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SOURCE: The Syracuse Herald
        Syracuse, N.Y., Monday Evening, March 24, 1904
        
                          LOST IN INDIANA FLOOD
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                      FIVE PERSONS PERISH WHILE RESCU-
                               ING A FAMILY.
                               
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                    Reports of Many Persons Driven From
                       Their Homes by High Water - Missouri
                       Town is Surrounded.
                       
                     INDIANAPOLIS, March 28 -- Fiver per-
                   sons are known to have been drowned
                   and two more will die from exposure in
                   the floods which swept the low lands
                   five miles south of Marion, while seeking
                   to rescue a family yesterday.
                     James Martin, his wife and their three
                   small children, disregarding warnings, re-
                   mained in their dwelling until the flood
                   came and the house was torn from the 
                   foundations and whirled against trees in
                   midstream, where it is held fast.  In the
                   darkness of the night, through the cold
                   hours, the unfortunate family sat upon
                   the roof waiting for the help that could
                   not reach their place of refuge.
                     When the Martin family was finally
                   taken off the house at 10 o'clock two
                   of the children were nearly dead from
                   the exposure and the other child and both
                   of the parents were so exhausted that
                   they may die from the exposure.
                     Terre Haute, Ind., -- In West Terre
                   Haute fifty houses are under water, and
                   about 200 people have been driven from
                   their homes by the flood.  All the inhab-
                   itants of Taylorsville, a suburb, have
                   been driven from their homes.
                     Poplar Bluff, Mo., -- Black river is out
                   of its banks and this town, containing
                   2,000 inhabitants, is completely surround-
                   ed by water.  Railroad connections are
                   cut off from all directions.
                   
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