The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-06-09

dead in the Topeka food now number
seventy-eisht. OF this number thirty
nine deaths have been verified A boat
man this afternoon reported that seven
bodies have been found near the north
er3 of Harrison street. The unfortu-
mates were Mrs. Jessie Shaw and o
children; q man and woman named
Shunkwater. They are all from Sherry.
The body of a man named Edwards
was picked up by a party near Soldier
Creek. Other bodies found today were
those Of Mrs. Nellie Watson; Mrs.
Minnie Prayers, George Mcdonald.
These were caught III the wreckage.
People working in the flooded district
fear tina many more will be found
drowned as the God recedes, and that
the list will be not far from One hun
DIRE! lead. Thirty or more people are
now classed as missing. Without doubt
some of the bodies will never be recov-
cred.
The water has 10 receded over six
4CCL dt4O 4 GUNS NOft4A "C O. @"NO ~ 0@
inch ever hour. Good work is now be-
ing done to secure what property is left.
In the part of town north and west
of the Rock Island the damage is very
great. The houses were mostly small
and in the full force of the current.
The yards We're swept clean of out
buildings and many of the houses turn
sd a quarter of the way around and
r.rtfaI liz S1ipnaT from rh.ir foundations
Further east the Out-buildings are near
~ all gone, but the houses are still
standing. a few blocks west of the
Kansas river some of the out-buiIdings
are still standing, and over town. are
sc.res of out-buiIdings in all sorts of
POSITIONS. The small houses which were
in the full force Of the current are about
the only ones -ch were wrecked from
their foundations.
The greater part OF North Topeka is
\ grea. waste y: zand piled VI over the
streets, house nCors and railroad tracks
buryfng the city from a mere coating to
a depth of two or three. and in some
. places, four feet.
All over the western part OF the city
the sand banks are everywhere. The
Union Pacific and Rock Island tracks
IRE tEtu NIlI ~tILu ia IANSN~ ~ -
depth of three feet and in places the
water is still running under the ties.
Doors and yards are piled high with
sand. On some of the houses it reaches
To the windows and IL banked UP
against the doors.
Generous responses are being made TO
the appeals for aid. From all OYER the
country kilograms are being received
- - ,fFIr.r- hara - lrI " on
various organizations for funds
Louisiana. Mo. June THE shy
Ievee broke just below this city today
and the Mississippi * now falling here
at the rate of six inches per hour on
account of the break The shy IS the
most important Ievee on the north end
of the river n is seventy miles long.
In some places it is twenty-eight feet
high and eighty feet across at the base.
II ~ncIoses a fertile farming section from
three to seven miles Wild containing
more than one hundred thousand acres.
There are several towns within the
district, the population OF which Is
probably ten thousand. Many of them
remain and loss of life is certain. This
district has not been overtiOwed since
1888 and the damage will run into the
tllA4ipllS- III DlSoA
point used by the railroad a. a roadbed
1t was unexpected unit just before the
break occurred. When seen. a rush
was made to repair it. but forty yards
went out.and a torrent poured through
FLOOD AT ST LOUIS.
st. Louis. June THE great flood
that is sweep ing down the Mississippi
is steadily increasing III volume and is
now being felt in ST. Louis and vicinity
TO an alarming extent
The stage OF water reached 3t.2 feet
tonight. 4 rise of Seyen-teuth5 OF 4 foot
today.
Government FOrecaSter Bowie tonight
issue a bulletin predicting i stage OF 5;
feet by tomorrow noon. So feet by sun
day and 81 feet on Monday The Mis-
sissippi north OF the mouth 81 the Mis-.
souri, Is still rising but the rjpIdity o
the rise has been diminished because d
the breaks III leveeS- No report % los:
of life has been received.
The flood forced a passage throug!
the Ievee at Madison. Ills. just nortt
of St. Louis. This levee is fifteen mile
long and for days men have been work
ing TO strengthen il. but the river fount
a weak point in 4 sewer main and tn,
water broke through like 4 geyser
West Granite. Il town of two thousan,
PEOPLE, is located in = depression be
tween the Ievee and 4 railroad embank
uaus. kmple warning had been sound
IL and the inhabitants sought safet.
when me ueIuge came. II, is believe
al escaped
The street of Venice, Ills, almost Op
posite st. Louis, are waterways and III
Inhabitants go about in boats.
In st. Louis the buildings along tn