Postcards of the Tornadoes and Floods of March 1913

Postcards of the Tornadoes and Floods of March 1913 - Dayton, Ohio (5)

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Monument Street, Dayton, Ohio

Monument Street, Dayton, Ohio - 26th March, 1913

This postcard, posted in Dayton on April 22nd, 1913, has the printed text...

Published by Haenlein Bros., Cincinnati, Ohio

Reassuring Message, Dayton, Ohio

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During the flooding there were rumours that the huge Lewiston resevoir dam had collapsed and that millions more gallons of water were about to hit the city. Luckily these rumours were false but did cause widespread panic. As it was, some districts of Dayton were under 12 ft. of water. John H. Patterson, president of the National Cash Register Company in Dayton was one of the most proactive people of the floods. He set 150 of his carpenters to work building boats and rafts to help with the rescue operation and to help get food and fuel to those who needed it. The company premises were also used a hospital, morgue, registration clearing house for people looking for missing relatives and friends and as a store for the supplies that were being bought to the city. He also arranged for the company's cars and trucks to be used in the relief effort.

View of the C. H. & D. Railway, Dayton, Ohio

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The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad was a railroad based in Ohio that existed between its incorporation on March 2nd, 1846, and its acquisition by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in December 1917. It was originally chartered to build from Cincinnati to Hamilton, Ohio, and then to Dayton, a distance of 59 miles; further construction and acquisition extended the railroad, and by 1902 it owned or controlled 640 miles of railroad.

Business Section, Dayton, Ohio