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Show DANGER LINE IS PASSED Immense Damage to the Crops and Lands Near SL Louis. . ST. LOUIS, June 2. The Mississippi river has risen to thirty feet, the danger dan-ger line at St. Louis, and continues to rise more than two feet a day. Indications In-dications are that the 34-foot stage at I St. Louis, predicted by the signal service ser-vice bureau Thursday or Friday morning, morn-ing, will be exceeded. A 34-foot stage at St. Louis means immense loss.. Already thousands of acres of' soil, the most productive in the middle ' West, on the Missouri and Illinois sides are under water. Hundreds of thousands thou-sands have been lost to Illinois and Missouri farmers through ruined crops. In a half a dozen places between Alton and St. Louis the river with its lagoons la-goons and bayous is from five to seven miles wide. At St. Charles. Mo., the water has spread ever three miles of country, covering cov-ering farms and driving out families from their homes. |