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Show FLOODS SWEEP IvIIDDLE WEST RAINS CAUSE IMMENSE PROP-! PROP-! ERTY LOSS; THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS Legionnaires Active, Using Boats foi J Rescue; Vandalism Prevented; i More Than Twelve Inches of Rain Reported I I Kansas City, Mo. Immense propef-; propef-; ty damage was threatened by floods j which were bursting Sunday from J more than a score of rivers and creeks 1 In southeastern Kansas and north- eastern Oklahoma, but little danger of life was seen, as the resident of the stricken areas, had received ample warning. Two lives had been claimed by the waters in Oklahoma and thousands of acres in the rich bottom lands of both states had been destroyed. The Btreams, fed by sluicing downpours on most of the watersheds of the districts, dis-tricts, were creeping into home on the outskirts of the towns and villages vil-lages in the district, and thousands were already homeless. The region afflicted, a broad, fan-shaped fan-shaped watershed, draining into the Arkansas and Canadian rivers, has been drenched all week with torrential torren-tial rains which in some localities totaled to-taled more than twelve inches. At several towns as much as eight and nine inches fell at one time. The first crest of the floods caused by these rains seems now to be passing through northwestern Oklahoma, but continued rains in Kansas have kept the streams in the northern part of the watershed bank-full, and the fresh torrents that have fallen in the last twenty-four hours are now backing up from the earlier freshets and approaching ap-proaching in some sections the high water marks set in the disastrous flood of 1923. The cities in the region are just recovering from a flooo. in the same streams three weeks ago that did millions of dollars' damage to property and crops. |