The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-03
STATE is SOAKED.
Kansas Gets a Heavy General
Rain at Last.
Fall Varies From One to Seven
Inches.
ROCK ISLAND TROUBLE
Ninety-Six Miles of Track Out
of Commission.
One House in Topeka Struck by
Lightning.
ROCK ISLAND TROUBLE

deafenfng thusder storm broke over
Topel<a which resulted in a total pre-
cipation of 1.39 riches. BY S:35 O'Clock
4he doWnDour had suhsided, but at l.5O
In the morning rain began to fall again
and This time it continued until F;lo
o'clock.
The precipitation was not confined to
Topeka but was general over Kansas
and owing to the fact that 1t took the
clements a number of hours to get flu
of the surplus moisture, the water
soaked into the earth as is shown py
the fact that the stage of the river
this morning, seven and one-tenth Ieet'
is four-tenths Of a foot lower thah
yesterday at the same time.
TT is too late in the year for the
river to yet excited" remarked 5. D.
Flora. the local weather observer The
surface of the ground was dry and the
rain will do a great deal of good
FIRST repcrts of damage done by the
lirhtnine to the Topeka Street railway
system seem to have been solheWl1t
exaggerated. \ West Lenlh aNeiIuT
f.ar was nut out of commission SeVerdl
cfrcuft breakers were blown out' nut
traffic was not seriously handicapped
The local telephone companies eN-
perierced some wire troubles anu tli,7
norning the III dependent system REPORT
ed t1et nearly half their lines III kan
sas ,.cre in disuse, including the ilhe
to Kansas City.
House Hit by Lightning.
rhe home cf Mr.. and Mrs. George
HUl. l720 Lane street, was struck by
Hrhtning A chimney at tho rear Of
+i7e hoIse was torn off and a large
cooking range in the kitchen demelsh-
ed Mr. and Mrs. Hill were dazed LOT
several minutes.
Two barns near Shorey were struck
The heaviest precipitation was record
ed between and o'clock in the morn
The Postal Telegraph company r-;'orts
that rain fell as fOIlOWS IN d HuiiiDSi
zTaTnego 9ih inches; Abilene. 1 inch:
Junction city 21s inches; Salina, 2.zS
inches: Usage City, 81; Coucordia, l.7e:
Council Grove, 1.30; and lSnt rams d.
Manhattan and Clay Center
seven Inches in Smith.
Rains that began falling at O'Clock
last night covered the entire state OF
Kansas with q lake of water from two
20 seven inches deep. For twelve hours
these rains fell intermittently over all
sections Of the state. The storms gath
cred first here and there and in most
parts of the state they raced back and
forth, deluging the earth beneath thenl
The storms were accompanied with
severe lightning that put telephone
over Kansas Practically every Kan
sas town is attempting to use Grip
pied telephone service today. Railroad
telegraph lines are down and washouts
delay traffic.
On the Rock Island between Phillips
burg and Beleville SO miles of track is
out of commission on account of wash
outs at different places along the line
At Smith Center, midway between th9
two towns, seven inches of rain is re
A Of hn MT If
their banks and the prairieS along the
railroad right of way are raging tor
rents.
In Topeka this morning the Rock
Island officials are busy in their at
tempts to establish train service under
such conditions. 1t will be many days
before the entire line is rebridged AMI
refilled-but traffic arrangements will
be made with other roads
The heaviest rains in the state oc-
Cured i'm the northwest sections. Here
the rains did not reach the country
until later in the evening but for hours
they fell in the one territory Then
they broke up and went in sections
over the other parts of Kansas.
In Topeka the rain came in gusts.
An electrical display with roaring
thunder would warn the weary sleeper
of his open windows. The rain would
sweep down in torrents for ten or fiji
teen minutes and the shower would
pass on. In a few minutes another
storm would come in its wake.
All night these conditions existed.
In the eastern and southwestern part
Of the state the Topeka storms We're
prevalent. In the northwestern and
southwestern part of the state the
rains were more steady. In southeast
ern Kansas at o'clock this morning it
was still raining
Rain Is General.
The Rock Island and Santa Fe Of
fices in Topeka report general rains
over the state. The Santa Fe have no
lines in the heavy rain belt in the
northwestern part of the state ana
they report no line or track trouble to-
day In their sections of the state the
rains were similar to the precipitation
in Topeka.
A record Of the rain in the following
towns and vicinity from railroad re-
pets: