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Show OKLAHOMA CITY IS VISITEDBY FLOOD SOUTH SIDE OF OKLAHOMA CITY !S INUNDATED; BUSINESS HOUSES FLOODED North Canadian River Rises Rapidly From Four Day Rain Fall, Pressure Pres-sure of Water Breaks Municipal Reservoir Oklahoma City, Okla., A catastrophic catastro-phic flood gripped Oklahoma City Tuesday. With virtually the entire south sida Inundated, flood waters of the Xorth Canadian fiver rising rapidly and creeping relentlessly upward from the lowlands, already literally aro lapping at the very threshold of the retail business center of the city. With every prospect that the crest of the high water will not be. reached for some timek Sweeping savagely southeastward, the raging torrent, swollen to proportions pro-portions by rains which have fallen virtually without interruption for four days in the west and north central sections of the state, broke through Lhe municipal reservoir 10 miles west of here early Tuesday and flung a pent up 25 foot wall of water downstream down-stream to spread " further disaster to the already stricken lowlands on Oklahoma City's south side. This volume of water reached here about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning and within an hour had spread to within IS blocks of the principal business section, both from the south and southwest corners. So far, there has been no loss of life reported, but numbers of persons are believed to be imperiled. A swirling current with a powerful power-ful undertow defeated efforts of firemen fire-men to reach 15 persons marooned, in the llulligan Grove district in the lowlands. Row boats were unable to breast the current and effect a rescue after earlier efforts had resulted re-sulted in the rescue of several persons. |