The Nation : High Rivers Begin to Ebb

Rivers slowly receded from record flood crests in Oklahoma and Illinois, where an estimated 45,000 people were forced from their homes over the last week, and about 100 people were evacuated at Rhineland, Mo., after a levee on the Missouri River broke. Water crested during the night at one Oklahoma city at a record 16 feet above flood stage. At Bartlesville, Okla., where flood stage is 13 feet, the Caney River crested at a record 29 feet as huge amounts of water were released from brimming reservoirs upstream. Little or no rain fell across the region, which got up to two feet in the last week, but almost 12 inches of rain fell in 24 hours in Texas, causing scattered flooding around McCamey.