Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-01
KANSAS CITY FLOOD
Many Perish by the Rising
 Waters.
ISUNDATION STOPS ALL TRAINS.
EAtfre Districts Are submerged-AH Trolley Lines and Cable Cars Shut Dovvm-V1ctims' Bodies
 AflOat In the Missouri.

AAAOs~N 1A SAC NAASSoUNAs
 KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 1.-The greatest flood in the history of Kansas City, Kan, and the bottoms of Kansas City, Mo, prevails here, and millions of dollars loss will result
 Twelve bodies were counted as they noated past during the day In nearly every instance they were lying across cabin that came swirling down could
 be seen the body of woman and her Dchild. .ts, A great body of water coming from
 the west swelled the Kansas river at Kansas City, Kan, causing a most
 alarming rise. Waters rushed with ter.
 rife force over the outlying railroad tracks and the crowded wholesale dis tricts of the west bottoms and finally
 into the Union depot. At 10 o'clock mile of wholesale houses, elevators and freight depots were entirely surround ed, basements were soon brimful, and water began to reach the first floors. \ Within fifteen minutes the tracks en- terinG the western end of the Union
 depot were entirely submerged, and at Il o'clock the water had risen at such rapid rate that the thousands of de- iaysd passengers were making prepa- rations to leave for the high grounds up Union avenue. Union avenue, on which the Blossom House and numer- ous smaller hotels, restaurants and stores are located, is running stream The water rose so fast in the vicinity ~Q 4No A6o+ forced to remove to second floors, and preparations were made hurriedly to remove the passengers uptown. Trains that have been waiting in the depot for hours for an opportunity to start west and south stand foot deep in water. No trains have left Kansas City for the west or south, and none will leave for several days Trains from the east also are late, many apparently having ! met the flood now being caused by the rise in the Missouri river east of here. The losses i'll the wholesale district will aggregate we'll into the millions, and the losses to the various packing houses nearer the river will be tremendous. The street directly in front of the big Armour packing plant is under five feet of water. Armour & Go. have a force of 200 men working at the pumps try ing to keep the rising water out of the buildings
 All night the forces of the stock yard
 men were at work rescuing live stock. Hundreds of head were brought. up into town.
 All trolley lines in both cities have been shut down, the power at River
 view being under water, and only one or two cable lines on the Missouri side are running. All freight houses of the various roads entering Kansas City which are located in the west bottoms on a level with the Union depot are flooded, ,and the loss from this source alone must be great. Be
 cause of the delayed traffic west of
 Kansas City during the past week a
 great amount of freight has accumu-
 lated here, and now that the railway
 yards are under water it will be i'm
 possible to move this save by boat.
 As practically all the boats to be had are being used to rescue people, much
 freight will be damaged. All tele-
 phone communica tion with the flooded
 district is shut of, making it difficult
 to accurately estimate the damage.
 At 12:S0 the water in Union avenue
 was three feet deep, and people were
 being taken out of the Blossom House
 and adjacent buildings in wagons
 which will soon be forced to quit. The
 water will at the present rate be in, the
 Union depot main waiting room within
 an hour.
 The packing houses on the Kansa:
 river were entirely surrounded, an6
 fifteen feet of water surrounded the
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