The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-06
Waves and Drifts Piled Up Where
Flood Invaded Homes and
Business Houses.
DEATH LIST NOW NUMBERS 10.
Ten Bodies Discovered 10y Workers
Relief Is Well in Hand ana
Funds Coming ln-Watcr
Service Ia BE Resumed.

Topeka. Kas., June The reported dead
i'm the Topeka Hood now number seventy
eight. or this number. thirty-nine are re-
ported dead on good authority.
A boat <man this afternoon reported that
seven bodies had been found near the north
end OF Hariison street. The Gnfortunates
we're Mrs. Jessie Shaw and four children
and man and woman named SKUNK
weller. all frcm Sherry.
The body of a man named Edwards was
picked up by i party near Soldier Creek.
Other bodies found to-day were those OF
Mrs. Nellie Watson, Mrs. Minnie prayers
and George Mcdonald. These were caught
IN the wreckage.
Persons working in the Hooded district
fear that many more will be found drowned
as the food recedes, and that the list OF
dead will not be far from 100.
Thirty or more persons are now classed
az missing Without doubt some of the
bodies will never be recovered.
WATER FALLS FAST.
The water has now receded more than six
feet and is going down at a rate of an inch
every hour. Good work is now being done
10 save such property as was not swept
| entirely away.
| in the part of town north and west of the
Rock Island bridge the damage is very
great The houses were mostly small and
| in the full force OF current The yards were
swept clean of outbuildings and many Of
| the houses were turned quarter OF the
way around and partially slipped from their
| foundations.
| Further east the outbuiidings are nearly
| all gone. bu, the houses are sui standing.
| a few blocks west of Kansas avenue
some of the outbuildings are still stand
1 ing and all over town scores and scores Of
| outbuiidings seen in all sorts of posi-
1 lions.
| The small houses which were In the full
| force Of the current are about the only ones
which We're carried from their foundations.
| The greater part of North Topeka is a
| great waste Of sand piled up over the
| streets. house floors railroad tracks and
| everything. burying TIE city from mere
| coating to a depth of two or three and in
| some places four feet.
| SAND EVERYWHERE.
All over the west part of the city the
| sand banks everywhere. The Union
| Pacific and the Rock Island tracks are COW
| cred with them in places to a depth of three
| feet, and in places the water is still rum
| ming under the ties Dooryards are piled
| high with sand.
On some of the houses It reaches to the
| windows and is BANKED up against the
doors. At others it is piled in the door
yards. Along Gordon street. where all the
| boatmen were wary and careful while the
water was at its height, there were great
sand banks along each side.
| The sand is not level. but Is in great
waves and piles and banks There are tons
and tons OF it. and the water Is slowly
| seepng out and leaving It there. an i'm.
mense waste. unproductive and barren.
Generous responses are being made tc
the appeals for aid From all over the coun-
try kilograms are being received author
| izing the officers here to draw on organiza-
tions for funds The Topeka Water Com
pany hopes TO resume service tonight.
At 10 o'clock one wall of c. W. Thomp
sons store. in Gordon street, collapsed
wrecking the building. No one was injured
Other buildings are reported in weak CON
dition.