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Show Victims Are Cheerful. One of tbe remarkable features as tha cheerful spirit with which flood victims viewed their plight This was Dayton'a first great flood tu many years. Much of the submerged area had been considered safe from high water, but as the majority of rest- . dents of these sections looked out on I all aide upon a great sweep of muddy, swiftly moving water, they seemed undisturbed. un-disturbed. In some of tbe poorer sections the attitude of the marooned waa not ao cheerful. Aa a motor boat passed before be-fore the second floor of one partly submerged house a man leaned out and threatened to shoot unless tbey took off his wife and a baby that bad Just been born. Tbe woman, almost dying, waa let down from the window by a rope and taken to a place of refuge. Further on, members of a motor boat party were startled by shots In the second floor of a house about which five feet of water swirled The boat waa stopped and a man peered from the window of the house. "Why are you shooting?" he waa asked. "Oh, just amusing myself shooting at rata that come upstairs. When are you going to take me out of here?" be replied. The bodies of a woman and a baby were seen floating down Jefferson street one of Dayton's main thoroughfares thorough-fares It waa thought they came from the district north of tbe river. |