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TRAFFIC TOLL Today's OCCIDENTS 3 737 0 72 pEATHS 0 5 Involving Injury. ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Serving the Alton Community for More Than 121 Years RAIN SUNDAYj Low 65, High 85. More Weather on Pact MtaPiittett January 15. 1836 Vol. CXXII, No.

130 ALTON. SATURDAY. JUNE 15. 1957. 20 PAGES 5c Per Copy Member of The Damage in Thousands as Deluge SJrikes wmmf, Indian Creek Breaks Over Outdated Levee Section Indian Creek cracked through an outdated portion of the levee of the Wood River Drainage District which was still awaiting protection under the U.

S. Engineers Corps multimillion dollar program early this morning and sent scores of families from their homes. Bids were open by the U.S. Engineers within the past few weeks on one of sections to he built connecting the Cahokia Diversion Canal's levee wall with higher ground. The Engineers will depend upon a portion of the Big Four Railroad's track embankment as part of this protective arm.

'The old Indian Creek Levee, built some years ago following a similar flood, broke during the night and released the pent up waters on the land in the Wood River Drainage district. Meanwhile, the district still is negotiating with the Big Four on certain items necessary for completion of arrangements to build another section of the U.S. Engineers' levee. The Telegraph learned from House Beats Civil Rights Change By KDMOM) LE BRETOV WASHINGTON ff Southern House members said today direct White House appeals to Republicans defeated the Southerners' attempt to write jury trial guarantees into the civil rights bill. The House Friday beat down the Southern-backed amendment, 199-167.

The vote made it appar- Rain Totals 3.38 Inches In 24 Hours A total of 3.38 Inches of rain fell at Alton Dam in the period from 7 a. m. Friday to 7 a. m. today.

This was less than fell in the deluge that swept St. Louis County. Insofar as Alton is concerned, the cloudburst was the heaviest 24-hour rain since July 16, 1952, when 4.68 inches was recorded at the dam. By comparison, the one-day total measured at 7 a. m.

this morning here was greater than the total for seven months (not consecutive) during 1952, the year of the great drought. The year's total rainfall through today is 7.67 inches over the normal for six months. Normal amount of rain to be expected during months of the the first i year would be 6 cnt that on the final test the civilJ 2 85 on June 30 As of today, Harold G. Talley, attorney for fights bill will pass the House the total rain 1S 52 Jnohes sinc the district, that a letter of acknowledgment had been received only latter part of this week from the railroad. Operates Piimpn Wilbur F.

Stevens, engineer in a form acceptable to President Eisenhower and its Northern Democratic Republican support- Jan. 1. How much is an inch of rain? This question has been asked ers. The showdown is expected; fluently since the recent de- Monday, luges. Many persons scoff at The 'fate facing the bill in the! measurements in inches, since Senate is still uncertain.

The Son- the popular conception of an inch said Friday they plan a move cord) It is possible to bypass the judiciary group and i and robable Friday's rains bring the House bill to the Senate that Godfrev received an inch for the district, spent the whole ate judiciary Committee has writ- is a "small" amount. However, night working; couldn't even bej ten a ury amendment intoi an inch of rain is a reat reached by telephone by the Tel- its civil rights but 16 senators amount. Rainfall totals very ac- egraph till 11 a. m. today.

"-'His first move last night, as water rose in the Wood River streets, was to get to the East Alton pumping stations and operate them. He operated the gates at the Virginia avenue station at Olin Mathieson, but by the time he reached the next closure struc- floor. Sees Ike's Influence) "I honestly believe the work the White House has done in the past more rain than fell at Alton dam. The World Almanac, page 481 of the current issue, define an inch of rain, as follows: "An acre ONE MAN'S MISERY Flooded street intersection at Ninth and Belle gave some kids a chance to float around in inner tubes and others to splash through hi shorts. Cars were inundated to tops of hoods, and a stock truck was stalled behind the car.

iMany autos on the lot of Downtown Motors were Photo. Senate Approves Foreign Aid Bill By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON Eisenhower's $3,637,000,000 foreign aid bill on to the House today, propelled by a 57-25 Senate vote. ture, water reaching it. blocked him from He prevaled upon Olin Mathieson to lend him an extension ladder, and a younger man clambered over it to reach the valve.

The excess water was admitted to the impounding area at the main Wood River station. The flood washed holes in the old levee built astraddle the old Edwardsville road to protec against Indian Creek floods. District Engineer Stevens said this morning the larger break of the two, on the east side of the road, had been repaired already "I've been working for the City of Wood River seven years before I took this job 6 years levee district Stevens said today. "This is the worst flood I've seen. It was frightening to watch huge trees racing by downstream as we operated our pumps and gates." The last Indian Creek levee break was in 1946, he recalled.

Alton Volunteer Emergency Corps and area police took up duty at Glendale Gardens and vicinity about 3:30 a. m. today following word that swollen waters of Indian Creek, between Wood River and Edwardsville, had flown over the levee. Because this threatened both Wanda and Glendale Gardens, a subdivision east of Wood River, Hartford police stood guard at an oil road extending east and west between Highway 140 and Wanda, with instructions to sound the alarm if the flood waters passed over the roadway, Families Flee In the meantime, residents of Glendale Gardens, already swamped with water from high ground, were alerted, one by one. By 5 a.

m. wihen Hartford Police relayed the information that Indian Creek waters had flowed over the Wanda road in a stream about 100 feet wide, Glendale Gardens residents re-doubled their efforts to evacuate the area. Moving van firms were called and a few families left the area for the homes of nearby relatives. Some already had been forced out by rain which flowed down from the hills. Members of the emergency corps set up a guage and inches of Indian at least six Creek water was measured in the southern end of Glendale Gardens by 7 a.

m. when it became apparent that the water had started to recede. In Wood Rover proper, the unprecedented downpour, the culmination of several weeks of pe- riodic rains, flooded some streets and nearby Lincoln Addition took a beating in the form of flooded basements. While men rolled up their trouser legs and waded in knee depth water to move stalled cars in Wood River younsters donned bathing suits and had a gala time playing in the water. In the 200-block of Wood River.

East Alton, one teenager was noted swimming down the middle of the street. Shortly before noon today don Col. 9.) week made the difference," said Rep. Willis (D-La), one of the leaders of the Southern bloc. He spoke in an interview, adding: "This is the one they had to go all out on.

And I know of specific instances of members who changed their minds under White House pressure." There was no record vote. But as far as could be seen, only 30 to 40 of the 200 House Republicans joined the Southern Democrats who filed between tellers to register their support of the jury trial amendment. The Southerns at one time expressed hopes for 70 or more Republican votes in their favor. The civil rights bill is perhaps the most controversial of Eisenhower's major domestic proposals and one of the first to approach approval in the House. The and some said the amendment would guarantee what they contended is a constitutional right of trial by jury.

But proponents of the civil rights bill contended the amendment would have nullified the measure's effect in the South and it would have been inconsistent with the general rule that courts can enforce their own orders without juries. The bill provides that the U.S. attorney general may seek injunctions in federal courts in support of voting and other civil rights. The amendment would have provided that anyone accused of violating such injunctions must be given a jury trial. Inside Musts: SOCIETY PAGE 10 OBITUARY PAGE 17 COMICS PAGE 16 CLASSIFIED PAGE 18 uuiiLania bijuarl feet.

Consequently, a rainfall one inch over one acre of grounc would mean a total of 6,272,651 cubic inches of svater (or) 226, 512 pounds of water for 27,14: gallons (or) 603 barrels of 4: gallons each. Savings and Loan Boosts Interest Rate A new dividend rate of 4 pei cent per annum on paid up shares and pass-book savings ac counts was announced today bj Alton Savings Loan Association. Alton Savings' directors a their June meeting declared the dividend rate on monthly savings share accounts for the first six months of 1957 at 6 per cent and the dividend rate on paid-up shares and pass-book savings accounts at 4 per cent. The new dividend rate will be reflected in semi-annual dividend checks which the associa. tion mails out to its members at the end of June.

Louis Jun, secretary-manager of the association, said today that under Illinois law governing savings and loan associations, the directors are required to make a determination u.r1"i*i Hi viHonri tho Ui lifll idle? Ui Ul VlutrJlCI intr semiannual earnings of the association may be distributed to the shareholders. With assets in excess of $10,300,000 and reserves in excess of $911,000, the increased earnings of Alton Savings and Loan made the new rate of 4 per oent on paid-up shares and pass-book savings possible, Jun said. Woman, 80, Rescued From Flooded Home Through assistance called by a next door neighbor, an elder- woman was rescued from her flooded home at 918 Belle St. during the downpour Friday evening. She is Mrs.

Alice Warboy, 80, who resides alone, and who was unable to make her way to safe- when water began to pour in- her home. Mrs. Merl Wenzel thought of Mrs. Warboy's plight when the lood began to rush into her own home at 916 Belle. She called police.

The AVEC was dispatched to give aid. "But there wasn't time to wait or the police," said Mrs. Wenzel. "I ran out, saw some colored youths near the Dowtown Motors ot, and called on them. About ive ran to help.

They picked up Mrs. Warboy, chair and all, and carried her through the water Belle street to the opposite home of Mrs. Nellie Cope, on high ground. "We gov Mrs. Warboy's do? and cat out, too." Water rose 18 inches over the floors in the Wenzel dwelling.

It was higher in the home of Mrs. Warboy. On inquiry at Downtown Mot- ros, it was learned the group who took Mrs. Warboy to safety were Willie Frank Cathorn, Clyde Stegall, Frank Sanderson, Sam Lee Bond and Tampa Sanders. AVEC members arrived just after Mrs.

Warboy was taken from her house. Not needed for the rescue, they used their boat for some needed ferrying at Ninth and Belle. The Volunteer Emergency Corps responded at 9:30 p.m. Friday to an appeal for help from Chessen lane where water had surrounded dwellings. Police later were informed by the corpsmen that no one had been endangered and only property damage had been caused.

The Corps had no vehicles available to aid in furniture removal. Every effort by bands of Democratic-led opponents to trim its totals and limit its authority to one year was smothered in a series of roll calls that kept the Senate in session almost until Friday midnight. On final passage, 26 Democrats and 31 Republicans voted for the bill; 17 Democrats and 8 Republicans opposed it. I It was.a rare demonstration of Republican unity on a foreign policy matter, witbj Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican leader, supporting Eisenhower on every issue.

He some imes has differed with the administration on foreign policy matters. Shows leadership It also was an exhibition of generalship by Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex), the majority leader, in keeping many reluctant Democrats in line. Both held out the possibility of cuts in a later appropriations bill to provide funds for the aid program. They reminded their colleagues that thje foreign bill is an authorization measure, set i Hear final A Argument On Gjrard WASHINGTON' arguments on the (egality of a U.S.

decision to let Japanese courts try GI William S. Girard have been submitted to i Federal District Judge Joseph McGarraghy. His ruling is expected late next week. Girard, an Aifmy specialist 3.C., is accused of (fatally wounding a Japanese womijm who was scavenging for scrap metal in an area used by the Army in Japan. Girard's lawyers said Friday in their written aijgument that if the government's Icjgal position in the case has any merit, "the Soviet Gestapo begins to loom mild by comparison." The ji t's lawyers headed by S.

Atty. Oliver Gasch spoke turn of the "absurdity" of legal contentions made on Girard's befialf. They insisted Congress has agreed to permit trial by foreigip courts of American servicemen accused of violating civil laws abroad. They said Congress did this by approving the security treaty with Japan, under jwhich a status-of- forces agreement was negotiated, and by enacting the uniform code of military justice. Girard has claimed the death of the woman; last January was an accident.

Hb is accused of fa tally wounding her by firing an cartridge case from a grenade The suit seeks to block delivery of Girard to Japanese authorities to face trial. The written jlegal arguments of the opposing lawyers generally followed the lines of oral arguments Tuesday. Girard's lawyers said the decision to yield irard to Japan was made "to satisfy Japanese public opinion." ting only ceilings and terms. With Johnson and Knowland working in close harmony behind 89-year-old Chairman Green (D- Kl) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the bill survived every test despite charges the program is loaded with "giveaways," and "waste and extravagance." Supporters of the bill said that in arming allies and bolstering their economies, this country is protecting its own national security. Demos Lead Opposition The opposition was led by Democratic Sens.

Long and EllenJer of Louisiana, Morse of Oregon and O'Mahoney of Wyoming. All voted "no" on final passage. Sen. Jenner (R-Ind) charged that this country is already "mortgaged to the hilt." He and seven other Republicans, Barret (Wyo), Brieker (Ohio), Curtis (Neb), Dworshak (Idaho), Malone (Nev), Williams (Del) and Young (ND) voted against final passage. An amendment by Ellender to slash military assistance from $1,800,000,000 to $1,300,000,000 was beaten 61-26.

Another by Long to cut military assistance by 100 millions was rejected, 52-33. In the only close vote, the Senate rejected- 49-40 a proposal by Long to cut defense supports by 90 millions, to 710 millions. One Amendment The Senate did adopt by voice vote an amendment by Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) to require that loans from the development fund "shall be made on the basis of firm commitments" by recipient nations to make repayment and "on a finding there is a reasonable prospect of repayment." In addition to providing $1,800,000,000 in new spending authority for military aid in the next fiscal year, the bill also contains authority for re-appropriating 500 millions in military aid funds left over from last year's appropriation. It authorizes 800 millions for de- supports in the economic for allies of the United fense field States.

It also provides, for the first time, a two-year program in both these categories, with authorisa- tions for 1 ,4 billions in military assistance and 710 millions in defense supports for the fiscal year starting July 1, 1958. This will permit the administration to include both these items in the Defense Department budget next year. Authorizes Revolving Fund Another section authorizes a two billion dollar revolving fund to make economic development loans under a three-year program. An appropriation of 500 millions is stipulated for the first year, and authority is provided to borrow 750 millions from the Treasury for each of the succeeding two years. The measure also carries $151,900,000 for technical aid, as well as an added contribution of I millions for United Nations technical assistance work and million dollars for such projects by Organization of American States.

It arms Eisenhower with a special fund of 275 millions to meet political and other emergencies. Twenty-five millions of this is earmarked for Latin America, of which 90 per cent must be in Property Assessment Completed The Alton Township persona property assessment has been completed, it was announced today by Assessor Gorman. Friday his staff began "writ ing up" the personal books from the data compiled in a house-to- house canvass of the township And meantime the "business books," with personal property assessments on business and professional firms, are being closed so they may be returnee to the county treasurer's office at Edwardsville next week. Gorman happily told a news reporter that he is at least two weeks ahead of last year with progress on the assessment despite that there was much additional work this year due to a great influx of new residents Presence of most newcomers, never before assessed here was revealed through checking the state automobile registration list for the township. Hundreds of new names have been added to the assessment rolls as a result.

At the present time Gorman las no estimate as to the num. ber of new assessments i Dooks show. The increased number of names will be offset, pointed out, by deletion of es of who have removed from the city. The canvass revealed much moving out as well as moving into Alton since April of last year. Gorman believes the number of new residents far exceeds the number of removals, but at present has no figures as to the actual number, he said.

4 Hurt As Car Hits Utility Pole A woman and three children were injured this afternoon when an automobile collided with a pole at Belle and Hamilton streets. The injured were taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in the Staten ambulance. Police Cpl. Ray Dooley told the Telegraph the injured were Miss Ora Vann of 723 Market Charlotte Slack, 4, Barbara Slack, 2, and Anita Slack, 5, all of 244 Madison Ave.

Cpl. Dooley said the 2-year-old child was thrown through the windshield of the car. Cpl. Dooley said that Miss Vann drove the car off after the owner had gotten out. The crash was investigated by Cpl.

Dooley and Patrolman Lloyd Martin. DATA AT THE DAM 8 a.m. temperature Today 68 degrees High 66 Hiver stage below Precipitation in dam at 7 a.m. 24 hours to 7 am. 15.5.

Pool 23.4 3.38 inches. Springfield Tornado i Death Toll 2 SPRINGFIELD, 111. Two persons were dead, at least 50 injured and a square-mile section of this state capital city resembled a huge trash heap today after a tornado and heavy rains Friday. Winds of 106 m.p.h. whipped through Springfield's south-southeast area destroying more than 20 homes and damaging 200 others.

Nearly every tree was uprooted in two city parks. About 5.000 telephones, 10 per cent of Springfield's total, were out of service today. And 11 communities had no telephone contact with the capital city of more than 100,000. All off-duty police and the city's emergency forces helped clear debris and administer first aid to the injured. Hospitals estimated about 50 persons had been treated.

Mrs. Paul Farley, 60, was killed when the tornado shifted her home off its foundation. She was crushed as she stood at the top of the basement steps. A falling tree toppled a power line atop Mrs. Anna Belle Larson, 37, killing her as she was riding a bicycle.

Only the smokestack remained standing after the storm at the one-story Allis-Chalmers Plant No. 3. The nearby Weaver Manufacturing Co. plant was heavily damaged and the roof of the Cole Chemical Co. building collapsed.

Many Weaver employes huddled beneath machines as a ge Ninth and BeDe Corner Flooded by Cloudburst Water damage estimated in thousands of dollars came with the delude that hit Alton Friday night. Flash floods resulted as water backed up from the overtaxed storm sewers of city in several sections. chunks of concrete and heavy beams punched holes in the build ing's metal roof. No damage estimate was im mediately available but one ob- Township, insurance company it would total more than a million dollars. Governor's Mansion Damaged A.

large tree toppled over on the governor's mansion. The Abraham Lincoln home, not far distant, was undamaged as were other historical monuments. A trailer camp was hit hard and 11 of 40 trailers were some overturned. The tornado which apparently was shrouded by the driving rains the second to Kit Springfield in four days. The Weather Bureau said the storm moved out of a "squall line of thunderstorms sweeping across west-central Illinois and the mid- Mississippi valley." The Springfield storm apparently struck first in Jacksonville, 35 miles to the west, knocking out telephone communications and demolishing a brick building in the center of town.

Five persons were reported injured and property damage was widespread. Rain in Quincy Even further west, in Quincy, a thunderstorm three tenths of an inch of rain and light ning scorched two barns. State Police reported 5 or 6 inches of rain flooded highway un derpasses in an 11-county area in southern Illinois near St. Louis. Another thunderstorm struck St.

Louis after nightfall. More than 2Va inches of rain doused the city in a two-hour period. Some motor, ists were stranded in their cars in flooded streets but there were no injury reports. In an electrical storm that pre ceded the tornado by about five lours, Carl Applegate, 45, was fatally struck by lightning as he worked on a railroad handcar three miles northeast of Rochester. Applegate was a resident of Springfield.

Red Cross authorities offered food and shelter at a school in he hardest hit section, between 19th and 22nd on East Ash Street. The city's emergency units and auxiliary police forces were called aid in clearing debris and administering first aid to the inured. Winds were clocked at 98 miles an hour at Capital Airport and 106 miles an hour at the nearby CAA control tower. Jersey Hit ByVioleit Storms A violent rain and wind strom struck Jersey County Friday evening and several families were marooned in Rosedale Township where (he raging water overflowed the banks of Coon Breek. Carl and Anna Wedding were forced to move the first floor of their farm hcme to the upstairs and rescures were unable to evacuate them.

The Wedding family car was washed down the creek, the Telegraph's Jersey correspondent reported. In the northwest seel ion of Jerseyville several families were evacuated to higher ground. A rain guage at one home in the eastern part of Jerseyville showed 6.4 inches of rainfall Friday. Heaviest rain fell between 4 and 6 p. m.

when 5 and 3-10 inches were recorded. Jersey police were swamped with calls from residents in several sections of the basements were flooded. city where Several bridges we washed away' in Otter reported Hardest hit was four blockg of Belle street, from Eighth to 11 streets. The flood in this section of the lower Piasa valley was among the worst in recent years. Century-old Piasa sewer held intact, but water rose to a depth of more than six feet in Belle near Ninth.

All traffic on Belle, West Ninth, and some other streets leading into Belle was halted a little more than two hours. Water flooded into lower floors of many business houses and entered a score of dwellings, caused tremendous damage on which no immediate estimate! could be made. Many automobiles were stalled by the rising water as they sought to navigate Belle as it became a swirling stream. Scores of parked cars were dunked and put out of running condition. No Injury Reports Police had no reports of injuries, but one elderly and infirm woman was carried from her home to safety in a neighbor 1 house after water began to pour in.

Shields Branch went out of banks to flood over a portion of East Drive, lower Pearl, and some adjacent streets. Many residents of the affected area moved automobiles to higher ground Judge Orders Hoffa Trial To Go Ahead By KARL R. WASHINGTON ff A federal judge has ordered the conspiracy- hribery trial of Teartste'rs union bigwig Jimmy Hoffa to go ahead on Monday. She had granted a continuance, but changed mind. District Judge Burn thews apparently was day when a young yer told her Hoffa's probably cpuld not the trial date becau to be in London at Hoffa, Teamsters president and boss Midwest activities, here March 13 and hiring a lawyer to formation from Rackets Investigatin The lawyer, John of New York, told Bureau of Investiga mittee officials abou Hoffa reportedly delay his trial for so he could run for presidency, or at lea jor role in the selec cessor to the retir: Dave Beck.

Friday, Judge Ma arguments on a mo ue the trial. Miss A attorney for only abi stood in for Edwarc liams, Hoffa's chief ing arguments on a S. Mat- irked Fri- oman law- ef counsel on hand for he planned it time, union vice the union's as arrested larged with inside in- le Senate Committee, ye Cheasty he Federal and com- the plan, hoped to months Teamsters play a matt of a suc- president, lews heard to contin- es Neill, an two years, Bennett Wil- ounsel, dur- niotion. TODAY'S CH The 4-year-old the kitchen from the front yard am ed his mother: Mother mus Crockett," she gu "That lady tot said. "She told so dirty even wouldn't know Bell Co.

Employes Bus Repairing Phone Dan The Alton staff of Illinois "All available wo Telephone Co. was busy this morning repairing damage to elephones caused by the Frl- night storm. A company spokesman said ap- 185 telephones had area are on the job the trouble," the said. The Alton office vv uro.Mijuiitfiy 103 iciepnones naa assigt been reported out of order byj men lo tne )rin 1 a. m.

today, and the number where winds of 9 would probably grow larger as more persons attempted to use hour caused widcs age. their phones. Ten installation The damage to overhead I eight construction phone wires from the wind was (this office were als reported negligible, with most to assist in Spr.ingf af the trouble being caused by the i-rews and eq water soaking into cables and Friday night and 'ires and causing short circuits, this morning. I JCKLE ame into laying in approach- horn am "Davy sed. lit," the ne I was mother Creek water began to through garages and yards.

Eugene Kruckeberg, 805 E. Drive, reported water was four deep around his home. He said the deluge, broke in his basement doors. He said neighbors of the East Drive area helped each other move furniture and household appliances to the tops of tableg and chairs in at least seven homes to avoid water damage as the waters overflowed Shields Branch ditch io their ba.ckyar.ds. '-The'Shields open ditch'extends from Alton Memorial Hospital area to a point on Pearl, where it continues underground toward the riyer.

In one home between Joesting and Chamberlain streets, said Kruckeberg, the floor of the house was covered with a foot of water. Typical of storm troubles in the Shields Branch area was that at the Construction Co. office, 735 Park where the water backed up through the sewer into the building. Highways Impassable The Wood River went out of banks at Forkeyville. and late the night made Rt.

$40 and the Fosterburg road at that point mpassable. The route junction remaained closed until about 5 a. m. today. A giant gasoline ank was overturned in the Alton Oil Co.

premises, with threat of fire damage from leaking gasoline. Heaviest damage to business establishments occurred in area about Ninth and Belle streets. Heavy damage was caused to equipment and supplies of Union Electric Co. when its buildlne at 815 Belle St. was flooded by Friday night's deluge.

The building houses the pany's general offices, engineering department and stockrooms. On the grounds are the company's garage that houses the 30 or more trucks used by the utility. Union Electric called out emergency crews this time to serve itself, as well as to repair flood damage over the city. The flood damage over the city was slight but the ravages of water in the company's own building were heavy, according to Manager P. Foeller.

Damage Extensive of company's emergency crews were working in St. Louis helping clear up storm damage. When the flood struct here, Union Electric called all available help office employ- es, meter readers, everyone. When the flood struck, more than a dozen trucks and a number of cars were in the garage, Twelve of the trucks and aU but two of the cars were removed, driven to higher ground. Water in the stockroom was 24 inches deep at the height ot the flood.

Many supplies were damaged. Where possible sup- were age ers in this tearing up spokesman handicap- ent of 48 eld, area, miles per am plies, such as meters, moved to upper floors, and in one office, the water was ucks from I i the desk drawers, dispatched Emergency crews and other d. Part of employes remained at the of- praent left fices until 2 a. m. remainder The damage will reach (Continued ooJPajte Col.

ft.).