The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-03
WORST OF
FLOOD OVER
Waters Begin to Fall at Kansas
City.
NO DANGER OF FAMINE.
Sufficient Meat In Packing Houses 10
Feed Every One For WeelS-Loss
OF Life Grossly ExaRgerat-
ed-MaiIs Arrive.

Kansas City, Mo, June 3.-There Is
decided improvement in the situation,
and there is a general feeling that Kan
fas City has seen the worst Of the Hood
Unofficial weather gauges in the Union
depot showed a fall Of about six inches
during the night. and the official report
is stationary, the water being thirty
five feet. The danger of a famine has
passed, and the railroads are confident
that they will be able TO bring in ample
supplies from this time on The stock
of meats in the packing houses, most
of which can be taken out In boats,
proves to be greater than at first sup
posed, and there is no doubt that there
is sufficient meat TO sustain the city for
a week. even II nothing is brought in
from outside.
Superintendent Goodwin of the wa
terworks department announced that
he believed the water supply would be
in measure restored by nightfall. He
has placed a pump and boiler in the
center Of Allen street and is running
supply pipe into a twenty inch main
leading to the Holly street reservoir
This he said he could fill by night, CIV
ing the city better protection against
FIRE and providing water for sanitary
purposes. All the cable car lines have
resumed and are running as usual
The power plant Of the electric lines Il
under wafer and the roads Will not be
able to run until the water subsidies
The first mails from the west have
come III. Nothing has come vet from
the flooded district around Topeka and
Lawrence, and It is not likely that any
viii arrive for several days after the
water subsidies. About two car loads
Of second, third and fourth class mail
matter have been lost In the freight
yards. The water Is now about five
feet above the bottoms Of the mail cars
and running strongly. 1t may be pos
sible to dry out mail after its recovery.
but at present Superintendent Taft Of.
the railway service classes that mail
among the lost articles.
Damage Many Millions.
The financial damage is estimated by
prominent business men at anywhere
between 100000 900 and So, 100000 in
this city alone, but there is no method
of determining this with any accuracy.
One mans guess is as good as anoth.
ers
The danger now is the erumbling OF
brick buildings. and this has begun In
some quarters where old buildings are
standing. Here and there the corner
Of brick structure has gone down,
but there has been no general collapse
as yet Of any large building. All
through the freight yards numbers of
cars are being loosened from their
trucks and are floating down stream.
When swept along by the current they
make a high class battering ram, and
the front Of any building that receives
many shocks from them is bound to
suffer material damage.
The gas company announced that Ii
hoped 10 restore the supply Of gas dur
Ing the day, but It failed to make good
its promise to supply sufficient gas for
cooking purposes Nine-tenths Of the
Kansas City households use gas for
cooking, and the result Is that the great
majority of meals are cold.
Encouraging News From sister city.
News from Kansas City, Kan, Ii
more encouraging. The Leayenworth
trolley line has furnished power to the
local telephone and street car com
panies, and these systems are in opera
ton. Traffic continues between Leav-
enworth and Kansas City, Kan, with
rowboat transfer at a point half
way. The flood sufferers are being
fairly well cared for in the schools,
churches and halls. Mayor Craddock
said that the relief work was well in
hand. Two hundred army tents have
been sent from Leavenworth. AS soon
as the weather clears the homeless peo-
pie VIII be removed from the churches
and schools and placed in the tents.
There are $500 carcasses and large
quantities Of cured meat at the
schwarzchild & sulzberger plant which
VIII R1 Adhsu btt II HaertHit anu His~
tributed among the people. II gasoline
can be secured launch win be sent to
the plant. a similar attempt viii be
made at the Fowler plant.
Reports Of drowning, but always Of
unknown persons. continue to come in,
but they cannot be verified in any
case, and this further confirms the be-
lief that the loss Of life has been much
exaggerated
The most important means of COM
munication ii the food district for
several days have been the telegraph
and long distance telephone, and the
telephone and telegraph wires, includ-
ing the railroad wires, have been taxed
TO their utmost capacity, owing to the
loss Of hundreds Of wires, cables nm
der the river and main batteries.
TO illustrate the difficulty under
which the news report has been ST.
cured from the flood district, the news
from Lawrence, Topeka and other
Kansas cities las been sent out VIA
Denver and Cheyenne, thence back to
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