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Show MIDDLE-WEST 8TORM-6WEPT. Terrific Winds and Heavy Rains Cause Loss of Many Lives In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. Chgo.Swept 4yr wind end rain storms of terrific violence for three days, vast iweas of the middle west, from the Missouri river to the Allegheny mountains, are inundated, many persons have been drowned and enormous property losses bave been caused by floods, the worst In years. The maps of Ohio, Indiana and parts of Illinois and Missouri are maps of desolation. Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Lafayette, in Indiana, and Dayton, Delaware, Columbus and Yonngstown, In Ohio, present particularly pltable spectacles. . In all of these cities there : was loss of life, according to the most authentic reports available, and In each city the property loss particularly was heavy. No definite Information as to what actually happened at Dayton Day-ton could be obtained until Tuesday night, when Information from Cincinnati Cincin-nati 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 more Intrepid sought refuge on the bouse tops. I In Delaware, O, nineteen persons are known to bave lost their lives and thirty to fifty others are missing, Terre Haute, swept by a disastrous tornado last Sunday, was on Tuesday in tbe grip ot a wind and rain storm which seriously Interfered with the work of removing tbe stricken families. Tbe death Hat still remained at twenty, while the list of Injured Is expected to aggregate 250. At I)ayt.n, O., three rivers, the Miami, Stillwater and Mad and another an-other stream, known as Wolf creek. Join. For th most part the city lies on a level tlat with the four streams meeting almost In the heart of the place, and Is protected by levees twen-! ty-flve feet high- The levee protecting protect-ing tbe Miami river broke about 6 o'clock Tuesday morning and tbe flood was augmented by tbe rapidly rising waters of Oh other three streams, and finally made uncontrollable by the breaking of tbe Laramie reservoir, fifty miles shove Dayton. |
