Evening star., 1928-11-18
EIGHT KNOWN DEAD
AS FLOODS SPREAD
Damage in Missouri and
Kansas Expected to Reach
Millions.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, November 17.-An
additional toll of five lives at Ottawa,
Kans., this afternoon brought the list
OF known dead in the floods through
out Eastern Kansas and Western Mis-
souri, during the last two days to eight.
The other lives were believed to have
been lost in the raging waters following
torrential rainfall throughout the area.
Damage to farm property, live stock
and crops in Missouri and Kansas was
expected to run into millions Of dollars.
Let-Up IN Rains Reported.
Despite general let-up Of the rains,
some points in the flooded territory
were still in danger. At Winfield, Kans.,
dikes protecting the city from the
waters of the Walnut River were sub
merged early tonight and water began
to pour into the north residential dis
trict. Residents were moving to higher
ground, being reminded of the flood of
1928, when much of the city was
inundated. The river, which had risen
throughout the day at the rate of
foot an hour, rose more rapidly after
pm.
Angry waters of the Marais Des
Cygne River, near Ottawa. took the toll
of five lives at Ottawa when a motor
boat capsized, throwing into the vortex
OF death two doctors and woman and
her two small daughters.
The physicians, DR.. Ralph ShiraS and
DR.. j. Ward Smith, had made several
trips during the day rescuing marooned
residents of the lowlands. While on their
last trip, carrying Mrs. G. G. Jones and
her two little daughters, the boat cap
sized when it was swept into a strong
current.
Three deaths in the food area had
been reported yesterday. To other per-
sons were believed to have drowned to-
day near Kansas City when they ven-
tured into danger zone along flooded
stream and failed to return. Their motor
Car appeared above the crest of the re-
ceding waters In Swope Park, but no
bodies had been recovered tonight.
The flood waters at Ottawa were still
rising tonight after inundating part of
the business district and practically all
the industrial section of the city, in
cluding the city power plant, leaving
the city without light and shutting off
the drinking water supply. Communi-
cation with the outside was difficult with
railroads and highways cut of and tele-
phone and telegraph lines down in many
places.
Guardsmen Aid Rescuers.
National Guardsmen were called out
this afternoon by the adjutant generals
Office and were patrolling the streets
and assisting in rescue work.
AS the waters approached the COM
munity hospital patients were removed
to private homes. The last person to
leave the building, the head nurse, was
taken to safety in boat.
refugees, and private homes were
opened for those whose homes we're un-
der water.
Two hundred refugees from the WAL
nut and Whitewater River floods were
fed today at Augusta, Kans. Motor boat
rescue crews were working to remove
marooned citizens from danger points.
The food was worst in the south part
of Augusta, where water stood to 8
feet deep.
At Emporia, Kans., both the Cot
tonWood and NeoSho Rivers still were
rising tonight.
Rain ceased falling over most of the
two States before noon today and the
temperature dropped rapidly. The Gov
ernment Weather Bureau predicted
freezing or near freezing weather be-
fore morning.
Western Kansas reported crops had
been benefited by the rains
The Weather Bureau at Arkansas
City, Kans., issued a warning that the
Arkansas River, which stood at Is feet
at o'clock tonight, would reach the
20-foot mark before morning and 60
over the dikes protecting the city.
Chillicothe Threatened.
A flood which will equal. if not sur
pass, the food Of the Grand River at
Chillicothe, Mo-, in 1909, was predicted
at that city tonight. The Grand River
rose 20 feet in the last eight hours.
All lowlar1ds in the vicinity Of Chilli
cothe had been submerged tonight.