Show Many Homeless Horn in Flood Area Suffering in Midwest When Tl fen eri Levees Break The most serious flood danger In InI I half a n dozen midwestern states menaced by raging waters centered In Arkansas and Oklahoma as swollen swollen len streams mounted mounted to new highs and devastated ted thousands of or fertile fertile fer fer- tile acres More than families were homeless In ID the bottom lands of oC the Fort Smith Ark area which was entirely Inundated Various arlous sections sections sections sec sec- of Arkansas totaling approximately third one of the state were cut off from the outside world after arter aft art after er reporting they had been struck b by a destructive storm The rampaging Arkansas river smashed levees at three points In Inthe Inthe inthe the northwest section of the state The released water swept over 30 more acres of or lowlands raising rais rals raising ing the estimated total of or Inundated land In ID Arkansas and Oklahoma to more than acres Three persons have hn died In the Oklahoma Arkansas high waters and antI 14 11 are known to be dead In Texas floods However waters were i receding In the Lone Lonc Star state tl the Colorado river being the only Texas stream still causing trouble |