Show MIDDLE WEST STORM SWEPT terrific winds and heavy rains cause loss of many liveson ohio indiana illinois and missouri chicago swept by wind tand rain storms of terrific violence for three days vast areas of the middle west from the missouri river to the allegheny mountains are inundated many persons have been drowned and enor enormous mona property pio perty losses have been caused by bi floods the worst in years the maps of ohio indiana and parts of illinois and missouri are maps of 0 desolation terre haute indianapolis 0 I 1 IS and lafayette in indiana and dayton delaware columbus and in ohio p present ies ent particularly potable spectacles in all of these cities there was loss of life ife according to the most authentic reports available and in each city the tha property loss particularly was waa heavy no nito information as to abat actually happened at dayton could be obtained until tuesday night when information from cincinnati came that sixty lives had been lost practically all of dayton was under water and the residents bad been forced to flee for their lives many of tho the more intrepid sought refuge on the house bouse tops in delaware 0 nineteen persons persona are known to have lost their lives and thirty to fifty others are missing terre haute swept by a diGa disastrous tornado last sunday was on tuesday in the grip of a wind and rain storm which seriously interfered mith ith the work of removing the st families the death list still remained at twenty while the list hat pt injured Is expected to aggregate at dayton 0 three rivers the miami stillwater and mail mad and another other stream known as wolf creek join for the most part the city lies on a level hat flat with the four streams meeting almost in the heart of the place and la Is protected py by levees awen ty five feet high the levee protecting tho the miami river broke about 6 tuesday morning and the flood was augmented by the rapidly rising waters of ih the other three streams and finally mado uncontrollable by the breaking tt ot the laramie reservoir fifty miles above dayton |