Show DELUGE FROM 1 GlOUnS FALLS UPON NORTHEAST KANSAS Blue River Rises Sixteen Feet in Few Hours SEVERAL TOWNS SUBMERGED People Cling to Roofs and Seek Refuge in Treetops Storm Washes Out Tracks of iiho t t Railroads for Many Miles and Cuts Off Telegraph Lines I J MnrycvIIIo Kan Aug 5A cloudburst cloud-burst wtiuck In this vicinity early today to-day enlisting the Big Blue l river to rise slxtoen feet within a few hours and sending a great Hood of water south down the bottoms along that stream Many Inhabitants In the lowlands low-lands were driven from tholr homes and heavy damage to property was done As far as known but one death has boon reported WENT DOWN WITH BRIDGE Frederick Ivors of Balloyvllle was drowned near that town going down with a brldne over a nwollon stream Marysvllle was deluged and the bot toms were filled with water from three to fifteen feet deep Fifty houses were almost entirely submerged their In mates taking rofuge In trs and on housetops Seventyfive persons had been rescued In boats at daylight and by noon twenty others were taken to places of safety I WASIfBt OUT RAILROADS The storm waahcd out tha tracks on the Blue Valley branch of the Union Continued on Page 11 |