Show I IN J fOUR STATES CHICAGO Marol-i Marol 14 AP days ot of spring had created flood havoc In rit Iowa and t da day Many hundred acres o of farm land I w weep r flooded streets and buildings ill some places were filled with water water wa- wa ter rail and highway traffic was dIsrupted and bridges were torn away Rain and rising temp meltIng the last sn vs and up p the ice had turned the tributaries Into ice glutted torrents The MIssissIppi Itself was rising but save gave no Immediate immediate Im- Im mediate cause for tor alarm Hundreds ot of men worked on dikes watched movements prepared to use dynamite w er vcr brIdges were threatened Virtually all streams In Missouri and southern Iowa were out ot of their banks today Several towns were l is and many thousands ot of dollars damage damaSe had bad been done Eastern Nebraska a faced a serious menace with rivers In several places and Ice j bat bat- bridges The Platt river on a a. rampage rising for lor a time at t the rate of thre three feet teet an hour and threatening to change chanse Its channel |