The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-06-02

| o'N6oo hoFluS ueeu WaThou Out W.
tween Kansas City and Ellsworth
aud many miles of track being under
water. Every Western road enter
ing Kansas City is affected.
SITUATION SUNDAY NIGHT.
Topeka, Kas., May 31.-There is
ground for hope that the worst has
passed. Tonight City Engineer Nc
Cable issued bulletin giving out the
cheering intelligence that the waters
of the Kansas river had subsidized 7 1.2
inches. With IT'S or 200 lives lost,
$6,OO0,OO0 of property destroyed, with
hundreds of pistol shots as signals of
distress, blended with the agonizing
cries of unwilling inhabitants of tree
tops and roofs Of houses aud the wa.
ters creeping upward and then slowly
subsiding and alternately changing
hope to despair, the capital CITY has
passed the most memorable Sabbath
day Of its existence. Through all
this discomfiting condition of affairs
was added the presence of cold,
dismal ram.
The arduous work of the heroic
rescuers was not abated in the least
by the conditions which confronted
them. For long, dreary hours, knee
deep in water and sometimes i'm water
up to their necks, they worked with
might and main. Tonight they can
point to 300 or more rescued persons
who otherwise might have been swept
away in the current.
Leading men have made careful
examination Of the food and all it's
conditions and as result of their in
vestigation they give $50 as the prob
able number of lives lost. A more
conservative estimate places the mum.
ber of dead at 175.
The estimated number of dead
does not include the large number
classed rs missing, who cannot other
wise be accounted for Neither does
it include the number who are sup
posed to have lost their lives in the
fire
1t will be at least three days before
the correct number of dead will be
known. The work of rescuing the
victims of the flood is being pushed
with vigor. Better results have
characterized the efforts of the or
ganized forces since 4 o'clock this
afternoon than during the preceding
"a hours. Two little steam launches
are now putting up and down the
river picking up survivors. A train
load Of small boats was in use today,
but they were useless IN battling
against the mighty current. A wire
cable has besn stretched across the
Kansas avenue bridge. To this will
be attached a sand dip and refugees
will be brought across in this. II the
flood shall not rise further and those
not yet reached can keep their places
a few hours longer there need not
necessarily be- Il much larger loss of
life.
Large contributions have already
been received for the benefit of the
sufferts.
The amount given by Topeka cit.
liens alone will aggregate 100000.
70 this is to be added an immense
quantity of clothing, provisions and
general supplies. Outside towns have
generously offered aid, notably among
which III Galveston, Tex.
Tonight tho portion of Topeka not
affected by the food is crowded with
refugees.
There il great anxiety tonight as
to what to morrow will bring forth
If the river shall not receive any
more flood water west of here the
Improvement in the situation here
will be marked If the water shall
rise at Manhattan and Wamego to
morrow will see repetition of th
worst flood scenes and the distres
here will bo greatly intensified
Either contingency is entirely within
1 the range of possibility.
AT KANSAS CITY.
, Kansas City, Mo-, May 31'-Witl
the waters of the Kaw and Missouri