Show MEET DEATH NEAR DELAWARE SCORES CORES ARE MISSING AND HUN OF FAMILIES MADE HOMELESS BY FLOOD minister proves to be a hero her climbing a tree and rescuing two gable babies and several grown peo pie from perilous situations delaware 0 between seventy five I 1 ana alla one hundred persons were drowned in the he flooded Ole tangy river tuesday according to estimates made by the police more afore conservative reports place the number of dead between twenty five and fifty As aa darkness gathered weeping women and children lined the east cast bank of the river aver waving handkerchiefs to their loved ones marooned in houses and trees in the swirling river in ift ono one tree where six persons were clinging to the branches repeated efforts to throw them a rope failed four persons persona were thrown into the river when the big four bridge gave way three were rescued ono one baby unidentified was rescued as it floated down stream another baby could not be rescued silas smith whose wife and ca children were drowned grasped the root of a house as it floated down stream and drifted safely into a lumberyard by climbing into a tree the rev eugene bush rescued two babies and several adults the minister fastened himself to a tree and threw a rope to a man who ath several alveral women and children was being carried down stream on a house all were hauled ashore |