Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-02

trains and T. These trains were pnrulled
Saturday. Northwestern on schedule time;
Omaha uninterrupted. Conditions good on
St Paul lines to Omaha.
1ir. West adds that he is communication
with Superintendent Taft at Kansas CITY
and that he will arrange to divert such
mails from Kansas City rs the latter noy
direct in order to connect via Omaha and
Denver.
Great Loss mt Hutchinson.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. June 1.-The loss
on property in this city and valley Is esti-
mated at S2,OOO.OOO Cow creek has fallen
since last night. but the water is still two
feet high in many business houses. The
Midland hotel and postoffice are threatened.
Carnegie library and the Bee office are
flooded
The electric plant is flooded and the lights
went out at IL o'clock Sunday night. The
city hall and court house are under water
and the fire department has moved to a
livery stable. All railroads are flooded for
miles Two thousand people In fifty blocks
are homeless. Hundreds of boats and RATS
are rescuing men and children.
The Home theater foundation gave way
and the wall fell The morgue is flooded
and corpses are removed TO the second
floor to prevent their floating away.
Hutchinson is in lake five miles square
and but 800 houses are above water
The Western Union Office is a foot deep
in water The Postal Telegraph company
has one wire working to Denver. Restau-
rants are flooded and supplies are running
low.
Thousands of acres of wheat, corn and
alfalfa are ruined. Hundreds of truck
farms are six feet under water All
churches, excepting the Baptist are under
water Foundations OF many buildings are
weakened and many will fall. There is
much suffering.
The water is four feet higher than ever
before, Every manufacturing plant, salt
plant and wholesale house is flooded
Ball Players Move n Little.
MANHATTAN, Kan, June 1.-The east
bound Rock Island passenger train from
Denver, which had been here since Thurs
day, left for the east last night, but got
no further than Clay Centre, a distance of
thirty-five miles, where It is stalled.
Among the passengers on this train are
the members of the Milwaukee and Peoria
base ball teams.
Manhattan is I'm the very center of the
foods fury. The Blue river from the
north and the Kansas river from the west
which carries the waters from the Repub.
lican, Solomon, Saline and Smoky rivers
besides several large creeks, meet at he
eastern edge of the city. The high rail-
road banks alone have saved the city from
being completely submerged and possibly
entirely swept away.
The rain has descended here almost
steadily since Thursday. To add to the
calamity all the telegraph and telephone
wires are down and the city is in darkness,
the electric plant being flooded with water.
Highest for Thirty Years.
EMPoRIA, Kan, June 1.-The north fork
of the Neosho has fallen eleven feet, but
the south fork of the Cottonwood is now
six inches higher than at any time in thirty
years and another two-foot rise has
reached Strong city, twenty miles west,
since the Neosho has subsidized. Reports
from the country have begun to reach
here and indicate that the valley of the
Neosho above here is desolate waste.
Thousands of dollars worth OF farm prop
ertv and crops were washed away and
hundreds Of head of cattle hogs and sheep
were drowned. No loss of human life is
reported near here yet, but at Council
Grove fourteen bodies are said to have
been found in houses since the water
subsided.
Significant news below indicates that the
disaster will be most complste. The Katy
tracks are washed out on both sides OF
Emporia, but the Santa Fe has replaced
its tracks and is running trains from
Topeka and Ottawa to Newton.
Rain fell here most Of yesterday. Tenn
perature, 40 degrees.