The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-12
Storm This Morning Accompan
led by Hail.
Kansas River Reaches a Height
of Is Feet 10 Inches.
NOW 1T Is FALLING
Soldier Creek Floods Farms in
Low Lands.
Traffic Between Kansas City
and Chicago at Standstill.

Weather conditions were not helped
any by the heavy rainstorm which
| struck Topeka this morning, accom-
panied by a 40-mile wind and severe
electric storm. Forty-one hundredths
of an inch of rain fell in a few min
utes accompanied by hail The earth
| is heavily soaked from previous rains.
and the storm was an extra burden to
swollen streams.
One inch and eleven hundredths of
irain fell Saturday night, keeping the
streams up all day Sunday, and caus-
ing a rise in the Kaw river. Back
water from the river had flooded some
of the lowlands about Oakland last
night, but had not reached any of the
houses. The rain this morning has
not caused an overflow of any of the
smaller streams in Shawnee county,
which are so short they will empty
between rains Soldier creek seems to
have been affected worse than the
others. 1t has risen four feet during
the past few hours, but is still inside
the banks, and lacks four feet of
reaching the top of the dikes.
The Kaw river measurement this
afternoon Is feet. Serious dam
age has been done both on
the headwaters of Soldier creek and
here, as attested by the display of
sheaf wheat which f1oated through To-
peka all day Sunday. The principal
overflow of the Kaw river is in the
vicinity of Manhattan, where bottom
fields have been revastated. The
highest point reached by the Kaw
here was 1s feet 10 inches last night.
The weather bureau reports the river
falling at Abilene and other points
west of Topeka
Farms Are Flooded.
Soldier creek rose slowly this
morning but did not break through at
the Rochester bridge where it gem
orally breaks out of its banks first.
However, E. Cooper, who lives two
miles west of the Reform school re-
ported at IL o'clock that the Soldier
creek was rising about two inches an
hour. Part of his farm is flooded. |
today reports that the creek began to
fall about 10 o'clock and was still
falling. The stream had covered a
little of the tirnbered portion on his
land.
The Pennick farm, Harrison farm
and old Meade farm, near Menoken |
are reported to be partly under
water.
along Soldier creek and the Kaw, |
have not been put to any tests as yet. |
The water has not gotten high enough |
to bear very heavily upon them. The |
morning have not damaged them, ap-
parently, to any appreciable extent, I
and great confidence is being placed |
in them by the North side people.
Railroad Situation Improves.
The railroad situation is in much bet
ter condition this morning than it has
been for several days, as far as the
roads in Topeka are concerned.
The Santa F'e which has been ex-
periencing more trouble than any of
the roads is usin~ all the tracks of the
road this morning. The break at
Marion, where the high water in the
Cottonwood caused so much throuble
has been repaired and the
trains are running through there. Late
afternoon 1,200 feet of track
near Reading was washed away, but
this break has also been repaired.
Near Pomona and Ottawa where the
Marais Des Cygnes washed away track
last week, the breaks were repaired by
ten o'clock this morning and traffic
was resumed over the cutoff. This
gives the Santa F'e train service on
every line in Kansas.
The Rock Island road has been haV-
ing some trouble at Marion but this
has been passed. Some heavy rains are
being reported on the main line to Col
0rado but none of these have yet
proved sufficient to cripple the train
service, although most of the trains are
late.
The Missouri Pacific is having trou-
0Ie in handling some OF its passenger
rains and many of them from the west
are being run over the Rock Island
rom Herington to Kansas City.
The Union Pacific trains are keeping
pretty close to the schedule time, and
ire experiencing but little trouble. This
-oad reports a heavy rain at Manhat-
an this morning, which however did :
lot last long.
The Santa Fe tracks between Kan
;as City and Chicago may be open
or traffic tonight, as big efforts have
been made all day to get the line
,pen and most of the washouts have
been repaired with temporary tracks.
The Santa F'e has three trains out of
tonight and efforts viii be
made to run at least two of these
The Santa Fe's lines in Kansas are
II passabIe condition now and but
title trouble is found in running
rains under slow orders
There has been no train service
,ast of Kansas City all day and most
# the railroads have refused to sell
ickets to any point east of Kansas
|fty.
TROUBLE AT KANSAS CITY.