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Show VICTIM WAS UNMOLESTED Shot Rats in Room of Submerged House Until Un-til Rescuers Could Get Him Out of Plight Dayton. O. March 2&Y One of the remarkable features here today was rhe cheerful spirit with which flood victims viewed their plight This was Dayton's first big flood in many years Each of the submerged area had been considered BSfe from high I water, but as the majority of residents I of the sections looked upon a great sweep of muddy, swiftly moving wa-J wa-J ter they seemed undisturbed I In some of the poorer sections the attitude of the marooned was not so ( beerful As a motor boat passed I before the second floor of one partly submerged house a man leaned out i and threatened to shoot unless they j took off his wife and a babj thai bad ! been bom yesterday. The woman, almost dying, was let rroni the win- dow by a rope and taken to a place of refuge. Further on members oi a motor boal part) were startled by shots In the second floor of a house about which five feet of water swirled The boat was stopped and a man peered rrom the window or the bouse "Why are you shooting?' he was asked. "Oh, just amusing myseir, shooting! at rats that come upstairs. When are you going to take mo out ofj here "" he replied. Captain of Police H. F. Lackhart declared that water in North Day-I j ton. Miami Cltiy and East Daytou reached the house top His estl-! estl-! mate of the number of dead in that dlstrkt was 300. Water Is Receding. The bodies of a woman and a baby were seen floating down .JeHerson si reel one ot Dayton's main thor-! thor-! oughrares. All patrons in the Beckel hotel are safe Extensive preparations were made last night when the building was threatened by rire. Police and volunteers constructed bridges over the tops of houses to safety |