The sun., 1903-06-03
RIVERS FAILING.
Kansas City Recovering From Floods
Enect-Nlany Resoues Yesterday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 2.-Kansas City
resumed in part its normal appearance
to-day. The cable cars were running.
and in the afternoon several OF the electric
cars in both the Missouri and Kansas cities
were run.
The two towns, however. are still sepa-
rated by fully two and half miles Of water.
The Kaw River fell nearly foot during the
day, and is falling tonight. Tho Missouri
remained stationary all day at point 13
feet above the danger line. but tonight Is
recedilg slightly. The rivers which flow
into the two above the Kansas cities are
reported to be falling and it is believed
that no further rise will occur.
The hardships which the citizens who
live above the waters reach have endured
have been due to inability to get water
from the ctys mains. which have been
shut off since Sunday afternoon. when the
kaw Rivers food carried out the sixteen
bridges here at Kansas City, and with them
the pipes which supply the town with water.
This cut of the car service. the. gas ana
electric light supply, tied up the elevators
in the big Office buildings and worked the
greatest hardships upon the housewives.
Candles were called into use for illumina-
ton last night and about half tho families
in the city had cold dinners To-day regular
service has been established by water
wagons, so that the tanks and boilers hav"
been supplied. There was gas to cook tho
suppers tonight but no street lights. The
food supply is great enough to last a week.
and by that time the carloads which have
been sent from Chicago and the South will
be here and distributed.
The telephone service, which was greatly
impaired. has been fixed up. and Kansas
City is showing signs Of business activity.
MUCH SICKNESS ON THE KANSAS SIDE.
Kansas City, Kan, which had beer cut
of from Kansas City, Mo-, since the bridge
and telephone lines wore swept away. got
into communication this afternoon with
the larger city. The Kansas town is in
worse condition than this town. 1t Ia a.
timated that fully 2O,OOo people are home
less. and there is much sickness there.
A steamboat was used to-day to bring
people over to this side and carry others
over there. This reunited many families
which had been separated since Saturday.
Food is furnished the sufferers at churches
and at shelters which have been erected.
Nearly $4,000 has been raised by sub
scriptions.
Rescue work In Kansas City, Kan, ia
taken out Of the flooded distr lets to-day,
many Of them from the roofs OF houses,
Although many are known to be drowned.
the exact number cannot be estimated.
Several we're seen to go down yesterday
and to-day.
RIVERS RECEDING.
The worst of the flood, it is believed.
has been passed. The Missouri River has
been stationary all day and the Kaw. or
Kansas River. which flows between the
two Kansas cities, is falling. The Missouri
River, it is believed, has a tendency u
fall. r ports from Omaha and 81, Joseph,
up the river. say the river is falling there,
Reports from Topeka say the Kaw is going
down rapidly.
A little more can he seen from the hills
here Of the devastation in Argentine, Ar
mourdale and Riverside. suburbs of Kan
sas City, Kan. The three little towns
have been literally blotted out. The houses
have been swept from their resting places.
ntl the food subsidies and the roll ~
employees and families is called it will he
impos ssihl" to make an estimate Of how many
have pa,n drowned On Monday morn
ing a list was paalished of went y-six that
we're said TO be drowned up TO that time.
The police on duty on the trestle OF the
elevate ed railway in the West Bottoms
have counted eight bodies floating there
to-day. The bodies of three drowned men
are ti"d to n tree AT the norh erd Of tho
Hannibal Bridge aud have been floating
there since Saturday. One can hear re-
ports %: hundreds of people drowned,
but few of them can he confirmed
The rescue work in the west bottoms
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