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SOURCE: The Syracuse Herald
        Syracuse, N.Y., Monday Evening, March 24, 1904
        
                          GRAND RAPIDS FLOOD
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                      Twenty-Five Hundred Houses
                            Are Surrounded
                            
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                      CITY IN DARKNESS LAST NIGHT
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                 Occupants of Submerged Residences Res-
                 cued at Great Risk - Schoolhouse and
                 Churches Transformed Into Relief Sta-
                 tions.
                 
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                  Grand Rapids, Mich., March 28 ---
                Although the water in the Grand river
                above this city has receeded somewhat, it
                remains stationary here and the residents
                of the flooded West Side are still suffer-
                ing great privations.
                  The city was in total darkness last
                night, but the work of rescue was con-
                tinued all night and hundreds of persons
                who were hungry and shivering with cold
                were taken to places of refuge.  The re-
                lief fund is sufficient to attend to the
                bare necessities.
                           2,500 Houses Surrounded
                 It is estimated to-day that 2,500 houses
               are now surrouned by water in some places
               twelve feet deep.  The work of taking
               people from submerged residences was under-
               taken often at great risk.  Schoolhouses
               and churches have been transformed into re-
               lief stations and every charitable organ-
               ization in the city is busy caring for the
               homeless.
                 Two persons are missing.  Lulu Peck, a
               young woman, left her home and tried to
               wade to high ground Saturday morning.
               Edwin Fales also started to walk south
               on a railroad track.  Neither have been
               seen.  They may have been drowned and
               washed away by the swift current which
               flows through the streets.  The loss in
               the business section will reach several
               millions.
                          Saginaw Condition: Worse.
                 Saginaw, Mich., -- Flood conditions in
               Saginaw and vicinity are worse than ever
               to-day.  Nearly all of the larger business
               houses in Genesee avenue and Franklin and
               Baum streets are out of commission.  The
               biggest of the dry goods firms are work-
               ing to-day to save their valuable stocks
               and will succeed.
               
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