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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm above danger mark. Deaths near here estimated as follows: Sharon, 7 to 20; Moundsville, 4; "Wheeling, 4; Youngstown,' 2; Franklin, 2; Pitts burgh, 1. Large property damage. ' Maunie, III. Wabash river rose 5 feet in 15 hours last night Stretch ing into danger zone. Columbus. Unconfirmed reports from Troy .claim Piqua on fire. Latest reports from Piqua said death list would be hekvy. No direct word re ceived' concerning fire. Cleveland. Following floods a heavy snowstorm, which has swept Northern . Ohio since shortly after midnight, wrecked 'phone and tele graph wires and seriously interfered with railway traffic. Columbus. Brigadier-General J. C... Speaks announced today that re lief train would leave hilltop district this afternoon and" go directly to Dayton, over the Pennsylvania road. Governor Cox is arranging to have legislators and others whose homes are in. flooded districts accompany the itrain. . Columbus. Reported here that Operator Bell, who has been furnish ing Governor Cox. with news of the Dayton situation from the phone ex change office building, said the "fire had reached his building and he was forced to leave his post. Columbus, O. Malta, a town of 400, on the Muskingum river, report ed wiped out by flood. Loss of life unknown. Residents had been warn ed to flee yesterday. Washington. President Wilson has asked Secretary of War Garrison to make a personal survey of con ditions in the Ohio flood district The president said he might go into that territory hiniself if conditions do not improve. Secretary Garrison and eGneral Leonard "Wood left on spec ial train' for Ohio "this afternoon. , Memphis, Tenn. Flood warnings have been sent over the St Francis, basin. Leye officials do not believe there will be danger ebfore theVdood mark is reached, about next Wednes day. N I . Connersville, Ind. Two other towns, Cedar Grove and New Tren ton, were wiped out by the flood that killed forty persons at Brookville. o o '" HALF OF' OHIO UNDER WATER SUPPLIES ON THE WAY Cleveland, O., March 27. Half Ohio is under water. Reports of death, devastation and frightful suf- fering are pouring in from the flood ed districts. The people of the state are near a general panic. Every effort tp Teach the stricken city of" Dayton and the other com munities in the flooded Miami valley have been balked by the raging waters. - The first hope of relief was held out at noon 'today. Gov. Cox receiv ed word then that the first trainload or troops ana supplies naa managed to reach Springfield. The train- cannot go further' than Sprihgfiekb But .the soldiers are ex pected to reach Dayton with,the sup plies by boat some time tonight The horrors of the flood at Dayton have been added to. The" fires which began Tuesday night have gone on and on,, sweeping; the whole suffering city. , All lastnight the blaze 'of burning buildings, in which' human be ings were trapped, lighted the sky for miles around- the "City of Dreadful Night" This-, morning, a blizzard swept down uppn the Miami villey. Heavy i snow fell in. Dayton. It is bitter, cold there. The suffering of the thousands who are, marooned on 'the rooftops must .be frightful. The wildest rumors flew thrpagV like