The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-07-10
TRAIN UNDER is
FEET OF WATER
Damaging Floods In dis
souri, and Kansas.
NUMBER OF LIVES LOST

Relief Parties Push 10 Pomona With
Food ana Supplies, the Passengers
Who Were Stalled 6eirg Forced 70
Climb 70 the Tops Of the Coaches
still on the Rails to Avoid the Rising
water-At chIlIieothe, Mo-. Six Men
Are Swept From Bridge. {.
Swollen by unprecedented rains and
by melted SHOWS from the mountains
brought down through the Missouri
valley. the rivers left their banks and
caused damaging foods IN many parts
Of Missouri ana Kansas.
The results Of the flood were as foF
lows:
Train 40. 6 OF the Atchinson, Tope.
ka and Santa Re railway which left
Kansas city for Denver met with
WRECK al Pomona Kan. OF the ten
coaches which made up the train, four.
a baggage car and three day coaches
left the track and rolled into eighteen
feet OF water The roadbed was GOV.
cred with water and the train was
proceeding slowly when the rails
spread and overturned the coaches.
Tho overturned coaches are supposed
TO have been empty Communications
with the town was interrupted.
The four.year.old daughter Of Mrs
Carrie Rose Of Chicago was drowned
and. It IS stated. two persons were In
jured. They are: Laura ST Clair
Bostoa, back wrcnched and right arm
wrenchod at shoulder, Mamie ST.
Clair, Boston, minor, bruises and cuts.
Town Is Inundated.
Pomona Is almost completely mum
dated, the Marias des Cygnes river az
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 20 have had to
climb on top OF the coaches for refuge
from the rising water
In Kansas City the situation Is
threatening IN the bottoms In the
western section. whore are located the
stock yards. Wholesale warehouses and
manufacturing plants. the waters from
The confluence of the Missouri and
Kaw rivers are tapping the danger limo
and precautions were taken against a
further rise. IN what are known as
the eastern bottoms the authorities
hope 10 avert damage by the closing OF
Hood patos aud the operation Of q r.
gantlc electrical pump
six.Men Swept From Bridge.
At Chliicothe, Mo, on the Grand
river. six men were swept from a
bridge and were seem floating down
the stream. Whether they reached the
shore was not learned Hundreds OF
persons al this place have been forced
TO leave their homes Residents In the
unaffected districts have started 20
bake bread by the wholesale for the
sufferers and a relief train loaded with
supplies has been sent out from s'lr.
rounding points.
At pattonsburg Mo-. over a thousand
persons We're imprisoned on roofs or
In second stories and the situation was
hourly growing more acute. Boats
and supplies were rushed there from
nearby points. but with little prospect
OF crossing the two miles OF swirllng
water between tie murooncd residents
and dry land Many women and small
children IRE among those held prison.
ers by the river pnd their condition IS
causing general alarm. One man was
drowned Tie vas carried away by rhc
current III tie lnuiu street
Dispatches from Marysyille. Mo-. say
a passenger train was deraled by the
food near Burlington Junction on the
NOdaWay river