Show FLOOD WATERS ARE Ice Gorge at St St Louis Breaks And River Fel Fell More Than Five Feet in Three Hours BOATS LEFT HIGH AND DRY Levee Iee Strewn With h Weather Mis 15 sL Is to time thc North St Louis Mo Jan Jami lIls Mis Mississippi river front at S1 St J Louis seated a devastated appearance today Time The river gorged wih with Ic ice rose from 22 feet Wednesday night to feet early carly today and then time the gorge broke Inside or of three hours time the river fel fell fellmore more than five feet teet and amid at S time the gage read feet Time The boats on time the river were sero lec left high amid dr dry hy by tho rapid fal fail and the levee leee was strewn with wreckage Time The property 10 loss wi will exceed The gorge which formed late yester yesterday da day after the breaking of oC time the gorgo which lied had held for three weeks s wa way at dawn unter under time tho pressure of Ice and water which hind had come down downtime time the Missouri river Into time the MississippI MississippI Weather cather bureau reports indicate the limo MississippI river Is rising north o of St StLouis StLouis Louis The maximum height or of the river crl early tota today wa was 19 feet above the tho danger stage The railroad tracks on the lie levee were Inundated and time the falling water lef heft them covered wih with debris and Ice The gorge at Alon 23 north of St St gorge Louis broke this morning amid wi will reach hero here durIng the da day The bridge at Alton caused tIme tho Ice foes floes to banI up again and another goro gorgo Is forming there South of St Louis the river Is ful full of floating Ice Ico to below bolow Chester Il Ill GO 60 tidies Iowa down tIme the river Tho Illinois and Missouri rivers are arc rising Here the rIver to tofal fal fail Time Tho preliminary work worl on the free freo bridge which St Louis Is erecting was destroyed b by time the Ice DANGER IX TIE TIlE HANSAS AT T TOPI TOPEKA IA PASSED TOpeka Kan Jan danger point In the Kansas rIver hero here is pas pass passed ed The gae gage shows a fal fall of six feet since chico Thursday morning tIme the stage now binG being feet teet Time The river is sti still filled wih with Ice but aide aside from the loss of thre three bridges In this count county little lam lama damn a age e has done Santa Fe trains aie are ted tied up near Ik Lakeview because ot of nn an Ice blockade over the tracks |