The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-08
Rivers at Kansas City Up Two
Feet During the Night.
STILL 10 FEET BELOW
The High Mark Reached in 1908
and 1904.
Dikes at Argentine Are Doing
Good Service.

Kansas City. Mo, July s.-F1ood
conditions in Missouri and Kansas to-
day were vastly improved. Except
at Kansas City, where the Kansas and
Missouri rivers converge, most
streams in this part of the southwest
were receding this morning and it
was believed the worst stage had
been reached and passed. At Kansas
City the damage so far has been slight
and the rivers here must come up
nearly ten feet yet before the stage
of the floods of 1903 and 1904, are
reached. Such a rise at Kansas City,
is not considered at all likely with the
streams above here going down. But
little rain has fallen since last night.
No additional lives have been lost, as
far as known. In northwestern Mis-
souri, in the vicinity of Pattonsburg,
where several thousand persons have
been driven from their homes, it is
believed all have now been placed
upon safe ground. Many in this dis
trict are without homes, however,
and suffering acutely, but relief in
the nature of goods and clothing,
rushed in from surrounding counties
is being distributed systematically.
At Kansas City at o'clock this
morning, the Missouri river stood at
"a feet inches, rise of two feet in
the last "a hours. The Kansas river
was at 81 feet, also a rise of two feet.
The damage here was confined to
the west and east bottoms. In the
west bottoms six inches of water stood
in part of the quarantine pens at the
stockyards along the Kansas river,
but the main yards were not in dan
ger. This overflow resulted from
water backing up through the sew
erS. Argentine and Arm nourdale, Kan,
packing house and railway suburbs
of Kansas City were still safe, a newly
built dixie at Argentine safeguarding
that place at least for the present.
Mo-, across from Kansas
City, on the north small farming
community, is partly submerged but
no great damage has been done there.
At Pattonsburg, Mo-, the water fell
fourteen inches during the night and
continued to recede today. The last
refugee had been removed from
house and tree tops this morning and
the relief train from st. Joseph, which
had been stalled near Santa Rosa,
landed it's passengers within two miles
of Pattonsburg and from there the
remainder of the journey was made
to work. Ample food at least for
present needs, was distributed to the
refugees. In the past two days many
persons have suffered acutely from
exposure and lack of sleep.
At Pomona, Kan. all of the ma
rooned passengers from the wrecked
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe passen-
ger train, which ran into the river
yesterday, had found shelter and were
safe. The river that caused this food, |
the Marias Des Cygnes, has spread
out over a large territory, but today
is receding.
From the Weather Bureau.
Kansas City, July 8.-Weather
Observer Connor today issued the
following statement:
There has not been much rain in
the river districts, during the past "a
hours. The crest will be reached at
about 25 feet. The Harlem bot
toms and those on the north shore
of Kansas City. are overflowed. The
Kansas river is within its banks but
the Blue east of here, is rising 1
look for no serious consequences un-
less there are further heavy rains in
the Missouri and Kansas watersheds.
Floods like the present one will be
prevalent all summer The snow
melting in the mountains has so filled
the Missouri river that rains as heavy
as those of last week are liable at
any time to cause a small food
A precipitation of 6.65 inches was
today from Springfield, in
central Missouri. The rain there is
local and will have no effect on food
conditions in other parts of the
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