The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-03
OLD SOL IS AGAIN SEEN Ta s---
 Brighter Days For Kansas City. WATERS ARE RECEDING
 Impossible to Ascertain Num- Der of Dead.
 Situation Shows Improvement on Every Side, the Food Supply Only Causing Apprehension at This Time-Life Savers Perish.
WATERS ARE PRECEDING

Kansas City, Mo, June 2-.Blue sky was visible above Kansas City this after noon at o'clock. the rains have ended. the sun was visible for the first time in a week and for this and other reasons it is thought that the great dangers of the flood are past
 The waters of the Raw River have fallen eight inches today and tonight are steadily declinig at the rate of about one-half inch an hour. Tn the Missouri the high stage of a5 feet is still rnaintained. but this is due to the rise which has been coming down the Missouri proper. It is the water of the Kaw, however, that has caused all the damage fin this city and in Kansas City, Kas., and with it at normal stage business in Kansas City will shortly resume normal condi- tions.
 This city has, by narrow margin. es- capped a serious shortage in food. has faced the peril of fire. utterly helpless to avert it's consequences, has suffered millions of dollars of damage to property and sustained loss in lifc that in all probability never will be accurately measured, and now it is commencing to believe in the promise of better things.
 Improvement Everywhere. Tonight the situation shows improve ment on almost every side; the waters are falling, the water works will resume operations tomorrow. the gas has been turned into the mains once more. and, while there is no superabundance of food. there is no immediate danger of a seri- ous shortage.
 The city has cared for her own in royal fashion and is abundantly able to do so still, but there Is not sufficient food on hand to permit the relief committees and the municipal officers to feel easy over the outlook. Provisions from outside will be cordially welcomed. The transporta- ton facilities at the present time are so limited that not much freight can be brought in at time. Two men lost their lives today Hhiie endeavoring to save others. Joseph l.. Keenan was drowned while endeavorins to rescue some persons from the Adams House in Union Avenue. across from the Union station, and Edward Brooks lost his life in Liberty Street, where his skin was overturned by an eddy while he was endeavoring to get another man out of a building.
 Many in Warehouses.
 Fully fifty persons were brought to the Twelfth Street viaduct during the day by boatsmen. None of them had been in great danger. but had remained in build
 
 Many are still in the warehouses and of flee buildings and will remain there until the flood subsidies. They are entirely safe and fairly comfortable
 There is very little probability of much greater financial damage than has all ready ben done. Observer Conner of the Weather Bureanu. said at 6 o'clock:
 The Missouri River has remained sta tionary. It is still at 35 feet, where it io faIl ing steadily. and I thing that the Mis- souri will commence to decline tomorrow. Light rains have been falling in central and western Kansas, but they are not heavy enough to affect the water stage one way or the other"
 Flags of distress from partially inun- dated buildings in Armourdale could be seen from Kansas City, Kas., during the day and a number of rescues were af- fected.
 The day brought to light no facts on which to base even an approximation of the number of deaths in the flood. Pos sibly ten bodies have been seen floating since Sunday, but estimates made from this are valueless. as some of the bodies may have flOated down the Raw from Topeka. the same bodies drifting in the ever-changing eddies of the flood, may have been counted several times and observers may have mistaken partially submerged wreckage for bodies.
 Kansas City Not Disabled.
 There is a feeling among the leading business men that Kansas City should show the country at large that 1t is not disabled by the flood but that Isormal con- ditions will prevail as soon as the rivers shall recede.
 Mayor Reed of Kansas City. Mo, said this afternoon: "Of course the personal suffering is great and there probably will besome individual failures. but the great money loss comes upon associations that win not be crirpged by the blow, and this loss will not affect the general prosperity of the city. In thirty days 1t will be hard to realize that there has been such flood"
 4 committee appointed by the Commer- cial Club of Kansas City, Mo. early to- day. to ascertain the conditions of the present food supply. made it's report this evening This report was so imperative that Mayor Reed, after consultation with the relief committee. wired the following reply to offers of aid
 "I am directed by the committee Of the Commercial Club to say that the com mittee this morning anticipated that there might be a food shortage owing to the , inability to reach the usual sources of supply.
 "It now seems that we will be able to secure enough food supplies. The people of Kansas City will always gratefully remennber the many tenders of assistance from various parts of the country, all of which have been thankful declined. James A. Reed. Mayor" This was indorsed by J. F. Richardson, orasidept and E. M. Clendenning, secre- | tary of the Commercial Cluo.