It is sufficient now to tell that relief measures are being taken. The
Business Men's Association, the Y. M. C. A. and citizens generally are
co-operating with the city and military authorities to bring order out
of chaos to rescue those confined in houses still standing in the
flooded sections to house and feed the homeless.

The city is practically under martial law. Company C. and Company A. of
Covington are here and patrolling the city under the the direction of
the city authorities.

Last night, we regret to say, there was a beginning of looting and
plundering in the south part of the city.

Rigorous measures will be taken by the military and the police to
repress and prevent such in the future.

Piqua still is cut off from communication from the outside world. All
the telegraph and telephone wires are down. Bridges and tracks are down
on both railroads and no trains are running.

The only outside communication possible has been by using a Pennsylvania
freight engine to Bradford from which point it has been possible to use
the telegraph.

All the traction lines still are crippled and unable to run their cars
in or out of the city. How soon it may be possible to re-open these
lines of communication it is impossible to say.

While greatly crippled the local telephone service has been maintained
by both exchanges. The operators have done heroic work day and night
ever since the first danger began to threaten.

No mail has been received or sent out of Piqua since Monday. Local
deliveries, of course, are impossible.

North and south the C. H. & D. R. R. is crippled. From Sidney to Dayton
the washout is practically complete.

The Pennsylvania R. R. bridge was washed out at the east end, and there
is no communication across the river. It is understood that much track
has been washed out. A line is open to Bradford and westward.

The Y. M. C. A., the Spring street, Favorite Hill Schools, the
Presbyterian, Christian, Church of Christ, Grace M. E., St. Marys school
hall, and countless homes have been opened freely to the flood
sufferers. The Y. M. C. A. has been the center of the relief
administration and from which all directions have been issued and to
which the sufferers have come.

Provisions can and are being brought from Fletcher and other places east
to the sufferers who have reached the hills on the east of the river.

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