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Deluge returns

Wednesday 04 August 1993 23:02 BST
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A leaking floodgate foiled efforts to stem floodwaters threatening the 18th-century Illinois town of Prairie du Rocher as the Mississippi's destructive onslaught headed south after passing St Louis, Reuter reports from Festus, Missouri.

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