Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-30
Fifty thousand
People Homeless
Rendered So BY The Great Floods in Kansas, 5fSsour,
Nebraska and Oklahoma Fourteen Lives Lost Prop.
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lives. It Is estimated, have been lost;
fully $4,000 persons have been render
ed homeless and financial losses, in
Guiding damages 10 houses and stocks
washed away and railroad tracks and
bridges rendered useless, that will
amount high into the hundreds Of thou
sands Of dollars Us already resulted
! from the almost unprecedented floods
now raging in oklahoma, Indian Ter
ritory, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
and Iowa.
Lives are reported lost at the fol-
lowing points; Topeka, s. Des Mones,
4: Kansas city, /, Oklahoma city, /.
The homeless are estimated as follows
Topeka, 1000; various inter- Kansas
towns, $500, Kansas city, Kansas and
vicinity, $500 Des Molnes 5000; and
Nebraska points 1000. Thousands Of
persons, particularly at Topeka and
throughout Kansas, spent last night on
housetOps and hundreds az Des MOlnes
are without food and shelter.
Railway service west ana south from
Kansas is demoralized dozens Of
bridges, reaching as far west as Man
haitian, Kas,, have been washed out,
and many miles Of tracks are under
wter. Rain Is still falling in the south
west, and the weather bureau predicts
that the disastrous food records of 1881
viii be exceeded and that the worst is
TO come.
EAST Topeka AN ISLAND
Topeka, Kan, May 3O.-North Topeka,
with It's 1000 inhabitants, is an island
aud can be reached by boat alone.
Houses with the water below the sec
ond story windows are the exception In
the residence district. Three business
houses collapsed early today. They
had been deserted and no one was
hurt The jay Thomas planning mill
was destroyed by fire, started from
live wire Gas, water and electric
lights are shut OF while down Kansas
avenue, the main street, water Is pour
Ing in Il swift stream that at many
points would swim a horse. IL is i'm
possible TO estimate the damage The
river Is still rising, All night families
over the worst flooded portions roasted
on the roofs Of buildings and in upper
stories. shooting reyolyers and shouting
TO attract attention, one baker and
four OF his W0rkmen who camped on
their roof over night escaped on planks
today They saw woman and two Of
her children lluat away 10 their death /
and the body OF an unknown man drift |
ed by. All night the citizens OF south |
side labored In the work Of rescue by |
boat, wagon and horseback The city |
patrol horses We're drowned In the work !
Of rescue. A cold rain is falling today, |
adding 10 the discomfort of the Victims |
The houses on the south side are being |
thrown open and the auditorium and |
other public buildings are filed with |
refugees, Boats are being constructed
as rapidly as possible.
All OF the big wholesale houses along
the river front are flooded. Goods are
being placed on upper floors.
The Rock Island bridge went out
early today and the approaches Of the
biz Melian bridge are weakening
Voices packing plant Is flooded and
abandoned as are all the ice plants.
The railroads win be heavy losers as
their tracks are not ony washed out but
the entertainments against the rivers
approach are washed out which means
days Of repairing
The Rock Island wires are out and
the dispatches are absent from the
Offices.
The Union Pacific depot in North To.
peka Is abandoned as Is the traffic on
that road. The Santa Fe Is stll getting
trains west as far as Emporia.
ALONG MISSOURTs BANKS.
Kansas city, Mo-, May 30.-The flood
ed condition along the banks OF the
Missouri and kaW rivers here and west
Is FAR more serious than on yesterday
and the predictions OF Col. Conner OF
the local weather bureau, that the dis
asttOus record OF 1881 would be exceed
cd viii doubtless be realized Since yes
terday afternoon the Missouri had RS
EN- nearly two feet and this morning the
government gauge here registered IS
feet which Is but one foot below that
IN 1881 Both streams continued to rise
steadily and a still further rise OF two
feet at this point Is expected within
another "A hours heavy rains having
fallen again last night for a mile around
Kansas City The principal damage so
far sustained IN this locality Is on the !
haW river at Kansas city Kan. and al
Armourdale and Argentine. suburbs Of
this city. II is estimated that $500 per-
sons have hen driven from their homes |
within i've miles OF the mouth Of the
kaw river Perhaps 20Ol Of this num- |
Der are at Armourdalc whose citizens
mostly are working people The streets
In the greater part OF Armourdale are
from two % three feet deep In water. !
All last night the citizens. aided BY po-
lice and hrcmen. were busy removing |
household effects resculng women and
children and providing shelter for the
homeless
The north half Of Argentine occuped
mainly by railroad and packing house
employees, Is one big lake aud al that
place more than 500 persons are with
out homes. There are only II houses
and these are on rise OF ground. clear
OF water.
In tho west bottoms. both on the Kaw
and Missouri the water during the
night had encroached stiu further upon
the packing houses. into the Easements
Of many wholesale houses and the stock
yards At the stock yards a number of
pens were flooded and water was be-
ginning 10 run into the Easements OF
the livestock exchange.
LINCOLN LOWLANps OVER.
FLOWED.
Lincoln, No. May 3o-Salt Creek IS
overlooking the Lincoln lowlands Be
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