The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-02
FLOODS
CONTINUE
No Sign Of Relief at Kan
SaS City, Mo.
SISTER CITY CUT OFF.
Grave Fears Felt For It's Inhab-
itantS.
FIFTY REPORTED DEAD THERE,
All Business In Submerged Town
Suspended,
FIFTY REPORTED DEAD THERE,
All Business In Submerged Town
Suspended.

ing Actively Carried On Wires
Nearly All Down, and Few Trains
Are Able to Get out Of the Country.
Devastated District Extends Down
the Missouri FOR Two Hundred
sIiIes-FulI List OF Casualties May
Never BE Obtained.
Kansas City, Mo, June 2.-The desc
late aspect Of the flood situation here
shows no Improvement except that the
fires, which it was feared would
spread. have been put out by the rain
and the food itself.
Business all over the city is sus-
pended. Manufactures on high ground
were compelled to shut down owing to
the almost total shutting Off Of the
water supply. No street cars are run
ming nor are amy railroad trains going
to or from the city north, west or
south.
Great anxiety is felt for the safety
of the people of Kansas City, Kan.
There has been no communication with
that city since Sunday. and exhaustive
efforts to get word from there have
failed. Five reporters who crossed the
Kaw before the food had become so
serious have not been heard from
since.
Many Dead In kansas City, Kan.
A message from Kansas City, Kan,
by way Of Leavenworth, said that
twenty-seven men were on the Union
Pacific bridge over the Kansas river
when it was carried away on Sunday,
and that all of them We're drowned.
Reports Of other fatalities witnessed
or Of bodies seen in the water make
the list Of probable dead about fifty.
All along the bank Of the river here
wagons containing ropes were stationed
In order that any emergency could be
promptly met 1t was announced that
there We're a number of people on the
Milwaukee bridge, and 1t was decided
to send the ferryboat to their rescue.
An additional call was made from d
hotel situated at the intersection of
Fourteenth and Genesee streets, where
number Of people were reported to.
be held IN the upper stories Of the
building The ferryboat was also or
dered TO take them off at the earliest
practicable moment.
Word came up from the stock yards
that there We're twenty Or thirty peo-
pie caught by the Hood IN that dis
trict They were said to be in no inn
mediate danger, however.
Word was brought to police head
quarters that number of men were
looting houses in the east bottoms
They had improvised RATS from boards
and BIZ propelling them with poles
were making their way into the houses
through the second story windows. AS
soon as this word was received BY
Chief OF Police Hayes he ordered a de.
tachment Of officers to the place, with
strict orders that if the story was
found to be true the thieves should be
shot down at once
Telegraph aud telephone wires north.
south and west are down, and there
are only few wires in shape TO do
business east.
At 4. ~. it was reported at police
headquarters that there had been no
further loss Of life here as far Us was
known
At III o'clock the weather bureau is
sued the following:
"There Will probably be slight change
in river conditions at Kansas City dur
ing the next twenty-f0ur hours Slight
fluctuations mean little in the way q
relief SO long rs weather conditions re
main unsettled. A storm area Is cen
trial ID the middle Mississippi valley
from which tie west has not emerged
and the threatened development Of an
other storm area in the southwest car
ries no assurance Of immediate relief.
Light to moderate rains have fallen
IN the Kaw and middle and lower Mis-
souri, valleys in the past forty-eighi
hours, and rain is falling over tic
greater part OF Kansas, iowa, Missouri
and Nebraska,
Stage of the river at Z a. H.: Kansas
City, 30 and still rising; Omaha, 144: al
Sioux City 11.3 fall Of 4 NO reports
have been received from points on the
Kaw river
Never id the history Of tile west has
there been more complete prostration
Of railway traffic than exists at the
present to the west, south and north OF
Kansas City The approaches to the
bridge Of the Chicago, Milwaukee ana
st. Paul at Sheffield, ten miles east Of
Kansas city, have gone, although the
bridge proper is intact and Is high
enough e stand any possible stage of
water
The fall Of the approaches to this
bridge lcayes the SANTA Fe bridge at
Sibley. twenty-five miles from here. the