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Show mm flood I'IGIS CITIES DO'.VflPCUR COVERS AREA SIXTY MiLES LONG AND TWENTY FIVE MILES WIDE Heroic Work Done When Cloudburst Almost Submerges Communities; Com-munities; 15 Inches of Rain Fell Burlington, Kan. The heaviest rainstorm rain-storm In years, amounting to a cloudburst cloud-burst In many localities, Sunday sluiced sluic-ed through a section twenty-five miles wide and sixty miles long, from Emporia Em-poria toward the southeastern corner of the state, leaving in its wake three known dead, untold losses in crops, livestock and property damage, hundreds hun-dreds of homeless families, broken railroad communications, and inundated inundat-ed fields and towns. Starting at the headwaters of three rivers, the Verdigris, the Cottonwood and the Neosho, the flood swept down through Emporia, Madison, Burlington and intermediate points, swelling in volume' as it came. Water threatened householders fled for their lives. Many, taken unaware, were rescued in rowboats from roofs and second stories of their homes. The chief fury of the storm,' however, how-ever, seemed to have been visited on Neosho Falls, a town of 800 people, which, according to early reports, was completely inundated by a 14-inch rain. |