The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-05
Eight People Not in the Mortuary List Are
Gone.
Only One, a Colored Man, Has Been Re
covered.

ened and replaced as far the the south
line of Shorey- But the difficulty lies
beyond How the rails are to be laid
across the torrent that now bears over
the right Of way in North Topeka is the
question that now occupies the con-
struction engineers. superintendent
Slifer viii probably be forced to drive
piling for at least portion of the dis
tance north of the Davis elevator. Reg
ular trains from st. Joseph are now
running as far south as ElmOnt. The
Rock Island has carried hundreds of
refugees north free of charge Four
car loads of supplies reached the Ret
form 7chOol Thursday afternoon from
ST. Joseph. The Rock Island is Oper.
atlng a wire through North Topeka by
way of the Rock Island bridge
Hundreds of flood victims are quar-
tered al the Reform school and in the
farm houses in the hills north of To-
peka At no time since the flood has
any person north of the Kansas river
OF food A perfect understanding is
now maintained among the toWnshis
committees as to the care of refugees
all OF whom have been SO distributed
as 10 De most comfortably taken care
MERIDEN SENT FIRST AID.
ne very first assistance to reach To-
peka from the north came from Meri-
den, y miles northeast. At 4 a. m.
sunday two wagons left there loaded
with food. They reached Rochester at IL
o'clock and the food was Immediately
distributed. Holton sent one of the first
car loads of supplies.
THEY WANT PAPERS
In Shorey at the Reform school and
all through the hills the anxiety for
news and newspapers is pathetic A
very few copies of Topeka papers have
reached there St Joseph papers have
been more plentiful but news of Topeka
4 Is scarce Many persons are absolutely
uninformed of any incidents that have
transpired since communication with
4 the South side was severed A rather
uncertain mail service has been estab b.
lished to the Reform school and mail
for towns north is carried out with
some regularity. Twenty-Five cents~has
been paid for newspaper on the Roch-
ester road.
SOLDIER WAS FLOODED.
/ Water in the Soldier creek bottoms
and III every draw and gully through
/ the hills north of Topeka has been on
an equal heighth with the river, flood
/ ing much cropped lands North Of the
Reform school buildings the timber and
fields were flooded three-uuarters of a
mile wide while the flood current that
swept north of ShOrey and cut off the
Reform school buildings flooded an area
more than mile in width. east of the
Reform school buildings. Standing wa
ter has formed in ponds and lakes in
the bottoms north Of the Soldier. Look
ing from a windmill in Shorey water
can be seen a mile north. This condi-
tion maintains to the east, throughout
the farm and nursery lands of the bot
toms for miles east.
TOBACCO FAMINE.
Hello. Got any chewin' ."
Yes Got any smOkin %
Yes"
For the land sake gimme sonnet"
/ This is a fair sample of the salutation
on the country roads north of town. Of
/ ten both responses are in the negative
and condolences follow. Where food is
plentiful tobacco is a scarce and ~alu-
able article.
On Tuesday plug tobacco sold for Il
/ cents cut and the price has evidently
not lowered. judging from the manifest
j scarcity of the article. a