The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-22
LIKE CLOUDBURST
Oklahoma Suffering From a Dis.
astrOus Flood.
Streams Out Of Banks and
Great Damage to Crops.

Oklahoma City, Ok. Oct. 22.-Serious
floods threaten portions of central and
nothern Oklahoma, the result of a
steady down pour of rain that has pre-
vailed for the past three days and still
continues. In some portions the rain
fall has amounted almost to the pro-
portions of cloudburst. Numerous
reports of loss of life, made yesterday,
remain unconfirmed and are believed to
be without foundation No single re-
port of loss of life has been verified.
The heavy rainfall began Monday
morning and at places has fallen in
cessantly since then. 1t has caused the
Canadian and Arkansas rivers, two of
the largest streams in the state to ov-
erhoW their banks, doing much dam
age to farm lands. causing washouts on
the railroad and in some instances
threatening small towns.
AT Tulsa and vicinity the Arkansas
had risen 10 feet in the "a hours ended
this morning and was then still coming
up. This brought the stream to with
in three feet of the highest stage
reached in the flood last spring. Many
farms around Tulsa were flooded and
farmers and their families were COM
PEELED to move out. The town of West
Tulsa is threatened with being inunda-
ted.
In the vicinity of Perry last night al
streams rose suddenly and hundreds OF
acres of crops were flooded.
A third of the town of Pawnee with
1,500 inhabitants was covered last night
with six feet of water. In the valley OF
the Canadian, the valleys for severa
miles between Shawnee and McLoud
are inundated and several parts of the
Rock Island, Missouri. Kansas and
Texas and the Santa Fe tracks have
been washed out.
In many directions telegraph service
| is interrupted and details are lacking
Flood at MuslSogee.
| Muskogee, Ok. Oct. 22.-The heavies
rainfall experienced in this section ii
| many years began at midnight las
night and continued today. The Arkan
sas and Grand rivers are rising. Th,
| lowlands of Muskogee are flooded anC
in some sections residents can not leave
their homes without the aid of boats
| Much damage to matured corn has re-
| suited.
| WOrlxmen Shut Of.
! Ell Reno, Ok, Oct. 22.-Two hundred
| Workmen were unable to reach theil
work in the Rock Island railroad shop:
and the new yards today and the might
crew were compelled to go to theil
| homes owing to high water from Foul
Mile creek, filling the lowlandS between
the city and the yards. The embank
ment at the new yards prevented the
! water from reaching the Canadian rivel
and has flooded out residents in the
northwest portion of the town, causing
| the ice plant, an iron foundry and 9th
! er industries to suspend.
OIL Fields Crippled.
Tulsa, Okla, Oct. 22.-Flood con-
| ditions in this vicinity are rapidly
| growing worse. The Arkansas river
| is rising a foot an hour. Bird creek
| is 20 inches above the high water
mark of last spring, the toll house i.
flooded, the bridge approaches are
| inundated and the lowlands for mile
back are flooded. A heavy rainfall
| between Tulsa and Bartlesville las
night, crippled oil field operations an6
| the pumping stations or the Prairie
Oil and Gas company are out of com
mission. All trains are delayed ant
| wagon traffic in the country Il
| paralyzed. The temperature is fall
| ing.