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Show V MEET DEAIH IBHJEUIIIRE SCOREB ARE MISSING AND HUNDREDS HUN-DREDS OF FAMILIE8 MADE HOMELESS BY FLOOD, Minister provaa to b a Hero, Climbing Climb-ing a Tree and Rescuing Two Bablea and Several Grown Po-p! Po-p! from Perilous Situations, I V Delaware, O. Detween seventy-five a lid one hundred perron were drowned In the floovled Oletangy rlvt r Tuesday, according to eHtlmates inaiU-by inaiU-by the polite. More conservative reports re-ports place the number of dead between be-tween twenty-five and fifty Aa darkness gathered, weeping women wo-men and children lined the hkI bank of the river, waving; handkerchiefs to their loved ones inuroonrd lu houaea and trees lu the swirling river. In ox tree, where fix peraoni were clinging to the branches, repeated repeat-ed efforts to throw them a rope failed. Four persons were thrown Into the river when the Dig Four bridge gave way. Three were rescued. One baby, unidentified, was rescued as it floated down stream. Auotber 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. Uy climbing Into a tree, the Rev Eugene Uush rescued two babies and several adults. The minister fastened himself to a tree and threw a rope to a man who, wth several women and children, was being carried down stream on a house. AH were hauled ashore. |