Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1903-06-13

president, and Z. Z. Richardson,
treasurer, of the Kansas City Stock
Yards company, from the Transit
hotel in the west bottoms near the
stock yards.
The flood left great gullies in the
streets in the west bottoms. One at
Eighth and Santa Fe streets is Is
feet deep and contained five box cars.
One at Seventeenth street contained
five locomotives which the flood had
washed into it.
| When the street commissioner
went into the west bottoms Monday
after the flood had subsidized he found
mud to the depth of 2h feet. All of
this will have to be loaded on wagons
and carried to the Missouri.
During the crest of the flood there
were many heroic rescues from tree
tops and buildings. Thirty-eight
men, women and children were taken
from the Star elevator in the east
bottoms, where they had been i'm
prisoned "a hours. Rescuers had
much difficulty in getting victims to
enter boats. They were panic
stricken and preferred to stay in per-
ilous positions rather than risk a
ride across the turbulent waters.
Many people were rescued from tele-
graph poles.
| About 5000 cattle were in the stock
yards when the food began and the
lost and dead will aggregate about
500. About 5000 hogs were in the yards,
of which about $500, yarded in the
north end, were drowned. Nearly
all the fences in the stock yards re-
main standing in their former posi-
tons, which was a great surprise
to the officials.
Employment bureaus have been es-
tablished in Kansas City, Kan, and
all those who desire work can have
it. The records of the Mercantile
club show that they had housed in
so public institutions a few more
than 1000. This does not include the
fraternal headquarters who cared
for many of their members at vari-
Gus places in the city. The lowest
estimate that can be made is that
there are $4,000 people dependent on
public charity now, and it is expected
that 5000 of these will be a charge
on the community for some time to
come.
1t will be some time before trains
are operated on the st. Joseph
branch of the Burlington. The high
embankment on which the railroad
runs from the bridge to Harlem sta
ton is beginning to crack and settle
as the water recedes.
The Santa Fe railroad promises en-
ployment for all in Argentine. The
Santa Fe will also establish rapid
transit to Kansas City, No., until
street car service is resumed.
The food has sufficiently subsidized
to show that very few frame houses
that were in the current of the river
are standing.
In the yards of the Swift Pack
ing company in Arnourdale, AZ cattle
and $50 sheep were drowned. About
1000 hogs were taken to the third
floor of one of the company's build
ings and cared for until the flood
subsidized.
There was big advance in the
price of all kinds of produce in Kan
sas City, No., during the first few
hours of the food. Prices of eggs
and potatoes doubled. People were
frantic to LAY in a supply" Mayor
Reed and the city council were quick
to meet the problem. An ordinance
was passed heavily filming any mer-
chant or other dealer for overcharg-
ing. The Missouri Pacific railroad,
the only line open to st. Louis, guar
anteed to deliver all necessary food
stuffs by freight from st. Louis. In
"a hours the food panic collapsed.
One of the most distressing fea-
lures of the flood was the occasional
cry for help that came across the
water out of the darkness in different
directions when no help could be
given. Those who heard the calls,
family at times and indistinct, were
powerless to respond.
The north approach to the historic
Hannibal railroad bridge was carried
away the third day of the flood. No
trains can go over the bridge for two
weeks.
The order issued by the board Of
police commissioners closing all the
saloons of the city during the food
was wise and timely. With so many
unemployed men, and with the pre-
Willing feeling of unrest, the DISPOSE
ton of idlers to congregate in the
saloons and drink to excess might
have resulted in serious disorder.
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