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Show ST. LOUIS NOW FEELING EFFECTS OF THE FLOOD Crest of the Wave Not Expected Before Sunday; Rapidly Falling at Kansas City. .... I ST. LOUIS. June 5. The river this morning attained the stage of 33.5 feet, a rise of 1.4 feet during the past twenty-four hours. The crest d the flood, which is expected by Sunday, may be thlrty-slx feet-and may go even higher, as the rivers north and west still pour in their quotas of water. In North and South SU Louis the river is several miles wide. Along the river front It is encroach! ngon buildings, build-ings, making necessary the moving of household goods and business stocks. ' .TATEHS NOW FALLING t ; FAST AS THEY HOSE; A , KANSAS CITY BETTER. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 6. The rivers here are now falling as rapidly as they rose before the flood. The Missouri Mis-souri taa fallen a .loot aal nine Inches' ,. In the past twenty-four hours, and at 7 o'clock this morning the Government gauge registered thirty-one feet. The Kaw fell nearly two feet in the tame time. By Saturday noon the platform of the Union depot, the high mark, will likely be partially above water. Permanent wire communication was opened today between the two Kansas Cities for the first time since Sunday, and this will aid wonderfully in the work of restoring order. The several hundred refugees from Armourdale and other districts who have been housed in Convention hall were removed today to tents in the south portion of the city because of the Unsanitary condition of the hall. Sapid Else at Chester. CHESTER, 111., June 6. The river at this point is rapidly rising. Tbe rise has been so great within the past forty-eight hours that it threatens to do great damage to property and to persons living at Kaek&skia Island. ' ' -4 |