Show flOODS SWEEP SWEEPS SWEEP'S S 'S TOW Sl IOWA CHIC CHICAGO CO Aug 3 3 AP TIie AP-TIie farmers farmers' prayers for rain rain were answered an an- sw SYr red d yesterday ay with t torrents which brought t relief lIef to lo parched 1 crops In most sections of ot tho the middie mid mid- die west ut but desolation and floods to Parts of ot Iowa lown S Seven ven Inches of ofT ofrain ofrain rain n weT reported at Cedar Rapids T la Ta with 35 Inches recorded b here re tanners In the flooded areas areas areas' of Iowa saw ew their crops crop swept away by the rain which they had needed badly to break k the tho long on drought drou Thousands of 01 acres were ed ed cd highways were awash and railroad tracks and bridges were swept away Most fost of ot the damage wrought by bytho tho st storm rm was b between C Cedar Rapids Rapids Rap Rap- ids and Belle Belle- Ja la Washouts on on three transcontinental rail lines delayed trains from eight to twenty hours S The Lincoln highway was awash between Chels Chelsea and and 1500 ears cars of ot of corn were ere Inundated At n Dh fifteen acres of shocked oats were wah washed d n away way and several families fled tied front from their homes as as the water rose Creek Creeks In the vicinity of rose se t ten n nI feet teet carrying off oft chickens chicken hogs I farm tarm machinery and sheds |