The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-05
KANSAS RIVERS
STILL BOOMING
Flood of Last Year Exceeded
in Some Places.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE TO CROPS
ONLY TWO LIVES HAVE BEEN
LOST so FAR.

Kansas City. June A-Further rains have
fallen in southern kansas within the past
/ twelve hours. and the flood conditions ia
the valley OF the Neosho and Cottonwood
rivers continue TO grow worse. These
streams are higher than at any previous
time IN twenty years not eAcep-iAs l4iS
rise a year ago. ana they are SUM Ilsill5-
The kaW which caused the reit 0dIlaee
from Kansas City west 10 Manhattan IN
the flood Of 1893. continues 10 come up
slowly at Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas
City bur as yet no alarm IS felt over the
result of the flood along this stream. Al
though the Missouri river at Kansas CITY
is high and rising slowly, it Is DeieFed IL
win be able 10 carry off the great amount
of water coming this way from the west
through the kaW.
are those off the kaw watershed and
drain into rivers south or Kansas CITY
whatever serious damage Is done must al
feet southern Kansas territory, ana VIII
not do material damage at Kansas Slty,
Lawrence and North Topeka, which
towns suffered the brunt Of last year s
flood.
Damage to Farm LanCs.
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory
stances have overlooked their banks
lnunpdtiug valuable farm lands ana
doing more or less damage in me
vicinity OF LaWtOu, Oklahoma CITY
Guthrie and Shawnee, Okla. and around
MuskOgee, Ardmore and Sapulpa, J. IT.
I'm southwestern Missouri the Marais
Des Cygues has done some damage 10
tracks at tlcn Hill and other points
AT Kansas City and North, the Mis-
souri, river shows q small but uniform
rise. and a further rise of foot is pre-
dicted. Missouri streams, however. with
the possible exception OF the Aarals Des
Cygues. which also traVerSe5 Kansas, are
Wen within their banks. and il is believed
VIII cause no serious trouble.
Trains Hampered.
Railway service throughout the south
west is stil demOraIlZed and q dozen or
more trains are stalled i'm Kansas. Hun
oreds of thousands of dollars worth OF
bridges have been destroyed and growing
crops have been greatly damaged.
AS rar as known but two persons, d
woman and child, names unknown, who
were drowned at Florenes, have been
lost.
The greatest damage wrought is an the
great oil fields Of southern kansas
around Chanute and at lola, Florence
EmpOria. Fort Scott and further west
along the Arkansas at Wichita and other
points.
Al Chanute the Neosho IS miles wide
and the water is higher than since 1855.
bikes built in that vicinity we're all
washed OUT 9E the iooa or a. Few weeks
ago and as a result practically all of the
oil country is under from two to fifteen
feet of water. Scores of oil lakes filled
with OIL and many bricks ana rigs have
ueCu swept away. El1IlTOaQ LIaEL4c on
all lines i'm that section has OCen abau-
dCned.
higher Than Last Year.
AT lola the NeOcho is five miles wide
and a foot higher than it was last year.
All the bottom lands have been flooded
and the loss in cattle drowned and farm
property damaged VIII exceed that of 1903
The WaterWorks and electric light plants
are practically out of service. Rock and
Elm creeks have backed their water into
town and 100 families along their banks
driven from their homes We're forced TO
take shelter in the court house. The river
IS sLiu rising today and the worst Is
doubtless yet to come.
AT Florence business is practically at
a standstiu and merchants are removing
their stocks OF goods. a passenger train
is tied up at Clements and the passen-
gers were compelled to remain ina the cars
all night. Food was taken to them in
boats.
The lower part OF EmpOria- is deep un-
der water and this river there is stiN Tis-
ing. A party headed by Sheriff NewIauds
has rescued many persons.
The conditions at Fort Scott remain I'M
changed, HelltOWu being shut off from
the main part OF the city and the flood
extending as far west as lola