Show I W MAN DROWNED NED IN GUTTER OF IOWA STREET Flood Con Condition Obtains In Wide Wido Section After Storms CHICAGO Sept 18 Cay U Sy The Tue Associated Storm Press Press Storm have O ridden Sept mrs skies pelting the cental wa wait va t floods and disaster from Ohio to o ka left wound 11 to- to today today to today 1 day in N Northwestern Iowa A torrential blast Mast of ot ram rain hall hail wInd and a wide area last Tast t and today taking at ot least two lives ine Ing acres ot of oV tron farm tarm lands uprooting lines of cot traffic tic fic and communication atlon its lis havoc on tour four north counties counties north ot Of Sioux City near the Iowa Iowa N ka ka line Property damage was estimated above with with Hawarden Lemars Hull AI Akron ron Sheldon and I Cherokee counting the loss loBS Rain ot of almost unprecedented severity se sent the tha LiOux river up 18 11 te feet t In I 11 hours and flooded the valley ot of the 1 Floyd loyd river The Tho dead are C- C CM C M II retired man who was wal drowned in front of the Hawarden city hall halt when he ho h fell tell into a ft gul- gul gut cut cutter tel ter as the tho flood swept Into the business section and Nina Drus Drus- Drus sine Brus-sine sing Railroads suffered heavily A freight train on the St St SL Paul Ilin- Ilin Min llIn Minneapolis neapolis t Omaha line IIno was wasT reck d wh when n It ran Into a wash wash out out near nea Hospers Iowa More than feet teet of Illinois Central track between Sheldon and Mat Mat- Matlock Matlock lock lock and near Merrill were vere washed out nail Railroad road service Ice northward from Sioux City was stopped Five StPaul miles of ot Chicago Milwaukee St SI Paul track was washed out or un- un un der dec under water south of ot STOn STORM jN is- IN FLORIDA J JACKSONVILLE Fla Fin Sept 18 It By By Tho The Associated Press Press-At Press taming in some somo Instances a ft ve- ve on Page Nine FALLS IN GUTTERMAN GUTTER MAN M A N DROWNED Continued From Front One OttO ot of miles mUes an hour and hiding Its damage toll behind wrecked lines ot of communications the West est Indian hurricane which last night crossed from tram Nassau In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Bahamas to the lower east coast of at Florida swept tonight over the Everglades and the thc lower pen pen- penInsula penInsula peninsula Into the Gulf Gult of Mexico IDES VIRES fiE ARE RE 11 DOWN OW Miami and Palm Beach Bench for tor the second time within two months were Isolated from the outside world Partial communication with the stricken area was main main- mainI maintained I during the forenoon The Western Union Telegraph company received reports of ot the storm nt at Beach through a single Bingle cable and Avon Park obtained meager advices from West We t Palm Beach over a railway line This failed tailed lato halo today and an West est Palm Beach Deach a was cut off ox- ox ex except for train service Storm passengers who rea reached hed Ayon Park late today from West est Palm D Beach aeh on the first train to emerge from the hurricane d described the storm as lIS the tho worst In the history of the th Palm The train left West est Palm Beach early today and passengers passenger could coule give little detail of the damage there but hut united In saying It was wasa wasa a Terrible f blow They said sold the ieather eather bureau at West est Pai Pa Beach expected the hurricane to o swIng Inland between there and MiamI |