Show MANY FARMERS Will WLL BE RUINED RUIN D DI I Crop Cop Losses in Missouri Esti Estimated Estimated mated at O O 4 FLOODS ARE PLAYING HAVOC t MISSISSIPPI RIVER RIn AP L y BISING la Ta July Ju y IS Heavy mavy rains l 1 In central c Iowa o owa yesterday esterday and to today day are tre sending a flood fod down upon prosperous Missouri farmers which will ruin many of them and cause cuse losses aggregating at a conservative es estimate There seems to be no hope tonight for or the country between the Mississippi Ivor and its Is Missouri bluffs between Keokuk and Hannibal square miles mies mostly planted In corn with some thousands of ot acres of wheat whet In the shock hock shock The water had touched the danger anger line the first frt of the week and had begun to recede when heavy floods foods started again in the Des Moines Moine Skunk and Iowa rivers With a stage In the Des Moines rIver Ivor only three thre feet below the tops of ot the he great gret levees the river began to rise ise three Inches an hour at Its is Is mouth here today continuing until the factor of safety was wiped out this evening A V rise of ot one and a half hal feet In a hort short time this morning at Ottumwa and a 0 further rise throughout Its Is it length below the capital city was wa pre pre vented from running out freely by a rise of ot a foot toot and a half halt at Davenport Daenport I last to 6 and d h nu rapidly This afternoon the observer of the weather bureau burau at t Keokuk sent tele graphic warning waring to all al points south to o prepare for COr danger The crest is expected here Saturday or Sunday The Egyptian levee which stood the flood food just receding after strenuous efforts forts to t hOld sold it i including the destruction of farm arm houses to secure lumber for strengthening the dike is only on slightly above the water now and ad the coming flood o d in the Des Moines will wi top It I certainly This will wU let the water Into hundreds of square miles mies Including the he town of Alexandria Mo 10 Preparing for Danger The Inhabitants there thee are preparing for tor an overflow of the entire town to toa a depth of ot several feet The In n the flooded district dIstrct is all al made ma e and wheat Is in the shock and as a a result the he farmers farmer will 1 lose all aU their years rears work Grain men say the foregoing estimate of ot value alue Is to low and put the he figures of the loss from the over low flow fow at nearer between en Keo Ke kuk and Hannibal HannIbal It I is believed the Illinois levee will wf hold lold and the damage there is likely to o be only 2000 to between Keokuk and Quincy Heavy rains are reported in southeastern southeaster Iowa today and tonight there are indications of ot still sun higher water Low Lw land farmers farers river men arid and ad the weather eather bureau ob server serer alike aUke predict the greatest dam age ever known from the flood from food the upper river Reports Report tonight show tremendous rains along the Des Moines river and tributaries Six inches fell tel at Cory don and nearly that much at at way wa va Rains all aU over this section con tonight with wih two Inches Inh as a general e minimum um r anU ad a many any a reporting f five inches I These recommendations will reach wi te he the lower river and flooded districts district by y Sunday with wih a still stI further rise and devastation Both the Des Moines and Mississippi rivers river are rising fester faster tater as night progresses Late reports report show how that half halt the country countr for tor a distance of ot thirty miles mies between La L Grange and Hannibal Cannibal was Wa already under water long rived ong before the crest cret of or the flood food ar |