The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-10
Floods Which Threatened For
Week Have Passed.
Much Damage Done by Marais
Des Cygnes Near Ottawa.
BODY OF MAN is FOUND
Supposed to Be That Of Farm
Hand Named Hill.
Conditions in Flooded District
Are Improving.

Ottawa Kan, July 10.-The food wa
tiers from the Marais Des Cygnes river
had last evening receded three feet
from the record high point and there
were hopes that train service could be
resumed late today. The SantH4 Fe has
a force of men at work ballasting the
tracks through the yards as the water
goes down. It has been transferring
passengers through loaded cars backed
down the track.
A temporary depot has been estab-
lished south of the flood, and the di-
vision officers are quartered there.
Railroad workmen near Pomona have
found the body of a drowned man
named Hill, a farm hand working on
one of the river tributaries. AT the
scene of the Pomona wreck Of passen-
ger train No. f. the wrecking crew is
undertaking to raise the submerged
passenger cars. 1t is not believed that
any bodies will be found there.
All but five of the passengers are
said to have been accounted for and
these are thought to have escaped
notice in the excitement and CONFUSION lG,
following the wreck. The body of the
little daughter of Mrs. Carry Rose OF
Chicago, had not been found last night
Traffic Conditions Are Bad.
Chaotic traffic conditions brought
about by the inundation of RAILROAD
yet been restored to order, and a week
may elapse before train schedules are
resumed. Both the Rock Island and
Santa Fe were detouring their trains
up to last night. Trains are running
all the way from fifteen minutes to hVe
hours late. Water is still up in many
places and until it goes down the work
of repairing damaged tracks can not
be commenced.
The congestion of Santa Fe trains in
the local yards is such as to almost
distress switching crews. Belated
freight trains are now beginning to
roll in, and hundreds of cars are con-
gested in the yards. Trains came in
so frequently that the Harvey girls at
the Santa Fe station were tagged out
before the day was half over. The con-
gested trains are being sent out as rap
idly as possible, and some remarkable
work is being executed by the dis
patchers and switching crews.
Traffic on Cutoff Is Resumed
For the first time since Wednesday a |
Santa F'e train was run over the cut
off Friday, which has been out OF Ser
vice on account of the wreck at Po- |
mona
It was stated at the Santa Fe general
office that some trains are still being |
detoured On the Missouri division, and |
that all trains are running late. No. 4, |
due to arrive at S:45 p. M, came in |
last night at 9:05.
The Rock Island still continues to de- |
tour its trains from Mill Grove. From |
the east passengers are being accom- |
over the Rock Island by extra |
service between here and Kansas City, |
and all trains leaving for the west from
here are ooi~~ on schedule time. the
Rock Island does not have any trouble |
west of Topeka, and eastbound trains |
are running in good time.
The Union Pacific is the only road
into Topeka that is running under nor
NAL conditions, but the opposites OBJ
tains on the Missouri Pacific.
Railroad officials cannot say at this
time how long it will take to restore
conditions to normal They are unable
to ascertain the extent of the damage
to tracks and railroad property until
the water recedes.
Reports from upstream give assur-
ance that the greatest danger is past,
the fall may be checked and |
the volume of water even brought back
a little.
At Pomona the water which had
stood 20 inches above the Santa Fe
tracks, raised five feet since the flood
Of 1904, had fallen or 4 feet.