Show THOUSANDS IN DISTRESS destitution will follow the flood in michigan encouraging reports from f rom lansing battle creek fit flint nt kalam kalamazoo a zoo and other towns in michigan where flood damages have been estimated up in the hundreds of thousands ot of dollars show chow that the danger and distress are largely centralized in the saginaw valley and around grand rapids in the valley of the grand river at grand rapids a marked improvement la Is noted yet it Is estimated that people are in distress on the bassee river near Ches chesaning aning families were rescued from their homes on a sugar beet farm just in the nick of time before their houses were almost entirely submerged gilbert bertram Der tram a foreman for the sugar company lost his life while trying to save some of 0 f the property |