The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1903, Page 3

LL. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1903 3 : THE SAN FRANCISCO DARING RESCUERS IN FRAIL BOATS BRAVE DEATH IN THE SEETHING FLOOD, \ SAVING SCORES OF IMPERILED FAMILIES AND CARRYING FOOD TO BELEAGUERED o — — e e - - x> ; fiBodies Float on Flood’s Crest. s Qi | Topekans Are 155 -Sll - i Peril. Continued From Page 1, Column 3. Kansas Cfiity’sw Plants Inun- | dated. Thousands of | Men Made || Idle. | ontinued From Page 1, Column 5. Large contributic have al- ready been received for the ben- cfit of the sufferers. The amount given by Topeka citizens alone will aggregate $100,000. To this suffered 500,000 is to be added an immense quan- popuiation ts site tity of clothing, provisions and build- plies. Out towns offered aid, among them Galveston, Tex. have generous or sufferers as s proud side peka is d wealthi to acknowledge that help neel to be ma repre: on the pontoon bridge to the Me! areh bridge, where a satisfactory view o the fleod situation was obtained. Look- | ing to_the north, as far as the eye could | reach,! was one expanse of wat | here and there by bac g nobly by | crumbling buildings. e half mile from Second street to tlie Mellen bridge was covered by water six to twelve feet deep, | | through which a mad current was flow- | ing. On either side of the pontoon bridge were brick business buildings, sixty in number, which are compietely ruined by high water loss in this respect will aggrega Yon dollars This the in which all the wholesale commission houses were lo- cated. All this is on the south side of the river H EXTENT OF FIRE'S HAVOC. i | Last night's reports regarding the burn- | ing bulldings were somewhat overdrawn | | Last night the whole northern part of city seemed to be aflame. Closer inves | gation this afternoon revealed the fac | | that enly about one-third of the buildin | | on ihe North Side were destroyed by rire. | Fully remaining buildings are | | so damaged by the ws at the | | absolutely useless. There is not .a house | | in the entire north part of town that nas 1t been seriousiy damaged. Wh | | value of stocks of merchand | stroyed is considered the loss clal way mes enormous pro The railway companies have abandon all effor their tracks in shape The wat away the sandbags a fast as they hem. Buildings in the submerged district continue to collapse. Notwithstanding their precarious condi- . many of the sufferers held religiot services to-day in the bufldings where | they were fined -night more of the flood su w s S ferers are living in e i | passenger coaches on the Rock Island . s B $ P I AEIRS S — — e | | tracks. Water surrounds the cars, but | | there is no danger. At 11 o'clock the lumber yard in Noi | | Topeka was again bur Thou of dead hors cattle and smaller a | mals are floating down stream to-night | JUDGE MEETS HERO'S DEATH. R. F. Haydon, Probate Judge of Shaw- nee County, wk had been working with ers all ght, entered his boat g to retur to the north de. rong current mastered him and he y Lives of Topekans Are Saved by Means of; Five, bridges Cable Stretched Across Pontoons. ! ernoon, when they were rescued. They brought e of .safety, oIy will n Two small ste 4 but | | t surv mbo: icer at 4:30 o'cloc were ‘put - intd —one from Ottawa. K m the the other-from St. Joseph. By this vept away and not seen again " The means the work of rescue was greatly fa- nta Fe Railroad Company is re- 2 hes cHlitated s e i gt RS to the meeds of the situation. v MA 5 s 4 ; . of tl who have been rer Or NrY, SAVEP,_E:IB_E‘?I’ D”}‘:AI:‘H”; | VIEW OF THE CAPITAL OF KANSAS, IN WHO ORTHERN - DISTRICT HUNDREDS OF PEPRSONS PER- | red homeless and who are in the m B w e top of the pon- | i Y e - | ISHED "N FIRE OR BY DROWNING, AND- FAMOUS CONVENTION - HALL WHICH HAS BEEN | | destitut dition were a Fe shop- ght miles from: A i B ! landing near the desiccating plant. | | - . -ygROWN OPEN AS A SHELTER TO THOUSA WHO LOST THEIR HOMES AND BELONGINGS T ANd. SHRPSIN. - Dl SHERE 1Y River " sand dipper W | had floated, down a half mile and || s S D s e b : 5 | | actual rescue work with all the available k ised to take 1 | became lost north of the Melan bridge. | ;. i e b _s.| force, the company has arranged to | * * he immediate needs by paying ad- ) those who were fes of the men who are home- The total amount of wages for this ber of men will be about $12,000. This was before the flood had reached its’| g A S R R Q%Eniire_Wholesale District of Kansas City Is Under Water and ; rescued by | sridg i | ¢trandead street car, but soon had to seek 7 = - i - T A e R Streets Are Converted Into Swift-Running Streams. e gk SMALL BOATS Metroy SEtpalina e it ”“j AS CITY. Mo., May 21— ) point one mile east eefy valued at $7000 | done outside the depot yard ail trais CAPSIZE WITH » oo g . i ot b it il The . gréatest flood in " the | and many head of cattie and horsed have | be - fina stalled. All incoming trains gl aiass - ged from ihe hayloft of a barn. He | history of I &ity, | been drowned and the loss at this point | from th st are laid out and, the wires | THF RESCUED € that time. All Sa By | e nncaneolbng kil it Sikawaial bt S e ;| will .be very heavy. All night the forces | being dowp, it is impossible to state the | - r had nothing to r | oon mevived. - ¥t iony ot IHE HAR R nR Kas., and the bottoms of | o¢ ype stock yards men were at work res- | raflway conditions east of here. g s 7.0 ate and extremely | of the flood is drams s Kansas City, Mo., prevailed | cuing live stock, hundreds of head being | The express companies, whose offices | May 31.—From all as boats are the rescue ter daylight » time lost of the small steam and gaso- | « forty men in South Garfieid | escied. They had perched themselves in trees. They had had noth- but we at here to-day and millions of | braught up-into tow ., jarelocated at the lower end of the depot loss will. besult. A great body of | All trolley lines in both cities have been | are all under four feet of water, and e | coming from the west swelled the| Shut down ' the power at Riverview being | pressage is being removed up town as fast cas River ot Kansas Gty Has . thig| under water and: only oxe:or two cable | as wagous can move through.Union av T 35 » Kas., this} yneq on the Missouri side running.. All of tern Kav d here s. Shortly imate ability of o iends Yesterday my w a rescued. To-Gay my turn = the flood suffere ft current, the | pine boats a 2t s “ | te, which now is a sw anpe not begin to tel ,w | Ing to eat for th Ix hours. ese i Y b . . Lot Mok jved from Ottawa on a spe- Lol B s N (wata i 4 SiasA o WL ,1 1’,,,\_!_ ausing a' most ‘alarming, rlse. | the freight houses of the various roads| waler reaching almost to the Wagom | ein trein and they were put into acti - SR acr % ol ohi of the aftantion hed with terr force over the | entering Kansas City which are located | boxes. Only a limited portion of this ex- | corvy once. Soon afterward reports MOTHER AND BABE PERISH. AU fhioy would xes ks e | outlying ra d tracks and the erovwded | in the west bottoms on-a level with the | press can be moved, and already much | of drownings began to come in. A boat from | da vd the los: been done. nage ha union depot afe floode: Freight also is Mrs. Anderson 1 h ear-old baby | about among the trunks of the wholesale districts of the west bottom taining ht men was swept away in a ¥ = con source alo: 0 relng MOV e o1 ous eig ¥ oo . 4 . had been avs in pl e men =ald th could r &nd finally into the u n depot. At 10] this source alone m at :\:y:\“r<’!?:‘ l)l fr rm ,‘h' \a:‘!m freight | (he swift curr t o'clock, and as fa sigk L ! ) were pow '-"]"T' o ther k above the roar of o'clocis & mile of big ‘wholésale bouses; | . ACOUMULATION OF FREIGHT. | Pouscs by etes of wagons.-but the work | as known all were drowned. A boat cue them e mother clas ner ¢ Uncertainty was thus added to their ause of {he delayed traffic west of | = | taining two men was capsized. The boats elevators and freight depots were entirely ose in her arms and managed to brace misery, and not one of them had | were oo frail to live in the swirling swiftness. Small boats have all and me of live stock. swamped. ven erself against a limb in a reasonably se- pe of e ing surrounded, basements {hat yesterday | Kansas City during the past week, a great { FOUR DEA THS More boats arrived from Empo- v s e Hioe: ‘Shrbn e kept | (rick Beline. Lis wife and three small | Were partlally submerged were soon brim- | amount- of frelght has sccumulated here 10 o'clock, and hurried messages car P battle for life. At lock her ren were taken: from the attie of | ful and the water began te reach the first | and now that the rallway yards are under | to other towns for more. atic escue was very near, but she lost con- | nall dwelling. The parents were-| flo Within ‘fifteen minttes the tracks | water. it will be Impossible to move this AND BIG LOSS seven persons are high and dry ite sciousness. Both mo! 1 child fell | to hold the younger two children | entering the westcrn erid of fhe unior de- | Save by boat. As'practically all boats to | |in the Page eievator. If the building .« 10 the water and were drowned, belng | constantly in order to keep thelr heads | rere cntirely. submerged. and at 11| De had are béing used In rescue work, AT T A WRENCF'“"“'“ tegether théy Wil be restued. In sz the a n rawn under by the current. | above water. They were nearly starved| o e ¢ entirely,submerged, and at 1L ooy “sreight will be damagdd. All tele- < | the B-street Colored Baptist Church n work e sons, a avgaper miku :m;.x probably cannct recover "“"’l‘v‘( the h“"“‘:;' ""'“ """l‘ “'{ “'"\‘ h :“ phone communication with the flooded | Iy 100 persons have been standing in the workers = had & experience. He took a boat | rapid rate that the thousands of delayed | gistrict is shut off, making it difficuit to AWRENCE, Kans., 1 1. water since vesterday. Many of them he suspen- | on na mide his way to a| FPLUCKY GIRL TELEGRAPHER. | sngers were meking preparations to | wrately, estimate the damage. l ;:(:-Fh:;ha??:ner :hfv 5 lrh’ | doubtless hawe fallen from exhaustion . telep e e of making some res-| Miss Annie Noble, "operator at: the r the high ground up town. | ®The Kansas City police spent all night | sépiny iy allen a foot. Halfl, o this and drowned. The building e have almost isolated Argentine, | cues baby, names un- | Union Pacific Railroad quarters in North ou which-the Blossom'| yes:uing endangered persons. The police | of the houses of the North Side are | gtands intact, however, and those who he wag a t City being | kno 1 Parsons | Topfka, was forced to leave the building | House and numerous smaller hotels, res- | hpye thirty-five boats in service. . | washed away, but the people have all | are left alive may be rescued. vehicles. | took them into his hoa had | when the water covered the floor. With | taurants and stores are located, is a run- | = At the Schwarzchild plant 250° employes | gone to high ground and are safe. Hun-| As seen from a high place on North to-day | ceeded only a short dist when the | her mother and little sister the plucky | ning stream. The water rose o fast in| 4nd residents of the vicinity, who had | dreds of homes have been carried down | Tyler street, near the Rock Isiand brid: rigerator | boat cap reons contrived to get| YOung woman took up housekeeping quar- | the vicinity of the depot that many pei-| peen driven from their -homes, are im-| the river. Almost all of the 3000 | the stream appeared to be widening. T @ yards | himself and hers up into a tree, and | ters in an doned horse car. This sons were forced -to remove to second ! prisoned. : They. have been held cnoro!“ R G b AR e ke i resi- | | idge had not gone out, as was reporte ctor, who | there they remained until 3 o'clock this | 80od enough \»)-nx'u until the water rose | f and preparations were made hur- | last_evening.. They, are safe | S°7i® on the Jorth Side omeless and shalt —_— ot retteiutotn@ | ® L001 above the floor of the car, but there | rie to 'remove passengers uptown. | rr. but will not be removed until | have lost all of their personal property. | The current was running with ineredibls 3 vy | they had to stay until to-day, when they | rains that have been waiting In the de- | those in greater danger in the low-lying | Pqrtions of this part of town have been no chance at | DOAXN’S EIDNEY PILLS. | were included am 1-load of bread from Kansas d. « for an opportunity, to start | ground nea s | ¢ passenger | and south stand a footdeep In water. | have bee: ¢ VIR crn N | confiscated and the bread and m 1 of afgn oduchad i¢ stalled by thelNo thrns z sas. City for the| A steady rain fell here and to the west | flarry Sedgwick and man nameq | fuly travers e whirling, eddying stream \ ( LE ) \([ QQ[‘IS | being ‘served at the City Hall to all ap-{ "0 me in on riiny nighi. | west or south since last Night and none | ali night and continues, and all streams in | Richards died from excitement after they | for & mile they would be almost certain i 444l ~ o | plicar Many of the destitute are ne-| Aboul & TS abaar( hey | will leave for several days. Trains from |‘the stricken ‘territory are rising at an| hag peen moved to places of safety, and | (0 be overturned by striking against flood. The train c | | groes, who have ety Mavet Suiont | uy time been in real daig:r, east also are late, many apparently | alarming rate. la Union Pacific employe whose name | houses other wreckage citles are co-operating in | name | | Armourdale and Argentine | swept clean of every building. There has taken to places of safety. | been much Ic f them have by already could success- sent a wa ny ] last night, but it was getting ver | | | ng the City for free dist »n. The meat was| Near.the Rock Island depot t are | T rot at vasser A VE Question Fraught With, In- | clothi The peo, in the flooded dis- | but thei predicument is anvthing Lut | having met the flood now being causel| Both Kan | could not be learned and his companion | orth Topek terest 1o San Francisco People o g e pleasant ey are well cared for by the | by s e. Missourl river east > \d to-day the t 3 : g ‘ t i e = r wnd most of them have remai { by the riss o th ast of | the work of rellef aud to-day the great| p;meq Matthews were in a boat that was | !ation. Not most deso- land can be a scene of square f. arning, but clung io| - n_right here at home | their houses hoping for a fall of the water | I ed cr: | here auditorium of Convention Hall. ‘on the f i : > - state " | B SOPNRE S8 o o i S aalat hi i ere. A v : overturned. is believed both we os:. | Seen in any direction. There is but small A D e emer yiike ohe fol- | until they could escape only by boat or | the care, L'eterring (U atrangement 0| ppoppRTyY L0SS ENORMOUS. =sour side, capable oY seating 20,000 per- DU WETS Jaae L o ol Gy e idences being left ving-aiLroo Sor SOMM dimppears and | the uacertainty . of procuring sultabie ool vo d into a rellef camp and| . - le - . oud e flood pe: st skeptical doubter must be con- | quurters eisewhere. The lossés in the wholesale district will | %00 Was tutneg into & 8 CLEVELAND, May 31.—An automobile nding at the end of the flood perfed Sherry, Oakland and the resion abeut t r readers FINANCIAL LOSS INCREASING. "'/ e aonrict Wil | the unfortunates brought thither from the | pying“john . Jack. his wite and the Mi | Kansas side. | Jenny and Mary ar hers to-day. Mrs. Jack was fatally It's pretty har en for de by + 5 ock this-afternoon peopie w ippre, many mill > 8 . 5 o'Lock were | Aggregate man) stranger | The situation in the suburb of Armour-| oiovicred tn D Jack was struck by a WRIRLH T A iving some away point o 'th Topeka as follows {he losses to the various ‘packing houses | 6 Tt The indorsement of meighbor | dale to-night is one of utter desolation, | p_ctreet Church, 50 in the Tupelll;:lw\\n J2 | Learer the river will be tremendc The .UNION DEPOT IS FLOODED. ;x‘na the otkers seriously injured Continued on Page 7, Column 3. as and citizens is the best of | With every prospect that the financlal| o, M:ils, 100; in Casey’s flour mill, M4; in’| street directly in front of the big Armour| At.12:30 o'clock to-day a force of police | ) better evidence can be had. loss, aiready heavy, will be greater with-| ., cievator, 56} in the fire station, §1. A | packing plant is under five feet of water. | began ordering out of the main waiting- | A. Kell, retired, of 605 Broadway, |in the next twenty-four hours. In this| j,a¢ was sent to the woolen mills with [.Armour & Co. have a force of 2% | room of the Union depot the hundreds of | For # year or more my back was | section are situated all the large packing-| 1000 fect of half-Inch rope, to be used in | men working at pumps trving to keep the | passengers and those awaiting outgoing | E“.b“’..‘ l'za £ ver sagrecable ew ik E = £ o e superintendent’s C vas said s | which unde y o e safe, very disagrecable, 1 knew the cause | 15 \hese plants will alone be close to §2-| FLOATING BODIES PASS BY. | SetlciUOY, Giant would continue to | but the crowds were so great that a ma- | n of kidney secretions, but what | 900.00. The agents of Swift & Co. also| At 5 o'clock the first floating hodies were operate with a full force unless the water | jerity could not find room there and were do to stop it was a mystery. I came suffered a loss from water roughly estl- @scen, fourteen passing by the North To- went much higher. All of (he hundreds | forced to go up town. By 1 o'clock a ha]l’-‘ California in 183. The greater part | mated at $#0.000, and the great plant will | peka fire station, of smaller concerns, near the ordinary | foot of water covered the waiting-room | f life has been spent in n:lmn. an | be idle for some time to come. In addi-! While herolc rescue work was golng on | panks of the Missourl River, which de-|and the ticket office, telegraph office, bns-| e '3"- 4;’;}?;"631(\&:1?o‘;flk;d";(a S'I':- tion to this there are great numbers of | this afternoon a man occupied his time in | pend upon the river for power, are under | gage and express offices were soon 7 tion. =nd when attacks of kidney com- | freight cars standing on the tracks, In all | going among the houses remaining in | water, and they will be forced to Suspend | flooded. | n ordinary to remove. Doan's Kidney | °f Which the freight is utterly ruined. All { Ncrth Topeka and looting them. Police | until the river recedes. | Although the water was rising more Pills certainly stopped my backache, It|of the residences in the district are under | officers started after the fellow and it is| - he entire stock yards, situated on the | slowly its spread made it impossible m} ] « pow some seven or eight months since | Water, most of them being but one-story | probabl: that he would have been shown | §tate line, are submerged. Many of the | move trains in any direction. The depot, | stopped the treatment and at the pres- | affairs, and fully 6000 persons from this| little mercy if captured, but he escaped. pens are five feet under water. The base- | with the exception of the second story v-'v”';v:f”l’ h el ,{1‘: _sign of anything s‘::xgr:'» g:\rm::elnkzngp«;nv:‘ !]o abandon | Ipstances Df_';flfljflrt "-"n:{"-" there being | ment of the Live Stock Exchange, con- | waiting-rooms, restaurant and offices, will | M. ‘n! Por aate by 43 Sentars - Price 00 ostn. Lo e e e e | A O T tar of st g taining 100 rallroad and other offices, and | have to be temporarily absndongd. 'The | P e alo, N, Y. sols | for ssfety. In few instances have any of | Aé the number of resc ued increases, the | the big barns of the mule and horse mar- fonly way out now is over the S¥nta Fe, | agents for the U. § them saved anything of their property, | need of supplies for relief grows. Offers |kets In that district are several feet under | Missouri Pacific, Alton. Burlington and | Feemember the name, Doan’s, and take | @nd in most instances very little-of their | of help have been received from outside | water. There is no way of reaching the | the Wabash tracks in the eastern part of | THE WILSONW DISTILLING COy o rubstitute clothing. towns. stock yards except by boat and from al the city, but as little switching can be ' Baltimore, M4, 3