Show FLOODS FLOOD FLOO SWEEP MIDDLE WEST INEST RAINS CAUSE IMMENSE PROPERTY PROP PROP- ERTY LOSS THOUSANDS THOUSANDS' MADE HOMELESS Legionnaires Active Using Boats coats for Rescue Vandalism Prevented More Than Twelve Inches of Rain Re Reported Kansas City Mo Immense Immense property proper proper- ty damage was threatened by floods I which were burs bursting ling Sunday from more than a score of rivers and creeks in southeastern Kansas and northeastern northeastern northeastern north north- eastern Oklahoma but little danger of I life lite was seen as the residents or of the stricken areas had received ample warning Two lives had bad been claimed by the I waters in Oklahoma and thousands of or acres in the rich bottom lands of both states states' had been I destroyed The Tho streams fed by sluicing downpours on most of pC the w watersheds of the districts districts dis dis- were creeping into home on the outskirts of or the towns and villages vii vil lages in the district and thousands thousands' were already homeless The region afflicted a broad fan fan- shaped water watershed hed draining into the Arkansas and Canadian rivers has been drenched all week with torrential torrential torrential torren torren- rains which in some localities to totaled totaled 0 more than tian lan twelve Inches At several towns towns as much as eight and nine inches fell at one time The first t crest of the tho floods caused by these rains seems seems seems' now to be passing through northwestern Oklahoma but continued rains in Kansas have kept the streams in the northern part of ot the watershed bank full and the tIie fresh torrents that have fallen fallen- In the last twenty twenty four four hours are now backing up from the earli earlier r freshets freshets' and ap approaching ep- ep in some some sections the high highwater highwater I w water marks set In the disastrous flood of or 1923 The cities in in th the regime are just recovering from a flood in inthe inthe inthe the same streams three weeks ago that did millions of dollars' dollars damage to property and crops I |