Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1903 — FLOOD BRINGS DEATH. [ARTICLE]

FLOOD BRINGS DEATH.

Many Are Drowned in Inundated Cities and Towns of Ohio. Telegrams from northwestern Ohio towns show that the flood situation, is serious at Findlay, LimA, Tiffin, Marysville, Upper Sandusky nnd neighboring cities. At Findlny Sam Moffatt vyas drowned in the street. The water had raised the sidewalk and he broke thnongW and met death in ten feet of water. Nelson Jacobs and Henry Thomas, also of Findlay,’wealthy farmer*, attempted tot drive through a low place in the rpa-1, the horses floundered in five feet of water nnd the men nnd horses were 1 drowned. At Fremont David Divley was driving along the river road nnd in attempting to pass a low spot was swept away by the clfrrent nnd drowned. All thi rivers are higher than they have been for twenty years, steam and electric railway tracks have been washed out and bridges are in danger. Persons living in the lowlands have been forced to abandon their houses. The flood is general throughout western Pennsylvania, the streams everywhere overflowing their banks and causing more or less damage to houses and farms. Both the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers are on the rampage. Tho flood foread hundreds of families to efther abandon their homes or seek escape in the upfier stories. Mills In the lowlytny levels throughout the country, numbering between fifty and ’ sixty, were flooded hud 38,875 men are thrown out of work, with a loss in wage* of more than $320,748. .