Show FARMS i Is S MISSISSIPPI a CRUMBLE WY larch 22 UnIted Iss Crumbling levees along the thel l- l river in fn Illinois Iowa I kansas kansa Tennessee and 1 t today day Inundated thousands of cres ot of rich farm tarm lands sent farm farm- scurrying to the uplands and c f s ot of workers to the dikes in fn an effort to save oUter other districts from being flooded Illinois In the vicinity of Quincy 33 the hardest hit by the highest i stage e of the Mississippi river I In twenty venty Indian levee six mites miles north ot Quincy crumbled under constant pounding ot of the thelt lt Finer r. r FACTORIES FLOODED and wholesale houses house long the along Ule waterfront in Quincy are water and forced to close d d nn n The men thrown n out or of jobs b the tho shutdown joined business i s 1 and laborers who worked yesterday yes yes- es and all night on le levees e around Quincy to prevent further urther W Wt t Iowa several fac- fac w closed and water been ave was lapping nt at the tops ot of levees made macle by sandbag and lum- lum barricades r C About A. A acres are under ater 1 Quincy and vast stretches along the river In Tenn Ten Ten- n nee and MississIppi C LABOR B R ALL LL NIGHT I Moro Moro t. t m ma a a. a hundred workers si t ored d' d nIl all night to prevent a lev levee o Z job lor k below Rock Island III where 0 1 acres ot of reclaimed land w were re t threatened In further flood damEt dam dam- amR am- am R Et O way was reported Dynamite wasi was i 1 d d ip several places near Stevens to blast Ice from around railroad rail rail- road bridges Train service ser was on the 1 Soo Line branch I |