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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1903
Page
7
A Topeka suburb across the river is nearly ruined as floodwaters and fire rage. Fifty thousand are left homeless across Kansas Nebraska and Iowa with death tolls rising. rescues swirl through burning roofs while citizens endure waterlogged homes and spreading flames.
A historic flood along the Kaw and Missouri rivers devastates Kansas City area causing at least fifty deaths and widespread damage. Rescue teams battle high waters as communities brace for continuing overflow and related hazards. Local authorities coordinate shelters, evacuations, and emergency response.
A ten day period in May brought unprecedented tornadoes floods and high winds across Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska Iowa Missouri Minnesota and Illinois. Destruction included hundreds of farmhouses lost towns devastated and numerous deaths with Kansas City facing its worst flood in history as Kaw and Missouri Rivers rose four feet above 1881 levels and left twelve corpses visible amid wreckage.
Severe flooding in central and eastern Kansas swelled rivers from Kansas City to Manhattan and beyond, washing out bridges and tracks. Armourdale and Argentine suffered heavy losses with thousands homeless, while Kansas City faced water shortages and fire fears as railroads and packing houses shut down.
Chicago fire department sent a special train with a fire engine and six men to Des Moines to aid flood sufferers in Iowa. The effort follows Topeka’s North Ward details, noting North Topeka’s population, layout along the Kansas River and its historical independence, plus the 1000 yard river width and five mile flood spread on Saturday night.
A deadly cyclone hit Gainesville Georgia and nearby New Holland White Sulphur on Monday afternoon killing eighty five people and injuring forty more. The Gainesville and Pacolet cotton mills suffered heavy losses with numerous mill cottages demolished and property damages estimated around five hundred thousand dollars. The storm struck briefly before 1 PM, then lessened as residents battled the wreckage and identified victims, many workers from the mills.
The Presbyterian Church in the United States at Los Angeles unanimously approved the revision of the creed after fifteen years of debate. Protests from Lehigh and St. Cloud were rejected. The assembly also disposed of the Tennessee overture and the divorce and remarriage report, adopting a declaratory statement on doctrine and affirming infant salvation as a change in belief.
Fire in Max Meadows Virginia destroyed fifteen buildings causing a loss of 50000 dollars. Eleven French monks arrived at Notre Dame Indiana from Paris. They previously ran Catholic schools in France. Federal grand jury in Duluth indicted several land attorneys for subornation of perjury. Metlinns arrested. Henry Phipps, multimillionaire philanthropist, arrived in San Francisco aboard the Siberia with kin, en route to New York from a world tour.
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