Show ELEVEN MEET DEATH IN BIG ST ST. STLOUIS LOUIS FLOOD ST ST. LOUIS Aug 21 Eleven 21 Eleven persons are known to have St. St Louis and some of the suburbs yesterday y and and none is is' missing The bodies bodies' were found today one today one that of a white woman an anten and andt t ten n tho those e of negroes TJi The wind 1 n J- J ami anil i rm Wro ai an offset of oC the storm which swept Texas Texa earll earlier r in the week It did did damage estimated at several million dollars to crops and other property properly seriously impaired transportation and wire facilities and en endangered angered thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of lives Jives St. St Louis its suburbs and neighboring neighboring neigh neigh- boring Illinois towns suffered most from the flood waters which followed the storm Seven to nine inches of ot ofrain ofrain rain min fell tell in twenty four h hours urs At East Easl Alton AHon Ill a foot toot section section section sec sec- tion of or tho the new levee gave wa way and anda a wall of ot water from the tho Wood river rushed toward to the towns of or Wood Wood- river and East Alton but two horsemen who had stood watch at ot the levee raced a hundred yards ahead of ot the oncoming water calling right and left lett Run for tor your lives U In less than an h hour ur the three Continued on pa page e 2 2 ELEVEN MEET DEATH Continued d from page 1 t towns were covered with Ith ten feet teet of oC water but Jut not a soul had lingered The Tho population of ot and Benbow Denbow city elly raced for tor West Vest Wood Wood- river while residents of or East Alton Aiton I took refuge In Alton Aiton I Springfield Mo r reported ported that the damage to the Oz Ozark rk peach drop lop would exceed the damage to corn is estimated at near 1000 real estate men believe belleve the aggregate aggregate ag ug- ag- ag property damage to St. St Louis buildings will be In iu the vicinity of oC Search for Missing Mining The Tho flood waters receded rapidly today and as the tho waters aten went down policemen firemen and national guardsmen searched the houses for missing City sewers with the cc cessation of ofrain ofrain rain drained off oft rapidly the waters that had flooded streets in the west part of ot town D By far tar the part of or St. St Louis Loula was as not affected by the storm other than by the Inconvenience incon the heavy he-avy downpour caused and the flood d damage damage dam dam- age was limited on the west side ido of oC the Mississippi river to a long and narrow strip along the southern through southwestern and along the lie western parts valt of ot the city Suburbs Suburb adjoining this section were damaged and residents of ot other suburbs were Inconvenienced by the discontinuance of r suburban trains and traction ser ser- vice Ice i Transportation service was rapidly resuming a normal condition today |