Show THOUSANDS IN DISTRESS dest gutlon W II 11 follow the flood in michigan encouraging reports from lansing battle creek flint kalamazoo and other towns in michigan where flood damages have been estimated up in the hundreds of thousands of dollars show that the danger and distress are largely centralized in the saginaw val ley and around grand rapids in the valley of the grand river at grand rapids a marked improvement Is not ed yet it is estimated that 14 pie are in distress on the bassee river near chesaning Ches aning twenty five families were rescued from their homes on a sugar beet farm just in the nick of time before their houses were almost entirely submerged gil bert bertram a foreman for the sugar company lost his life while trying to save some of the property |