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Rains Continue and Situation Situation Situation Situ- Situ Worst in Ten l Years Storms and andI andl I l Cloudbursts in Other r States I f DF DES MOINES la Ta Jul July 9 The The flood nood F r situation in Iowa toda today is more serious th than n at an any time in ten years Pars The Des r Moines Iowa Racine Cedar and Skunk rivers are from Cram seven even to fifteen feet I above low water mark and andl the lowlands low- low lowr r L lands are submerged Hun Hundreds reds have ha been made homeless s. s i In Des Moines ZOO persons have h been en forced to abandon on th their lr homes home while r r their live stock has been heen drowned and f truck gardens have been destroyed At Des Dt's Moines and elsewhere throughout the central section of or the thet t State continued rain has hns fallen alien for fori i twenty four hours the precipitation at nt Boone and Fort Dod Dodge b being reported as nearly four inches RI Rivers Rivera rs continue to 10 rise rapidly and andare andare andare are filled with driftwood Fal False wor work on a bridge has gone one out and two tWI oter ot er bridges are arc in danger r A bridge across the Des Moines river rl near Boone Is reported to have gone out Levees Le in tn Des Moines are arc w weakening and If 1 a break occurs hundreds of ot acres s of oC residence rca res property will wilt b be bp flooded The west half of Exit Exira a town to on the Rock Bock Island system stem Is inundated and Barrytown is in a similar condition Onawa on th the Illinois Central ha has experienced ex cx- a rain almost amounting to toa toa toa a cloudburst is a con consequence of which can cm neither enter nor leave Sioux City from Crom the south At Marshalltown n the Iowa 10 rl river r has lias reached its hl highest hest point and numer- numer oum washouts have seriously delayed ed trains on the Northwestern and Great Western estern The Des Moines river is rising two Inches an hour Many per persons are heing be beIn he- he ing In removed remo from their homes In small mall boats bo-ats at Marshalltown l and elsewhere STORM BRINGS DEATH f TO F FAMILY AMIL Y ALREADY BOWED V WITH GRIEF RIEF J p ST. ST PAUl PAlM Minn ll n July Asa re J 9 As ar re result suIt sult of or the recent terrific storm torm that prevailed all d south and west of Waseca lInn Minn the time family of Adam BI Bishman hman Sr is If again within a month plunged into the grief of or a tragic death in the famil family On June I Philip Bishman the son was murdered at a wedding row 10 In the town of Wilton When the storm broke Adam Bishman Bish man Adam Jr Jl his two sisters a arid an ll the hired man were In the basement of the large tarn barn attending to the milk milk- ing The barn was wrecked and a hea heavy mass of farm machinery and hay fell Cell upon the inmates One of the daughters daughters daugh daugh- tel's was vas killed Instantly and Adam Jr was so o cru crushed hed that thal he died from his injuries The other two were rescued from suffocation only after long Jong hours of work At Wanda anda the damage from the storm was very Yen hea heavy and at Perham the wind leveled a circus tent tent which cau caught ht fire Several people were vere burned and bruised but none was fatally Injured FARMERS KEPT OUT OF THE FIELDS BY DOWNPOUR OF RAIN IN KANSAS ABILENE Kan Han Jul July 0 Steady P.-Steady I Steady y yr r rains have hac continued mo most t o of the night and this forenoon in this section Wheat in stock slack and oats are injured and the streams are rising Farmers have ha been unable to enter the fields since Sunday and cannot for several se days yet ct FARMER KILLED DURING CLOUDBURST THAT FELL JN IN VICINITY OF EASTON EASTON EASTO Pa Jul July 9 A A cloudburst In the Upper Bushkill district of or Northampton Northampton North North- orth- orth ampton ampton count county last nl night ht did a a. vast amount of oC damage e. e Only mea meager er details de ele- tails arc are obtainable owing to washouts and arid the destruction of tele telegraph raph and telephone lines JInes Charles Abel Ahel a farmer was killed b by lightning The rhe Bushkill creek overflowed wed Its ha ks an and man many fields of grain were wera almost almos t wholly de de- de- de I RAILROADS DELAYED BY BYi i WASHING OUT OF TRACKS r AT NEBRASKA POINTS OMAHA OMAHA Neb July 9 I. The The rain that began falling failing last evening continued up to noon to today a Reports Report received toda today l show the conditions In the flooded disi districts dis dis- i to he be worse than at first reported Morning trains t were from one to td five n hours late Into th the city It and some orne of oC them had been abandoned r entire entirely At Superior Neb the Burlington ton railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road had 1000 feet feel of track washed bodIly bodily bod bod- ily Into the Republican river and the Santa Fe was 11 blocked blocke last night b by a n foot of or water running over the roadbed I for a n. mile west of oC the town At Blair a Barter larter of a a. mile of the Northwestern track was wa washed out and nd the town of Herman Horman Is IR still a u lake At Kennard GOO COO feet of track of or the same road was carried awa away and the filled approach at the Missouri river bridge e east cast of or town began bega n to sll slide e a away wa RAIN IN TORRENTS AT I PEORIA ILL AFFECTS RAILROADS SERIOUSLY PEORIA III m. July Jub 0 A 9 A terrific electric elec- elec and rainstorm swept over PeorIa and the adjacent country last night Rain fell in torrents for tor several se hours and nn tho the damage wrought was extensive e All the railroad lines entering the eft city are more or 1 less affected The Toledo Peoria fc Western stern pass pas pas- I E s singer n nger er train due here her last evening c struck a landslide twelve miles east cast of or here and the en engine lne was derailed The damage td tO the timothy and arid oats crop Is Cr very ery hea heavy Several Inches of or rainfall was waa recorded ed |