The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-16

DOWN IT GOES,
Fall in Kansas River Continues
Regularly.
Is Now Well Within Its
Banks.
SANTA FE LINES OPEN.
Trains Run East to Lawrence
Today.
Union Pacific Working Hard nm
Well Within Its
Banks.
SANTA FE LINES OPEN.
Union Pacific Working Hard ON
the Tracks.

Mature Is good deal like a hu-
man being or an ANIMAL" said Wealth
er Observer Jennings today, aafter an
eAceptionaI exertion it becomes all
ured out and that is just the con6ii-
Iloh that 1t Is in at the present time
IL mas over done itself during the last
week or SO and is SO tired that we may
expect spell of inactivity,
"a showery condition prevails over
the entire state though the rains
which have fallen in the watershed of
the Kaw have been lighter than those
which have fallen in other parts of the
state, favorable condition. The
showers which have fallen in the val
ley of the Kaw have been SO light that
they will in no way affect the river
at this point. The Kaw river is fall
ing slowly but steadily and the inda-
cations are that this condition will
prevail until the stream has reached
its normal stage"
AT z O'Clock this afternoon the gov
ernment river gauge recorded 1872 feet.
fall OF 4 of foot since the measure
I
ing. The fall Of seven-tenths of a foot
during the six hours Intervening be-
| tween and o'clock indicates a fall
| OF a little more than an inch an hour.
The river has fallen 81 feet during the
past "a hours and is Sc feet below the
high water mark reached Saturday
| afternoon.
| While threatening conditions pre-
vail over the state we have nothing to
rear at this point at the present time."
L CT mt -
| at o'clock. 1.-The Kaw is slowly fall
ing at Topeka and at all points west of
here and the indications are that the
! river will soon be at it's normal stage
again. While the conditions at the
present time are threatening they are
not such that. we are led to believe
that we will have heavy rains. While
| some precipitation may be expected
during the next "a hours the conditions
are net favorable for heavy showers or
a heavy general rain" s-siit!
| Everything points to a continuation
of the present rate of fall with q
slight increase in the rate during the
following "a hours. The river is
safely within its banks even at the low
places in North Topeka where it
seems that it has overf1owed at every
indication of a rise during the past
week.
The overflow mark at Topeka is
placed at 21.5 feet but the water
| leaves the banks or the stream at the
low places on either side of the city
several inches above this point and
| overfiows the low lands. Soldier creek
has again reached a stage where the
overflow waters in the section of
North Topeka adjacent are being
| drained into that stream. On the op-;
posite side Of the town the Kaw riv-
er is receiving the waters which are
draining from the 1owlands in Little
Russia and neighboring territory.
| North Topeka is practically frea
! from flood waters excepting localities
| which will retain them until drained
or they evaporate. Again the mer-.
| chants are preparing to resume their
| avocations and the residents are NOV.
| ing back into their homes, the excep-
tions being the more timid ones who
prefer to stay on this side of the river
until all possibilities of another flood
are past.
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