Show TRAIN BRINGS WATER TO I STRICKEN DEATH-STRICKEN CITY Missourian Tells o of Water Famine in His is State That Tha a t Left Towns owns a at Mercy o of Fire ire w. w H. H c of or Moberly Mo I Is at nt the Windsor hotel today tOlla- Mr Stan- Stan alter is on his way to the coast where he hI will spend the summer He tells of ot tho terrible drought of or last year car and the tho hardships Missourians suffered He said ald Moberly was without rainfall for four m months last year and the people suffered fearfully The city's s immense reservoir was overflowing when tho the drought began but before It was half haIr over the water wits was gone and the walls almost cracking with heat There wa was no fire protection and the city would have been at the complete merc mercy of oC fire Fortunately there were no fires Water Yater was brought to the city by train A train of ot eleven tanks would pull pun Into the town at early morning and another after sundown The water brought a good price This year ear conditions have changed chanced God seems to have smiled upon us ant and to have treated us with particular bounty The Tho crops ar arthe the heaviest ever known and everyone IB is prosperous and happy I W was particularly struck b by the thc wonderful Irrigation system used In tho the West cst We e cannot irrigate In Ln Missouri because of the choppy chopp- and broken character character char char- acter of or our country countr It seems strange to me that the heat heal Is js not felt here char I as asIt asIt asit It Is at my home With the temperature at 06 96 degrees the people would swelter and prostrations would be frequent I was surprised when told that 07 i degrees was vas reached yesterday and did not believe belleve It possible The dryness of the atmosphere gives Rives you ou Immunity from the bad effects of the heat |