Show TEN FEET IN 24 HOURS Father of Waters Rising Rapidly In Vicinity of St Louis St Louis Sept SOt 18 Heavy rains and have caused CRU a f rise I 1 of ot over Ovel ten feet In iii the Ml Mississippi H ls rivet river rier during during the past pst hours and resulted in damage along Llong the St Louis river front amounting to many thousands thousands thousands ands of dollars A vast amount of ot pro produce produce produce duce and other shipping hippIng property along the levee is still in itu danger The river r er stage this forenoon had reached 2307 2 07 feet a sudden rise of 1006 feet in hours The danger line lne is thir feet The water is gradually creeping up and it is predicted that by b nightfall the guage will show a stage of feet Produce houses and grain grin and cotton firms having consignments stored store along the levee lovee hastily hasty organized gangs of la ha laborers lt borers and endeavored to save their property from being swept away but the suddenness of the freshet inter interfered Iner Interfered to a considerable extent Thousands Thousands Thousands ands of barrels of apples apple bales bale of hay 11 sacks of grain grin bales of ot cotton and in one instance feet of lumber were i swept away auy awu Men Ien worked breast deep In ill the thE flood food intercepting floating mer mner merchandise merchandise chandise and a fleet teet of skiffs manned by men wih with ith assisted in the salvage work Six city cit garbage garba e boats moored along the river front are in danger of oC being swamped This marks the quickest rise in the rivers stage since that of eleven elevon years ago when the river rose lOle fourteen feet in one night |