Floodwaters and Flames: The 1913 Disaster in Dayton, Ohio
Issued from the oices of The National Cash Register Company Dayton Ohio CONTENTS Introduction Dayton Ohio Spring 1913 4 Chapter One A TIDAL WAVE 10 Chapter Two DAY OF FIRE 26 Citizens Chapter Three WAITING FOR RESCUE 34 Hity to Aet in Confered Upon Chapter Four THE AFTERMATH 38 by Wiree Hle App Snident and will Chapter Five RESULTS FROM RUIN 46 or The Carmen Every Sec en City B as Rapidly Aged and rst In the urches Buildings lospitals City Wel Relief onderfully Author s Note 50 Timeline 51 Source Notes 52 NATIONAL GUARg Smpany is merely and Glossary 53 Selected Bibliography 53 Places to visit 54 For More Information 54 Index 55 Guard or at Governor Jamie g of a number of coal Tanised and Preside Restorati granted the President on and ordered its by the Committee the duty of this cont Inditions hold of the telegraph poles Rotterman safe trouble He has already stated relief work for the present and these ned the traces of the ter and made their way to the that he believes it to be possible will accept and receipt for all done uspense and suffering tu se contract lences and broadenever they may be sent to this city cable alive in a nests at the Roosterman and deepen the channel of the the apartment Tinland Ludlow
Already De storatio number of citienna nursday and President John Downtown Dayton Ohio In the early twentieth century tely notified the militia of And it to comply fully KRUG Inces of the fe Ense and sufferi greatest suffering He had been intens this city know what is me on at the helm with all means that stricken Day a brighter and a better greatest relief may be imprison First it was the long up inch by inch midnight Th gradually iro UBBO STORI SP Gatde as the to be no hope of a They prefer to T Father Bernar INTRODUCTION Institute a river other officials of said are arries ple nations Itecause the fall DAYTON OHIO SPRING 1913 vacations when it ruck the city the sun were afforded better E story and that was to I and to were ter ing guarters the provisions while Coal dealer Andrew Fox looked out his window on the night of Monday March 24 He could hear the wind howl as it had for days Hurricane force winds of 70 to 90 miles 113 to 145 kilometers per hour had roared into Dayton on Thursday and Friday Telephone and telegraph poles had crashed to the ground An ice storm followed By Saturday most of the telephone wires were downed by ice The rain beat down that Easter Sunday and into Monday mained there for od has ordered trapped by the water can see tering the districts not food U S Life Saving Crew The occupant of every hot 4 FLOODWATERS AND FLAMES ed should remain at quired to build a cesspool in tioned at Lewisville reached Day home unless it is ab yard sufficient large to hold the solutely necessary to mediately began the words of an leave This will great eating
Floodwaters and Flames: The 1913 Disaster in Dayton, Ohio
March 25, 1913. At 8 a.m., men and women were hustling to work. By 8:10, they were scrambling for higher ground.
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By: Lois Miner Huey
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Published by: Millbrook Press an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
