The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-09
WORST FLOODS
ever IN MISSOURI
NORTHWESTERN PART OF STATE
NEVER SUFFERED so MUCH.
TWO DROWNED; TWO MISSING
Crops Valued at Hundreds OF Thous.
ands Of Dollars Have Been De-
stroyed - People at Pattonsburg
Take Refuge In Mil and School.

Take Refuge In Mil and School.
st. Joseph, Mo-, July S.-A telephone
message today from Pattonsburg says
the relief party which went from St
Joseph to the food stricken town yes.
terday has completed its work and
started home. Fears are entertained
that the party, which left pattonsburg
in boats, may be unable to reach its
special train, four miles distant. One
hundred persons were taken to the
hills in boats by the rescuers last
night and refuge and camp was estab.
| lished.
Four hundred are quartered in the
third floor of the public school house.
Two hundred are in Masonic hall and
others are in the upper stories of bust.
ness houses, where they have been
supplied with provisions and drinking
water by the rescue party.
Further danger from flood is not an.
ticipated, but there will be need of
additional supplies of food and drink
ing water
Worst In States History.
st. Joseph, Mo-, July S.-Northwest.
ern Missouri is experiencing the worst
| floods in its history. The Platte and
Grand rivers are five to six miles wide
in places. Two persons are known to
be dead in Pattonsburg. Four others
are missing. Crops valued at hun.
dreds of thousands of dollars have
been destroyed. Hundreds of head of
live stock have been drowned.
The dead are:
George Palmer, harness maker, and
Harrison Walker, section man, Pat
tonsburg.
The missing are: D. Bowner and
wife; F. c. Nelson, a grocery clerk,
and man named Scott.
During the morning a call for aid
was sent out from Pattonsburg, town
of 1000, which was reported under
seven to ten feet of water. Relief
trains were made up at st. Joseph and
Kansas City. The st. Joseph party
reached Pattonsburg about 5 o'clock
and began to aid in the rescue. 1t
was found that most Of the people had
sought refuge in the mill, school house
and upper stories of business houses.
There are 400 persons crowded in the
school house, which is surrounded by
five feet of water. Many had no food
for twenty-four hours until the arrival
of the st. Joe and Kansas City rescue
parties.
Six men, swept from a railroad
oh 70 oil snhf
rescued with boat built at McFall.
A-large number of women and chill
dren have been moved to the hills,
where tents have been provided for
them.
Train Drops Into Water.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 8.-Swollen
by unprecedented rains, the rivers
here left their banks and caused dam.
aging floods in many parts of Missouri
and Kansas.
The results of the flood up to late
hour were as follows:
Train No. 5 of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway, which left Kan.
sas City at 1925 a. m. for Denver, met
with wreck at Ramona, Kan. OF
the ten coaches which made up the
train, four, baggage car and three
day coaches, left the track and rolled
into eighteen feet of water, according
to late report. The roadbed was
covered with water and the train was
proceeding slowly, when the tracks
spread and overturned the coaches.
The overturned coaches are supposed
to have been empty.
Communication with the town was
interrupted, although railway officials
denied that any one was killed or in.
jured. A telephone message reports
two people injured.
Ramona is almost completely inun.
dated, the Marias Des Cygnes river at
that point being three miles wide. A
relief train was sent from Ottawa with
food and other supplies for the pas
sengers, who were said to have had
to climb on top of the coaches for ref
uge from the rising water.