European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. October. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 Tim Hucke left and Butch Wintill both of of Sucro kan., use handfuls of Hay tuesday to coax two horses to higher ground through floodwaters from the Neosho River. Levee break causes More flooding in Midwest by the associated press helicopters flew Over a Peninsula at the merging of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers wednesday searching for More Breaks in levees As the two Rivers carried away the water Hal has caused record flooding in the Midwest. The Missouri had already washed out a two mile Sec lion of com and Cut a new 12-mile Channel to the missis Sippi isolating the Small town of Portage Des Sioux mo.,which sits on the Peninsula Nonh of is. Louis. Easl of Portage pcs Sioux on the Peninsula sandbag Ging efforts were ended during he night at a levee jus above West Alton and deputies warned residents of that Community wednesday to prepare to move to higher ground. Rescue workers evacuated hundreds of people in animals by boat tuesday and a helicopter plucked others from atop a barn. No injuries were reported. Portage Des Sioux was kind of an Island said Ray Kemp a St. Charles county emergency operations official. But experts discounted the possibility that the flooding would permanently change the Missouri s Cour j. The Missouri crested tuesday at nearby St. Charlesta a record for this Century of 37.5 feet 12.3 feel above flood stage. The record there was 40.1 feel in 1844. Five feet of water swamped the streets of East St. Louis iii., and mayor Carl officer said tuesday i could be weeks before the 1,200 people forced to Dee can return. A broken floodgate allowed the rising Mississippi to flow into the City. Tuesday levee collapse also led to More evacuations elsewhere in is. Charles county where 800 families had been asked to leave after levees broke on  Day. Police went door to door in Hutsch Crown after one levee broke urging residents to leave As water As High As five feet approached. The recent floods called by officials in some stale the worst in history have forced up to 55,000 people from their Homes at one time or another 30,000 in Oklahoma 16.000 in Illinois 7,000 in Missouri and 1,500 to 2,000 in Kansas for Many the cleanup was under Way. There Are about a i ill Ion dead Worms in my base  Diane hoist 52, of Gurney 111., said As she scrubbed Down her flood damaged House. It smells like dead  sightseers use a Rotor bout to navigate through a flooded nut Street in Miami Oulu monday App Nom president Reagan declared parts of northeastern Illi Nois Federal disaster areas tuesday Clearing the Way for Low interest Loans to victims of the flooding. Gov. James r. Thompson has estimated $40 million in damage statewide. Representatives of Oklahoma Missouri Kansas and Michigan also were seeking Federal Aid. The Mississippi River was expected to Crest wednesday at St. Louis at 40 or 4 feet about 10 feet Over flood stage. Upstream the Mississippi ruptured a 60-fool-Widc temporary Patch in a levee at Iowa s Green Island wildlife Refuge late monday flooding about 4,000 acres of Public and private land. In northeastern Oklahoma residents of 500 Homes in Miami remained out of their houses because offloading from the Neosho River said police chief Bill  Arkansas River Rose out of its Banks at Moffelt okla., leaving the town of about 400 nearly deserted before the flood surge moved into the stale of Arkansas. Skies cleared in lower Michigan on tuesday after More than three weeks of rain. Only the Saginaw River remained above flood stage but residents of Macom county s Harrison township continued sandbagging because of overflowing canals from Lake St.  flooding was blamed for five deaths in the past two weeks in Illinois two in Oklahoma and one in Missouri in addition 13 deaths arc blamed on storm Sand flooding Sinee sept. 10 in Michigan. Other floods were blamed for one death in Texas one in Montana and one in Pennsylvania. Protesters attack German embassy in Tehran Bonn a at least 100 iranians attacked the West German embassy i Tehran wednesday und German for eign ministry officials said guards used tear Gas to drive Back demonstrator who climbed the Gates into the com Pound. The demonstrators were protesting he closing of Iran s exhibit at the Frankfurt Book fair. The demonstrator shouted revenge for Frankfurt As they attacked the com Pound with Iron bars and saws ministry spokesman Ham Schumacher said ministry officials reported that som of the protesters climbed Over a Cate onto embassy grounds and that embassy guards used tear Gas to drive the Hack. No one was Hurt. There was no harm done Schumacher said. Iran s islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia Cyprus said the protesters entered the com Pound despite police efforts and preventive action including firing of tear Gas. Once inside they prayed and shouted slogans against inc German government then left without any incidents involving the embassy staff or themselves the Agency said. It said the protesters numbered about 300 and were Tehran University students belonging to the fundamentalist Hezbollah or party of god. The Agency said the students were protesting the shutdown of Iran s exhibit at the Book fair and the arrest of a number of supporters of the islamic Republic in Frankfurt. The director of the Frankfurt Book fair ordered Iran s stand closed last week after fut fights Between support ers and opponents of Iran s revolutionary Leader. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Frankfurt police spokesman Manfred Fuellhart said three people were injured and five were arrested in the fighting thursday. All were re leased later. The clash was reported Over the weekend in Iran s official Media and the iranian government protested the closing of the stand