The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 2, 1903, Page 2

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FOOD AND FUEL FAMINE "AND AN EPIDEMIC OF DISEASE FOLLOW THE FLOOD, ADDING TO I‘IORROR OF DESOLATION North Topeka‘ | Listing Her Dead. i Less Than Forty. | watchers PERISHED. | I } My COLD CURE. relieves. the head, | lungs alm: mnmmer‘_‘u]\. | A 25-cent vial will break up any <old and"| prevent Grip, Bronchitjs and Pneup.\oun.. —MUNYON. | MUNYON'S DYSPEPSIA CURE isa | certain-remedy for all forms l:f indigestion | and stomach trouble. MUNYON’S KIDNEY CURE Yestorés 4 the natarsl fanctions of the kidneys even | vrhen those or ;;axxs are nenuuzlv m\ol\ed [["SON PHONOGRAPHS| MOULDED RECORDS ARE THE BEST NATIONAL PHOND. CO. - DRANGE N.J PETER BACIGALUPI, AGENT S33 MARKET ST_S ¥ RUSS HOUSE. American &nd European plan; 400 rooms; suites with. bath; newly fitted throughout.| All modern COl’l\annrlt Up-to-date head- quarters for mining and commercial mer. Arny @pd Navy headguarters. = Sample roc Music at dipner hour. Lecated fn center of city. Convenient to all car iines. CHAS. NEWMAN CO., prop., formerly pro- {prietorof Richeliew *Cate, Montgomers, Push & Pine sts.; telephone in every room. 1 tipn | ought v | the veform schog. | tracks are ‘washed out and much of the remain- m . this er. among the réfugees on the ‘morth ‘side. ~Hundreds -of eases of measles are prevalent among the chitdren ar unt -of the exposed condition nits the diseasé will result fat- n many cases sibility regult fr of scarlet fey f an “epidemic - is the ion-the city. m - éfforts 16 check is work v board. of health } Mayor to. Co-operate {1 =ortsiare becoming Xo freight {rains have 161 s and ¢ ‘of erles were: (0 Topel sl pot popgilace if this situa- lasts - much: Jenger. PREYING UPON MISFOBTUNEA It is ‘charged that: certain’ rvrrlmnw forméd -a ‘combination for the pur- of controliing. the » prices of pro- but ;they ,deny this., It: 18 re- ported “that_ -a- Jocal commission. firm “all’ the potatoes town st Satur@ay -and advariced . the" price fifty | cents @ bushel. 1t will be ‘at Jeast'a ‘week before: freight trains -fromr the east can entér: Topeka, and perhaps. longer, but | axi offort will be made. fo_procure s stock | f provisions from.the smailer. towns. It ‘was. learned- to-might that a Rock | Island -relief train had réached” North | Topeka last night, in the vicinity 'of the reform “school. The -train brouglt sixty boats. and -two _steam " launches. Experi- | eficed boatmen ‘are in charge and are do- ing work in- taking flood: victims | visiois, to plac )f -saféty. The' ¢hief ‘of police _ | of. St.. Joseph and eight- officers -accom- | pany the train. . A’ long’ tram ‘of "Réck | Island, passenger cars -also was brought | in and these coaches will be plaLed At the | disposition of.the sufferers. -The Lars will be taken. to places farther up - the_track, some to- Atchison and others’ to 8t -Jo- | seph, wheré the refugees will be’ provided W.. O, Neville, chief clerk-ins the -office of :he Rock Island general superinten- dr'r. . reports his. ob~(r\a!lo)lh as follows: For- miles, “looking to- the forth, sthere was m thing but- water. Our relief trains succeeded | n getting in bn the north side of the.city, near Miles of the RBock sland ing. lmrk! Is up on’ tnfl It will be a* IOnB time have been sent from Chicage, 5. e racks The Santa Fe Railroad is mnklng an extraordinary effort in behaif of the.suf- ferers. The facilities of its shops here are at the disposal of those wishing to make a steam launch or other machinery for' rescue: The officers have ' caused a pumping apparatus to be constructed ‘and they arenow sending a supply of water through the mains in the east portion of the city. ' ECZEMA, NO CURE, NO PAY. Your druggist will refund your morey if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Ringworm, Tetter, Old Ulcers and Sores, Pimples and Blackheads ABAp0 Jash 20t 21l Ain diseases. 60 opg's. * | R OF ACH IN ALL DIRE R¥ THE INUNDATED AREA IN KANSAS: = \ A ) I there iminate will he ‘no: wh Support of ‘er f ‘of engir the -useé of river and hark 2ers, ihie wor! goon build 1200 -1 I vel i | fo open compmunteation. NWORTH; " Ka e Corps, “with drms . City.¢ n: Railw minal el the iE MISSOURL 81DE OF THE RIVER AT KANSAS CITY THE EN iTRE- COUNTRY "AF . FAR TIONS FROM: MANHATTAN I8 UNDER WATER: AS . THE: l} pare for Flig LOUTS,-J Continued From Page 1, Column 7. that cify ing Tor:Snfith & Co. : By making & wide Gireuit- they ‘wera ‘able toflgat into. the packing-heusde district. ‘There . has been José of-life- during.the last twelve hours. i WATERS - ARE BECEDING. Sifuation Throughout Iowa Grows More Reasgsuring. DES MOINES, Iowa, June 1.—Both the Pes Moines. and Raceeon rivers continue fo recvde rapidly, ‘the ‘stage of the Des Moines River Leing below twenty feet. The . East -Des . Moines. business- seétion, flooded yesterday, is free from syater, and the situation is rapidly resuming normal conditions -in. this:lowlying wholesale- and manufacturing district. “The flood situa- tion throughout Iowa.is improving: In Des Moines 5000 persons are homeless. and ave being cared for by the local com- mittees. Provisions ‘and clothing have been contributed-in large guantities.: The | city authorities are now directing their efforts toward guarding: against the col- Jection ‘of stagnant pools and: are prepars ing to.cut through the remaining levees to enable the water to. run. to jts normal | chanuel. Extreme cold. continues and the flood | vietims are still ‘without: sufficient ‘cloth- ing. Pitiful appeals aré %made for: dry garments for women and children.. ; The most alarming réports ‘were Te- ceived’ this morning .concerning ‘the epi- demic of pneumonia and kindred diseases Doctors are unable to get sleefi 8o nymer-. ous-are the calls; ' The smallpox’ hosplul was - surrounded ' by. water ‘and thé eoal and food supply was cut.off for two days, but the anxious inmates have béen' reas-: sured by the declining of the water. —r——‘—v—— 3 WARE'S FAMILY ALA“BD Pension. Commiuloner !- Marooned in the Flood District. - WASHINGTON, June l.—Ironquil, as United States Pension Commissioner Eu- gene E. Ware is known in the literary world, is evidently marooned somewhere in. the flood district around Topeka. He left ‘Washington last Wednesday for To- peka, which is his home, and left Chicago the following day on the Santa Fe Rail- road, ‘supposedly on the train which was the last one to get-into Topeka before | | says that the melting §now in the Cocur. ‘of all stregms. The tracks-of the North- .Coenr - d'Alenes ‘disastrous’ fluods. are “feared by, the rafl- whii cuit off from ‘the test of 1Ne World by (g, torrent: Somewhat alarmed ‘at: hearing: nothing’ pd Knowing/the conditioms in most seriots, his family here cgrams yesterday- and fo-day, ad- not-only. to lum at.Topeka; but to. of the Jaw firm to which.he be- | lengs. and to -other persons; inquiring ‘if all ‘'was well syith him.- -Telegrams also |. Wwere sent Gut from the Pension Office to- day, but ta none -of .them -haye answers |: been ‘received. It is-belteved -that this is doubtless Lecause télégraphic commtinica- tloh is much interfexred” with, but mever- theless his family h greml; v\orrlrd‘ FLOOBS [N KON‘I‘ANA Melting Snow in the Coeur d” Alenes Is Swelling Streams. BUTTE, ‘Mont., June: 1—-A.-Bozeman special says. the ‘Wegst. Gallatin River is rising rapidly “and ‘the- steel bridges at Salesville, Central Park and the Sheddes. are threatened, The: recent- storms’ have swelled the. river béyond recognition. The: stream -is a raging -torrent, It has néyer beén: so high-in. its. history and it is | feared that the . bridges’ mennoned are 3 doomed. s A.special to the- Miner. from Missoula:| d'Alene: l\l«)umalmi is cnum\s a rampage ern” Pacific ‘are in-danger.and. the regular forces’ of men are-at work on the lme. Thisside of Sope, Idaho, the. waiers are. up- to. thé - rails. -The:snowfall in .the last wintér was the’ heaviest ir the fristory of .thé region and road ‘people. .° e WAR DEPA!TKENT Is. PBOH?T. Puts Aside ‘Technicalities in Extend- ing Relief to ‘Sufferers. ‘' WASHINGTON, Juné 1.—The War De-. partment is exerting its full powers and oINg to the extreme warrant of the law | in aiding the flood sufferers in the West. Putting aside all techinical questions as to the power of the department to move without violating the law prohibiting’ the expenditure of Government supplies with- out direct order of Congress, acting Sec- retary Sanger has assumed full responsi- bility for the extension of relief where this is necessary to save human life, and if necessary Congress will be asked later to approve this exercise of authority. By direction of the department the mil- their - judgment military ‘supplics” #hd - rations ‘as: ¢an be | Jt-fs expecied that fidgment wili| itary officers-in_the distressed Tegian W provide té but' will- be-allowed: to exere 4s to the s to” shel |tation. of - the~ last. two ie -of . such:| tributaries north, at ‘Fort Le: t Companies A and-C 1.the Misstssippl-Riv |-reached " to-morraw. - This fi | stered 218 feet; o danger -line. added to-tha heavy precipt- days, floost ‘coming froin. the Missouri and other | patcheés to the Postoffi is causing the river ‘to [ port-that the ¥ In addition. to this General G has’ not_on I boats and poi within reach The. men : w as City Nor TOW: morn- ment . had be situ 10" and is AND THE' € tects ihe city as well a S flercrs. from- the ‘flooded - d - ht. oons APPEAL FOR TROOPS. j 3 Thugs Begin Pfllaomg in Stnck“n 8 Kansas: City, Kans. June . ‘1— venworth. to= of pontoon, g0 [1c aré’ ‘being -stolen | who -were ‘fortunate } and the police . For. o rescue district. FLOOD WORKS SOUTHWARD. Farmers Along me Mississippi Pre- Only One Grocery in the Fnttre Wholcsale Dtstrtct of Kansas = Clty, Mo Escapes lhe lnvasmn of Flood Wa'ers urie 1.>-The danger line on at this point will be merning the | less' than three Rain felt - with the long the barks of Forseshoe be shrmn in-the issue, of ihesé rations and | Lake Téporied thelr crops ruined and that at | | | | | I | | | Lof“the floodéd - seg! s, to save life and [ pronerty, : but upon' ‘his- inquiry ~Mijor | & |-Leech; the e eer - offi¢érin charge at - Fort: Leavenw: ,: has ‘sai@ that he.can-| of: pontoon bride- | /Andithis will be fransported as ‘quick- | |1y @5 poskible to places where {t is needed-| torce | herger's down the- traops:for the | aGities -call | visions lef - sas Cfty,-a district 200 m } flood’'s fury. 8 —_— Awful Havoc in the Kaw Valley. Manhattan in Center of a Vast Sea. ANHATTAN b and p ced in the: Kaw Val- he: territory affected Kans., to Kan- es long by thres fo fifteen miles 1n width. Almost the en- tire terfitory Is submerged in water from one to ten feet deep. It is impossible to ascertain the number who have perished or are yet in danger. The loss to cattle homes, baris, fences and crops will r into the millte Boatmen who have reached here report many persons. missing. Probaly fifty persons. were drowned in the country around here. Manhattan is in the very center of the The Blue River from the north and the Kansas River from the west, -which carries the waters from the | Republican, Solomon, Saline and Smoky rivers, besides several large creeks, met astern edge of the city. d Manhattan railroad rom being just -been ‘exper ley of- Kangas stretches from Brookv fn every direction. banks alone save completely submerged. Men, women and childrer ried in boats and wagons to Those who were unable to pre jon waded deep. Mc in the Kansa ings. - Four during being discovered Agric rths were r the ni occurred babies n one are bein g takén they probably premises. The tver will re TOPERA, Roqsevelt THE ELPHIA, PHILAT has sent » Mayor Burgentha, of the sons hml by flood suffer False Report of Hflsvy Mortahty 1.—The s wers of andard Oil Mail Service ls Badly Cnppled WABHINGTON, - J ids ha thern Towa, eigliborhood of Nebiaska 3 Karnsas City. KYTCHEN REQUISITES. P e e s e e e I A i i A e N Jim 'Dumps and wife, invariably, Had “Force” for Sunday evening tea, 3 When cook went out that afterncon. «“sTis butasaucer and a spoon Or two to wash—a task not grim— And all are pleased,” laughed “Sunny Jim.” 5 "'Ql.lknlt-‘ 5 “'._‘Me'mdllhuuesdlnm “Ekfim‘ WROUGHT IN SCOURGED WESTERN CHIES/A

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