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Show VALLEY PARK, MO., IS SHORT OF FOOD St. Louis, Aug. 24. Two thousand residents of Valloy Park, Mo., made homeless Sunday when the thirty-five-root rise of tho Meramec river flooded flood-ed the town, with ten to fifteen feet of water, today faced a food and drinking water shortage which threat- ml ened to result disastrously. iK Twenty-five- truck loads of food 'vj were rushed to the flood refugees -Mj from suburbs of St. Louis yesterday, rA& but this was consumed before tho 'Mj night was over. A committee of St wfr Louis business men are planning re- ; y lief. ,; I The flood waters receded six feet i last night. Valley Park was still jj without light last night and today th ,'. R factories gave no hope of early re- : 1 employment to 1000 homeless and unemployed un-employed men. Two railroad bridges at Edwards- j villo, 111., collapsed last night after r withstanding the onrushJng flood of water for two days. |