Show nUDum I I PlAN TO 10 OA BATTLE Hlf i New Record of I s iti n in Southern Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla- Okla I homa Expected Thursday CHICAGO Oct 6 AP The AP-The The river bottom country of central Oklahoma and western Illinois to today today today to- to day shared the brunt of floods draining from adjacent areas With the crest of the tides due there there late today sou h southern rn Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa made made- systematic preparations for the advance of the waters from th the north and expected to survive with minimum damage Townsfolk at Be Beardstown Ill who ho have battled nearly a mo month th f f with a raging Illinois river battered f d down wn doors and windows s of flooded uses and hastened relief measures in anticipation in-anticipation of higher water j i. i Tho federal forecast warned that probably would see the establishment of ot a new flood lood re recd rec- rec d with the influx of water to a stream str am which was rapidly approachIng approaching ap ap- the foot 25 stage In 1922 the the- Illinois climbed to feet at Beardstown There was suffering from exposure exposure expo expo- sure and a a. a first death as a result of the long siege was reported Mrs C. C E. E Soule 60 whose home was was' surrounded by water died from pneumonia The flood was receding In Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- and along the Oklahoma Oklahoma- Kansas bord border r with six known dead and property loss of more th than n NOGALES Ariz Arts Oct 6 CAP CAP- AP With twenty known n dead and hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of families homeless the people people peo peo- pIe of the state of Sonora Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- peo-I peo ico are today endeavoring to sal sal- vage their belong belongings fn fr from m the the area area devastated by last weeks week's unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented dented rains and re resume ume the tilling of their wasted farm lands The work of hunting bodies continues continues con con- and the death toll Is growing growing growing grow grow- ing hourly and reports reaching here from the so south say that persons persons persons per per- sons residing In the vicinity of the Rio Sonora and the Rio San Miguel and th their ir tributaries are facing starvation unless they secure Immediate immediate immediate im Im- im- im mediate aid Water Vater Is selling at a premium In Hermosillo capital of the state of Sonora since the destruction of the water plant and food Is very scarce Farm lands near the capital capital cap cap- ital Hal Were covered with debris d when a cloudburst struck a mountain near the devastated town of and torrents of water rushed off the mountain onto the lowlands The Southern Pacific of Mexico announced from their offices here that thirty kilometers of track were washed out by the floods |