The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30

Kansa,, City, May 3O.-Fourteens lives.
it is estimated, have been lost fully 10000
persons have been rendered homeless and
financial losses, including damage to
houses and stocks washed away and rail
way tracks and bridges rendered useless.
that will mount high into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars, have already resulted
from the almost unprecedented floods now
raging in Oklahoma, Indian tellitory, Mis-.
souri,, Nebraska and Iowa. Lives are re-
ported lost at the following points: Tope-
ka, eight; Des Moines, fours Kansas City.
one; Oklahoma City one.
The homeless: Topeka, 900: various in
terror Kansas points, $500; Kansas City,
Kan, and vicinity, $500; Des Moines,
5000; and Nebraska points, 1000.
Thousands of persons, particularly at
Topeka and turnout Kansas, spent last
night on housetops; hundreds at Des
Moines are without food or shelter and
great suffering is being experienced all
thru7the flooded district.
KANSAS is "A LAKE
Practically the Whole State Is Under
Water.
Kansas City, May 30--The greater por-
ton OF Kansas is a lake.
Streams have become rivers and rivers
are raging torrents.
InOuSanQSs OF 1dn11I1SS are hOYneleSS and
thousands upon thousands of acres of
growing crops have been destroyed.
There has been some loss Of life, but
only scattering cases Of drowning are re-
ported. The property loss, however, is
enormolls No estimate can be made, but
it will amount to millions of dollars.
8 Nearly every railroad in the state is
tied up by washouts and ruined bridges,
and railroad traffic practically is at "a
standstill.
Miles upon miles of tracks have been
washed away, and telegraph and tele-
phone poles are down aby the thousands.
This condition of affairs is the result of
an unprecedented rainfall, amounting at
one point to fifteen inches In twelve hours.
while five and six inches is common re-
port. ~ ~
River Is Still Rising. i.
The flood situation along the BANKS Of
the Missouri and Kaw rivers here and
west is far more serious than yesterday.
The Missouri continues to rise. This NOR
ming the government gauge registered
twenty-five feet and twenty-six feet is the
record of 1881. A still further rise of two
feet is expected within twenty-four hours,
heavy, rains having fallen last night for
a mile around Kansas City
The principal damage so far. is on the
KaW at Kansas City, Kan, and at it's Ar
mourdale and rgentine suburbs. It is
estimated that $500 persons have been
driven from their homes within five miles
of the mouth Of the Kaw.
Streets Under Two Feet Of Water.
Perhaps 1000 Of this number are at Ar
mourdale where the streets are two tc
three feet under water. Citizens, police
and firemen, worked all night removing
household effects, rescuing women and
children, and providing shelter for the
homeless.
The north half Of Argentine, occupied
| mainly by railroad and packing house en-
ployes, is one big lake, and 500 persons are
without homes. There are only clever
houses clear of the water.
| In the west bottoms, both on the Kaw
and the Missouri, the water during the
night had encroached still further upor
the packing house and into the Easements
Of many wholesale houses. At the stock
yards a number Of pens were flooded ant
water was beginning to run into the base
ment Of the Live Stock exchange.
At Harlem, across the Missouri from
Kansas city fifty houses are surrounded
| by water and have been deserted, tn.
families In most cases leaving thei
household belongings AS far as know
no lives were lost. The property loss Il
1 heavy ~ E5ll{ -ssf-