The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-08

stoppou anu tne aufunkt0h kkAc&@ threatened.
 Bridges were washed out. stock drowned and people in the country driven to the roofs of their houses. Six section men are reported missing.
 William Christian is reported drown- ed near Chiilicothe. Arthur Fiske. the station agent at Gault. was fcscued from the depot today after being ma-f rooned thirty-six hours.
 Results of Fiood.
 Kansas City, Mo, July 7-ewo1ieH by unprecedented rains and by melted snows from the mountains, brou&ht down through the Missouri Valley. the rivers have left their banks and caused damaging floods in many parts of Mia- ssouri and Kansas.
 The results of the flood up to late hour tonight were as follows:
 Train No. of the A. T. q s. F. Raii- road. which left Kansas City ct s:25 a. m. for Denver, met with wreck at Pomona. Kan. Of the ten coaches which made up the train. four. . bag gage car and three day coaches. left the track and rolled into eighteen feet Of water. The roadbed was covered with water and the train was proceed- ing slowly when the tracks spread and overturned the coaches.
 Communication with the town was interrupted. although railway officials denied that any one was killed or inc jured. &stelephone message tonighk reports two people injured. They ares Laura St. Clair. Boston. back wrenched and right arm wrenched at shouldcrs Mamie St. Clair. Boston. minor bruises and cuts. These are sisters en r0uts from Boston to Perry. Okla. fiss Mamie St. Clair is an elderly woman and 1t was whila trying to assist hes that ;thersother woman WAS &urf.
 Pemsaa TnunAntsAf
 Pomona Is almost completely inua@ dated, the Marois Des Cygnes RiveA at that point being three miles wid0* A relief train was sent from Ottawa tonight with food and other suppltea for the passengers, who were said f9 have had to climb on top of ths coaches for refuge from the rising water.
 It appears that the train. which had been detoured from the main line over the Emporia branch, was running along smoothly through the waters when 1t began to sink on the under- mined tracks. The coaches sank SO gradually that the passengers ana crew were enabled to get into the Puli- finally toppled over and sank from view. People from the surroundinE country. attracted by the cries of tha 800 marooned passengers. immediately went about the work of rescuinH them. Rafts were hastily constructs ed and the few boats avaiiabie were pushed out. but by this time the cur- only the most venturesome were able to reach the passengers.
 It was after dark before rescue by means of a pontoon bridge was effect- ed. Both trips of from one to two miles were made to farm houses and the passengers were all finally taken to safety. They probably will have to remain at the farm houses until the floods subside.
 Threatens hansas City.
 In Kansas City, the situation ia threatening. Tn the bottoms in the Western section. where are located the stock yards. wholesale warehouses and manufacturing plants, the waters from the confluence of the Missouri and Kaw rivers tonight are tapping the danger line and precautions were taken known as the Eastern bottoms. authorities hope to avert damage by the closing of sewer flood gates and the operation of a gigantic electrical pump.
 At Chillicothe. Mo, on the Grand River, six men were swept from q bridge this afternoon and were seen
 
 they reached shore was not learned. Hundreds of people at this place have been forced to leave their homes. Residents in the unaffected districts have started to bake bread by the wholesale for the sufferers and a TO- lief train loaded with supplies has been sent out from surrounding points.
 At Pattensburg, Mo. over 1000 people were 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 water between the merooned points and dry land. Many women and children are among those held prisoners. At least one man was drowned, having been carried away by the current in the main street.
 From as far down the Missouri as Jefferson City, reports of crop damage in the river bottoms are reaching here and the inevitable further rise in that region will swell the total
 Most of the wheat In the l0wlands has been harvested but the corn crops in some of the rich bottom fields will probably be a total loss.
 Deaths at Patte1sburg.
 St. Louis, July T.--Northwest Mis- souri Is experiencing the worst food in its history. Two persons are known to be dead in Pattensburg. a town of l. 900. Four others are missing.
 The dead are:
 GeorRe Palmer. harness maker. and Harrison Walker. section man. Pat- tensburg.
 The missing are: D. Bowner and wife, E. c. Nelson, grocery clerk and a man named Scott.
 During tho morning . call for aid was sent from Pattensburg, which was reported under seven to ten feet of water, Relief trains found that most of the people had sought refuge in a mill. school house and upper stories of business houses. There are ioc fr..Aa.....a ... u.~. n~mN