boat. The farmer
grudgingly assented, and a newspaper
man from Marlon and the minister
rowed him across. It was the first
attempt to take tho boat across the
swift river and was extremely danger
ous. The preacher declared be would
take any risk in order to keep the
boat. They landed the farmer across
the river with mnch difficulty They
started back and when In the middle
of the -stream the boat capsized, and
both went down. With the boat hun
dreds of persons could have been res
cued. v '
Bread Famine at Delaware,
"The victims need food more than
anything else. There is a bread fam-J
lne at Delaware. To show they were
willing to do anything to help the suf
ferers more than 100 students at We
leyan college volunteered to leave the
city ao there would be 100 les to
How to Paint a Tin Roof.
In painting a new tin roof, clean all
rosin and acid off with coal oil, wash
with strong soda water, and rinse
with clear clean water. Treated in
this manner,, the paint will not scale
off and leave the tin exposed.
First Power House.
The' first electric power bouse In
this country consisted of a -small
shack at Appleton, Wis., housing a
small generator driven by a water
wheeL -
To Keep Policemen Warm.
' Policemen of the traffic squad, sta
tioned at street Intersections all day
long In wintry weather, are to be more
comfortable in Indianapolis. That
city haa appropriated $700. tor Install
ing at it down town street crossings a
small steam-heated "manhole," on
which the traffic policeman can stand
to keep hi feet warm. -
; v " . Reduce Infant Mortality.
Philanthropic effort have reduced
the Infant mortality of New York from
181 per thousand to 160.
feed. The students departed at night
for their homes in different parts of
the country.
"At Cellna I saw the same suffer
ing. .The town was under ten feet
of water. I saw them take ten bod
ies from the water at Masslllon, O.
Prospect, O., Is under 14 feet of water,
and the river at that point Is four
miles wide. I saw them take more
than a doxen bodies from the water.
"The reparts of th dead have not
been aent in from these small towns
and the country will be appalled when
the full number Is known. From what
I saw I dO'not think the reports have
been exaggerated.
"Plqua and fostorla are under wa
ter, and many people are drowned.
The nearest I oould get to Dayton
was Plqua. Most of the town was un
der water. It was Impossible to get to
Dayton." .
Co-Eds Tell of Horrors.
Four weary young women, co-eds
from Ohio Wesleyan university at Del
aware, O., climbed from a Pullman on
a delayed Lake Shore train in the La
Salle street station. Tbey were the
first arrivals In Chicago from the ac
tual scenes of death and desolation
attending the floods throughout cen
tral Ohio,
Eagerly questioned by newspaper
men, the young women talked freely
of their experiences and painted
graphlo word pictures of the horrors
of the Inundation of a large part of
Delaware.
They were Miss Florence Wyman of
3633 Sheffield avenue, student in gen
eral work and instructor in the art
school of the university; Edith and
Esther Quayle of 233 North Harvey
street, Oak Park, and Mabel Leea of
325 Elmwood avenue. Oak Park. '
Fear Horror to Follow.
Miss Wyman, who had chaperoned
the party on the trip, was the spokes
man, but the other girls broke In from
time to time with eager ejaculations
to emphasize the horror of the tale
she told.
"The thought that Is uppermost in
my mind," said Miss Wyman, "is not
so much of the horror that has passofj
as of the greater horror that must in
evitably come to those poor people In
Delaware and elsewhere throughout
the floodrd district. There are some
dead boti.es still In the houses at Del
aware, and thousands elsewhere In
Ohio, and it Is staggering to the Imagi
nation to attempt to conjure up the
picture of desolation, famine and pes
tilence that will follow the recession
of the waters.
"The flood Itself waa like a horrible
nightmare. The water crept up slow
ly, but, oh, so steadily and relentless
ly. First it was six inches deep in
some of the lower streets; then a foot
deep, and at last it had covered all
the lower part of town and was lap
ping at the foot of the hills, while the
houses in the flooded porton stood.
many of them, with only the upper
torle and roofs visible.
Hear Prayers for Safety,
'And on nearly every house there
waa a family, or what was left of the
family, clinging to the ridgepole and
chimneys and praying for deliverance.
The university stands on the highest
hill in town, and we were not affected
by the flood Itself. But all night, that
first night, the 200 girls In Monnett
hall, our dormitory, walked the floor
and wept and prayed a the wail of
the unfortunates only a few blocks
away were borne to their ears. Closed
windows oould not keep out the
sound. Now and then a woman shriek
ed above the general lamentations,
and we knew when that sound reached
us that aome one had seen a loved
relative, an aged father or mother, or
perhaps a child, lose the grip of
Lnumbed fingers and slide off Into the
oiacK, cnni waters.
"Throughout the night the men stu
dents and members of the faculty did
what they could to rescue the suffer
ers, but we had no boats at the uni
versity and it was almost Impossible
to guide a raft through the blackness
of the night, which wa Intensified by
a cold, drizzling rain.
Rescue Work Make Heroe.
"As soon as dawn came the boys
got together In an organized rescue
corps. Our school produced a hundred
heroes in half an hour. Every one of
those students risked death on the
flimsy rafts they were able to con
struct, but they never hesitated.. They
found some small boata, too, and did
aa well a they could with these. Prof
W. E. Dixon, the physical director of
the university, headed the work of
rescue. He had a dozen active lieu
tenants in the work of directing op
eration.
Some of the houses could not be
reached at all. i The rafts were un
manageable, and the few boats were
smashed one after another aa they
were caught by the eddying currents.
Every time a boat was smashed two
or tnree oi me noys wouia oe mrown
into water ten or fifteen feet deep, but
tbey all swam out In safety.
Well, when they found how Im
possible It was to get actual contact
with the houses they went to the near
est houses they could reach and took
ropes and pulleys from a hardware
store that had escaped the flood.
'They would tie a bolt to a light
line and throw It over to a houae
INVENTION NOTES.
The new anesthetic composed of
essence of orange, ether and chloro
form has been officially adopted by the
United States navy. ..
A pneumatic machine for cutting
wire rope or chain under water, where
It would be Inconvenient to use band
tools, has been Invented In England.
To amuse Children and teach them
' to save money a Connecticut man ha
patented a bank into which the figure
of a dankey butts a coin when placed
In a alot .
Pivoted at three point Instead of
one, shear patented by a New Yorker
are claimed to cut metal with half the
uinal effort .-
To fold letter and insert them In,
envelopes 1 the purpose of a simple'
hand-operated machine patented by
Georgia man. :"
A machine which, when a lever la
pressed,; print aad deliver transfer
ticket to passenger has been patent
ed for street ear. -
Sight mounted on sliding exten
sion to give the user of an utomatlo
njstol a better aim have beea patented
by an Englishman.
wnere there were person clinging on
the roof. These people would catch
the light line, pull over a heavier one
and a pulley and set up a running line
of cable by, making fast to a chimney
or bouse tower.
"The boys must have known some
thing about breeches buoy work, for as
soon as tbey had a line to a houae
they would rig up a chair and pass it
over. Then the people would be haul
ed across. I guess they must have
taken more than 100 off the different
roofs. One woman, who weighed more
than 200 pounds, started across in a
chair. The pulley waa fastened to a
chimney and the chimney toppled over.
The woman went into the water, but
they kept hauling her in and she clung
to the chair. She was half drowned
when they got her up.
Take Rafuge In "Fret" Houses.
"The men students have responded
nobly In time of distress, and the Phi
Kappa Pel, Sigma Chi, and Beta Theta
PI fraternity houses, which are on
hills, hsve been turned over for sleep
ing places for women and children. A
Mr. Houseman and a Mr. Sulllver
manned the boats sent down by the
life saving station at Toledo, and
saved fifteen persons. The student
are doing practically all of the work
of saving people and bringing what
food there Is to the starving men,
women and children.
"The property loss In th city, not
counting personal property. Is over
$2,000,000. There is danger of fire,
because the co-eds are using candles
for lights.
"We know of thirteen deaths: Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Melcher and their two
sons, Ralph, 6 years old, and Lewis, 4
years old; Mrs. Silas Smith and her
two sons and one little daughter, 1
year old; Miss Hazel Jones, a 15-year-old
girl; MIbs Hazel Dunlap, Mrs. Slos
son, William Hessey, William Fielding
and James Maine.
Dies After Being Rescued.
"William Fielding clung to a tree
for three days and was rescued only
to die of exposure. A Mr. Ralner was
marooned In the top of a tree for
three days and a half and was res
cued. He Is now 111 from exposure
and it is thought he will get pneu
monia. "A little girl was picked up from' a
raft on which she had floated five
miles from Stratford. She Is 111 of
exposure, but It Is believed, she will
live."
Other Refugees Arrive.
Every train that came In from th
east brought men and women who had
escaped from Indiana after arduous,
roundabout trips and disheartening
delays. Perhaps none of these refu
gees had a more exciting experience
than that of Frank Jamleson, a com
mercial traveler of Muncle, Ind.
For thirty-six hours Jamleson was
marooned with eighty-five other men
and women guests and employes of
the Barnett, hotel In Logansport. The
basement and first floor were flooded,
water standing eight feet deep in the
office. All there was to eat was some
corned beef and coffee, which one of
the women heated over a small gaso
line stove. In the basement, under
water, was $3,506 worth of fine food
which could not be reached.
Wednesday afternoon a man rowed
down the street near the hotel and
Jamleson hailed him. He had only a
small skiff and there was room for one
passenger. Jamleson offered him $10
to be ferried out of town and th
boatman accepted the offer. No one
else In the hotel dared risk the trip,
feeling safer In the building than
adrift on the waters, but Jamleson
climbed out of the second story win
dow and took a seat In the boat '
Five Ml lee In Row Boat
"Wa rowed for five or six miles, I
should think," said Jamleson, in de
scribing; his experience. "The water
gradually grew shallow and finally I
debarked in a field, where I was about
knee deep in mud and water. I got a
farmer to drive me a few miles fur
ther on,' where I caught a train at a
crossing of the steam and interurbao
tracks.
"As the train was passing Warsaw
we saw a horrible thing. A farmer
was driving a team attached to a light
wagon. He had a passenger, appar
ently a traveling man, and they waved
at the train, which slowed down and
was about to stop for them. The
horses were knee deep In water and
the bed of the wagon lapped the flood
now and then, but they came on con
fidently and seemed likely to make
the tracks in safety.
Suddenly, however, the wagon and
horses disappeared from view. It
seemed as if they must have struck
a sinkhole or something, but the queer
part of it was that they didn't com
up. The train waited for ten minutes,
but not even a bubble came to the sur
face of the pool where the men and
horses had disappeared. It was a ter
rible thing, and several women on the
train who saw it became hysterical
and were restored with extreme diffi
culty."
Insanity and 8ulclda.
At Brookville, where the loss of life
is estimated at 20 to 50, insanity and
suicide followed in the wake of the
flood. . Five parents who had seen
their children drowned or who feared
they met that fate' are reported to
have committed suicide.
Avoid, Overheating.
The danger of overheating wbtch at
tends Incandescent lamp sockets con
taining a resistance unit to lessen the
brilliancy of the light is avoided by
distributing the resistance through a
cord, provided with a regulating
a witch at the end.
American Typewriter.
The United States supplies Russia
with three-fourths of its typewriters,
twenty kinds of American machine
being sold there.
Aeroplane Accident.
According to recent French figure
but one-quarter of the accidents sus
tained by aviators are due to defects
In aeroplanea.
Variation of Clock. - .y
The dally average variation of the
clock on the house of parliament la
0.7 of a second.
To Prevent Excessive Rolling.,
The bilge keel on battleships are
being made larger to prevent excess
ive rolling.
SAVE THE ORPHANS
LIFE SAVERS FROM CHICAGO RES
CUE INMATES OF FORT.
WAYNE ASYLUM.
CARLAND RELATES INCIDENTS
Children at First Afrsld to Trust
Themselves fn Boat Crews Strug
gle Desperately Aoross Mil of Rag
ing Flood.
Chicago. Half-frozen and without
food, fifty-eight children and their at
tendant were rescued from the Forti
Wayne Orphan Asylum by Captain.
Charles Carland and his crew from,
the Chicago life saving station. Cap
tain Carland and alx life savers re
turned to Chicago from Fort Wayne.
with their surf boat, but immediately;
departed for Terre Haute to continue
their rescue work.
Captain Carland's story was graphic
He told how he and his men arrived .
at the asylum Just after four children
had met death when an attempt waa
made to rescue them. Five trips to
the asylum were made by Captain
Carland and each time a boatload waa
taken safely across half a mil of
swiftly flowing water. Besides th
children four matrons and six men,
were rescued from the building. I
Carland Tells btory.
"We arrived at Fort Wayne when
the water was highest," said Captain
Carland. "No sooner had we arrived
when a report reached us that the
children were marooned In the Orphan
Asylum. One attempt had been made
to rescue them which ended disss-
trously for four of the children and
two brave men. The small rowboat
in which the would-be rescuers had
reached the building overturned after
four of the children had been taken
from a second-story window. All were
drowned.
"Conditions in the asylum were aw
ful when six men and myself Anally
reached the building. In one small
room, huddled together half frozen
and hungry, were the little girls and .
boys with their attendants.
"Many, were crying, a few were .
asleep from exhaustion. One of the
women had fainted.
Afraid to Trust Bosts.
'At first they refused to trust their
lives to our boats. Tbey bad witnessed
the fate of the first boat and were
afraid. We finally carried twelve of
the little ones out of the second-story .
window and then our fight back start
ed. It needed the combined strength
of every man on the boat tc '
fight the current and prevent . the
boat from overturning. Then we
were hampered by the cries of the
children and at times the one matron
we took with us would become panio
stricken. After getting to shore the
children were placed In the care of
merchants of the town, and we went
back for another load.
We received a different reception on
our second arrival at the asylum. A.
shout of Joy went up when they heard
that the first load had been landed
safely. A little confusion resulted
from the natural anxiety of the tots to
get into the boat. No one waa hurt,
however, and after five trips we suc
ceeded in removing all the children '
and their attendants to safety.
'The merchants thanked us for
what we had done. One of the ma
trons told us the children had not had
a full meal for 48 hours. They had run
out of coal and were breaking up the
furniture in the place for fire wood.
The fire they kindled in the middle of
the room, braving the danger of the -entire
building burning up."
Brings 200 Peru Children.
Charles H. Thacher and his wife,
who live at 3260 Groveland avenue,
arrived here from Peru, Ind., with 200
Peru children, many of them now
orphans.
A man in Peru, having a boat, de
manded $60 from Thacher to take the
two away. There was another wom
an In the marooned house, and the
boatman refused to take her.
Ax shot was fired and the man fell
out of the boat, dead," said Mr. Thach
er. Mr. Thacher escaped with his wife
and the other woman in the boat. A
second man. Dr. Hupp, offered a boat
man $100 to take his wife to a hospital,
there being imminent a visit from the
stork. The man refused and the doo-
tor knocked him out of the boat with
brick. A Winona college student
rowed the doctor's wife to the hos
pital, where a baby was born, mother
and child being saved.
Trio In Stolen Boat Drowned. , ,
Three unknown men were drowned
at Peru when a leaky boat, which they
had Btolen, sank. The boat waa own
ed by Oliver Wilson, a farmer who
lives near the water line of the lnter-
urban tracks. Wilson discovered the
theft when the three men were 100
yards from shore. When they bad
gone a half mile, they appeared In
distress. The Wilson family watched
the men struggle in the water and
disappear. No effort has been made .
to recover the bodies.
-At Logansport heroic work waa'
done by the crew sent from Lake
Bluff and by the cadets from Culver
Military academy in saving lives.
In all more than 6,000 persons were)
rescued from marooned homes and
taken to safety in rowboats. Many ;
lost everything they possessed.
Horses, "cattle and other animal Were
killed by the hundreds. -,.- ;
Mounted Squad on Zebras.
The German police of Africa - are
mounted on the backs of zebra, and
these animals have been found to be
very successful as mounts.
Long Stretch of 8leep. ,
1 A sleep for 72 hour without a
break occured to a bottle washer la ,.
a ' Pari restaurant a few days' ago.
after he had cut hla hand accidentally
on a Sunday. Shortly afterwards ha -went
to bed and did toot wake for
three daya.
Having an Understanding. '
She When we are married, dear,
will you expect me to bake my own
bread? . He I'll leave that with you.
darling only I shall Insist on your
not baking mine. . ;