The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
KANSAS FLOOD.
UniOntOwD, Kansas, Swept Away by
A Cyclone.
Many People Killed and Others
Seriously Hurt.
a Band Formed In Alabama to Cap
ture Moonshinsrs.
Marony and Mcdonald discharged
In Default of Identification

ST. LOUIS, June 17.-Additional adj
vices about the disaster in Kansas from
wind and rain storms are that Union
town, about fifteen miles west of Fort
Scott on the Wichita s. Western rail-
road, was swept away and that two
women and four children were
drowned. UniontOwn, which is
place OF about 900 inhabitants, is in the
midst of thickly settled country, and
1t is feared that the loss of life is even
heavier than reported. AS the wires
are down for fifteen miles on either side
nothing definite can be learned. The
storm struck the western part of Bar
bour county late at night, coming from
the west where it had played great
havoc. At Augusta it assumed the
form of cloud bust, and though ev-
erything possible has been done to OBJ
tain details by the railroads all is un-
certain at present. In Fort Scott
1t commenced raining about O'Clock.
Sunday morning. Old residents say
IT was the hardest rain in thirty years.
Water commenced raising in Buck
Run about 8 o'clock this morning
Lamb and Meads' ice dam on Sixth
street burst about 10 o'clock this
morning, causing the water in Buck
Run to raise at the rate of about three
feet an hour carrying away several
houses and the bridge across Sixth
Street. That part of Fort Scott known
as Belltown, is entirely under water.
rms was caused by and overflow from
Marmaton river. People were taken
out with boats. Several bridges were
washed out and trains were stopped on
both sides of Fort Scott. The Kansas
Nebraska and Dakota tracks are under
water for nine miles out The Mem
phis road is badly damaged by water
for over 1000 feet. At last accounts
the water had stopped rising and If no
more rain falls the flood will rapidly
subside. Every effort is being made
To obtain information from Uniontown.
EXCESSIVE RAINS.
Ell DORADO, Kan, June 1.-THE
upper valley of the Walnut is flooded
from excessive rains, the streams being
higher than they have been for years.
Saturday night the river came up so
suddenly that "a family by the name of
Graham started from their home to the
high land. The mother and a babe
were drowned, the father and one child
escaping. Grain fields are flooded and
much damage must result. A portion
OF the Missouri Pacific track is washed
away and there have been no trains in
over the Santa Fe since yesterday. 1t
IS surmised that number of people
have been drowned in the lower valley.
The water is receding. This morning
later rumor reports the drowning OF
o. Beaman in Cassidy.
AT FORT SCOTT.
FORT SCOTT, Kan, June 1.-THE
Hood OF the last two days has been
quite destructive. The Marmeaton
river has overlooked its banks and
caused suspension of railroad
traffic. The NJ, X. q T. train from
2:45 is here yet. Passengers are quite
well cared for, yet much dissatisfaction
prevails among them. All of North
Fort Scott is under water. Scarcely 9
family out of over 500 remained il
their houses. Buck Run, where
perhaps the most damage was done
was caused by the bursting of two
dams, the upper one, owned by Hart
man and Meade gave way first causing
the one owned by II. II. Lamb to dC
the came. Then the water rushed
down Scott avenue carrying houses anC
out-buildin9s pell NELL to destruction
No lives were lost as the breaking Of
the dam took place in daylight. The
scene from the Inter State Hotel
oDOuI JIG HlRueSI point III Il(
city is grand. The water is spread ovel
the country for miles. The amount o.
damage from the flood cannot be esti
mated. The water reached its highest
about daylight to-day and is now re
ceding slowly. For several days the
= rainfall has been exceedingly heavy &C
.companied by vivid lightning anC
clashing peals of thunder. Oh
Saturday last the lightning
cNr
considerable damage to property
and killing one person, Mrs. Fannie
Hendricks, "A widow. All the CELLAR
in low places are filled, In severa
directions communications with tn
outside world is completely cut off
but at noon to-day the water has re
coded sufficiently to enable the resump
-tion of traffic. All will be well in
few days.
Breaking up DIstIIlerIes.
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