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Show Early Figures From the I Flooded Cities of Ohio !B and Indiana Not War- fi 'jaw I ranted by Indications js as the Waters Recede mi and Work of Rescue llg Proceeds. wjfc MANY PERSONS II STILL MISSING HI Death Toll Greatest at v$M Dayton, With Colum- llgj bus Next in Line; To- WB& tal Number of Drowned BIB in Indiana Now Placed Hj at Less Than Fifty. FLOOD waters receded sufficient-ly sufficient-ly labt uight to show that the numbers of persons drowned in all the affected cities in Ohio and in-diana in-diana may not exceed 5U0. While many persons still are missing to friends and relatives, investigations made to date indicated that many were safe who hud been thought .lost. In Dayton careful estimates placed the number of deaths at 200 or fewor, although a meeting of undertakers as-sorted as-sorted that tho total might reach S0O. Relief Work at Dayton. Kelicf work went on rapidly in Day-ton Day-ton and all parts of the city were 'H Columbus will have the next largest loss of life, sixty bodies already having been found in the inundated portion of West Columbus. L'nvcrllled ilgures for Miamls'uurs, O.. IH give 50 dead, but in aU other Hooded cities the Ugurcd fell oft' rapidly as relief expeditions covered the ground. Blount Vcmon did not confirm Us previ-oua previ-oua report of 50 dead and no contlrma-Hon contlrma-Hon was had of S'J reported drowned at Only 18 Bodies Found. Chlllicothe and Tiffin, O., where there liad been reports of 30 or moro dead, each had found 18 corpHes up to midnight. The best figures from Plqua glvo u death toll of 50 persons. Fremont and Rj Mlddletown, O., each has 14 dead; Troy. HH i; Massalon, 5; and Zanesvllle, 4. flH The Indiana total drowned receded to WM fewer than 50, distributed aa follows; Peru. 20; Brookville, IS; Fort Wayne, nfl 0; Torre Hauto. 4. No bodies havo been found In West ,9 Indianapolis, where at one time as many 'HH us 200 deaths were reported. fl New Flood Menace. AVith the situation somowliat alleviated jHj In the llood-swcpt districts of Ohio and Indiana, a new menace threatened to- BH night In tho rise of rivers In tho south- IBB ern valleys of boUi states. At Cincinnati 'M the Ohio, swellud by Its tributaries. Hfl caused alarm, and although the situation ijH had not yet reached an acuto stage- re- BH ports from neighboring Kentucky towns Dflj Indicated Unit warning had boon issued to the Inhabitants to seek points of safe- ly from the rising water. HBfl In Indiana alarm was felt In the val-Io.vk val-Io.vk of the Ohio. Wabash and White . fHH rlvors, but ample warning served, in a ID measure, to reduce the panic, IH Warned in Time. While no Ions of life has occurred In Qh tho ncwiy-thrcatcncd districts, Indications HH from Cincinnati are that conditions are BH becoming worse. At Covington, Ky., moro ffiffB than 500 houses arc under wator. IHfl In southern Indiana fcur of a new flood jfli was especially felt at Now Albany, IB livansvllle, Tern; Ihiuto and Vlncennes. Ample warning, however, had been Is- IH9 sued to those Kvlnp in the threatened filfl soctlons. IliB In Illinois Governor Dunne has been HnBI asked for troops to protect tho levco al HnH Shawueotown. Tho lovco has broken near RKffl Petersburg, but there lias been no loss KBb PIQUA REPORTS A MB LOSS OF 50 LIVES 9 PIQUA, 0., Mnreh 28. ( Via telophono hH to (rrconvillo). Early estimates of f9BI death, in Piquu dwindled to fifty to- jwBcl night 'after scores of missing ones be- if pfr (Continued on Pago Four)' '. 4 NUMBER OP LIVES LOST ABOUT M (Continued from Page One.) Heved to havo been, drowned roported to the relief committeo headed by Mayor Charles W. Kiscr. Two hundred and) fifty houses aro in ruins and at least 2500 aro homeless. Tho residence resi-dence district known as Fast Piqua was devastated, and many persons there, trusting to tho high levee which was thought unbreakable, stayed in their homes until too late to escape. The identified dead: ALBERT BECKER. MRS. CLARENCE DILLON. JAMES GILLARD. ISAAC KARNS. MRS. SARAH WOLFORD. MISS IDA THOMPSON. MRS. GEORGE SCHLOSSER GEORGE STJBLETT. MRS, LOUISE POHENDORF. Piqua suffered great propertv Jos. Troy, O., reports nine dead and fifty houses destroyed. Sidnev, O., escaped fatalities. |
