Show FLOOD IN ST louis many lives lot and amount of dam darn age cannot canno be estimated the flood at st LOUIE and surround ing towns has probably reached ane zenith of if its leva devastating stating power aai aril the si i it on is appalling the climax came tuesday night when by the breaking of a levee near Gra flit city a wall of water six feet high rushed down upon madison and deeper en gutted gulfed the already stricken city sweeping bouses houses from their foun lations and drowning fifteen people who were vainly fleeing for their lives the report was current that fifteen workmen in the st louis car factory works had been drowned but later it was ras found that while seven employees bad had lost thir lives thirteen others men women an I 1 children ca ildren had perished hundreds of per ons were forced to the roofs of their floating houses and an aphea appeal was sent to st louis tor for assistance the shipping and manufacturing dis ariet of last st louis for three miles along the river front s under from three to eight feet of water hundreds and probably thousands of head of stock drowned east st louis Is threatened with complete inundation st louis Is s flooded only along the water front the entire property loss Is estimated at 3 |