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Show RUINED" BY A DELUGE! Northeastern Missouri and Part of Iowa Flooded. CROPS ARE WIPED OUT Farmers In an Aret Three Hundied Square Miles Will Loae Their Corn and Wheit and the Damage Is Estimated nt Four Million Dollars Their Fntlre Year's Work Is Lost Oreatect Damage Ever Known From Flood In the Upper Missis-sippl Missis-sippl River Is Predicted. Keokuk la.Julj lS-IIeavj rains In central Iowa sesterdas and today are sending a flood down upon prospeious Missouri farmers which will ruin ninny of them and cause losses aggregating at a conservative estimate J2SOOO0O Thete seems to be no hope tonight for the country bet n tut the Mississippi rver nnd its Mlssouil blurts between Keokuk nnd Hannibal, J) square miles lYoi'., ''"""d In coin with some eho k UC"' "heat In the DANOLH lini: PASHD The watei had touched the danger line the first of the week and had begun be-gun to recede when heav) floods started start-ed again In the DesMolnee Skunk nnd Iowa rivers With ,, Binge In the Des Mollis river nnl three feet below the tops of the great levees, the river began be-gan to rise three lm lies nn hour at Its mouth here to lay continuing until tho factoi of safety was wiped out this evening .hi..rl?f of .1".e nml n hM '"t In a short time this morning at Otiumwa nn'l further rise throughout Its length below the capital cits was prevented pre-vented from running nut freely by a rise of n foot and u hnlf at Daveniort r Dldl lncrcu'lng and coming down pi:oPLn ahh warnkd This afternoon the observer of the weather bureau at Keokuk sent tele-giaphic tele-giaphic warning to nil points south to prepare for danger The crest Is expected ex-pected here Saturday or hundas The Hgyptlan levee, which stood the flood Just receding nfter strenuous efforts to hold It, Including the destruction of farmhoupes vi secure lumber for strengthening the dike, Is onls slightly above the wnter now, nnd the coming flood In the Des Molnci will top It cer-talnls. cer-talnls. This will let the wnter Into hundreds of square miles, Including the town of Alexandria, Mo 'Iho inhabitants thero nie preparing for an overflow of tho entire town to a depth of several feet, YEAR S WORK DP.bTRO. ED. The corn crop In the flooded district Is all made and wheat Is In the shock, and ns a result the farmers will lose all their sear's work Grain men say the fnreffnlni? esHmntn nt enlnn l Inn low and put the figures rf the lors from the overflow at nearer Jl.000,000 between Keokuk and Hannibal It Is believed the Illinois levee will hold, and the damage there Is likely to be only $20 000 to J30C0O between Keokuk and Qulncs. riLVRFUL FLOOD PREDICTED. Heavy rains are reported in southeastern south-eastern Iowa today, and tonight thero are Indications of still higher water, lowland farmers, liver men nnd the weather bureau observer alike predict the greatest damage ever known from the Hood from the upper liver. NOW UNDER WATER. Reports tonlrht show tiemendous rains iilong the Des Moines river nnd tributaries. Six Inches fell nt Corydon, and nearly that much at Ottumwa. Rains all over this section continue tonight, to-night, with two Inches ns n general minimum rainfall, nnd many reporting flvo Inches This downpour will reach the lower river nnd flooded districts by Minlns with a still further rise and dc-vastatnn dc-vastatnn Roth the Des Moines and Mississippi livers are rising faster as night progresses Late reports show that half the country for n dlitnnco of thirty miles between La Orange and Hannibal was slteady under water long before the crest of the flood arrived. |