Show Death and Desolation I Follow Missouri Flood I Police Take Charge e as Vat Wat Waters rs Release St. St Louis I Damage Exceeds Twelve Bodies Bodies' Recovered From Ruined Dwellings By United Press ST. ST LOUIS Mo Aug 21 21 St St. Louis' Louis worst flood which came Friday morning has receded leaving death and desolation in its wake Mrs Anna Tanger 85 who lived in a cottage in Hermitage avenue in inthe the Maplewood district was found drowned Saturday Th The b bodies i o of ten n ne negroes roes also were recovered and I searchers said they believed there were more dead in the ruined dwell dwell- ings Descending fifteen feet teet overnight the waters which h on Friday had inundated inundated in in- undated miles miles' of ot residential manufacturing manufacturing manu manu- r a agricultural ic aural and rinn by bv noon Saturday V r were almost normal and police pollee who swarmed the edge of ot the tho flooded district district dis closed In iii ou on the the arena to reclaim reclaim re reo re- re claim it t Spectators by thousands flocked to view the destruction cUon but were barred by police lines hues A lookout was kept to pr prevent vent looting Conservative Con sanative estimates of OC the damage in St St. Louis and St SL Louis Bounty alone place the loss 1088 at l Damage in n Illinois Illinois' in the nei neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood of at Edwardsville Alton Last East St SL StLouis Louis Granite City Cily and Anna Annai where crops were destroyed and homes washed away has not been com com- In southern Missouri territory territory terri terri- tory for tor miles lIes around Poplar Bluff Bluer was flooded and the central southern south ern section of or the state state- around Springfield also suffered severely Northern Arkansas Arkanas reported much destruction especially heavy at Arington Arlington Ar Ar- lington ington end and Hardy Only ou OUI out death was war reported out of St SL Louis lA Frank Huffman of Madison Madison Mad Mad- ison leon county count Illinois near Edwardsville Edwards Edwards- yule ville was drowned when Cahokia creek wa washed hed away ay his his' home according ac acv cording to neighbors who tried to rescue him Wood River and Benbow Benbow Ben Ben- bow City Cily Illinois were inundated when a SOp foot foot strip of C the tile Wood River IU levee levee- went out but early carly today and the COO 00 inhabitants ants E. E scarcely e escaped caved with their lives Two horsemen horsemen horse horse- men galloped through the villages s. arousing the residents who fled tied to ton n neighboring districts It Is la believed all an escaped The Despres IJ river a l small stream running run ring ning through Forest park St St. Louis and then through the tho 5 south uth side o of Iho tho city which Friday was thirty five feet tp-et deep In in some places is normal and the Meramec river passing through SU St Louis on the west we and bordered h by hundreds of camps clubs anti and summer est estates Is receding but the tho hanks banks for hundreds hun hun- dads of ot feet are Covered with a deposit deposit de de- de posit of ot mud and wreckage In the west vest end ond St St. Louis Louis' most fashionable section where automobiles yester yester- yesterday day were abandoned and swept a away wa there is mud several inches deep but only puddles remained where water was from five fhe to fit teen inches deep |