New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-24
DAMAGE DONE BY WATER IN KANSAS.
BRIDGES WASHED AWAY. TRAINS WRECKED AND
MANY LIVES LOST

ST. LOUIS, April 23.-Dispatches from South
Kansas report the heaviest raaa that has ever
known in that part OF the State The storm began
Tuesday twelve inches Of water said to
have fallen. All level country is submerged Traffic on
the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad for many miles
each way from Parsons is suspended, and passenger
which left Parsons yesterday the Fort Scott aud
Gulf Road wrecked not far from the town. largo
number OF hogs and cattle in sockyards along the La
bette River mile frem Parsons, have been
drowned, and, it is said, hundreds, and perhaps
animals perished In the surrounding
ountry. Great destruction OF crops and movable prop
erty has also occurred The Marma0n River has over
flowed its banks and inundated settlement of from six
to eight hundred inhabitants and known as North Fort
Scott The In the houses is from three to five feet
deep. AL the people were rescued. The MISSOURI Ia
citc Railroad track is badly washed out both ways from
Fort Scott, and no trains have moved since tuesday
freight train on this through bridge at Clear
water and Frank McDaniels the engineer, was
At last accounts the water subsidng, but t will
take several days to run on Advlses from Klngman
confirm previous reports of the flood there. Ten lives
are reported to have been lost at that place. Traffic on
the Wichita and Western Railroad between Wichita and
Kngman suspended and the bridges on this road and
on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Road at Cheney
Belle Plain. and Clearwater have been washed away.
Other dispatches state that the storm extended into
Western Missouri and that many streams nave over
ngsye and railroads that have been
washed away In places and raiic greatly lnterrupte1
heayv rainfa extending over large section Of cour.
try embracing Gainesville. Abeline, Fort WORTH Dallas
and other places At Gainesville the Pecan and Elm
Creeks overflowed their banks, and besides washing
away much property several lives are reported lost
Women and children cGng 10 branches OF trees for hous
before they rescued and in some instances whole
families were swept away IN their houses Ppt % IN most
Delayed with water and high VINO damaged number
OF houses.
WICHITA .Kan., April 23-A dispatch from tho
Medicine Lodge gives additional details OF tho
awful calamity Of Monday night The search
for bodies was continued early yesterday
morning among the drift piles and along the bottoms for
miles The remaining bodies of the Maddux family who
were among the campers were found. the mother
and two children making six recovered at that
point. Maddux himself and two children
escaped. Jerry Gibbs's body and the
body of a young man by the name OF Smith were also
found but the campers only knew the latter by name
The survivors do not know where he
was from. Four OF the Paddock family
have been found, all children, the father and
mo her being still missing Frank sheplers wife ana
child whom he left the roof OF his drifting hone havo
not been found heard from. Ten bodies had been re-
covered at the Lodge and four above town at the time Oh
the writing of the dispatch, making fourteen IN all