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Show WASTE OF WATER S WEEPS -OVER OKLAHOMA TOWNS Cloudburst at Enid Does Damage Estimated at $300,-000; $300,-000; Rivers Are Raging Torrents. j ENID, i O. T.. May 23. Hundreds of persons were rendered homeless and property damage estimated at $300,000 was done in the Enid "bottoms alone by a cloudburst that struck west of this city at midnight Saturday night, j The aggregate damage will doubtless b raised much higher by losses sus- I tained between Enid and the seat of the storm. . At 12 o'clock a bank of . water three feet high and 200 feet wide swept down through the bottoms, carrying houses and everything, before it. . It came upon Enid without warning, while most of Its citizens were asleep. Within a few minutes a hundred houses were partly or completely Bubmerged. ' , ; . Oklahoma City Inundated. Oklahoma City, Okla,, - May 23. Okla-" , homa City was visited Saturday night afid Sunday moHiing by the heaviest rainfall ever known in thin region, and damage estimated at 1100,000 was done. Many feared a tornado and spent, the night in cellars and cave. The Canadian river at thin point is mere than a quarter of a mile wide, with a four-foot four-foot rise in sight. People living in tents slong. the river front. were compelled to ilee to higher ground. All wagon bridges over the river are under water and the railroads have big forces at work .tonight guarding their bridges. i. T |