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Show THREE THOUSAND HOMELE8S. High Waters Drive Oklahomans From Their Homes. Guthrie, Okla. As u result of n orty-elghUiour downpour In tbo valley val-ley of tho Cottonwood river and Its tributaries, tho Cottonwood overflowed overflow-ed hero Sunday afternoon. Sovcrol hundred homes wero partly under wator'ln West Quthrio and 3, 000 persons wero homeless nt night. Tho rlVer at 0 o'clock was ono foot higher Minn, over boford In Its history. his-tory. So rapid was tho rtao In tho Cottonwood that twenty head of cattlo by tho aflected district wore drowned beforo thoy could bo gotten out of tho waters. Street car sorvlco waa soon complotoly nt a standstill. Tho city's wntor Tlnnt Is under water. |