The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-04-28
MUCH LIVESTOCK DRowNs.
At Fcrt Scott Nine Inches OF Water Fell
In As Hours and Most Of Town
Il SUBMERGED.

Il Submerged.
Fort Scott, Kan, April 25.-The flood
situation is better, although there is
still danger Heavy rains are reported
south of here and all Of the tributaries
to the Marmaton and Mill creek are
swelling rapidly Here there was
three-foot fall during the night. The
gas plant is still full of water and all
newspapers are impaired on account Of
linotype machines having no gas. Re-
ports coming from farming districts
show much stock was drowned. A
farmer named Share, living two miles
northeast, had IS head washed down
stream. II is not uncommon to see
dead stock being taken down stream
through the heart of Belltown on the
north. w. H. Dorey. farmer living
one mile west, lost several hundret
dollars worth of property. The dam
age to Fort Scott and the manufacture
ing companies plants is $4,000. The
sugar plant also suffered great loss.
Most of the business houses on north
and east sides of town saved their
stocks by getting to work early. The
Southwestern Grocery company is the
heaviest loser. The street bridge at
Belltown will probably be saved. NJ.
X. & T. and Missouri Pacific railroad
bridges across the Marmaton were
saved by placing loaded coal cars on
them. All night pickets were out at
dangerous places. Wall street, con-
Meeting the east and west parts of
town. is opened for traffic, Andy Mort
and three others, while with a life
saving boat. were taken down stream
in the rapids and all were nearly
drowned. They lodged in trees and on
houses and were afterwards rescued by
Grant Hornaday, who tied rope to
telegraph pole and let boat down to
them.
Two children and a woman were re-
moved from the submerged district.
All were sick with pneumonia. The
citizens have subscribed to the relief
fund early and hundreds of dollars is
ready for the destitute All flood
stricken people are being properly
cared for. During the last As hours
nine inches of rain has fallen and !
is still raining. No trains are running
on the Missouri Pacific out Of here.
The NJ, X. & T. and Kansas City
Southern trains are being detoured via
the Frisco. The Frisco suffered wash
outs at Garland, nine miles south, ant
the Kenoma and Springfield division
was tied up.
OIL Companies Lose Heavily.
Chanute, Kan, April 25.-The Neo-
sho river Is raging torrent and is two
miles wide and steadily rising. A hard
wind, full Of rain, is blowing from the
northeast, making 1t impossible for a
boat to live on the water, and rescue
parties have abandoned their work
temporarily. Farmers and their fam
lilies who we're not able to get out last
night are occupying the second story
of the roofs of their houses. Immense
damage has been done to oil compa-
MES and much valuable property is seen
to be going down stream.
Kaw Rising at Topeka.
Topeka, Kan. April 25.-The Kaw
river is nine feet above regulation low
water mark and is rising about an inch
an hour. There seems to be little dan
ger Of another food like that Of last
spring. Rain fell here the greater por-
ton of Sunday night and Monday fore
noon, but was not of cloudburst ma
ture. Dispatches from Manhattan in
dictate the waters there are still rising.
Farm Houses Wrecked.
Mcpherson, Kan, April 25.-Reports
from the country of the cyclone that
passed through this city show that
some of the finest farmhouses in the
country we're destroyed, but fortunately
no lives were lost. The cyclone passed
through the Turky creek township
where some damage was done to farm
property.