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Show Cloudburst in Iowa Sweeps Foundations Founda-tions From Several Houses. Des Moines. A cloudburst on Sunday Sun-day swept a half-dozen residences from their foundations, flooded cellars, cel-lars, reached a depth of eight inches on the floors of dwellings and tore up a half-anile of Chicago & Northwestern North-western tracks at Vail. A large livery barn was swept 200 feet down the main stTeet and left standing across the thoroughfare. Sidewalks were swept away and the damage will reach thousands of dolalrs. In places the water is two and three feet deep in the middle of the principal streets. |