Byline: New York Times
The cresting Missouri River moved past this bluff city a day earlier and a half a foot higher than had been predicted Friday, ripping three buildings from their foundations, knocking out a gas line serving 1,500 people and forcing the early morning evacuation of a tiny community to the east.
Overnight the surging river ripped out whole sections of Route 54, the main highway and river crossing into the city from the north, but Interstate 70, the main artery across the central part of the state from St. Louis to Kansas City, was spared. In the morning floodwaters from the Missouri River were just five feet below the roadbed at …
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