The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-06-12

Kansas City, MO-, June IL Two
laborers lost their lives, two others
were seriously injured and property
loss estimated between a quarter of
a million and $35O,00O was caused by
packing plant of Morris & Co., in
Kansas City, Kansas, this morning.
The first explosion was sewer gas,
resulting from the watchman lighting
match in the cold storage depart
ment. This was followed by the Sec
ond explosion of a quantity of ammo
mia near by, and a stubborn fire start
ed which took the department five
hours to get under control. For a
fme the entire plant seemed doomed
Because of the flood the firemen
were unable to reach nearer than two
blocks of the building with their ap-
paratus. Engines from the Missouri
side were called for, but could not
get across the flooded district. The
sausage department of the plant was
the first to go. Telephone communi-
cation with the scene was impossible,
the wire service being destroyed by
flood, and it was difficult to get any
information.
When the building was completed
in 1905 it was valued at $2.225, 900.
of which the buildings represented
$1,2t5, 900, machinery $44S,OOO and
other equipment s4S2 900 The daily
| 1o1r Of ,,lo
was 1,5oO cattle, 1000 sheep and
5000 hogs. IN January, 1903 fire dam
aged the plant $750,000. The loss of
meat in the present fire is enormous
The coolers were packed to their ca
pacity, as the flood interfered with
railway traffic long before the water
shut down the plant
Rivers Falling at Kansas City.
Kansas City, June 12.-Despite the
heavy rains last night and early to-
day in the Kaw and Missouri valleys
reaching from northeastern Kansas
to Omaha, both rivers in this vicinity
continued to fall today, and the gen
eral flood conditions are better. In
IllO last 1t lHS nav ldS ldllSH
two feet. The Missouri is going down
more slowly, receding half foot
from eight O'Clock last night until six
O'Clock this morning. A heavy down
pour in Kansas City caused more To-
cal damage in the west bottoms. The
stock yards are still idle and the
packing houses are unable to kill even
if they had stock. The railroads are
in better shape, although their sched
ules are still disarranged.
Mississippi Rising at ST. Louis.
st. Louis, Mo-, June 12.-The Miss
issippi, which has been practically
stationary the past week, although
at the flood stage danger mark, IS
beginning to rise rapidly. The guage
this morning marked 30.7 feet, rise
of four-tenths of a foot in the past
"a hours. The danger line is thirty
feet. The weather bureau predicts
31.2 by tomorrow morning and 33 by
Sunday. Thousands of acres of fine
farm land miles of railroad track are
under water, and hundreds of people
are homeless as result of the high
waters in this vicinity; but the slow
rise has given ample time for prepa-
rations and the damage will be less
than IA former years.
Heavy Rains in Kansas.
Topeka, Kan, June PA terrific
rain, amounting to a cloudburst in
many portions of the kaw valley and
which was accompanied by the heav-
lest wind and electric storm il years
swept over this territory btween
three and seven o'clock this morning
It is feared that it will tend to check
the fall of the Kaw At Topeka two
ff1ches of rain fell. A small boy was
drowned by the upsetting of boat.
Fully three inches fell at wamego
thirty miles west, where the wind
was almost tornado blowing down
trees and unroofing hcurch. Many
trees were blown down and crops in
jured in other sections. Two inches
of rain fell in many sections, includ