Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-02

| KANSAS CITY, Mo, June There is
! dec ed Improvement in the situation this
morning and there is a general feeling
! that Kansas City has seen the worst of the
| flood.
| Unofficial weather gauges in the Union
| depot showed a fail of about six inches
| during the night and the official report is
| stationary, the water being thirty-five feet
at am.
Danger CT Famine Has Passed.
The danger cf a famine has passed and
| the railroads are confident that they will
| be able to bring in ample supplies from
| this time
The stock of meats in the packing houses
most of which can be taken out in boats,
proves to be greater than at first supposed,
and there is no doubt that there is suf-
fcent meat to sustain the city for week,
even if nothing is brought IN from outside.
There is a greater scarcity of food in
Kansas City, Kan, but with the opening of
the electric line from I.eavenworth it is
thought that there will be no distress of an
acute description.
Getting Back to Normal.
Superintendent Goodwin of the water
works department announced this morning
that he believed the water supply would
be in a measure restored by ni3htfa1l.
He has placed pump ard boiler in the
center of Allen street, and is running a
supply pipe into a twenty-inch main lead
ing to the Holly street reservoir.
This. he says. he csn FIJI by night, giving
the city better protection against fire and
providing water for sanitary purposes. A.
the cable car lines have resumed and are
running usual
The power El0nt of tie electric lines is
under water, and these roads VIII not be
| allie to run til the water satsaes.
First IIail Fro,n tie West
The first maiis from sllc west have come
in, late last night and another from
Wichita this morning. Nothing has come
yet from the flooded district around To-
pcla and Lawrence. and it is. not jiiioly
that any will arrive for several days after
the water sGhsdes.
About two carloads of second third and
fou. III class mail matter have been .ost
in the freight yards. The water is now
about FIVE feet above the bottoms of tie
mail cars ana running strongly
Il may he possible to dry o.t mail atiei
it's recovery hut at present Superintendent
Taft of the railway service classes that
| mail among the lost articles
Damage Way Up in Millions.
The financial damage is estimated by
prominent business men at anywhere be-
tween $40 C03,cGo and so ,Go9, ,0G0 in this city
alone, but there is no method of determin-
ing this with any accuracy. One mans
guess is as good as anothers
The great danger now is the crumbling of
brick buildings. and this has begun in some
quarters where old buildings are standing
or. nd h.
structure has gone down. but there has
been no general collapse as yet of any
large building.
All throug! the freight yards numbers of
cars are being loosened from their trucks
and are floating down stream
When swept along by the current they
make q high-class DatteriiIg RAM and the
front of any building that receives many
teri2l damage.
Still Without Gas.
The gas company has announced that it
hoped to restore the supply of gas during
the day. but it failed this morning to make
good its promise to supply sufficient gas for
cooking purposes
Nine-tenths of the Kansas City house
holds use gas for cooking. and the result
was that the great majority of breakfasts
were cold. The gas company hopes for bet
ter luck by night.
mild type of martial law was in force
last night Soldiers were stationed all over
the business part of the city and while no
attempt was made to keep people off the
streets, anybody walking abroad after mid
night was compelled to give an account of
himself.
Kaw River Falling.
At o'clock this morning the Kaw river
was falling slowly but steadily
All through the wholesale district the
buildings showed evidence of the Decline
and watchmen in the freight houses who
had rigGed up water gauges Of their own
declared that the fall since daylight was
about six inches.
Unofficial reports indicate that the de-
cline is about one-half inch per hour
This morning it was announced by the
police engaged in relief work in the east
bottoms that all the persons who had been
imprisoned in houses in that district had
been rescued, and that there was no chance
of any further loss of life
The story yesterday of fifty Belgians
drowned in the east bottoms was today
| found to be untrue
| One brick house, two stories high, has
fallen down, and about half dozen frame
cottages have been washed from their
foundations. With these exceptions all the
buildings in the east bottoms are un-
| injured.
DIFFICULTY IN WIRING NEWS.