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Show relief committee with members of the city council was called for this after noon. On Saturday the council din cussed a raqueat from the relief com mittee that $100,000 be diverted from the sinking; fund of the city to the relief re-lief fund. Councilman Ifarrv Klein and Ous Happel protested vigorously and made numerona remarka derogatory deroga-tory to the relief committee and its motives, accusing members of the latter, lat-ter, among other thinga, of trying to steal the city government. Adventures Come to Light. With the rapid subsiding of the flood waters and dissipating of panic among refugees here, thrilling adventures continue con-tinue coming to light. Among the most interesting of these was the experience of the family of Charles M. Adams in Riverdate. Mr Adams got his wife and 10 months old twin girls in a skiff and took them to the home of s friend in Warder street. An hour later it was apam necessary to move and the family was taken by rescuers out of a second story window. The canoe in which they were being transported was dashed against a telegraph tele-graph pole br the terrific current and capsized. Adams swam bravely in the icy water for a few minutes, when he was picked up by some men in a flat boat. Just before he was rescued he saw his wife atn-k. The baby girls were floating down the street. Then he collapsed. Escape Utile Short of Miraculous. Three hours later he regained con sciousness, to find himself in an attic and beside him on the floor lav his wife, whom ha believed to have been drowned. A few minutes later a man crawled into the attie window from the floating roof of a barn, bringing with him the twins. They had caught in the branches of a tree and wer picked off unhurt bv the man who was riding on the roof. Mrs. Adams was rescued by a high school hoy on a hastily hast-ily improvised raft. The lad was a member of the Riverdate troop of the Bov rVoate. MILLIONAIRE IN DAYTON BREAD LINE Gets Three Loaves of Bread and a Sack of Potatoes. Po-tatoes. FOOD AND CLOTHING AMPLE; MONEY NEEDED Two Dayton Coancilmen Sharply Criticise Relief Committee. DAYTON. O. March 31. In ths bread Hat today was Bogane J. Bar nay. S multimillionaire, wnoee gift to charity have baas large, and recently included 125,000 to the Y. M. C A. of this city. Ha obtained three loaves of bread and email sack of potatoes. John B Patterson, chairman of the cltisans' relief committee, lasnad the following statement today regarding conditio hare: Our committee haa new at lta dla-poaal dla-poaal all the food and clothing necae nary to meat the loss of the sutferere of Dayton. 'Money. however, urgently ia required for putting our city ia a condition to prevent the outbreak af serious diaeaae and to rehabilitate the thouaaads, raanv of whom have last their homes entirely and all ef whom hae lost their household goods and personal effects. Appeals for Funds "The committee wishes to send oat an urgent appeal to the citizens of the foiled Htatee for the necesaary funds. All contributions should be seat direct to v7. F. Bippue, who has been ap (einted treasurer of the relief com-mitee. com-mitee. Mr. Hippos will eead receipts for all moneys received.' A meeting of the members of the |