Show LATER FLOODS SWELL TOTAL DEATHS TO 28 Rescuers Fear Many Missing May Be Added to to Final List of Dead DAMAGE MOUNTS HIGHER Central and Southwestern States Stricken BY Press Texas entered into the nations nation's flood picture today with four vie vic tims Eleven bodies were recovered in a western Oklahoma flood In whIch nearly a score may have per per- Nine were drowned in Wis Wis- As was the case In the Oklahoma I flood which centered around Elk City and Hammon the southwest Texas deaths near tenard Menard occurred when a stream usually shallow became be be- came a torrent because of heavy rains C. C P. P Smith district F FER E R A engineer engineer en- en reported the Oklahoma flood damage at It was estimated that damage of several million dollars was done in northern and western Wisconsin by byraIn byrain raIn and melting snow Seven channel projects on the upper upper up- up per Mississippi were endangered today to to- day when the river reached a high stage and continued Its r rise e. e Storms in Ohio caused damage estimated estimated esti esti- mated at A man was killed by lightning at Canton In Kansas the thc rains continued but Thle se Farmers expected expect expect- ed their crops to benefit Snow held up tip highway and air traffic tic fic in the Rocky mountain region and lay as deep as 15 inches in places in inthe inthe the Dakota h hills In the east 10 familIes near Hartford Hartford Hart Hart- ford Conn abandoned their homes I when the Connecticut river rose more morel than two feet above flood stage i |