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Show ZANESVILLE LOSS OF LIFE ONLY FOUR ZAN'ESVILLE. O.. March 2$. With communication bdnc slowly restored, ru-' ru-' mors arc rife of Iohj of life, hut there arc i orl" four known deal lis In this city ;is . 5 result of the Mood. Practlcnlly all of , t'e Seventh. Eighth and Ninth wards and I a ian;e portion of the Second and Tenth i wards still are under ten to thirty feci of water and few boats havo dared to brave the current. About half tho entire. rlt Is Mill submersed, i Ftvo men successfully crowed the iMwklnstini river to Putnam Thursday afternoon anil naved thirteen Uvea. They re "owed the rivor to the ZunoAvIlle ado t! morning. T'.e property los In Zanosvllle ( nsu. 1 'ated at bctwoen JS.000,000 and IS.OOO.-if" IS.OOO.-if" Water completely covers? the "Y" ' 1 -idpo to a depth of fifteen feet and It , annot now bo told whether It is still H'andlnj;. The Sixth alroct. Third atroct I nrd a portion of the Monroe street ;-i'!sf and two railroad bridges in th p tv arc waahed out ami it Is mjd not j.'iother brldso remains standing between j f ls Hty and Marietta. P.ufiw C. Burton, president 0f the chamber cham-ber of commerce, haa naked Governor Cox j ' i'o,tm to bc ufed In allevlatlnc dla- J Nil onjt s ja'd-itnf r 'rom Nvr Tsc'p?- ip rfcd Lar a'-tcr ) ar arr.'.ed w.th r"J- visions, which are htfnt; distributed. Cold weather and lack of gas and coal add to tho discomfort. Communication from hlKh points nhout the city In belns carried car-ried on by wireless telegraph and hectograph. hecto-graph. The city has hern endangered 1y sev- enil fire?, which died out of their own accord, as no flre-flKhtlnp apparatus could approach the scenes of the conflagrations. conflagra-tions. The worat of these Area wan at the old Hurt mule bams, where a carload of carbide wna stored A least 2n0 hnms a ftoae,j down i the river;. With the receding of the waters hcv-cral hcv-cral building have collapsed. Including the Munson Music company building-. In which 150 pianos from the more Hooded district wero stored; the Indianapolis brewing plant and several smaller building. build-ing. Comparatively little looting has been reported and the city Is under strict martial law. |