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Show FLOODS S' TOWN IN KANSAS Three Drowned, and Many Homes Washed Away in Burlington BURLINGTON, Kan , March C4 With four pc-reons known dead and 'property damage estimated at "STGO,-000, "STGO,-000, Burlington today was recovering from a cloudburst which Thursday rdght flooded Rock creek and swept down on the city without warning The dead are Mr. and Mrs. T. S. McGroo, Mis Henry Hamsdell and Miss Olctha Falling. TWELVE TTEFT DEEP Only tho body of Bflos Falllnc had been recovered this morning Nine persons reported missing Thursday night were reported today to be unharmed. un-harmed. The water came on the city so quickly that the victims were caught 'before they could be warned. In some-places some-places it reached second story windows. win-dows. Tho big concrete bridge In the lity was covered with water, while rmall houses, outbuildings and barns floated by. , At tho crest of the torrent it ran through tho business section 1 feet jdeep. Two dozen families In Burllng- i ton and several others up stream were ! mndo homeless. j Although several other towns suf-If.red suf-If.red lightly by the heavy rains, none :is believed to have suffered mueh 'damage. Burlington is the couty scat of Coffee county and has a population of 3000. |