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Show REDUCE THE FATALITIES Many Missing Ones Believed to Have Been Drowned Report to Committees at Piqua-List Piqua-List of Identified Dead Tiqua, O, March 28. (Via telephone tele-phone to Greenville ) Early estimates of death in Piqua dwindled to 50 tonight to-night after scores of missing ones, believed to have been drowned, reported re-ported to the rwellef committee headed head-ed by Mayor Charles W. Kiser. Two hundred and fifty houses arc iu ruins and at least 2500 are homeless. home-less. The residence district known as East Piqua was devastated and i many persons there, trusting to the' high levees, which were thought unbreakable, un-breakable, stayed In their homes until un-til too late to escape. The identified dead I Albert Becker Mrs. Clarence Dillon. James Qlllard Isaac Karns Mrs. Sarah Wolford. Miss Ida 'Thompson Mrtv George Slosser. George Sublett. Mrs Louise Phendorf. Piqua suffered great property loss Troy. O.. reports nine dead and F0 houses down, Sidney, O., escaped fatalities |