The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-06-02
Waters in Kansas River Are
Now Slowly Falling
SOME ARE STILL MISSING
May Be Days Before Trustworthy List
of Those Who Perlshed Can Be
Made-Identified Dead Thrill
Ing Experiences.

inches at o'clock, and tonight was 1all-
ing at the rate of half an inch an hour.
From Manhattan comes the report that
the water there Is slowly falling At
Wamego the same condition prevails, ana
1t is now reasonably certain that the
waters will steadily recede. 1t is now ad-
mitted that the number OF dead Is not
known. Reports have been exaggerated.
In the excitement all sorts of rumors
have come In. Men have seen persons
fall into the water, and take 1t for grant
ed that those persons were drowned. OK
ten the persons concerned are seen later.
They tell of thrilling experience, but
are not always taken from the list of
dead Some are still missing.
It may be days before a trustworthy
list is made. 1t Is now thought that not
more than twenty or twenty-five are
dead.
List of Dead.
The following are said to be the identi-
fed dead:
Henry Jordan, colored.
Ward, old soldier.
Garrett, 5-year-old son of Fireman
C. II. Garrett.
Forest Kutz, teacher.
Mrs. Forest Kutz.
Louis e. Seahaven.
Story infant of George M. Story.
John l.. Adams.
Unidentified dead: Family Of seven,
seen by Rescuer Smith on westside
house.
Unknown woman and child, drowned
while crossing to Oakland.
A summary of the missing and the
probable dead follows:
A Mrs Jackson, widow, and Mrs Ida
Montgomery are reported missing
Mrs Jackson, who lived at Thirteenth
and Vanburen, was caught in her home
without means of leaving and Is thought
to have been drowned.
Henry Ludington. who lives in Oakland.
was last seen hanging to the branches of
tree In the eastern portion of North
Topeka Saturday morning. 1t is thought
that he has been drowned as he is no
longer In the tree.
John L. Adams, who lived on Madison
street near the wooden mill, 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
modate him. When the party returned
for him he had vanished
Andrew Pretzel, a market gardener liv-
Ing east of Oakland, is among the miss
Ing and his friends think he has been
drowned
The Munsey family, who were caught
on the roof Of their house Saturday night
report that they saw two bodies float by
this morning.
Carl God Tr eon of tI,a .Lt1e
saw woman and baby fall from house
roof just west of the Gabriel lumber
yards while that structure was burning
The current swept them directly into
the flames.
reporter for the Associated Press
saw two men plunge from a house and
disappear just south of the burning yards
about the same time Saturday afternoon.
Watchers on the east approach of the
Old Sardou avenue bridge Yesterday
morning saw four persons fall from the
trees into the water.
An unknown girl was taken from a
house near Kansas avenue and Gordan
street late Saturday night. She died
shortly after being taken into the Union
Pacific hotel.
Milton Holt OF the Continental Cream
cry company, saw woman swept down
the river and drowned Saturday morn
ing.
Another woman who was about to he
rescued, slipped from the roof before the
boat could get to her. Some of these
reports are thought to be duplicates.
Distress Not So Great.
The distress Of the sufferers Is easing
up. Those who are still in NorthTopeka
are receiving food and they are in no
danger unless 1t be from sickness. There
is possibility that there Will be a
spread of contagious diseases Doctors
and medical relief cannot reach suffer-
ers to any great extent.
The possibility of an epidemic Is the
most serious thing the city must con-
tend with.
An emergency board of health has
been appointed by the mayor to Coop
crate with the city physician In quelling
the disease which will result from the
flood.
DR.. Grubbs says that the sanitary con-
dition of North Topeka when the water
shall go down will be such that the
place will not be fit to be inhabited for
some months to come.
Provisions Of all sorts are becoming
scarce In Topeka. No freight trains
have entered the city for several days
and there will not be enough for the
people to eat II this situation lasts
much longer 1t is charged that GER
tain of the merchants have formed a
combination for the purpose or controlI-
ing the prices on provisions.
A prominent miller said this morning:
I'VE do not intend and have never in
tended to raise the price of flour, no mat
ter what the grocers are thinking of do
ing. We do not wish to make any money
out Of q calamity"
1t is reported that a local commission
firm bought UP all the potatoes in town
last Saturday and advanced the price
30 cents a bushel.
1t was learned tonight that a Rock
Island relief train had reached North
Topeka last night in the vicinity of the
reform school. The train brought sixty
boats and two steam launches. Boatmen
from Lake Contrary are In charge and
they are doing splendid work in taking
flood victims to places Of safety.
People Taken to Shelter.
A long train of Rock Island passenger
coaches were also brought and in these
the people are taking shelter. They will
be taken to places further up the track
some to Atchison and others to st. JOS
eph. where they will be provided for.
The Santa Fe is doing a great work In
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