Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-06-11
Great Many People Drowned
at North Topeka, Kan.
Property Losses Will Amount
to Millions of Dollars.
Rivers at Kansas City and Topeka Are
FaIIIng-Scarcity Of Food Is the
Worst Feature of the SItu-
alton AT Present-Ap-
peal for Help.

Topeka, Kan, June 4.-The Kansas
river is rapidly falling. In few
more days the work of rehabilitating
North Topeka may begin. The stu
alton may be summarized thus:
At p. IN. Wednesday the river had
fallen four feet.
Total number of known dead %;
unidentified dead five; reported
dead 60.
Commercial club will accept all Of
fered help.
Depth of river is yet % feet, which
is seven feet above highest ever
known previously.
Gov. Bailey has issued a procla-
nation calling for help and asking
that contributions be sent to William
Sims, treasurer.
The general relief fund has passed
$4,000.
The Elks' fund has passed $4,000.
The fund in the hands of the gov
ernor now amounts to $500.
All who are held in buildings in
North Topeka are safe and comfort
able. No one in the flooded district
is in danger. The homeless are being
well cared for.
Over 200 deputies are guarding
property in North Topeka.
The only railroads operating out
of Topeka are the Missouri Pacific,
south, and the Santa Fe, west.
Topeka, Kan, June 5.-The bodies
of seven more flood victims were
found Thursday. The list of known
dead now reaches II, with 80 people
identified. 1t is believed that many
bodies are yet in the wreckage.
Scores of persons are reported miss
ing. The Union Pacific depot has
been improvised as a morgue and
there the bodies are gathered to
await identification.
The river yesterday fell 10 inches.
This makes drop of over five feet
from the high water mark.
North Topeka is a total wreck. The
water is still over greater part of
the town. In the residence districts
it is seven feet deep in most places.
The business part of the town is
| sorrowful looking place. The
fronts of most stores have openings
broken through. The contents of
most of the stores are ruined. The
currents came rushing through with
such force that they upset counters
| and boxes and whatever goods came
in their way and dragged the goods
stored high on the shelves into the
| water.
In nearly every building which was
not washed away the contents are
! piled in a heap and over all there is a
slime of fine sand mixed with a little
mud. This deposit varies from few
| inches to two or three feet.
The greatest difficulty now exists
in the wretched sanitary conditions.
| The health board is busy with the
problem of sanitation and efforts to
| prevent an epidemic. To this end
stringent regulations are being en-
forced.
Topeka, Kan, June 6.-The dead
in the Topeka flood now number rs.
| 4 boatman Friday afternoon reported
that seven bodies had been found
near the north end of Harrison
street. The unfortunates were:
Mrs. Jessie Shaw and four children.
\ man and woman named Skunk
werter, all from Sherry.
! The water has now receded over six
| feet and is going down an inch every
/ hour. In the part of town north and
west of the Rock Island railroad the
] damage has been very great. The
/ houses were mostly small and felt
! the full force of the current. The
! yards were swept clean of outbuild-
! ings and many of the houses turned
/ a quarter of the way around and par
! tally slipped from their foundations.
! The greater part of North Topeka is
| a great waste of sand. which is piled
up over the streets. house floors and
railroad tracks, burying the city to n
/ depth of two or three and in some
places four feet.
| Generous responses are being made
/ to the appeals for aid. From all over
/ the country telegrams are coming
/ authorizing the officers here to draw
on various organizations for funds.
Kansas City. Mo. June THE Mis-
souri, river fell seven inches yester-
| day and the Kansas river fell nine
| inches in the same time. Militiamen
and police still guard all approaches
to the flooded district and soldiers
halt pedestrians in the residence
streets late at night. Seven street
car lines are in operation. The city
waterworks began pumping late last
night Railroads are still giving in
complete service, but are repairing
| waShouts.
! The reports Of heavy loss of life
/ in Kansas City, Kan are not true
and the stories Of bodies lying in the
drift there ore unfoundcd The loss
Of property has not been oycresti-
The Textile WORKERS. strike.
Philadelphia, june G.-There were
no important developments Friday in