Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-08-21
NUMBER DEAD IN
MISSOURI STORM
n tern Illinois Also Suffers From on
shoot ~ the Texas Coast
Tornado.
THOUSANDS PEOPLE HOMELESS
pamaae no Crops IS Estimated to Have
Reached 8ulious-Nine Inches
81 Rain Falls.

s.. Loals 1Io.. Aug. 21-Ten persons
sre Known to have perished in the
food that swept the west and southern
1srts If ST. Louis and some of the
s1bl~1s yesterday, ard two persons
are missing Nine bodies we're found
to1ar. ela white woman and eight
negroes. The missing are negroes.
five Of tae bodies were found in the
suburb III Glendale and five we're
f9an6 ia the manufacturing district in
southwest ST. Louis which is drained
BIZ t6e Des Peres river.
The white woman was Mrs. Annie
waroae-. so years old whose body
vas found under q bed that had been
overturned by the rush Of water.
The food receded rapidly today and
Is the waters went down. policemen.
aremea ana national guardsmen
searched the houses for missing
The greater part OF ST. Louis was
not affected by the storm. other than
5y the inconvenience the heavy down
pour caused. and the food damage was
limited on the west side OF the Mis-
s.sz.pPl river 70 a long and narrow
snip along the southern, through the
s0g-1r=5terr and along the western
parts oE the city Transportation serv-
Ice was rapidly resuning a normal
condition today
ST. Louis, no. Aug 21.-Six persons
missing thousands homeless. crops
and other property worth several mil
lien dollars destroyed, transportation
and wire communication facilities
greatly impaired and in places wholly
suspended, thousands Of lives endau-
gecad-tais was the toll Of an offshoot
OF rae Texas coast tornado which yes
teriav swept through Missouri, Ar
kansas and eastern Illinois.
ST Louis its suburbs and neighbor-
ing Illinois towns suffered most from
the food waters which followed the
storm. The unprecedented d0wupour
seven 70 nine inches in "A hours
converted br0oklets into raging tor
rents. which tore away bridges. lev
ess- dams, homes and everything else
il rtz.r paths.
At East alton. I'll. a 3o0-foot section
of r1e new levea gave way and q wall
1t water from che Wood river rushed
toward the towns of Wood River. BEN
bow and East Alton, out men who had
stood watching at the IeTee raced 100
wards ahead IF the oar7mine water.
calling rirat and LETT. run for your
lives
~ lezs than zn hour the three towns
eare covered with re feey of water.
ha r1- soul had fingered. The pop
u-s-1u cE Wood River and Berbow
C.-r raced for West Wood River. while
residents of East Alton took refuge
.n Al.5r. Two trains. a Chicago 4
Alton from Kansas CITY and a Big
-Four from St. Louis. which were
cauzh- between two branches Of the
f9cs that rushed through the break
E~--He re~aa. gave shelter for the night
f77 sc7res of persons who had been
rescued from roofs ard upper windows
os flooded homes. The water began 70
reeafa somewhat TO-DAY and il was
hc-=s tta stalled trains would be able
80 continue their Journey.
Tiffas IN Darkness.
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rowing or wa6ing 10 flooded homes
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