Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-21

Mondays storm.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-. August 21.-Ten per-
sons are known to have perished in the
flood that swept the west and south
ern parts of st. Louis and some Of the
suburbs yesterday, and two persons are
missing. Ten bodies were found today
one that Of white woman and nine
those of negroes. The missing are
negroes
Five Of the bodies were found in the
| suburb Of Glendale, which adjoins the
city on the southwest, and four were
found in the manufacturing district, in
which is drained by the Des Peres
river.
Victim Eighty Years Old.
The white woman was Mrs Annie
Wagner. eighty years old, whose body
was found under a bed that had been
overturned by the rush of water.
The Hood -Maters receded rapidly to-
day, and as the waters went down, po-
hcemen, firemen and national guards
men searched the houses for missing.
By far the greater part of St. Louis
| was not affected by the storm other
the inconvenience the heavy down
pour caused. The flood damage was
limited on the west side Of the Mis-
| strip along the southern. through the
southwestern and along the western
| parts of the city. Suburbs adjoining
| these sections were damaged
Transportation service was rapidly
| reassuming normal condition today.
onshoet Of Texas Storm.
An offshoot Of the storm which swept
Texas earlier in the week yesterday
did damage estimated at several mil
| lion dollars to crops and other prop
erty. seriously impaired transportation
and wire facilities and endangered
Thousands of lives in Illinois, Arkansas
outside of st. Louis and thousands are
homeless
st. Louis. its suburbs and neighbor-
ing Illinois towns suffered most from
| the flood waters which followed the
storm. The unprecedented downpour-
| seven to nine inches in twenty-four
lhours-converted brooklets into raging
torrents, which tore away bridges,
| levees, dams. homes and everything in
| their paths.
Section Of Levee Yields.
At East Alton. ILL.,, a 30o-foot section
of the new levee gave way and a wall
OF water from the Wood river rushed
| toward the towns of Wood River, Ben
Bow and East Alton, but two horse
men-who had stood watch at levee-
raced a hundred yards ahead of the
oncon1ing water, calling right and left
| Run for your lives"
In less than an hour the three towns
! were covered with ten feet of water,
| but not soul had fingered. The popu-
lation of Wood River and Ben Bow
city raced for West Wood River, while
residents of East Alton took refuge in
Alton. Two trains-a Chicago and AL
ton from Kansas City and Big Four
! from st. Louis-which were caught be-
| tween two branches of the food that
rushed through the break in the levee
gave shelter for the night to scores of
! persons who had been rescued from
roofs and upper windows of flooded
| homes. The water began to recede
| somewhat today, and 1t was hoped the
stalled trains would be able to reach
| their destinations
| Landslides Along Railroads.
| Washouts and landslides were report
ed all along the routes of the Missouri
Pacific. Iron Mountain and St. Louis
and San Francisco (Frisco) systems.
A dozen cities spent the night in total
darkness. their power plants having
been flooded In st. Louis fifty men
toiled all night to divert newly made
| streams which had begun to undermine
the water works and threatened to
! break the big mains controlling the
city's water supply. This morning the
Missouri Naval Reserves and the 1st
Regiment of the Missouri National
IGuard Joined in the rescue work and
relieved policemen and f1remen. who
had spent the day and night in rowing
| or wading to flooded homes and carrying
women and children to safety.
| The crews of stalled street cars near
the western city limits constructed a
| huge raft of railroad ties and on this
| carried a score of families out of reach
of the rapidly rising water.
| Springfield, Mo-, reported that the
| damage to the Ozark peach crop would
exceed 100000: the damage to corn is
estimated at near 81, ,000. 900; real estate
men believe the aggregate property
| damage to st. Louis buildings will be
in the vicinity Of 81 ,000. 900; two am
| munition factories in East Alton suf-
| fered $250.000 damage when the Woods
| river levee broke
| Tracks Are Washed Out.
De Soto. Mo-, reported a landslide on
the Iron Mountain tracks at White
House. 300-foot washout of the same
system's tracks eight miles north of
De Soto and that the village of Blake
| well was under ten feet of water.
Scores OF small towns and several
| large cities were isolated last night as
| wires were down and railroads in their
vicinity had either suspended trains or
were reroyttng them to avoid high