The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-05
Kansas City Is Emerging from
Water aud Mud.
Men in Rubber Boots Scrub Ont
Union Station.
BUT s DEAD FOUND.
Loss Of Life Is Far Below What
Mas Expected.
Wreckege Is Loosened and Al
lowed to Drift Away.


Kansas City, No, June 5.zr<e rivers
here are now falling as rapidly as they
rose before the flood The Missouri has
fallen a foot and nine inches in the
past a hours. and at o'clock this
morning the government gauge regis
tered 81. The Kaw fell nearly two feet
in the same time. BY Saturday noon
the platform of the union depot. the
high point will likely be partially
above water.
Permanent wire communication was
opened up between the two Kansas
Citys today for tae first time since sun
day, and this Will aid wonderfully in
the work of restoring order
The several hundred refugees from
ArmOurdale and otner districts who
have been housed in Convention hall
were removed today to tents in the
southern portion of the city because Of
the .unsanitary condition OF the hail.
Kansas City, Mo, June with the
rapid falling of the rivers business is
resuming its normal condition The wa
terworks are pumping black water from
the Kansas river, not tit to drink and
the danger from fire is over The fire
underwriters met today and issued a
statement expressing satisfaction with
conditions. Eleven street car lines are
in operation. Telephone and telegraph
connection viii be established between
the two Kansas Cities, today lines be-
ing stretched across the ruins of the
James street bridge.
Gangs OF railroad repairers follow
close upon the heels of the flood and the
tracks are being cleared of mud where
covered and brought to grade where
washed out. The water has left the
floor of the Union depot Men in rub
Der boots arc working in the depot put
ting the building in order.
At the stock yards 1900 hogs and 800
cattle were drowned. A force of me-
began to12- to remove the carcasseS
where lodged in drift. The current
through the stock Yards district flows
ten miles an hour. This makes it diff
cult to get about, the water being still
deep, but the stream carries away the
refuse PROMPTLY
In the wholesale and packing house
districts of the west bottoms the scene
is even more depressing than yesterday
The water is not so swift, but additional
buildings have fallen, and the lowering
OF the flood has exposed heaps of ruin.
In some places men with poles are
lOosening the heaps of Wreckag e, to let
it drift away. This is the easiest way
of clearing the streets. Fires viii prob
ably be built to destroysthe rubbish that
is left when the water disappears All
the wooden buildings in the west bot
toms and many of the brick structures
are lettering.
Reports that the Burlington bridge APP
breaches are washed away are untrue. The
bridge and trestle are uninjured and an
Associated Press reporter walked to The
station in Harlem today. the embankment
being washed out only in one place 100
yards wide and here the rails and tics
hung together and bridged the gap. IIar-
lem village, protected by the Burlington
embankment IS in still water ia the
masses of dIiftwo0d on the Clay county
side OF this bridge
Not one body has been found by the men
who are hauling the timber ashore. nor
have they seen any bodies. At this place
bodies
their non-existence makes it likely that
the total list of dead will not be great or
much over eight. the number now au-
thent.catea.
Most of the missing persons have been
heard from
The Missouri river is running strong
through the Clay county bottoms and
rivermen still believe the channel viii stay
there. In front of the west bottoms the
Kansas river is taking its old course ard
there is no fear that the channel viii
change.