The Tupelo journal., 1903-06-12
CAUGHT IN THE DRIFT.

CAUGHT IN THE DRIFT.
The body of a man named Edwards
has been picked up by a party near
Soldier Creek, Kas.
Oscar Banker, aged about eighteen
years, vas drowned in the SaliDa riv-
er, near Trenton, Kas.
The reported dead in the Topeka
food now number rs. OF this number
80 are reported lead on good authori-
ty.
The two-year-old child of C. A.
Newsletter was drowned at Wilder,
Kas., while the family was being res
cued.
George Gould sent $4,000 to the Kan
sas City (Kas.) relief committee, and
President Burt of the Union Pacific
sent $500 to each Kansas City.
Four bodies passed down the Mis-
souri, river at Kansas City, within an
hour. They were carried along so
swiftly that they could not be recov-
cred.
Seven bodies have been found near
the north end of Hardison street, in
Topeka. Among the u~nfortunates
were Mrs. Jessie Shaw and four chill
dren.
The carcasses of dead animals at
the Kansas City stock yards are Great
ing a dreadful stencil: The bodies are
being towed into the river, to float
down the Missouri.
The military camp in Wyandotte
opens with 1000 inhabitants, whites
and negroes being separated. The
military camp in Kansas City opens
with 500 Inhabitants.
Permanent wire communication has
been opened between the two Kansas
Citys for the first time since Sunday,
and this will aid wonderfully in the
work of restoring order.
The citizens relief committee of
Kansas City, Mo-, has issued a state
ment to the public, giving thanks for
sympathy and offers of aid, and ask
ing that assistance be SEM to Kansas
City, Kas.
Two bodies were found under a rail-
road coach in the west bottoms. The
bodies of a Greek railroad laborer and
a negro have been found in the bot
toms near Kansas City. The revised
death list now contains ten persons.
Over ten thousand acres of farming
land in the vicinity of New Florence,
Mo-, is inundated.
The immense ice houses located
north of Hannibal, Mo-, are in danger
of being f1oated away.
Two cases of insanity have devel-
oped from the horror inspired by the
food scenes at North Topeka, Kas.
The saloon men and brewers of
Springfield, Mo-, donated a car load
of flour to the flood sufferers of Kan
sas.
Maj.-Gen. Bates has sent two troops
of cavalry from Fort Leavenworth to
Kansas City to assist in preserving Or
der.
The 1892 high water mark at st.
Charles, Mo-, were passed Friday
morning, and the river front is crum-
bling badly.
Arsenal island, south of st. Louis, is
out of sight, being completely SUBJ
merged. Only a few tree tops indi-
cate it's location.
The river at Carondelet is almost
four miles wide, extending from the
west shore of the river to the bluffs
on the Illinois side.
The levee broke north of Quincy,
ILL.,, Thursday afternoon and hundreds
of acres of lowland farms were added
to the inundated area.
Quincy, ILL.,, is practically isolated.
In order to reach st. Louis from there
it is necessary to make a detour via
Bushnell or Galesburg.
East st. Louis, Ill, is lamenting the
loss of $4,000 gold fish which inhabit-
ed the filtered water reservoir there,
which is now submerged.
Corn lands in the big lake district
in Jackson county, ILL.,, are in great
danger of being flooded by the stead
ily-rising waters of the Mississippi.
All the American bottoms south of
East St. Louis, ILL.,, are flooded, and
households and shacks along the river
front on the west side are submerged.
The water is beginning to do con
siderable damage in the Illinois bot
toms and is also getting into the Mis-
souri, bottoms south of Cape Girar-
deau, Mo.
From reports received from wealth
er bureau stations further up the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers, the high
water mark will not be reached at st.
Louis before Monday.
The residents of Alto Pass, ILL.,, and
vicinity, fear a flood equal to a that
| of 1892, when the water reached a
depth of ten feet owe a large part of
the rich farming land there. Much
| of the wheat seems already doomed.