Show I f WORST THEY EVER SAW ST LOUIS Dec 20The unprecedented unprece-dented rainfall of the past few days has filled to overflowing all the creeks and rivers throughout Missouri Those streams tributary to the Missouri have added to the heighth of that river which in turn has swelled the Mississippi Missis-sippi From Thursday morning until this the Missouri river morning which had been very low rose 10 feet and by 6 oclock this evening the guage shows a rise of 16 feet According to weather bureau reports the water advances I ad-vances at the rate of one foot an hour I Rivermen say that in forty years experience ex-perience this was the biggest sudden t rise they ever saw at this season of I the ea i |