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Show Damage in Michigan. PET UO IT, March 17. Abnormal rain-( rain-( fall during- tho past forty-eight hours . j caused a suspension of railroad traffic ; in partK of Michigan today. In the SagU 1 naw river valley the I'ere Marquette m as f u re ed I o a h an d o n it s Ha d Ax e branch and the Ludington line because of numerous washouts. .In the western part of the state traffic on Die Grand Rapids ; &. Indiana railroad w:is interrupted when , i several hundred yards of trackage was ; ' washed away. The Michigan Central ! a Mo lost a few small bridges south of Jjeaver lake. Property damage is said to be. small, ' aside from that sustained by the rail-i rail-i , roads. Fair weather predicted for tomorrow to-morrow is expected to relieve the situation situa-tion In some localities. 'Four deaths were due to the flood. I Near Saginaw a farmer and his two 1 small sons were drowned when their buggy fell into a flooded creek, and an-other an-other man lost his life in the Pinnebog river. |