Show TERRIFIC RAINSTORM One of Unprecedented Severity Prevails Pre-vails Over Country From Rocky Xountains to Alleghenies St Louis June 29TiIs oily and vicinity vi-cinity Is the center of a rainstorm of unprecedented severity that has prevailed pre-vailed almost Incessantly since Saturday Sat-urday morning According to the local lo-cal weather bureau reports 55 inches of rain fell here between 230 am Saturday and 8 pm Sunday and the end is apparently not In slghi At tlmns the storm equalled u cloudburst In ss vii iy The storm Is the most widespread that has been experienced in this country coun-try for many year accordIng to the wen ther bureau officials extending from the Rocky mountains to the Al lc iicnlis Irs Kant as Iowa Missouri S Illinois Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania the I rainfall dmiri mug yesterday anil today averaged from one to two Inches About t an Inch I on the average IVjll In the States north while in those In the South the rainfall was slightly lesoMuch Much l damujrc the total estimated at about 250000 resulted t from the wind that accompanied the rain Last night the wlml attained a velocity of almost fiftylive miles an hour blowing do vn trees telephone telegraph and trolley poles and interfering with communication communica-tion of all sorts At least 1000 shade trees in various parts of the city are reported on the irround Prom the country surrounding came reports of destruction to crops and the washing out of railroad tracks and bridges causing much delay to train In places the Worlds Fair grounds are covered with water Onf of the most disastrous hoods in the hlatory of Alton Iii and vicinity resultul today from the heavy rains of Friday nul Saturday At 4 oclock thl t alUcrnoon it was estimated that 10000 acres had been covered with the overflow of Wood river which Is three to six miles wide Most of this land Is either occupied by manufacturing Interests or planted In crops The greatest single disaster caused by the flood was the destruction of the plant of the Stoneware Pipe company at East Alton The loss Is estimated at 10000 |