The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-06-01

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flooded district is cut off making it diff
fcult to accurately estimate the damage.
At 1890 this afternoon the water on
Union avenue was three feet deep, and
people were being taken out of the Bios
som house and adjacent buildings in
wagons. The union station main waiting
| room is now filled with water.
Three-fourths of Armourdale was sub
merged under an ocean of water. The
/ packing houses on the Kansas river here
were entirely surrounded and fifteen feet
| of water surrounded the Schwarzschild-
| Sulzbreger and Swift Packing plants.
| The Kansas City police spent all night
rescuing persons, and at noon no deaths
| had been reported.
! This afternoon the pumping station at
| Quindaro was shut down, water having
| entered the building, and both cities are
without a water supply. The fire CHIEF mas
| sent out notice to all citizens to provide
carefully against fire.
| Several accidents in the packing house
/ district. some of which are said to have
resulted fatally, are reported, but 1t has
been impossible to confirm them.
Fire Breaks Out.
At 8 o'clock seven fires were burning
in as many places in the railroad yards,
| all of them having originated from Slack
! ing lime stored in freight cars.
At o'clock the most serious blaze or
the day broke out in some lime cars
standing opposite the west end of the
union station and directly behind the
roundhouse, owned jointly by all the
roads entering the station. The flames
spread rapidly from car to car and within
three hours thirty of them had been de-
stroyed. Among them were several OIL
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damage to everything in the vicinity.
| While this blaze was at its height,
frantic cries of help came from the vicin-
| ity of the fire, but the man who uttered
! them could not be found, although num-
bers of men ran out upon the Twelfth
street vaduct to lend what aid they
could. There were no boats, darkness
was rapidly closing down and unless the
author of the cries saved himself an un-
known went down to death which hun
dreds Of people close at hand and unable
to lend a hand to aid him. There were
rumors that the total number of deaths in
the wholesale district of the city during
the latter part of the day will reach as
high as fifty but there is no possible way
of determining.
Flood In Nebraska.
Lincoln Neb., May 31.--Flood waters In
some of the swollen streams began reced-
ing today, but the conditions remain
nearly as bad as before. Salt Creek at
Lincoln has gone down two feet, but
near Waverly and Ashland it overfowed
thousands of acres, the high tide of yes
terday at Lincoln reaching those villages
today Help was asked to rescue farm
| ers imprisoned by the waters The blue
river has gone down two feet at Beatrice,
but farther up near Crete the rise today
was sufficient to carry down bridges.
! Railroads are tied up. The Burlington
| Is unable to operate its trains over its
Lincoln and Kansas City line The Mis-
souri, Pacific Is not attempting to run
trains through tonight Great damage 10
reported on all roads south of Lincoln. A
drizzling rain lasting all day added to the
flood and made people apprehensive that
conditions will be wos~s tomorrow.
Damage In Missouri.
Hannibal, Mo-, May 31.-The rise in the
Mississippi river has brought heavy dam
age to the islands and bottoms in this
region Thousands of acres of corn and
other crops are submerged and every
thing ruined including all the farm prop
| erty as we'll as dwellings and more than
half the live stock The residents es-
capped to the Missouri shore.
In Hannibal the water is far up on the
Ievee and residents Of the "Squatters'
quarter have been compelled to vacate
! thei rhomes for higher places. The gauge
at the Hannibal bridge is IA feet and 8
| inches above low water mark, which
places the water foot and inches above
the danger line. Observer Cover of the
4 weather station predicts that the water
will reach stage Of IS feet, which will
make the flood one of the worst known
in years Telegraphic reports show that
the Mississippi river is rising at all points
north of Hannibal up to st. Paul. MINI.
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