Flood" Takes Big Toll of Damage In Kansas City Three Lives Lost snd $1,500,080 Worth of Property Is Wrecked 1 by Overflow Kansas City, 8npt. 7. As a result Of the greatest rainstorm ever expert enced here' m6ro than 3000 homes Have been flooded and hundreds of persons driven Into the streets. , Despite the fact that the waters are receding there Is much danger from collapsing buildings. The loss is estimated at $1,500,000. Telephone service throughout the city Is demoralized de-moralized and street car service suspended sus-pended In many sections. The flood already has cost three lives. Two men were killed when they came In contact with a broky. trolley wire and a wojnan was drown ed when the waters engulfed her home. - - WholeClty Is Flooded Overflowing streams flooded the Country Club district, tho south side, the east and west bottoms, Sheffield and other sections. The oeatoii.' damage wad done in the southwestern part of the city i4id in Rosedals, Kan., a suburb, where tho water stood Hwenty-three feet deep in places. pla-ces. Turkey creek a drainage stream, always- treacherous, was a harmless thread of murky water when the men, and women who lived in the valley southwest ot the city went to bed last night. Then camo rain, which continued ten hours and fifty minutes. Turkey creek began to rise, silently silent-ly at first, and then -with a roar, until un-til it was n mllo wide. Tho water crept up tho streets ot Rosedale and into homes hud tho city hall'. Tho water rose so rapidly that many wero not awakened until It wa3 b wishing under their beds. AuTo Carried Away Mill-creek, a smallrstrcam flowing through an exclusive rcsldenco section, sec-tion, rose and carried away outbuildings, outbuild-ings, motor cars and other vehicles. 4n tho esstern part ot the city, Mount Wushlngion cemetery was inundated. inundat-ed. Tho Bhio river roso fifteen feet in a few hours and washed away, much of tho property belonging to manufacturers near SuelTteld and Centropolls. In tho stock yards district water rushed through a broken dike, near the plant ortho Cudahy Packing com-pnny, com-pnny, nnd washed away threo carloads car-loads of hog.- . 1 i Tho railroad bridges ncroes'Turkoy creek wero carried out and for sov-oral sov-oral hundred yards rallroiid tracks wero washed away. Tho body of Mrs. Sarah Wood was discovered in her homo in tho sout western part of tho city late-todhy. Early this morning sho was warned to leave. Sho refused. Shortly afterwards after-wards tho water camo in a rush hnd engulfed the house, drownlng-her. - ,-i-SSvt.SBSS-