Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-03
The SITUATION
Is IMPROVED
Flood Conditions at Kansas
City Are Materially Better
In Every Way Today
WATER Is REcEDlhe RAPIDLY
Relief Committees Have Their Work
Reduced to a Careful System and
Now Have the Situation Well in
Hand-Lost Train Located-Missouri
Pacific Bridge Still Intact.

Kansas City, June 3.--Flood condi-
the night and ON all sides this morning
the intense strain of the past four
days had for the first time been re-
lieved. Communication by steamer with
Kansas City, Kansas. having been
opened permanently and exact condi-
tions there having become known, no
further feeling of anxiety is felt for
the sufferers in that locality Now that
the lay of the land is known and re-
lief committees of both the Kansas
cities are able to work together they
have mapped out and put into execu-
ton elaborate plans for relieving all
distress restoring order and returning
] business to its natural channels. The
plans are being carried out today by
an army of local men, reinforced by
relief in the shape of food and boats
sent in from st. Joseph and Leaven-
worth. At this morning the Missouri
river registered 34.4 feet, a fall of nearly
II inches in as many hours, and the
weather bureau predicts from now on
the water will fall gradually. but stead
lily. The Kansas river continues to fall
at the rate of half an inch an hour and
the tops of the submerged buildings
are beginning to show above the water
line. The sun shone today and this
fact was a tremendous force for good
The Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
passenger train No. three, from Chicago
to Kansas City, due here at Sunday
afternoon, is known TO be safe some
where east or north of here. The train
arrived at Liberty, Mo, twenty five
mites northeast from Kansas city, late
Sunday afternoon. Tracks into Kansas
City being unsafe and train service in
all directions being badly demoralzea,
the train was split into two parts and
sent east and north to accommodate
new conditions. Some of the passen-
gers continued on to Kansas City BY
other means of transportation, while
most of them remained on one of the
two sections and either returned to the
starting point or dropped off at diff
ferent towns along the line east and
north of Liberty, making connections
with other roads. While the exact To-
cation of the train is not known, there
is every reason 10 DtileNe All paSSen-
gers are safe. Sixty-seven passengers
from the st. Joseph and 0tand Island
train, which arrived at Milwaukee
bridge, five miles east of Kansas City.
Sunday night We're rescued by steam
er last night. Some of these We're at
first believed to be passengers from the
stalled Burlington train, but this prov
ed not to be the case.
Reports last night that the Missouri
Pacific bridge had gone out proved
this morning to be incorrect. AS the
bridge which spans the Kaw, is weigh
ted down by seventeen engines and as
we'll as can be Judged today by an In
spection made with the aid of a field
glass from the bluff half mile away
the bridge Is Still safe. The water
about the structure is lower and the
current less strong than yesterday.
The weather forecast issued at ten
this morning says: Both the Missouri
and Kaw rivers will continue to fall
today and Thursday"
The flood level will be from one to
two feet lower by Thursday morning.
The water works plant will probably
be reoDened tonight