Arizona republican., 1903-06-02
The Number of Victims
 Apparently LeSSened.
GREAI LACK OF DETAIL
The Report Confines Itself to Those Who Are Known to Have Been
 Drowned-The Missing.

Topeka, Kas.. June 1.-At 6 o'clock the water in the Kansas river had gone down fourteen inches and was falling at the rate of half an inch an hour. From Manhattan, up the river. comes the report that the water there is slow ly falling. At Wamego the same con dition prevails, and it is now reason ably certain that the waters here will steadily recede. At this time there are thirty-four known dead. The list of JORDAN HENRY, colored.
 WARD.
 GARRETT
 Five-year-old son of Fireman G. R. Garrett.
 KUTZE. teacher.
 MRS. KUTZE.
 LOUISE ZAAVEN.
 STOREY.
 Infant of George M. Storey
 MRS. JACKSON, widow. probably dead. \ JOHN L. ADAMS.
 MRS. IDA MONTGOMERY, probably dead.
 Unidentified dead:
 Unknown family of seven, seen by, Rescuer Smith in West Side house.
 Unknown woman and child, drowned while crossing to Oakland.
 Four seen to fall from trees by watchers at the Sardou bridge, east ap- proch.
 Mrs. Jackson, widow who lived al Thirteenth and Van Buren. was caught in her home without means of leaving and is thought to have been drowned. Henry LudingtOn. who lives in Oak land, was last seen hanging to the branches of a tree in the western DOT ton of North Topeka Sunday morning. lt is thought that he has been drowned. John l.. Adams. who lived on Madi- son street near the woOlen mills, is thought to have perished. With his family he had taken refuge on the roof of his home. Rescuers took the family out early, but the boat was not large enough to accommodate him. When the party returned for him he had van ished.
 Mrs. Ida Montgomery. who lived back of the Citizens bank on Kansas avenue, is reported drowned. She was in her room Sunday morning. but the parties were unable to rescue her. There is no one there now.
 Andrew PretZel. a market gardener. living east of Oakland. is among the missing, and his friends think he was drowned.
 A man named Smith, who manned one of the rescue boats on the North Side last night, reported seeing seven dead bodies floating in the water on the second floor of a house in North To- peka. He did not know who had lived in the house.
 The Munsey family, who were caught on the roof of their house Saturday night, reported that they saw two bodies floating by this morning. Carl Golf Jr., son of the chief of police, saw woman and a baby fall from a house roof just west of the Gabriel lumber yards while that structure was burn ing. The current swept them directly into the flames.
 A reporter for the Associated Press saw two men plunge from a house just south of the burning yards about the same time Saturday afternoon. They were swept out into the current and disappeared under the muddy water. An unknown man was taken a wo- man and baby across the river to Oak land Tn a skin when 1t capsized. The woman and child were drowned. The man saved his life by hanging to the boat.
 Watchers on the east approach of the old Sardou avenue bridge yesterday morning WnO were using neld glasses reported seeing four persons fall from the trees of: the other side and drop into the water.
 An unknown man was taking a wO- house near Kansas avenue and Gordon street late Sunday night. She was chilled and numbed from exposure. and died shortly after being taken into the Union Pacific hotel. Milton Holt saw woman swept down the river and drowned Sunday morning.
 Another woman who was about to be rescued slipped from the roof before the boat could get to her and was drowned.