The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-07-04
The Missouri River Rapidly Rising at
st. Joseph and Other Near
Points.
L0wlands Submerged and Much Dam
age Anticipated by a Con-
tinued Rise.
Farmers Along the River Seeking
Points of Safety. Leaving Ruined
Crops Behind.
STILL RISING.
The Floods of Waters Creating Alarm All
Along the Missouri.

The Floods of Waters Creating Alarm All
Along the Missouri.
KANSAS Cry, June 29.-The Missouri
river at this point is at a dangerously
high stage. The water is the highest it
has been since the great flood of 1881, but
it still lacks several feet of the record of
that year. Nevertheless much damage
has been done and much more is feared
as different river cities above report a
higher stage of water than that year.
At g o'clock this evening the water
registered three feet ever above the nigh
water mark or twenty three feet above
standard low water mark. The water is
rising steadily one inch an hour and
probably will rise two or three feet more
in the next day or two. Portions of
Harlem across the river have already
been submerged and twenty. five families
have been driven out of their homes.
They have taken the household goods
from their houses and are camping on
high lands. The people have been made
very nervous by accounts of disastrous
Hoods IN Iowa and are taking no chances.
Many OF those who at present are i'm no
danger have moved out of their houses
and sought absolute safety in various
places where the food cannot reach. All
farms along the river are submerged and
crops ruined.
The emhankmcnt of the Hannibal a.
st. Joe road approaches the river at
right angles across from the city. This
~embankment has served as a sort of a
lcvee and has protected a vast eypanse
of the river bottom below it from the
Hood. Some fears are expressed that the
e~mbankment may not be able to with
stand the pressure. If it should give
way much valuable lands will be sub
merged, including the grounds of the
Kansas City Racing association. In
view OF the emergency horses which
have been stabbed there have been re-
moved to places of safety. On this side
OF the river the high water has caused
no Hood excepting as it has backed up
the water of the Kaw which empties in
to the Missouri at this place. These
back waters submerged much of the
low lands and n hundred or more
squatters living there have been obliged
to abandon their homes. The water also
backed up in the sewers in Kansas City
and has run out of manholes flooding
various parts of the town. The Con
solidated Tank Line company's
yards are flooded from the latter
source and other floods of q similar
character are expected in lower places of
the town. Very little actual damage
has been done as yet and no great dam
age is anticipated unless the Missouri
waters should rise more than three feet
above the present stage.
A dispatch from Atchison, Kan. SAYS:
The Missouri river is now two feet higher
at this point than it has been at any
other time this season. Farms on the
side were submerged last night.
Wheat fields will be a total loss. Water
is also pouring across Doniphan point, a
neck of land opposite Doniphan, Kan.
This neck stood the test Of the flood of
1881, when the river was nine feet higher
than 10Y No fear is entertained that it
will cut through this time. Southeast
or Atchison the land is falling into the
ny the acre.
Leavenworth also reports high water
and the i%nundation of much valuable
lands and the destruction of crops. No
damage has been done in the city.