Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-16
END OF MISSOURI
FLOOD IS IN SIGHT
KAW is RAPIDLY REACHING
NORMAL STAGE
Alton, Burlington and Katy Start
TraIns-AIl Railroads In Kansas
City Use Grand Avenue
Depot
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 15.-The
Missouri river has begun to fall and
the end of the great flood is in sight.
The Kaw is also falling and its upper
courses is rapidly reaching normal
stage. The crest of the Missouri was
reached this morning at 30.5 feet. the
river continued stationary until p. m,
and between 5 and o'clock had fallen
half an inch.
Most of the railroads are using the
Grand avenue station, although the
water did not come up into the union
depot.
The Alton, Burlington and Katy are
starting their trains and landing pas
sengers at Sheffield, on the eastern
boundary of the city, involving street
car ride of four miles to reach the GEN.
ter Of the city.
No heavy rains have fallen in this
territory since Saturday, and although
weather conditions are still unsettled
there is no immediate prospects of
further precipitation
When the rivers became stationary
this morning the Kaw registered a
stage of 1915 feet, while the gauge of
the Missouri was 30.2 feet. The Mis-
souri, is holding back the waters of the
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district comprised by Armourdale. kas.,
and the wholesale district in the west
bottoms of Kansas City, Mo. The Kaw
would have fallen rapidly here, were
1t not for the stage of the Missouri
and until the crest of the Missouri from
the north reaches here the fall of the
Kaw was neutralized, the waters re-
naming stationary in the flooded dis
tricts. The Kaw river is falling at
Topeka and points west, and most of
the Kaw tributaries are assuming their
normal stage and reports from Mis-
souri, river points to the north show
that the waters are receding solwly in
flooded districts.
The Union station is still above the
alongside the depot baggage rooms,
the water is more than a foot deep.
Hotel in Water
There are two feet of water in front
Of the Blossom house, the most pre-
tentious. hotel in that district, and the
railroad tracks on the west approach
of the Union station are under water.
The last trains to come into the sta
ton from the west came through water
almost up to the fire box of the en-
gines and the most primitive methods
of signaling were employed to facili-
tate their slow progress through the
water. Men WdueQ dHedu VI lHo Gil
gines and removed floating obstruc-
lions and drift. The Missouri Pacific,
Wabash and Chicago & Alton are still
using the Union station as they enter
the trainsheds from the higher ground
to the east. The Santa Fe, Frisco and
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul were
the last to abandon the western APP
proach to the station and they are
using the depot at Twenty-second and
Grand avenue today.
The continuation OF the flood Is hav-
ing a damaging effect upon many Of
the older brick buildings in the flood
districts. Some structures are being
undermined and doubtless will be con-
demned as unfit for further occupancy.
| All Of the packing houses except Fow-
| ler's Packing company are surrounded
bv water, and Fowler's plant IS not
entirely unfiooded. The packing COM
panies have taken every precaution to
save their plants from damage and
their greatest loss will result from their
suspension of operations.
The east bottoms of this city are
surrounded by the overflow Of the Mis-
souri,. The Kansas City Southern rail-
road kept a large force Of men at work
all night building a sand dixie for
distance of two miles along the tracks.
The workrnen kept ahead of the rise in
the river and the dixie will be effective
unless an unexpected rise of the river
occurs. The Missouri Pacific took the
same precautions to protect its prop
erty.