The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-01

/ munica ton it is impossible TO verify
( these reports.
/ The financial loss has been increasing
! all day and bids fair TO continue. The
/ heaviest loss is at Armourdale, where
/ the losses to the packing Industry and
/ others is placed at $1,000. eco. Argentine.
another suburb. has suffered losses es-
! timated at $500. O00- Other losses, which
/ cannot now be estimated, viii increase
I the total very materially,
/ ArmOurdale. with d population of 49,
! GOO people, is deserted and its site
/ marked only by the tops of buildings
and a number of fires
/ Seven fires. believed to be chiefly box
cars burning, could be seen from the
/ bluffs tonight. There is some danger
that the flames viii spread TO the par
tally submerged buildings. adding
greatly 70 the already heavy loss. The
i fires started by the intrusion OF the
! flood into lime house
The refugees from Armourdale for
I the most part are huddled together III
I the immense auditorium of the cOnven-
ton hall, although several hundred
found Ravens with friends in more for
tunate parts of the city.
TwO-thiTds of Argentine Is under
water. over 4,500 people in this suburb
/ found safety in the higher part Of the
town. All bridges over the Kaw river
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with Armourdale is by boat.
Water Supply Shut Of.
Kansas City tonight is without a wa
ter supply. the food having disabled
the pumping station and the utmost
care is being taken that no fires shall
break out.
Only one street car line in the city
is running tonight. owing to the dis
} aiding of the power plants by the food.
Not a train has gone. uTt of The city
except east today
The stage at O'Clock tonight was
thirty feet, seven inches. The previous
high record was made in 1881, when the
river rose to twenty-siN feet, three
inches.
The Union station, by the rise of the
flood today. was rendered practically
useless. the water being from three to
four. feet deep. In the baggage room
baggage was fastened to the tackle and
suspended in the air out of reach of the
water. Numerous rescues occurred dur
| ing the day
TwO-thirds of Argentine. a railroad
and manufacturing town on the south
bank of 1.-THE Kansas river. six miles
from Kansas City is inundated by
from ten to twenty feet Of water and
probably $500. 900 damage has been done.
FOrty-five hundred of the $500 inhab-
ltantS are homeless and nearly 1000 are
destitute. Five bridges have been swept
away, all the railroad tracks and fac
tories are under water and business is
! suspended
Santa Fe's Heavy Loss.
The Santa Fe railroads loss is very
heavy. The railroad has 100 miles Of
track in the Argentine yards aid sew
eral miles of freight cars standing sub
merged. Some cars have broken loose
from their trucks and fioated down the
river The current has left the old
channel and has moved south, taking
all the buildings in its path The Santa
Fe track is under water all the way to
Holiday. eight miles from Argentine
up the Kansas river valley. The TuT-
ner bridge. three miles above Argen-
tine, went out this morning. rs wreck
.Ige lodged against the county bridge at
Argentine. which succumbed at noon.
The Belt Line steel railroad bridge, just
below the county bridge, fell imme di-
ately afterward. Then in succession the
Twenty-f street bridge, owned
Jointly by the Metropolitan Street Rail-
way company and the county. and the
county bridge at Fifth street, were
/ carried away. The railroad bridge was
valued at S75.0O0 and the other four at