Show kansas CITIES DOWNPOUR COVERS AREA SIXTY MILES LONG AND TWENTY FIVE MILES WIDE heroic work done when cloudburst almost submerges communities muni ties 15 inches of rain fell burlington X ann can tho the heaviest rainstorm in years to a cloudburst in ciany localities sunday sluiced through a section twenty five miles wide and sixty miles billea long from froin emporia toward the southeastern corner 4 the state leaving in its walls wake three known lead dead untold losses in crops livestock and property damage hundreds of homeless families broken railroad Ill road communications and inundated fields and towns starting nt at the headwaters ot of three rivers the verdigris the cottonwood and the ho neosho tile the flood swept down through emporia Emp orla madison burlington and intermediate points swelling in volume as aa it came water threatened householders fled tor for their lives many taken unaware were rescued in rowboats rowboats row boata from roofs and second stor storie lesof their homes the chief fury of the storm however seemed to have been visited on neosho falls a town of people which according to early reports was i completely inundated by a 14 inch rain |