The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-14

ting away of the bank
At IL O'Clock Saturday night the
way bridge was carried out and the
bridge sank about three feet at that
point. heavily loaded car had start
ed across the bridge from the north side.
The motOrman was keeping a sharp
lookout. He saw that something was
wrong and stopped the car He took
the headlight and went forward. He
found the bridge had s;sgged three feet,
and was unsupported by piling. Had
the car gone on the weakened place it
would have gone down. The street cars
are now running to the bridge at each
end, and transfers are being given
People have to walk across the wagon
bridge.
The water and gas mains are laid un-
der the ties of the street railway bridge.
Th1S-mornlng the water main was in
tact and Superintendent Jesse Shaw
said that he did not believe there was
any danger of the main breaking.
Should the main break North Topeka
would be. left without water. The gas
main sprung leak when the city rail-
way bridge was weakened and Sunday
many houses in North Topeka were
without gas. At IL o'clock this morn
ing the report was received from the
pumping station three miles west of To-
peka that according to the gauge there
since Sunday afternoon.
Sunday afternoon about o'clock
wooden bridge about so feet long came
down the river with large tree JAM
med against it, The bridge had been
carried out of some smaller stream west
of Topeka by the tree striking it. The
men working on the city railway bridge
got it through but for awhile it looked
as If the street car bridge might go with
it. -
Little Russia" is now practically de-
serted. The water is over the floors of
nearly all the houses there and is dan
gerously near the store house of the In
ter-Ocean mills. Sunday noon calf on
a little knoll in Little Russia was
surrounded by several feet of water The
calf. however, was high and dry al
though it's escape was cut off. The Up
degraff farm on the north side three
miles west of Topeka is now well under
water.
At noon today Manhattan reports that
the Blue river is rapidly falling.
FILLS NORTH TOPEKA SEWERS.
The high water has filled the sewers
and at Kious and Madison streets, in
North Topeka, the water from the sewer
is running out of the manholes and
over the street All the sewer mouths
in the river are several feet under water.
The higher the water is in the river the
further back the water in the sewers
is forced. This is the only report of the
sewers overfowing so far.
BRICK PLANT BRIDGE DAMAGED.
Sunday 7z feet of the approach to the
DT1ck pant DTiOSS west OIL Town was
carried out. The water washed the sand
away and then cut through the bed OF
the river below the ends of the piling
The Approach to the Sardou avenue
bridge on the north side is under water
for distance of 100 feet At the otheA
bridges the water is cutting away the
banks and approaches and considerable
dan age may yet be done
DAMAGE AT WOLFFoS
At the Wolff Packing co1npany's plant
the floors of some of the work rooms
are under water. The pumps have been
at work constantly, but the rise of the
river was so great that the water in
the cellar could not be kept down and
Sunday the water crept up over the
floors in several places. The plant is
still running but the water troubles the
workmen.
REPAIRS AT LAKE VIEW.
Repairs on the Lake View washOut
of the Santa Fe were continued through
Sunday and are under way yet today.
A large force of workmen was on duty
there Sunday getting out material ana
early in the afternoon a train load Oh
rails and bridge timbers was sent down
Manager Nudge followed on a special
train Division Superintendent McCle1-
Ian and Trainmaster Austin have been
there since the trouble began The Colo
rado flyer, the fast mail and No. /, the
California express, have been running
over the Union Pacific tracks from Kan
sas City to Topeka, all more or less
There will be about 240 feet of track to
repair at Lake View and two pile
drivers are kept working there all the
time 1t is thought that possibly by
(Coutinued on Sixth Pa2A3