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Show FLOOD IN 8T. L0U18. Many Live Log and Amount of Damage Dam-age Csnnrt be Estimated. Tho flood at It. Louis and surround-lug surround-lug I own a. hn pil,ubly rcncl.c.l tlm irnllh uf Its dnastatltig power, an I tltv situation l ipimlllng. The rllnmx tamo Tuesday tlglit, when, by the breaking of a Inee near Crunlt" City, wall of water iU fret hlh rualied down iipno Minlla.n and deeper engulfed en-gulfed tint alm.ly stricken city, weeping houses from their foundations foun-dations and drowning fifteen people, who wei tnlnly floetnn for tuelr lives. ' The rci.p-t was current tlmt lil n worl nicn In the St. Ixiuls t'.n ,v I'm lev wicks hml been In n cel. bin later It waa found Hint wlille linen cmpl. y. os had lent tlilr Mic. thirteen nihera. mm. women nn.l ' ill lc. it. had peri lled. Hundreds ol 1 prr-.d-S wele forced to till, reliefs nf jtliclr lloniliig In ciNca ntid nn ttppcnl waa t,ciit lo HI. I.ollln for naalstiillce. Tl-.c tclilpplng nml nianiifiieiiirltig ills I tth t ol Cast HI. I.oiils for llireo tnlb s inlcuig (he river front Is under from j three In eight fret of wnler. Iliindreda und piol.nbly thnllPllllila of head of j steak drowned Kiml HI. I .on Is Is I tliiciitcne.l with complete Inundation HI. I.i. tils Is 11. aided only along the water front. Tho entire properly Icom Is entluiiited at ,1 iHiii.niiO. |