Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1903-06-02
DES0LATG SITUATION
buch Was Status n gansas City a.
Reported Noelay.
no TRAFFIC GOING Oy
Nothing Was Heard from Rassa,
city, Ran, and grsat Anristy
Prevailed ~ Condition
~ That Place.

Kansss citY. Jgns The Gss0iais
sspsci ~ fha mod situation bsfs sbge
~ improvement fEsepi that ne 1fss
which Il uas feafed YOU'D aDfesd. usp
put o1t W ne rain snd fils noo1 ltssn
80 faf ~ roll communication b. 'on.
esfned. ths nv ls almost 90 idah9
Tbe 0niT communication. and hat Vsf'
uncertain. WIS., w foa1 rYnnlnf
southeast Business sli 0ysf ne cIty
IL Suspended 0anYfaetufsfs On blgb
ground we're compelled 10 shut torn
owing ~ me almost total shutting m
81 the water supply no street eau
afs running. nor anY railroad trains
going ~ ~ ff0m the ny north. vest
o. south blockade ~ me Quiet
a. the southeast b. ~ severe hat tfgfs
~ in ihat direction r. practically a.
standntiii
Great anxiety IL fsii f9f ne nlfsiy
Of The people ~ Kansas CltY. K8H
There has been no communication with
tbat city since sunday and sshausfgs
Shorts ~ ret word from there hays
failed ~ anY result Fiss reporters
who crossed the KsW river before ths
Hood had DsrOms 10 serious have not
beer heard ffOn since Tsisgfaph aBd
tslsphone wires north. south and west
are down. and there are only q few
wires IN shape ~ d0 business esst
The river gauge HbONsd thlfty.hys
feet. having risen from COZ DOR
ing sunday night This h nfafiy nine
feet higher ihan the previous high fscs
ora made In 1891 There BE- eight feet
~ Wsisf IN the union depot a crest
sNifilng lake. dotted vim floating coz.
tages. trees, telegraph poles and other
wfsckaRs covers the l0Niands ~ fsf
81 eye can fsaeh Similar floating %.
jecis eanne rushing down the Missouri
river. some ~ n possibly from Topeks
The committees having IN charge me
work ~ relief and fsseus are busy ~.
DAY and q special meeting N me oiiy
council called was held Thousands N
refugees a Convention hall made ibslg
breakfasts from liberal fatl0ns Issued
~ the relief committee The polite
have been ordered ~ shoot On aaht
any one caught plundshnN
The number N lives lost IN thls ".
entity can not be- learned Tor some iims
and probably never viii be- known dsH
Bitsiy However. there seems 10 be
ampls yefincati0n N me reports. which
account Tor less than o dozen lives In
the bottoms
The kssnsst ansieiy h fsIt over fhs
situation ~ Kansas Ciiy. Kan Ons
fum0s was circulated during SUNDAY
hiFht that scores " people pgrishsd In
that city.
u Was announced that there wsfs
q number N people on the MiWaukfs
bridge and n was decided 10 send q
ferryb0ai ~ their rescue An addl.
tional call was made from r hotel ~
uated M The intersection N Fourteenth
and ueneaee streets. where number
~ people we're reported f0 Boz held In
the upper stories NJ me- building The
forfyh0Htuns a'a0 ordered t0 take them
on at ihe earliest practicable moment
Word came up from ihe ato. yards
that there were twenty OF thirty poo.
pie caught by the hood ln Tint district
They we're saIi 10 be- ln mo- immediate
DANGER however
word was brought 10 police head.
quarters that q number ~ men we're
looiing houses in tha rIHt bottoms
They bad lmpfovIsod fafia from holris
and by pf0ra'iinr thorn with poles we're
making iheIf way into che houses
Through second story windows A. coon
o. this word was received bY chief N
Police HAY Dol ordered danebments OFF
onlcofa io the p.HDa With orders ihli
n the story una found to ho true the
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