The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-12
al<AW RIVER is SLOWLY REC ED.l
ING 70 N NORMAL FLovv.,S
Principal Loss Caused by High water
viii se Suffered ~ Railroad. No
Actual Distress Is Seen, a. Alll AZ
+ Cared For. nj

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and Missouri rivers food, which has
been exceeded in height only twice
since the country was settled, Is fall
ing more rapidly than 1t rose. Owing
to the Missouri permitting free outlet
TO the gorged Kaw, the financial loss
has been small and within a week
scarcely a trace Of the inundation viii
remain.
The Missouri river has been station.
sary here since p. m. at 28.6 feet
above low water mark, and is falling
at st. Joe and above. There will be
q steady fall Of the Missouri tomor-
TOW and rapid decline on Saturday.
The Kaw at s p. N. had fallen To-
inches since 2 o'clock this morning.
At Topeka and points farther west
the Kaw is within Its banks. Tomor-
row afternoon the Kansas City stock
yards, railroad yards and Armourdale
will be dry. Preparations made to re-
8lieve expected distress were unnec-
essary, as the evicted are already re.
turning to their homes and their work.
Railroad trafiic through Kansas has
been practically restored, and the
only delay now Is Of trains to the
north along the Missouri.
From now on 1t Is predicted that
the situation around Kansas City will
improve and that, as the waters pass
beyond here, damage may be expected
to follow along the Missouri and the
Mississippi east and north. #
The Missouri river continued to rise
during the early part Of the day at
the rate Of about half an inch an hour
and the weather bureau predicts that
It will continue to come up at this
rate for at least 20 hours All rail-.
roads were IN operation in and ont Of
the Union station this morning with
the exception OF the Union Pacific and
the Missouri Pacific, whose bridges
are under water, and the Santa Fe.
the last three named lines using the
tracks Of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco from the Kansas side.
Water 10 RecedIng. s8s#
4 The water was still half q block
from the Union station at the west
end and with the fall Of the Kaw all
danger Of water reaching this struc-
ture seems to have passed.
At the stock yards the water was
receding fast, but business was still
paralyzed there and no stock was be-
ing moved. Water still stood several
feet deep Ii one-fourth Of the hog
pens and there was two feet Of water
IN the basement Of the stock ex-
change. Despite the fact that hun
dreds Of persons are homeless n Ar
mourdale and Argentine. Kas.. no ac-
tual distress is apparent and the citi-
Gems Of Kansas City. Kas.. are taking
care Of all the needy In Harlem, the
village across from Kansas City on
the Missouri side, the people have
been housed on the hills.
Two more persons we're drowned to-
night James Fradora, aged 4S years.
Of Kansas City, Kas.. fell from his
front porch in Kansas avenue and was
drowned before help could reach him.
Later in the night James Brown, aged
16, was drowned in the blue near
Nineteenth street, the boat in which
he was riding capsizing. s4is
At 8 p. M. the last reading TO PC
taken during the night, the Missouri
stood 2S.S, fell OIL since o'clock.
The Kaw was falling late tonight at
the rate of one inch an hour.