Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-10
WORST FLOOD SINCE 1908.
Waters Creeping Into Traders Base
ments at Kansas City.
By Associated Press

ments at Kansas City.
By Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY Mo-. June 10-With the
food waters from the Kaw reaching with
in one block of the Union railway station.
covering one-quarter of the lower part of
the stockyards, rendering useless some OF
the railway tracks coming in from the
| west and beginning to creep into the base
ments of the big wholesale houses In the
west bottoms Kansas City is today con-
| tending with the most serious flood since
| that of 1908.
| There was every indication this fore
noon however that the crest of the Hood
would be reached before nightfall and
that in another twenty-four hours both
the Kaw and the Missouri rivers at this
point would begin to fall. To the west the
Kaw at Lawrence and Topeka is falling
rapidly, and from now on conditions in
this pa art of the flood district are expected
| to improve.
| The Missouri Pacific railway. whose low
| bridge across the Kaw caused the water
! in that stream to back up last night and
| spread out into the bottoms. abandoned
/ the bridge today and began sending out
| its trains from the Kansas side, while
| the Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paui
railway used its outlying station up town
|
ing to reach the Union station.
| The Great Western railway, whose
tracks skirt the Missouri river just TO
| the north of the station. also experienced
would have to abandon its bridge during
! the day. All Santa Fe. Union Pacific and
| Rock Island trains for the west were
! forced to use the tracks on the ST. Louis
and San Francisco, the only outlet. The
! other railroads reach the station from
the east. either by trestle or on higher
| ground and they were practically out of
| danger. All train service, however. was
| demoralized. and but few trains in any
| direction were running on time.
| At the stock yards business was nearly
at standstill. One-Quarter of the pens
on the Missouri side were under water
that stood from one to six feet deep. The
! flooded district covered 20 acres of the
20 acres set aside for pens.
Waters Receding at Topeka.
TOPEKA. Kan. June 1O.-The govern
ment weather bureau gauge in the Kaw
river at this place registered twenty six
feet today. a fall of two feet since the
! water began to recede. This is at the
rate of An inch an hour and will take
the water back from the north Topeka
houses and streets into the regular chan
mel by late this afternoon. Citizens are
returning to their homes and almost nor
NAL business conditions will be resumed
Thursday.
At Manhattan the Republican and kav
rivers have fallen four feet since the de-
cline started.
Train service in and out of Topeka il
still confined to the Santa Fe
bikes Break and Flood Valley.
SALINA, Kan, June 10.-Dikes built Il
protect farms from the Solomon and
Sr1rE t.Sx- C41-
distance east of here. broke in two places
!. today. flooding the valley and running
thousands of acres of crops.
Seven Drowned in Montana.
HELENA. Mont, June 1O-After weeks
Of rain, causing the greatest floods in the
} history of Montana. the weather turned
warm yesterday, and it is feared thai
another rise in the rivers and streams
! throughout the state will occur.
The snow in the mountains is severa
feet deep and when it starts to melt viii
continue to feed the already overflowins
streams. Many railroad bridges have beer
washed out and traffic is still badl,
demoralzed. Northern Pacific official.
, here report that nine trains sent out o.
, Helena several days ago Oh the Great
, Northern line via Havre. are tied uy
somewhere on the road. In many case:
the marooned passengers have been un
able TO trace their baggage and are ex
periencing great Inconvenience.
Seven drownings have been reported tc
, the north of Helena a result of the
floods. Because of demoralized wire serv-
ice names are unobtainable.
The foreman at the Cascade ranch OF
c. b. Powers Of this city. his wife and
four children are said to have lost then
lives. as we'll unknown Greek EN-.
. ployed by the Great Northern railway.
Red River Raging.
NEW ORLEANS, June ia specia
from Grand Cane. La. says that news
reached there today that the Red river
1 had broken through the levee near West
: dale, submerginS 1000 acres of growing
, crops and drowning much stock Westdale
is ia Red River parish. about forty mile!
|; southeast of Shreveport.