The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-10
THOUSANDS fLFE
MISSOURI FLOOD
Writer'S Have Invaded Part Busi-
ness District in Kansas City.
HEAVY RAINS in KANSAS
RESP ONSlBLE FOR THE FLOOD
RAILROADS ARE MENAcED
AND CUT OFF---MAYoR APP
pEALS FOR HELP.


west bottoms on the Missouri side
including the Union Depot and the
great wholesale diEtrict of Kansas
City, will have been covered with was
ter before the day has cleBe:l
A break in the kaw river near Ar
mourdale, Kas., last night sent cur4
rent of water into the bottoms that
first inundated tho outer railroad
yards and finally crept north flooded
cellars In the wholesale house, and
spread out toward the Union Depot.
The water rose slowly ana while it
undoubtedly will do great damage, it
h not believed that the tremendous
losses of last year will be duplicated
This will be so because the water is
not expected to reach SO high a stage
as last year and becau g merchants
had taken warning from their eXper.
fence of a year ago, ana removed
their goods to higher ground or to
upper stories.
This morning a heavy rainstorm
started in at Kansas City and west to
higher.
Late yesterday the Kaw at Armour
dale had become stationary, West Of
here, at Lawrence and Topeka, il was
reported falling at midnight, ana while
a two and one-half feet rise was pre-
dicted for some time today ar a re-
suit of the tributaries in Kansas pour
ing their waters into the Kaw, ii was
believed that this would come very
slowly and be carried of without en-.
terng the west bottoms, where such
disastrous results followed last years
overflow
1t is estimated that fully 10000 per
sons are homeless. OF this number,
5000 have been driven from Armour
dale and the others from various sub.
urbs
Mayor Gilbert of Kansas City,
has appealed to the secretary of war
to direct the commander at Fort
Ieayenworth to issue rations for the
homeless.
Several person are reported drown
ed.
When the water began to creep
further north toward the great whole
sale grocery houses, the dozen or so
implement warehouses and the other
big interests, fresh alarm was taken
and hordcs of men were set to work
removing goods ana what property
could be taken away.
At the union station every precau-
ton was taken to protect the nova
BILE property there. All the baggage
in the baggage room vas loaded into
freight cars and an engine was put
In readine $ to pull the cars from the
east end of the station as soon as the
water should reach the west approach
and become threatening. The eX-
press companies moved all packages
TO their uptown offices. At the ticket
office tickets and other belongings
there were put in boxes ready for re.
moval.
Convention hall 'on the Missouri
side which had been opcneG to the
people driven from Armourdalc and
Argentine was a scene of activity,
temporary cots and bedding being ar
ranged for the homeless and prepare
tions started TO feed them
In Kansas City, Kas., also hundreds
we're cared for in churches, public
buildings and in many private homes,
which were generally thrown open to
them On the Kansas side Mayor Gil.
bert ordered all saloons closed
Today oil business was suspended
at the stock yards, where the water
had covered the pens to depth of
Eve feet, and flooded the basement
of the Live Stock Exchange. At the
packing plants at Armourdale. water
stood two feet deep in tic offices Of
Swift packing house and Ike con
ditions prevailed at the plants Of Rud
1y Bros Nelson Morris. Cudahy and
Schwartzchild & Sulzbcrger. The xii
ling departments had been closed aud
business was at standstill Most
Of the took on hand hsdbeen removed |
to places of safety.
Practically no trains came in from |
the west today but tlose to thc eat
the Chicago q Alton. the Mis ouri |
Pacific. the Santa Fa ani the Rock |
Island-moved without trouble.
Westtmlnd passengers are stalled /
here. a few trains on each Of n
We tern roads were cent west by cir
euitous routes over o5her roads going
south as far as Joplin. The pumping
.tation al Turkey creek which furnish.
81 water ior the Missouri side Is still
intact
KAW NOW FALLING.