The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1905-09-22
MANY CITIES IN MISSOURI AND
KANSAS ARE IN SERIOUS
DANGER.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC BLOCKED
FARMERS IN THE LOWLANDS
HAVE BEEN DRIVEN FROM
THEIR HOMES.


swollen tributaries have caused a rise
of over ten feet in the Mississippi
river during the past twenty-four
hours, and re4.:ted in damage along
the st. Louis river front amounting to
many thousands of dollars. A vast
amount of produce and other shipping
property along the levee is still in
danger. The river stage yesterday
forenoon had reached 23.O7 feet sud.
den rise of 1905 feet in ewenty-four
hours. The danger line is 35 feet.
Tie water is gradually creeping UP
AMI it is predicted that the gauge will
in a few hours show stage of 2S
feet.
Form Salvage Crews.
Produce houses and grain and cot
ton firms having consignments stored
along the le'ee have organized gangs
of laborers and endeavored.to save
their property from being swept away,
but the suddenness of the freshet in
terfered to a considerah BILE extent.
Thousands of barrels of apples, bales
of hay, sacks of grain, bales of cotton
and in one instance $4,000 feet of lum-
Der were swept away. Men worked
breast-deep in the flood intercepting
floating merchandise, and fleet of
skiffs manned by men with boathooks
assisted in the salvage work.
Six Feet of Water on Tracks.
Madison, Kan, Sept. 20.-One of the
worst floods that has ever been ex-
perenced here is raging NOW. The
Nerdigris has overlooked it's banks
and half of Madison. With a population
of 1000, is under water.
Great difficulty is experienced by
the people in getting from their
homes. AS far as known no lives
have been lost. Wires are down and
there is no trains into the city. The
water covers the Santa Fe tracks to
depth of six feet.
LowIands Suffer.
Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 20. - Three
inches of rain fell here Sunday night
and it continued to rain yesterday.
The Kaw river here rose steadily dur
ing the night and is still rising, caus-
ing further damage to railroad and
other property in the lowlands.
Rains Every Day.
Kansas City, Sept. 90 = Rain has
fallen in Kansas City and vicinity
every day excepting one in September
with total railfall to date of ten
inches in seventeen days, and there
are no prospects of immediate cessa-
ton. Practically the same conditions
have prevailed throughout Western
Missouri. especially in tie northwest
ern corner of the state, and in a por-
ton of Eastern and Central Kansas.
Traffic Is Demoralized.
AS result all streams in this part
of the country continue to rise and
railroad traffic is becoming democrat
lied because of numerous wash-outs.
Turkey creek, which flows through
Rosedale, just across the line in Kan
sas ON the southwest, is on the ram.
page and many people along it's bank
were forced to move out yesterday.
The Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Mis-.
souri,, Kansas & Texas railways south
and east of Kansas City are experience
ing the greatest trouble
Steel Bridge Swept Out.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Sent 90. = The
Missouri river is rising rapidly here,
and 'Darktown" inhabitants ere NOV.
ing from the lower part O.. the city to
higher ground. The food is washing
through the Galloway county bottoms,
across the river from here, and the
farmers have been driven from their
homes. The farm of one man named
Laux is under sixteen feet of water.
The recent torrential rains, supple.
mented by backwater from the river
put all small streams out Of their
banks. The Tanner bridge, a steel
structure spanning the Moreau, is in
imminent danger of going out.