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Show DEATH ROLL ! I CUT DOWN I Sensational Rescues Serve to Reduce the Fatality List Many Towng in Need of Food Pio.ua, O.j March 27. Scores of sensational sen-sational rescues from death in the rs lug Flood have served to limit the fatality list here, which tonight. It is practlcallj certain, will not exceed 50. W W ood. In charge of, the re- lief work of the Citizens' league, in a summary of conditions formulated after a thorough search of flic Inun- dated seetion of the city, declared that between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred persons had been taken out oi perilous places to safety and that .." bodies only could be round. Many of the rescues were made rrom flood tossed roofs, crumbling I houses, tree tops and floating debris I at hazardous risks. The water supply and lighting pJant have been restored and three carloads I of provisions for the stricken Inhah- j I itants hav e been received from Union ( Itj and Winchester More provisions will be necessary, however, before Pi- " ,M qua can care for its own The propert loss !s a staggering one for the community. Two hundred houses in Rossvllle. Shawnee and thai I part, of Plqua near the canal have been swept to destruction. i "The city is under martial law." said Mr Wood tonight ' Relief ror iH the suffering is being carried on with M system aud dispatch." The Pennsylvania bridge across the Miami is down and no mail has reach- ed the city since Monday .H |