The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-29
INDIANA FLOODS
DEVELOP HEROES
City Light Plant Superintend-
ent Saves IL Lives and May
Lose His Own.

PORTLAND. Ind. March 2s.-Three
more lives have been forfeited to the
food Joseph Ross, aged fifty, died
today from exposure The food sur
rounded his bed, but he refused to be
moved till the water saturated the
bedding.
Miss Anna Browning, of Middlepoint,
died today She was entertaining her
fance. Joseph Franklin, when the
flood surrounded the house and burst
through the doors She tainted from
fright and was carried out by Frank
lin. Paralysis followed. They were to
have been married April 5.
Charles Bailey. superintendent Of the
city light and water plant, is at the
point OF death and cannot recover. He
rescued seventeen people from the
food and was found unconscious at
the water plant Heart trouble fol-
lowed exhaustion. All business viii
cease tomorrow during the funeral of
John Lally and Otis Downing. who lost
their lives trying 10 rescue food VIC
Tins. The loss in this county viii be
s125.00e.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, March 2S.-
Northern and Central Indiana, inelud-
ing the capital city, have seen the
worst of the food The damage in this
county will reach s2,225, 600, and north
of this county an additional $1,000. 900.
Eight lives have been lost In the In
diana flood in two days. and the total
property loss in the state has been es-
timated at from 100000 to 10000
600.
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DETROIT, Mich, March 2e.-Re-
ports from Lansing, Battle Creek,
Flint, Kalamazoo and other towns
where flood damage has been esti-
mated up in the hundreds Of thousands
of dollars show tonight the danger
and distress are largely centralized in
the Saginaw valley and around Grand
Rapids in the valley of the Grand river.
At Saginaw, however, the Shiawassee,
Cass, Flint, Tittibawassee, Chippewa
and other feeders of the Saginaw river
are bringing down torrents of water,
the escape of which into Saginaw bay
is blocked by ice gorges at and below
Bay City.
AT Grand Rapids 1t is estimated that
$4,000 people are in distress and at
Saginaw large portion of the business
section Is flooded.
On the ShiaWassee river today near
Chesaning. twenty-five families were
rescued only few minutes before
their homes were submerged. Gilbert
Bertram. foreman for a sugar COM
pany, lost his life trying to save some
Of the property.
SAGINAW, Mich, March 2S-There
has been no pereeptible fall In Saginaw
river today. although the Cass and
Flint have fallen considerably. All the
Industrial plants near the river In this
city are partially submerged, and 5000
workmen are idle. The street cars
and electric lighting systems are badly
crippled and the water has steadily
risen in the business districts. Only
one life was reported lost, that of a
Polish boy named Stephen Seltysk, who
was drowned between this city and
Crow Island. =
BAY cry, Mich, March 28.-Flood
conditions tonight are very grave. The
ice in the river started out this after
noon going SO far north as the Be-
linda street bridge, where it gorged
seriously damaging the piers and
threatening to sweep the bridge away.
Below this point the river is filed with
ice and the bay is still covered, allow
ing no relief for conditions in the Sag
inaw river.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March g.
Flood conditions in the Grand river
valley have greatly improved in the
past twenty-four5 hours, and unless
there should be a fall of rain. which is
threatened tonight. danger has passed.
There has been no Joss of life in this
city on account of the flood.
At Lowell today Ralph II. Norman,
hocton, Ohio, a workman on the Pere
Marquette bridge, was drowned in
Grand river. Norman was aiding in
anehoring the washed out bridge which
had lodged against the highway bridge.
Three men were in the boat, which
struck a pole and capsized. The other
two men were rescued. Norman's
body was not found.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 2s.-The en-
tire town of Valley Park, Mo-, situated
along the Merance river, eighteen
miles west of st. Louis, has been food
ed by the recent heavy rains and the
damage already done is $4,000. The
river is sweeping over the banks, and
throughout the residence district the
water is pouring in torrents.
DEFIANCE, Ohio, March 2S.-Leory
Carpenter, sixteen and Albert Merwin,
seventeen, were drowned in the Aug
laize river, twelve miles south of here,
their buggy being swept away by the
swift current while they were attempt
ing to drive through the water which
covered the roadway leading to
bridge. Carpenter was a student at
Defiance college.
Bitter Struggle Is Predicted.
LITTLE ROCK Ark, March 2s.-On
the face of the unofficial returns Gov.
Jefferson Davis has carried enough eoun-
ties to give him 222 delegates in the Demo-
cratic state convention, that being the
number necessary to secure denomination
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