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Show Storms Take Death Toll : Of 26; Tremendous Damage Middle West and South Swept By Floods, J Tornadoes and Hailstorms; Major . Uvu Flood Believed Unlikely ST. J -OUTS, Mo., April 22. IU? Floods, tornadoes and hailstorms in the middle west and south over the week end took a toll of 26 lives and caused property damage estimated i Jn the millions. Menace of a major flood on the Mississippi feared whe'n levees gave way at Canton, Mo., was discounted dis-counted by weather bureau officials i today, however, with receding waters north of here, "Workman Swept Away One workman was swept away by the swollen river Des Peres here, 22 ! persons were killed by week-end tornados tor-nados In Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, and two boys wre killed by light- i ning at Walton, Ky. National guardsmen parolled the Mississippi river levees at Quincy, 111., north of here, when levies, weakened from four weeks of steady flood pressure, seepcd dangerously. dan-gerously. At Canton, Mo., across the river from Quincy, 50 homes were isolated isolat-ed from flood waters from the Mississippi Miss-issippi which crumbled leeves and tile farm lands. A general rise of three feet in the Mississippi river leve'l here in 24 hours was predicted, with a stage of 31.5 feet expected by Friday, against a flood level of 30 feet. Key points on both the Mississippi and Missouri Mis-souri rive'rs were expected to witness wit-ness above flood stage leve'ls, but little damage was anticipated. The tornado dead included 13 negroes ne-groes at Tillar, Ark., five at .Da-homy, .Da-homy, Miss., two at Shaw, Miss., two at Oak Ridge, La., and one' at Reece, Kansas. PRIVATE LEVEE BREAKS HELENA, Ark., April 22. (U.E) A private levee along the bank side of the Mississippi, eight miles above Laconia, Ark., broke today and unloosed un-loosed flood waters of the White river, the district engineer's office here reported. Backwaters of the White river were pouring through a 150-foot berak above Laconia. The engineer's engi-neer's office here estimated there wer btwern 1,500 and 2,000 prsons within the area which will be flooded flood-ed by the break. |