Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-06-10
KANSAS CITY At
MERCY OF FLOOD
Raging Kaw and
Missouri Rivers do
Great Damage
STOCK YARDS UNDER WATER
Railroad Traffic Practically
at a Standstill.- l.--Worst
Over at Topeka.

Kansas City. Mo. June 10.-With
the Hood waters from the Kaw reach
ing within one block of the Union Sta
ton and covering a quarter CT the
lower part of the Union stock yards
rendering useless some of the railway
tracks coming in from the west and
beginning to creep into the basement
of the big wholesale houses in the
west bottoms. Kansas City found itself
this morning in the throes of the most
serious flood since 1903. There is
possibility. however, of the waters
reaching the great flood stage of that
year when millions of dollars worth of
damage was done.
Railroad = affic DemoraIzed.
Railway traff was badly demoral-
lied and at the stockyards business
was nearly at standstill. One quart
er OF the pens on the Missouri side
were under water that stood from one
to six feet deep. On the Kansas side
a third of the quarantine district was
under water. The principal trouble of
the present floods laid to the Missouri
Pacific and Union Pacific railroads
whose bridges spanning the Kaw riv-
er acted as dams, causing the water
to back up and spread over territory
that was otherwise safe. The stage of
the rivers at seven o'clock this morn
ing were: Missouri river, 27.7, rise
of feet, inches in the past twelve
hours; Kaw. q feet, as against 25.2
feet twelve hours ago
The crest of the flood will be reach
ed here this afternoon and in another
twenty-four hours both the Kaw and
Missouri rivers at this point are ex-
pected TO begin to fall.
Missouri Rising at St. Joseph.
st. Joseph. Mo-, June 10.-The Mis-
souri, river continues to rise here and
is now four inches above the danger
line. This is higher than last years
flood when great damage was done in
this vicinity.
Great Damage at Leavenworth.
LeavenwOrth, Kans., June 10SLThe
Missouri river is rising rapidly here
today and heavy damage is being done
to farms. Much Inconvenience was
caused here today by the breaking of
the leading natural gas main as re-
suit of the flood and two-thirds of the
city is now without gas.
Worst Over at Topeka.
Topeka, Kans., June 10-The
government weather gauge in the Kaw
river at this point registered rs feet
at 8 O'Clock this morning, which is
a fall of two feet since the water be-
gan to recede BUSINESS men say their
only loss will be the loss of business
and the expense of moving their
stocks of goods. None of their goods
was destroyed as was the case during
the great food of 1903
Salina reported a rise of 2 IL feet
in the Smoky Hill river during last
night. The Solomon river shows a
7 inch rise today. The valley around
Junction City is flooded At Manhat-
tan the Kaw river has fallen four feet
since the decline started At Wamego,
thirty miles west of here ON the Kaw
river, a heavy rain started this morn
ing and the river is at present at
standstill.
Train service in and out of Topeka
is confined to the Santa Fe. Other
roads are at standstill or using the
Santa Fes tracks.
25,000 Acres Submerged.
New Orleans, La, June 10.-A spec
ial from Grand Cane, Louisiana, says
that news reached here today that the
Red river had broken through the le-
wee near Westdale, submerging $4,000
acres of growing crops and drowning
much live stock.