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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
THE CITY IS WITHOUT
ANY WATER SUPPLY

Kansas City. Mo. May 3.--With
the XIV and Missouri rivers
nearly four feet above the dis
astroGs level Of 1851, and their swollen
tide spread over T. square miles Of the
city and it's suburbs Kansas City tonight
is in the worst food of its history. In
the valley Of tho Kav. or Kansas river,
between this city ana Kansas City, kans.,
report has it 1oat d number of lives
has been lost one report says fourteen,
and another nifty. Twelve bodies were
counted as they noated past during the
day
TIE financial loss has been increasing
all DAY and bids fair to continue The
heaviest loss is at Armourdale, where
he losses TO the packing industry and
I others is placed conseryatively at 5000.
100 Argentine, another suburb. has suf-
Tered losses estimated at $4,000. Other
losses which cannot now be estimated
Will increase the total very materially
Armourdale, with population of 5000
people is deserted and its site marked
only by the tops OF buildings and mum
Der oc fires
Tie refugees from Armourdalo for the
most pa1t are huddlcd together in the i'm
lueuee auditorium OF the convention hall
although several hundred found refuge
with friends in more fortunate parts OF
the city T~o-thirds of Argentine Is I'M
der wafer More than $500 people In
! ,hie suburb found safety in the higher
part 81 the town
All bridges over the Kaw river are
down. and the only communication with
Armourdale is by boat
Kansas City tonight Is without a water
supply the food having disabled the
pumping station, and the utmost care is
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
STORM HITS ATLANTA HARD.

One death, three Ares, the disruption Of
the street car system and the Gripping
OF the telephone electric light. telegraph
and police signal systems, were the more
serious results OF the storm which visit
ed Atlanta yesterday afternoon.
Miss Lula Higgins, who boarded
at 721 Marietta street, while eating
It collation. on the back veranda at
that number, was struck by light
ming and almost instantly killed.
The Georgia Avenue Presbyterian
church, which was located at the cor
ner CT Georgia avenue and Grant
street, was struck in two places by
lightning and was burned TO the
ground.
The residence of E. D. Nealy, 376
Georgia avenue, which adjoined the
church, was badly damaged by fire
The residence of Mrs. Nera Strauss
391 Grant street, which also adjoined
the church, was also badly damaged
by fire.
Thirty-eight trolley cars of the Geor-
gia Railway and Electric Company had
their fuses burned out and became in
operative. Four others were derailed by
sand and mud being washed upon the
track. The entire system was disrupted
for about two hours.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
MISSISSIPPI FEARS CUT WORM
Crop Outlook in Delta Section Now
Very Gloomy.

Jackson, Miss, May S.-(SpeciaI.)-R
ports reach here from the delta that cut
worms have destroyed thousands Of acres
OF cotton IN that section during the past
week.
The ravages OF the worms have been
especially bad in Issaquena county. The
warden of the penitentary received no
tice from the sergeant Of the Watson
convict farm last night that 400 acres ot
state cotton had been destroyed by the
worms and replanting Of the entire tract
Will be necessary. The sergeant states
in his letter that the other farmers in
the vicinity are in the same plight
The outlook in this section is quite
gloomy A portion Of the county was
overfiowed during the break in the levee
below Greenviile. and farming opera
lions were thus made from four 10 SIX
weeks later than last year. Fully two
weeks will be lost by the replantinE and
unless there Is late fall this year the
crop will undoubtedly be cut short
The delta planters have a record, how
ever for never making a total failure
of the cotton crop, and as the acreage
has been somewhat increased this season,
conditions are now favorable for a nor
nal crop unless there should be spread
of the cut worms to other counties.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01

Topeka. Kans, May 81 eu2 Rain
mas been falling for two hours I'D this
has had a tendency TO check the fires
IN the dwellings.
Absolutely no reliable estimate Of
the lives lost can be made for the
reason that the flooded district can
not be traversed It s at least two
hundred, and may be larger than
this. People We're cooped up in their
houses and could not escape from the
fire or flood.
II there IS no further rise In the river
tonight it is possible for a large number
Of the beleaguered people to be rescued
Boats have been telegraphed for ana
train load viii arrive in q few hours from
Ottawa and others from Emporia. 1t
will be impossible before daylight to
make really reliable report about the
extent Of the damage. Almost superhu-
man efforts have been made to rescue
those remaining. nat tl.n task has oeen
too great for the facilities at hand.
Fire chef Wilmarth says that the fire
on the cast side eli Kansas avenue, In
North Topeka. is rapidly taking Tho re
manning buildings. The fire is going to-
ward me wind ana this will serve to
check its progress. but there is so much
burning wreckag e floating about that the
destruction of the remaining houses IS re
garded as certain. People on the roofs Of
houses ire yet heard calling ffanticaAy
for help. il is said that two boats loaded
with people were swampcd and that 4
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
DUPONT GUERRY CHOSEN.
SUCCEEDS DR.. ROBERTS AS IVES
LEYAN'S HEAD.
His Election Is Received with Ap-
proval by the Friends Of the
Great Institution.

Macon, Ga, May % CspeciaI)-Hon.
Dupont Query. Of Macon. succeeds Or
Roberts IS president Of Wesleyan Female
college. and will assume active manage
ment of that institution at the end of
the present week
The vote which made Colonel Guerrv
president was taken at O'Clock. and at
5 o'clock Colonel Query sent the board
a letter accepting the position.
Twcnty-three votes were cast. and or
that number twenty-five wore for the col
onel
Election Gives Satisfaction.
The election of Colonel Query has met
with the fun free and emphatic indorse-
ment Of the people here All Macon is
satisfied THAT the board has done wisely
and has done we'll His aptabnity to the
work before him is universally conceded
while his capabilities to faithfully and
successfully discharge the duties are In
dorsed by all
The salary Of the president MT WESLEYAN
has been $1,000 year and living at the
college. During the session Of the board
today the salary was Increased. but the
figures now in effect are not given out
the members of the board asserting that
that is a matter with which the people
have nothing to do.
Faculty Mem bers Elected.
The election Of the faculty and officers
for the ensuing year resulted SIS follows:
James c. Hinton. AN, dean Of the
faculty. LOWE Pierce chair of mathemat-
les and astronomy
Rev. w B. Bonnen. M, secretary Of
the faculty, chair OF natural science
Rev Charles r. Foster, A NJ, chair OF
ancient languages.
Daniel Koets An. chair of modern
languages
Mrs. J. B. Cobb, An, chair of English
literature.
Miss Emily NJ Allen, ABB. rhetoric
Mrs M NJ. Burke, ABB, history
MISS Eloise Pickett, Al b, principal of
academy.
Miss Anna Pittman Prosser, drawing
and painting,
I3douard Hesselberg, AM. MA, NIB.
director of music.
Miss F. Eva Massey, ABB. NIB, piano
Miss May HOLSTER. plano, guitar and
mandolin
Miss Ira Van Metre. piano.
Miss Marie l.. Skidmore Conner, violin,
harmony theory. history of music.
Miss Sallie Turner, voice culture.
Miss Florence e. Ramsey, voice cul-
ture.
Miss Charlotte M Brown, elocution and
Miss carrie L. Miller, bookkeeping
Miss Annie L. Lyle, stenography and
typeWriting.
Mrs NJ NJ Burke. librarian.
Miss Annie e. Lyle, secretary to the
president.
Miss Carrie L. Miller. bookkeeper.
ctp I'd
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
ALL RAILROADS ABANDON
THE LINES IN THE CITY

Des Moines. Iowa. May St.-Eight au-
thenticated fatalities have occurred in and
about this city from the hood. and the
property loss Will mount into the millions
At o'clock tonight Des Noines rive:
had declined IA inches from its ma Ximum
height Of q feet early this morning. Not
outstanding the steady rain that has
fallen for three days it is believed dan
ger Of further rise is past. reports
from points above Dcs Moines say the
river has been fallin6 for twenty-four
hours. The extent of suffering among the
several thousand Hood refugees has been
reduced to minimum by the better or
ganizaton of relief work and now they
are nearly all free from extreme suffer
ing.
The few remaining levees wiD hold.
The river continues 10 be from hair
mile to two miles wide however. effect
ually cutting off communication between
the main part Of Des Moires from the
east, north and south. IL ~-.ter IS flled
witi debris and boating r oerous II will
be several days before the RAJ ways VIII
resume schedules OF the street railway
can operate. The police report thieves in
boats are plundcring stocks Of merchan-
disc In the business district 10 an alarm
ing extent and several arrests have been
made One officer had battle with a ron
Der who escaped Neither was wounded.
Not wheel Is turning IN the factory
district and no effort is made to open
business houses. The Great Western Wa
bash and Burlington roads have com
pletely abandoned their lines u this city
and the Northwestern, Rock Island and
St Paul roads are very badly crippled
The water ana electric Light and power
plants are still running but It is only by
the employment Of several hundred men
to man pumps and work on the lcrees.
FOR over two days it has rained constant
~ and the mercury has stood close to
the freezing point
Scores OF men women and children have
spent hours a a time in soaking wet gar
ments, sitting on the roofs Of their homes
awaiting the arrival Of reseuers The iast
Of these was removed al 10 O'Clock. More
fatalities viii result from exposure than
from drowning
This afternoon the relief authorities
announced that they were confronted with
a food and fuel famine Meat markets all
over tine city declare they have only two
or three days stock on hand. There is
no train entering the city and no pros
nect Of getting a shipment Of freight INTO
Des MOnes in less than three or four
aud the light ard power plant and the
waterwor)lS have an insufficient supply.
Notice was sent 10 every resident in tie
city to ORA " an extra supply OF water to
provide against the closing Of the plant
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
CYCLONE IN LOUISIANA.

welsh, La May 31.-At s o'clock last
night q cyclone started about miles
south Of here and swept everything be-
fore II for a distance Of miles
The two-story house Of E. Carroll
a wealthy farmer, with all the outbuld-
ings and barns, was completely wrecked
ed Burgess. hired man, who came
from Crystal River, Fla. was killed. and
Carroll and his wife seriously injured
Their daughter was slightly Injured
1t Is reported THAI two white men and
n negro were killed by lightning west Of
this Mace
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
ARKANSAS RIVER OUT OF BANK

Muskoeee, Ind T. May 3l.-The flood
condition is growing serious. Tho Arkan-
sas river tonight is out Of its banks ana
lowlands are Hooded The river is now
even with the tracks Of the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas bridge 1t has been
raining all day and th@e is no lmme-
date prospect of relief
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01

day The names Of the drowned cannot
be given tonight. as it is impossible to
ascertain the correct number of victims.
VIII Wrisht, who manned one Of the
boats. told of the death of mother and
child which nc witnessed. and which so
affected him that he could not continue
his work. His story is as follows:
Il was iust returning with a woman and
two children from house near North and
Harrison streets. IS | was coming back
IN Van Buren, street woman with \
child climbed out on to the porch and
attempted to get into the boat The small
boat | had was filled TO its capa ety, and
it would nave been impossible for me t.
have done anything II had tried. The
woman was swept away in the current
before my eyes
The insane asylum IS very near the river
on the south side. ana on account Of tho
rapidly rising water it is not improbable
The whole institution may have u be
abandoned before morning. The asylum is
composed Of ten buildings. and is the big
gcst public institution in the state, with
about !. 00O inmates
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
LOWELL MILLS MAY RESUME.

Lowell, Mass, May 26.-It was officially
announced here today that an attempt
would be made TO resume operations at
the cotton mills here on June 1 The mills
were shut down on Saturday, March %
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01

PREDICTS CONTINUED
RISE TIT THE RTV

PREDICTS CONTINUED
RISE III THE RIVER 4
St. Louis, May Weather !
Forecaster Bowie, of the St {
Louis bureau, has predicted a
continued rise III the Missouri
and Mississippi rivers and has .
sent warnings to various points ,
threatened along those streams.
From reports already received, ,
it is feared the conditions that
prevailed during the great flood
Of 1881 may be repeated.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
bubonic Plague Appears.

Santiago de Chill, May IS 1t is rumor-
ed that the bubonic plague has appeared
at the seaport Of IQutque.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
TWENTY SEVEN WENT DOWN
WITH THE RAILROAD BRIDGE

Kansas City, June IA message
to The Times from Kansas City,
Kans., by way Of Leavenworth, at 2
o'clock this morning says:
''Twenty-seven men were on the
Union Pacific bridge, which spanneo
the Kansas river, when it went down,
and all Of the men were drowned.
1T is said that many persons
saw the helpless men drown"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
IN AN INFERNO OF FIRE and WATER
T., .~sA0REDS OF KANSAHS MEET Death

G. H. GARRETT'S 5-YEAR-OLD
SON.
TWENTY BODIES UNIDENTI-
FLED.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01

Missouri national guard, 900 strong, was
ordered out both as precautionary
measure and to stop lootlng,
FIFTEEN DROWNED IN
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-06-01
NORTH TOPEKA a SCENE OF
nIIL 1rrrMO cr n1zcr,12 ITirfI,T q N


Every part Of North Topeka is
scene Of utmost dcsolauou Not
square foot of land can be seen In amy
direction this Afternoon. rnere is but
q small chance OF amy of the residences
being lert standing at The end ofethe heQd
period. Sherry Oakland and tao region
about the reform school north Of North
Topeka arc ali under the rushing ~aier
bnt the situation Is favorable IN these
places compared with what west North
Topeka is undergoing. The plan of cry
ing t. cross the river near what remains
OF Kansas avenue bridge mas been aoan-
doued.
Nearly all the fires have been put out
by he rain which mas fallen nearly AN
night tne sky Is overcast and the ram
bids Ialr to continue all day. 1t was
soon recognized that row boats would oe
OF no use in bathing with the currents.
TIE AWFUL WORK OF
NORTH TOPEKA FLOOD
Briefly stated the present condition Of
the food is this
One hundred and seventy TO two
hundred people drowned
Eigth thousand people without
homes.
Four million dollars worth Of
property destroyed
Identified dead 6ive
Floating bodies seen. twenty.
People missing, two hundred.
Houses burnt, result of fire from
Stacking lime, probably two hundred,
Banks Collapsed, two.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01

Theodore Roosevelt, he was intemper-
ate enough to say that Mr. Jefferson
'swas perhaps the most Incapable ex-
ecutive that ever filled the presiden-
tough on the author Of the declaration
of independence, the man who ac-
Quired the Louisiana territory, who
was twice president, who was found
er Of the University Of Virginia, and
whose teachings have ever been the
ibulwark of popular government in this
country as against the rule Of the
classes. Mr. Roosevelt seems not only
to be an iconoclast, but of late years
he seems to have become a painfully
agmatic preacher. He defends and
prOclaims the automatic at the slight
est provocation. He is showing a re-
prehensfble tendency to lecture the
public on self-evident propositions,
and to do with a suspicion Of sensa-
tlonal purpose, as. notably, in his
1SoAhst IdCe-SulClue inlA his
recent sermon on decent living. The
people of this country, if I am any
Judge of everyday human nature, do
not like to be lectured They think
they know what they want and how
to get it when they want it. That is
one of the reasons why Grover Cleve-
land lost popularity while in the white
mouse. 1t Mr. Roosevelt will continue
IN his present course he will very apt
~ Illustrate the point of Tom Reed S
sarcastic saying: What 1 like about
Roosevelt is his enthusiasm over his
own discovery of the ten command
ments.'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01

Since Mr. Roosevelt became presi-
dent of the United States and has been
in the limeHght, the people of the
country who want to keep up with
the times and keep themselves posted
ON all the things that can he said for
and against man in public life, have
been reading the many books that
have been written by the fecund pen
of the man who now occupies the
highest office in the nation. Some of
the students of this city, says our
Washington correspondent, have found
that popularity of Roosevelt's writ
ings is that he has had very few kind
words to say of any man who ever oc-
cupied a high place in this country,
that on the contrary he has lambasted
the life out of most of them. Take
for instance, his opinion of Thomas
Jefferson, expressed in his Naval
War OF 1872 In volume II. page
19s. Of that work from the pen Of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01

Speaking Of the designing of cup
racers a writer in the Engineering
Magazine says that entirely apart
from the matter of lines, the hull con-
struction of a modern racing yacht is
special study very closely allied to
bridge engineering. The hulls of the
old yachts, even including the Puritan
and Mayfiower, may be compared to a
plain box of solid boards, deriving its
strength solely from the thickness of
the wood and the size and number of
nails; the hull of a modern racing
yacht, small or large, is virtually a
floating bridge, subjected to far
greater variety of strains than any fix
ed structure on land, and deriving the
necessary strength within narrow linn
it's of weight solely from the high
quality of material and the complicat-
ed and elaborate system of trusting.
There is nothing in modern yachting
more remarkable than the capture
of an international trophy, the Sea-
wanhaka cup, in 1896, by two amateur
designers and builders located on an
isolated lake,N and the successful de-
tense of the cup in eight successive
matches; but both Of these men are by
profession engineers-bridge builders
and it is the successful application
of their professional knowledge to
yacht designing and practical match
sailing which has put them at the very
top among modern designers of small
craft, professional as well as amateur.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
Tn THE LADIES,

DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE
a woman made a short time ago. She
had nothing but damp wood to make
a fire to get breakfast; after a vain Eff
fort to kindle the fire the husband
threw pail of water into the f1rebox
of the stove and sought a restaurant
to get his breakfast. OF course he was
not in happy frame of mind; neither
was his wife anticipating happiness
on his homecoming. Always have a
bag Of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01

The leading feature of the demo-
cratic position just at present, says
one writer, is that the government IS
every day accommodating money that
it cannot use, and that to prevent
financial crash by reason of the ac-
emulation of this sum outside OF
trade channels, the treasury depart
ment is compelled to do something
with. it; that one of the ways of put
ting the money back into circulation
is to deposit it in national banks. An
other contention is that the placing of
this money in banks encourages over
speculation and the putting out of end7
less stocks of all kinds. 1t will be
claimed by the democrats that If the
banks are not burdened with money
they will not make loans on anything
except legitimate business, but if they
have plethora of funds, including
those of the government, they will
lend ON stocks that are not gilt-edged,
and thereby encourage over-specula-
ton and dangers that might menace
the business of the country. To sum
it up briefly, the democrats will say
that to get rid of this state of affairs,
instead of providing for easier meth
DDS of putting out government money,
the reformation of the tariff and the
reduction Of the government income
would be the best and safest plan, the
position being that there is plenty OF
money in the country. The republi-
cans are all tangled up on this money
business, and the democrats will take
advantage of their demoralized condi-
ton. 1t gives the democracy the
best possible opportunity of giving
the country an object lesson on the
blessings of tariff reduction as a
means of keeping all this surplus in
the pockets of the people, instead OF
fighting over plans for getting it back
to the people after taking it away
from them for the behoof of the trusts
and monopolies of the country.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-01
W AsHINGToN's STONE HOUSE
Will Be Feature OF the Mineral FIX
hibit at the Worlds Fair.

Will Be Feature OF the Mineral Elk
hibit at the Worlds Fair.
Building material found in the state
of Washington will be the basis for
unique display at the Universal expo
sition at St Louis in 1904 Washing
ton has an allotment of $500 square
feet in the Palace of Mines and Metal
aurgy, and in the center of this space
the building materials exhibit will be
made
A small but ornate structure will be
quilt in this space, and the other min
eral products will 'be displayed around
1T. The building will be constructed
of brick and stone. 1t will be 16 feet
square and IA feet high just as many
varieties of stone, brick and marble
from as many sections of the state as
can be secured will be included. The
blocks of stone will be dressed in diff
ferent ways to display the material to
best advantage. Some faces will be
polished, while others will be fooled
and others viii be left natural. Diff
ferent varieties of nodded brick and
different colors and styles of terra
Gotta will be placed about the top
wall
In spaces which may be designated
as blind windows, the marbles Of the
state will be shown. Inside the build
ing will be the office of the official in
charge of the building, and pamph-
lets descriptive of the building will be
issued. Besides the stones to be
shown in the building, every quarry
in the state will furnish eight-inch
cubes, uniform and similar in the
method of dressing.
Julian E. liter, the famous land
scape artist is painting q series of
large landscapes, which will be used
in decorating the walls of the Wash
ington state building. Artists say
that the Washington scenery exceeds
in diversity and rugged beauty that to
be found in any other country in the
world.
The Washington state building will
be one of the most unique and attract
i've on the plateau of the states. 1t
will be four stories high and built en-
tirely of timber from Washington.
Eight great timbers, "a inches square
and 100 feet long, rear their lengths
into the air in an unbroken piece, meet
ing in the center and forming the
supports after the fashion of the
great Indian wigwams. The stories
are each smaller than the one below 1T
and the roof for the final story takes
on pagoda form, giving the structure
| a Japanese appearance.
The great northwestern state will
make a splendid exhibit of her agri-
culture and horticulture products.