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Show Farmers Driven Out By Floods Fort Smith, Ark. Threatened floods Thursday were driving farmers in the Arkansas and Poteau river bottoms to seek safety on higher levels with livestock live-stock and equipment. Recent rains in the- lowlands of Oklahoma drained by at Fort Smith have' swollen both rivers the two streams which flow together and brought the Arkansas to flood stage. Weather bureau officials in sending out warnings to inhabitants of the menaced area predicted a stage here of twenty-four to twenty-five feet Friday morning. Flood stage is twenty-two feet. The flood will he of short duration bureau officials here believe, and will confine itself to the territory from the mouth of the Neosha river near Fort Gibson, Okla., 150 miles west, to a point downstream fifty-five miles west of Fort Smith. |