The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-01


no Improvement this morning, except that +
the fires which it was feared would spread
were put*ou by the rain and the food
itself. ~ So far as rail communication is /
concerned, the city is almost an island. I
The Aonly communication, and that very
uncertain, is by a road running southeast. |
Business all over the city is suspended.
Manufacturers on high ground are shut
down owing to the almost total. shutting |
off of water supply.
No street cars are running, nor are any
railroad trains going to or from the city
the outlet to the southeast is SO severe
that traffic in that direction is practically
at standstill. rss r.
Kansas City, Kansas.
Great anxiety is felt for the safety Of
the people of Kansas City, Kan. There
has been no communication with that city
since yesterday and exhaustive efforts to
get word from there this morning failed
Of any result. Five reporters who crossed
the. Kaw yesterday before the flood had
become SO serious have not been heard
from since.
Telegraph and telephone wires north,
south and west are down, and there are
only a few wires in shape to do business
east.
The river gage this morning showed
thirty-f1ve feet, having risen from 30.7
during the night. This is nearly nine feet
higher than the previous high record made
in 1881. i
! Eight feet of water floods the union
depot. A great swirling lake, dotted with
| floatage, trees telegraph poles and other
Wreckage, covers the lowlands as far as
the eye can reach. Similar floating OBJ
sjects are rushing down the Missouri river,
some OF them possibly from Topeka.
The committees having in charge the
work OF relief AMI rescue were busy early
and a special meeting Of the city council
Twas held this forenoon. - =
Refugees Are Cared For. =
Thousands of refugees at the conven-
l ton hall made their breakfasts from the
liberal rations issued by the relief COM
Inlittees. The police have been ordered to
shoot on sight any one caught plumber
ing.
/ The number Of lives lost in this vicinity
cannot be- learned for some time, and
probably never will be known definitely.
However there seems to be ample veri-
i f1cation of reports which account for the
i loss of more than a dozen lives in the
bottoms. 81. Z.
The keenest anxiety. is felt over the
Il situation at Kansas City. Kan One
lrumor circulated during the night was
that scores Of people had persisted ir
that city, but owing to the fact that there
has been absolutely no communicated
with that place since yesterday there l.
a general disposition to discredit this ant
> other sensational reports.
That there has been some loss Of life
there, however, is regarded as probable.
No Loss of Life During Night.
At 8 o'clock this morning 1t was re.
ported at police headquarters that there
had been no further loss. OF life during the
. night as far as was known. All along thu
bank of the river wagons containing rope!
were stationed during the morning IL
order: that any emergency could b.
promptly met. 4:
Early in the morning it was announced
3 that there were number Of people on thu
Milwaukee bridge and 1t was decided tt
q send the ferry boat to their rescue. Al
( | additional call was made from a hote
III situated at the intersection Of Fourteenth
: and Genessee streets, where q number o
. people We're reported to be held in tn
q | upper stories of the building. The ferry
. | boat was also ordered to take them off a
4 the earliest practicable moment.
: Word came up from the stockyards tina
: there were twenty or thirty people caugh
{ by the flood in that district. They wer,
: said to- be In no immediate danger, how
ever, and probably will not be taken of
e until late to-day or Tomorrow.
$ Police to Shoot Thieves
Word was brought to police headquar
! tiers this morning that a number of mel
y were looting houses in the east bottoms
. They had improvised RATS from board
: and by propelling them with poles wer
i making their way into the houses thr,
: the second story windows. AS soon. a
\ this word was received by Chief Of Polio
: Hayes he ordered a detachment of officer
. to the place, with strict orders that tn
q thieves should be. shot down at. once
S At 1890 the Bluff street bridge was tor
+ iout and its wreckage went crashing u
g against the buildings close to it, batterin
= some Of them badly. This bridge was en-
4 tirely in Kansas City. Mo- and spanne
II the Burlington tracks at Fifth street. !
has been out. of. use for some days an
Its fall at this time sions no addition;
: inconvenience.