Evening journal., 1903-06-01
KANSAS RIVER IS SLOWLY
RECEDING AND It is BELIEVED
WORST OF FLOOD IS over
CONTINUED From First Page.l

by means of the cable was the hey.
A. NJ. Pearson, pastor OF the North
Topeka English Church. Mr.. Pearson
said: I'VE spent three days on the
TOP of our house. We were fairly
warmly dressed. but had only two
loaves Of bread for our family OF four
during that time. All day Saturday
and Yesterday we had nothing to eat
Our situation was desperate and ex-
tremely uncomfortable, but we at no
time lost faith in the ultimate ability
of our friends to rescue us. Saturday
nv wife and children were rescued;
yesterday my turn came, and cannot
begin to tell how thankful l am"
Thrilling Reseues.
E. L. Bailey and z. NJ. Alexander
performed some of the most heroic
work of rescue. In the darkness, at
the greatest risk of their own lives,
they succeeded in reaching one of the
burning lumber yards and rescued a
dozen women and children. On the
way to the south shore one OF the
women tainted from fatigue and fright,
and this all but swamped the boat.
The men made superhuman Efforts
and finally reached the pontoon bridgel
with their precious cargo. Here will
ing hands seized them and carried
them over the Melan bridge TO safety.
This is only one of a hundred
thrilling rescues. The most prominent
men or the town donned oilskins, and,
Eubmerged in water up to their
breasts. worked for hours in the cold
water. Women and children were
given the preference in the work Of
rescue
A COW swan to the Melon bridge
yesterday and is now making its home
there Last night a woman with a
little baby was brought to the bridge
by rescuers. Both we're almost starv-
ed. A rescuer got a bucket and MIXED
the COW and gave the milk to the wo-
man and baby.
Chief of Police Goff and his family
are among those not yet accounted for.
They may be among those on the tops
of the buildings, but this is hardly the
case, as their house was in a direct
path Of the fire.
Eighteen people we're rescued late
In the afternoon from a house at 1905
North Monroe street. From this place
the current is now swift, and after
great labor the place was reached. A
man who has just returned from the
scene of the flood says he could see as
many as 10 persons hanging from
trees near the Sardou avenue bridge
at the foot of Morse street.
w. N. Keppard and his wife
aged people, we're rescued. The!
were so numb that they could not fee
= and had to be knocked into the wate
D before the men could reach them. The!
were standing close together in th'
/, attic of a house, and so severe ha'
- been their experience that their minds
2 gave way under the strain. They can
: not recover. A Mrs. Anderson an'
= her year-old baby have been for thre'
days in a tree in plain sight of pee
s pie who were powerless to rescul
p them. The mother clasped her chill
o close in her arms and managed e
. brace herself against a tree in rea
. sonably secure position. For thre
s days she kept up the battle for life
When her rescue was very nea
Is she lost consciousness. Both tn
1t mother and child fell into II feet o
= water and were drowned, being immC
diately drawn under by the current
8 Harvey Parsons, a local newspape
y man, had a thrilling experience. II
- took a boat Friday night and mad
a his way to a house in the hope of NAL
ing some rescues. A woman and he
r, baby, names unknown. were in tn
/ house, and Parsons took them into hi
e. boat They had proceeded only
Is short distance when the boat capsize'
Parsons contrived TO get himself an
- the others up into a tree, and theI
they stayed until they were rescue'
is They We're brought to place Of SAT-
ty, but probably will not survive.
B. L. Wise, former city enginee
was dragged from the hay loft of
barn. He was unconscious and mum
ID from cold but soon revived. His stoT
of the beginning of the flood is dr.
no matte
av Perehed In Trees.
zoe BY the aid of small steam and gas
ne, line launches 40 men in South Ga
ig' field Park were rescued. They he
St. perched themselves in trees. The
de had nothing to eat for SO hours. Thei
men were kept In a fenced grov
an where they could not keep clos
~ watch of the situation All they cou
80 see was the angry water rushing abo
M among the trunks of the trees. Oh
of the men said that they could n
hear the other speak above the ro
of water Uncertainty was thus ad
an ed TO their other misery, and not ol
Ie- of them had any hopes of escaping.
on Patrick Beline, his wife and thr
am small children were taken from Il
viii attic of their small dwelling II
the parents were obliged to hold the ty
ooi younger children constantly to ke
n.y. their heads above water. They we
nearly starved, and probably cam