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Show DROWNED IN THE STREETS. Floods in. Ohio Cause Death and Destruction De-struction of Property. Although the danger of serious floods in Toledo, Ohio, passed Monday, when the ice moved out of the Mau-mee Mau-mee river, it is not true of other' towns in this section of Ohio. Specials from northwestern Ohio towns show that the situation is serious at Findlay, Lima, Tiffin, Marysville, Upper Sandusky San-dusky and neighboring towns. At Findlay, Sam Moffatt was drowned in the street. The water had raised the sidewalk. He broke through and met death in ten feet of water. Nelson Nel-son Jacobs and Henry Thomas, also of Findlay, wealthy farmers, attempted attempt-ed to drive through a low place in the road. The horses floundered In five feet of water. The men and horses were drowned. At Fremont, David DIvley was driving along the river road, and in an attenmpt to pass a low spot was swept away by the current cur-rent of water and drowned. |