Show FLOOD IN ST LOUIS many lives lost an and amount of dam age cannot be estimated the flood at st louls loula and surround ing towns has probably reached the I 1 zenith enith of its devastating power and the situ atton is appalling the climax came tuesday night when by the breaking of a levee near granite city a wall of wate sl six feet high rushed down upon madison and d deeper eo peren en gulfed gulfee the already stricken city sweeping houses from their foundations and drowning fifteen people who mho were vainly fleeing tor for their lives the report was mas current that fifteen mor workmen limen in the st loula louis car b factory works had been di owned drowned but later it was found that while seven employees had lost thir lives thirteen others men women and children had perished hundreds of persons were forced to the roofs of their floating houses and an appeal was sarit s nt to st louis for assistance the shipping and manufacturing dis brict of last east st louls louis for three miles along the aher front Is under from three to eight feet of water hundreds and probably thousands of head bead of stock east st louis Is threatened with complete comp lelo inundation st louls louis la Is flooded only along the water front the entire property losa 1 Is estimated at 3 |