The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-07
wrecked that it win have to be entirely
Merchants Move Goods.

rebuilt
Merchants Move Goods.
| The sidewalks of lower Kansas avenue
are crowded with everything imaginab BILE
| from the contents of the cellars of the
that Vicinity. On the north side of the
river in the flooded district many of the
goods to the south side Of the river or put
them on the upper floors of their build
MIDI Continent mills all the flour was ia
ken to the second floor. The managers
of these mills were at work most of the
and it was only with difficulty that
enough were found. At woir's packing
lover lower floors and stored in either upstairs
rooms or at places farther up town.
Last Nights Rainfall
The rainfall reported for the "a
hours ending this morning at
O'Clock was -26 inches at Manhattan.
1.94 inches at Mcpherson, .06 inches
at Concordfas and Ito inches at Ores
den. These are the four stations re-
porting which are in localities where
the rainfall will affect the Kansas
river. The rainfall in Topeka last
night was .19 inches.
The rainfall at Mcpherson will not
all drain into the Kansas river. Nc
Pherson is on the dividing point of
the watershed, and that falling south
will not flow into the Kansas, but the
rainfall north of Mcpherson will flow
into the Smoky Hill river, tributary of
the Kansas.
The rainfall reported by Dresden, in
Decatur county, will be carried off by
Prairie Dog creek, tributary of the
Republican. 1t will require two or
three days for the rainfall reported
from Dresden to reach Topeka and by
that time other rains will have been
carried off and the Dresden rainfall will
not materially affect the Kansas river.
The rainfallS at Manhattan and Con-
cordia. are not sufficient to make any
change in conditions at Topeka
Director Jennings. Of the Topeka
weather bureau, said this morning:
THE rainfall at Concordia has been
light since yesterdays report and we
have nothing to fear at Topeka from
the Blue as there is little danger out
side of the affect of the rains all re-
ported yesterday. The heavy rain at
Mcpherson during the past "a hours,
measuring 1.96 inches added to the rain
fall reported yesterday of 1.S6 inches
will affect the Kansas river but only
part of that rain will come in the Kan
sas river as Mcpherson is on the divid-
ing line and the rainfall there flows
south and north and we will get only
that part of the water flowing north
into the Smoky Hill.
1.-THE rainfall at Mcpherson may
not bring any rise in the Kansas river
and its only effect may be to keep
the water up The reports from the
central counties are that it is still
raining. Should there be heavy rains
today or tonight the effect may be to
bring the Kansas river up almost to
the point where it was last year. This.
however, depends wholly upon the
amount of rainfall.
1.-The water in North Topeka comes
from Soldier creek. I followed the
water up last night and found that
o'clock last night Soldier creek had
fallen six inches and now all that
keeps the creek up is the Kansas
river. The creek waters will fall just
a a a fn
THE Kansas river measured EOS
feet at o'clock last night and 22.5 at
o'clock this morning. The river
stopped rising at o'clock this morn
ing and has fallen slightly since then"
Mr.. Curtis Moves Out.
Congressman Charles Curtis moved
his family out of North Topeka at
o'clock this morning Mr.. Curtis him
self went back to work He got all of
his household goods except the piano
and some books into the second story.
1.-The water at o'clock this morn
ing stood just where it did last year
when 1 moved out at o'clock Friday
evening said Mr.. Curtis. ''It is in my
cellar and up in my yard, but my
foundation is high and it will have to
rise about four feet to get into my
house.
From all reports 1 could get about
midnight it seemed that the water
was coming higher, and 1 thought it
just as we'll to move out. L think
most of the women are out of my part
of town and there are not many left in
North Topeka, except those who seem
to be simply sight seeing.
81 think the women who are sight
seeing ought to keep on the south side
of the river. There is a possibility
that that wooden span at the north end
of the bridge might go out and then
it would be extremely difficult to get
the women back. The men could take
care of themselves"
Piles of Drift.
a large amount of drift has gather
ed at the north end of the Rock Island
bridge The workmen were busy to-
day blowing out the drift with dyna-
mite.
across the river on the lower side of
the Rock Island bridge and just be-
low this are the Bell telephone toll
lines which lead to the north and
west. All of the Bell lines remained
intact except four.
Fire Engine on North Side.
Fire Chief Wilmarth took one of
the big fire steamers to the North
side this morning. so that in case the
approach should go out, and the high
water make the water service 1nehec-
tive, the North side would not be cut
off from fire protection, as occurred
last year. Chief Wilmarth will stay
on the North side continually with a
strong force of men in addition to the
regular number at the North side sta
ton, to render any assistance to peo-
pie who need help.
Should Provide Boats.
Fire Chief Wilmarth stated this
morning that the Commercial club
should take some steps at once to pro-
vide boats and have them on the
North side where they can be used in
case of an emergency Secretary T.
J. Anderson could not be seen in re-
gard to the matter. He is sick at his
home on Clay street and communities
ton was impossible with him even
over the telephone. President w. w.
Mills of the Commercial club is away
from the city, and Secretary Ander-
sons clerk lives in North Topeka and
was absent from the office TODAY. If