Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-30
A MIGHTY FLOOD.
The Missouri River on the
Rampage.
Highest Water Since the Mem
orable Flood of 81.
The Lower Portions of Kansas City
Badly Inundated.
Much Damage Done at st. Joe and in the
Vicinity of Atchison and Leav-
enwprth = The River
Still Rising.
Associated Press Dispatches.

KANSAS Cry, June 29.-The Missouri
river at this point is at dangerously
high stage. The water is the highest 1t
has been since the great flood OF 1881,
hut still lacks several feet of that years
record. Nevertheless, much damage has
been done and much more is feared, as
the cities above report a higher stage OF
water than here. At O'Clock this
evening the water registered three feet
above high water mark. The water is
rising steadily one inch an hour, and
will probably rise two or three feet more
in the next day or two. Parts OF
Harlem, hamlet just across the
river, are already submerged.
About twenty-five families have
left their homes, taking their
household goods, and are camping on
high ground. All the farms along the
river are submerged, and crops ruined.
The embankment OF the Hannibal and
st. Joe read approaches the river at
right angles across from this city. This
embankment mas acted as sort of levee
and protected the vast extent OF river
bottom below it from the flood. Some
fears are expressed that the embank-
ment NAV not be able to withstand the
pressure. Should it give way much val
liable land will be submerged, including
the track Of the Kansas City racing as
sociation. In view of this emergency
the horses which had been stabbed there
have been removed to places OF safety.
On this side the river, the high water
has backed up the waters OF the kaw,
which empties into the Missouri at this
place. The back waters have submerged
much of the lowlands, and one 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 run out of the man.
holes, flooding various parts OF the town.
AT ST. JOSEPH.
A dispatch from st. Joseph says: The
river has risen steadily since Saturday
morning. At noon today it was within
sixteen inches OF the highest point
reached ten years ago. The residents
of French bottom, north of this city, are
in a state of alarm, and many are pre-
pairing to move. If the river should
overflow the French bottoms it is ex-
pected new channel will be cut, leav-
ing many farms on an island and di-
verting the main stream from the Kan
sas shore, two miles west. If the
present rise continues twenty-four hours
the stock yards and hundreds of homes
in South St. Joseph will be inundated.
The situation is serious to the packing
interests as well as to hundreds OF small
farmers on the low lands The Bur
lington tracks on the river front In the
city have been strengthened by plling
and rock to prevent serious washouts.
AT ATCHIsoN.
A dispatch from Atchison, Kan, says +:
The Missouri river is two feet higher
here than it has been this season. Farms
on the Missouri side were submerged
last night The wheat fields will be a
total loss. The water is also pouring
across Doniphan point, neck OF land
opposite Doniphan, Kan. This neck
stood the flood OF 1881, when the river
was nine feet higher than now. No fear
is entertained that it will cut through
this time. South OF East Atchison the
land is falling into the stream by the
acre.
AT LEAVENwORTH.
Leavenworth also reports very high
water, the inundation of much valuable
farm land, and the destruction of crops.
No damage has been done in the city.