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Show FOUR DEAD IN ZANESVILLE City Establishes Communication Com-munication With the i Outside Property Loss Will be$8,000,000 ZaDesville, O., March 28. With communication com-munication being slowly restored, ru-! ru-! mors are rife of Iohs of lifo but there i arc only foar deaths in this city as the result of the flood. Practically all of the Seventh. Eighth and Ninth wards and a large portion of the Second and Tenth wards still are under ten to thirty eel of water and few boats have dared to brave the current. About ball the entire city is still submerged. submerg-ed. Five men successfully crossed the Muskingum river to Putnam Thurs-day Thurs-day and saved many lives. They re-, re-, rossed the river to the Zancsville side this morning. To Relieve the Sufferers. The property loss In Zanesvllle Is estimated at between $6,000 000 und $8,000,000. Water completely covers cov-ers the Y bridge to a depth of lf feel and it cannot now be told whether it le still standing. The Sixth street. Third street and a portion of the Monroe street bridges aod two railroad rail-road bridges in the city are washed out and It Is said that another bridge remains standing between this city and Marietta Rufus C. Burton, president of the chamber or commerce, has asked Governor Gov-ernor Cox for $60,000 to be used in alleviating distress National Guardsmen trom New Lexington Lex-ington and Lancaster have arrived with provisions which are being dia- j tribnted Cold weather and lack of and Coal add to the discomfort. I .Communication with high points about I tho city are being carried on by wire- I less telegraph and hectograph I 200 Homes Swept Away. I The city has been endangered by several flrea which died out of their own accord as no fire fighting appa-ratus appa-ratus could approach the scenes or the conflagrations. The worst of these fires was at lie old Burt mule barns. I where a car load of carbide was stored, At least "200 homes have floated down the rivers With the receding of the waters i .several buildings have collapsed, including in-cluding the Munson Music company I 1 building, in which 150 pianos from the more flooded districts were stor- fl led; the Indianapolis Brewing plant and several smaller buildings. jj Little looting has been reported, j The city is under martial law. Zanesville Hotel Collapses Zanesville, O.. March 29. (Via j long distance lelephone to Pittsburc I Four bodies had been recovered this morning and 'he Muskingum river hail receded to Second street Thtj 1 Roggle hotel collapsed early today and J the Schultz theater Is In danger of falling In. Forecast of Flood. Evansville, Ind.. March 29. The weather bureau this afternoon issued a forecast of the crest stage here, plar -Iiik H between 47 and 48 feet, or prac-tlcall) prac-tlcall) at the level of the disastrous flood of 1884. Conditions here are bad. but warn- ! ir.gs reduce the possibility of loss of I fe to a minimum. Ali available I steamboats ar.d launches in port are now bringing thousands of refugees j and livestock to this cltiy. J Much Stock Drowned. Lexington. Ky , March 29. Fully : 1000 head of stock in Kentucky moun- talo ralleys are reported drowned and ! j immense quantities of logs have been swept from booms In the hills in the . I rapidly rising Kentucky rivers. Many towns ar-- under water A High Bridge one fatality ha ' been reported |