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Show MANY MEET DEATH N EARDELAWARE SCORES ARE MISSING AND HUNDREDS HUN-DREDS OF FAMILIES MADE HOMELESS BY FLOOD. Minister Proves to be a Hero, Climbing Climb-ing a Tree and Rescuing Two Babfes and Several Grown People Peo-ple from Perilous Situations. Delaware, O. Between seventy-five ana one hundred persons were drowned In the flooded Oletangy river Tuesday, according to estimates made by the police. More conservative reports re-ports place the number of dead between be-tween twenty-flve and fifty. As darkness gathered, weeping women wo-men and children lined the east bank of the river, waving handkerchiefs to their loved ones marooned in houses and trees in the swirling river. In one tree, where six persons were clinging to the branches, repeat-, ed efforts to throw them a rope failed. Four persons were thrown into the river when the Big Four bridge gave way. Three were rescued. One baby, unidentified, was rescued as it floated down stream. Another baby could not be rescued. Silas Smith, whose wife and children chil-dren were drowned, grasped the roof 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 rope-to a man who, wth several women and children, was being carried down stream on a house. All were hauled ashore. |
