The Red Cloud chief., 1892-05-20
THE KAW ON A BOOM
Argentine and Armourdale, Kan-
Feeling It's Effects.
BRIDGE At EUDORA SWEPT AWAY.
Fears Entertnincd NJ Lawrence That the
Dam May Go-The Mississippi River
at 50. Louis Passed the
Danger Line.


KANSAS CrrY, Mo-. May 1.-The Mis-
souri, was at a standstill almost all of
yesterday. From Z o'clock a. m. until
3 p. n. the rise by the government
gauge was Just one and eighteenth
inches A reading of the gauge at 5
o'clock showed exactly the same stage,
the river being stationary.
Signal Service Observer Conner does
not anticipate a fail in the stream in
the immediate future. Adviccs from
above show considerable area of rain
fall. The Kansas and the Platte are
pouring In great volumes Of water.
The Mississippi river is high and the
Missouri cannot relieve itself by rapid
discharge into the Father of Waters.
Harlem is in q condition OF %perturba-
ton. The town Is threatened with
inundation. The water IL not spread
over a wide area, like II was last year.
but there are sloughs in the vicinity of
the place filed with water. There Is
but little travel On the ferry in con-
sequence Of bad roads. The water In
some places along the sloughs in the
bottom will touch the stomach OF n
horse. Some people are leaving Har-
lem and others getting ready to leave.
The packing house of Kingan & Co.
was in n perilous position Mt !
o'clock this morning. The waters
OF the Kaw were every moment threat
ening to find their way into the
basement Of the big packing house.
At that time 100 men were at work hur-
riedly removing the contents Of the
basement to u place Of safety, while
four teams and fifteen men were busy
hauling cinders from the desiccating
works to build q dam around the base
ment 10 keep out the rising water.
The flood had risen to a depth Of six
inches In the hog pen and nothing was
between It and the basement save the
wall Of cinders being built. Eight
!. special w%atchmen were also busy with
|, lanterns watching at all points the ris-
, ing food.
, II general rains continue a day or two
, longer-and the weather man says they
/. will-therc are going to be excavations
In Harlem, Argentine, portions of Ar
: mourdale and Kansas City, Kan.
[ North Argentine, a thickly populated
a portion Of the Town occupying the bot
, tom land just beyond the Santa Fee
yards, was n sight worth seeing yester.
. day. A strip Of ground ten acres in
area, on which were a number Of houses
. occupied, was made an island by the
r swollen Knw breaking its bank,
q cutting a channel across the main
land and joining the main stream
again near the old county bridge.
. This break flooded u row of twelve
d houses on the principal street in tina,
@ portion of the town, and the water
spreading out over the level shut off
v number Of other dwellings and the Ar
d gcntine electric light and watcrworlk,
4 from all communication except by boat
These houses are occupied mostly by
Q colored families and on ordinary occa
O sions the distance from the neares
% house TO the river bank Is 900 feet. Yes
v terday skifYs were kept busy all day re
a moving household effects from the up
" per windows. Heavy furniture tina
Y could not be removed by such mean
" was left to take its chance with tn
muddy waters.
Al OTHER PLACES
r. TOPEKA, Kan, May 1.-THE Kansa
y river at this point rose three feet be
r. tween 8 o'clock last night and o o'clocl
m this morning. At II o'clock this morn
,e ing II was rising Mt the rate Of one an,
% threc-tenths inches per hour. The Rus
* sian colony on the north side of tow
have been forced to leave for highe
" ground and their entire possessions ar
20 under water.
Up OMAHA. Neb., May H.-Thc Missouri
n river IL thirteen feet above low waite
In mark and rising rapidly. 1t has Gu
away 100 acres of land on h ives
bank four miles above the city end
~ within fifty feet Of Florence lake. II tn
at river should rise another foot 1t vii
ut break into it's old channel and swee
nd down through what is known as II
lis nah. and do hundreds of thousands G
dollars worth Of damage and woul
leave the manufacturing suburbs G
at Omaha On M island.
he KANSAS CITY, Kan, May 18th
Of Kaw river is higher than it has bee
to since 1881, md was still rising at a lat
ep hour this morning. The low land
he along It's course are flooded and grca
re damage is being done to property.
I'm In Armonrdale much damage Is bein
he lone TO property. Many houses III
at half under water and families are v;
nd eating them. No less than fifty familis
RS in Armourdale have been forced to VI
cate their homes.
in A dozen families living on the flats c
RIM the west bank of the Kaw, betwec
els Central and Splitlog in kans'
'er CITY, Kan, were compelled to lea'
their dwellings and their goods we
in taken out in boats me skiffs. The fla
in are occupied by about TWENTY-FIVE sma
dwellings,.
pa LAWRENCE, Kan. May 1.-THE la
'ay sas river at this point is he highest
m has been since the 40's and is still RI
ret ing. Fully ten feet Of water is pouriI
IN over the dam and fears are entertain'
ION that the dam will 60 out. IL 1t sIou
10 IL will certainly take Bowersock's mil
OF with IL and also cause the bridge tn
rk' spans the river just above to go with
ing ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE river at
m. passed the danger line n is st
on rising. Where the end will be no o