Show TERRIFIC I RAINSTORM SWEEPS OVER ST. ST LOUIS The Precipitation Extends Generally Over Ovel the Central West I ST ST. LOUIS June 30 This This city and vicinity is the center of a a. rainstorm of oC unprecedented severity seventy that has prevailed pre pre- vi filed aBed a almost most incessantly since Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- morning According According- to the 1031 lo local local lo- lo cal 31 weather bure bureau u reports report 55 inches of of rain fell here between am a.m. S Saturday and 8 pm p.m. Sunday and the end is apparently not in sight At ti times the storm equalled d a 3 cloudburst in se severity se- se verity The storm is the most widespread that has hu bosh boon experienced In this country country country coun coun- try for many year yearn according to the weather bureau officials extending fl from mi the Rocky mountains to the Alleghenies Al- Al In Kansas Iowa 1 Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl PennsYl- vania the rainfall during yesterday and today averaged from one to two inches About an ap inch on the average average fell Dell in the States north while in those In the South the rainfall l was slightly 1 less esE Much damage e the total estimated at about resulted from Crom the wind that accompanied the rain ram Last night the wind ind attained a velocity of almost five fifty miles an hour blowing down trees tel telephone phone telegraph and trolley poles loles and interfering ring with communication tion of all sorts At least 1000 shade trees in va various ious parts of ot the city are reported reported- on the ground |