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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1903
Page
1
Destructive floods along the Kaw and Missouri Rivers leave Kansas City and Armourdale submerged, with 175 to 200 dead reported and losses in the millions. Union Station blocked, water supply cut, dozens of bridges gone, and thousands homeless as Argentine and surrounding areas suffer severe damage and evacuations.
Rescue teams free over 300 trapped residents as floodwaters recede in Topeka. Death toll reported between 175 and 250 with about 4 million dollars in property losses. Majestic trees lean as waters drop and survivors recount perilous moments.
Kansas River flood skills Topeka as 175 to 250 lives feared dead with $4 million property lost. Rescue teams recover 300 or more, while hundreds remain missing or unaccounted. Topeka citizens raise $100,000 plus extensive clothing and provisions as boats, steam launches, and cross river cables rush to aid North Topeka.
Damaging floods threaten Topeka with 170 to 200 deaths and about 8 000 homeless. Houses burned around 200, 2 banks collapsed, property losses exceed 6 million, railways blocked, 150 passengers stranded as high water rises. City water works useless as 12 square miles flood. 14 000 displaced in Armourdale and Argentine, 20 floating bodies seen. In surrounding districts, Des Moines and Kansas City face shortages, rail traffic halted, and farmers ruined by attributed floods.
Weather forecast predicts continued Missouri and Mississippi river rises with floods resembling 1881. Jefferson City faces widespread crop and livestock damage as bottom lands and islands flood. Booneville and Franklin Junction risk, with farms, corn and wheat ruined. Bay Island residents evacuate as water inches upward and steamers move belongings.
Lawrence Kan May 31 the river fell a foot but seven miles wide and the North Side remains flooded. About 3000 residents are homeless as half the houses are washed away with much livestock lost. Three men died in the flood and a Union Pacific employee and companion are believed lost after a drowning boat accident.
Missouri River has risen three feet since noon threatening bottom lands and six big packing plants in South St Joseph. President J C Letts of the Commercial Club calls a mass meeting for eight o clock tomorrow morning to mobilize men money and boats for flood aid. Mayor Borden hastens to Topeka with 300 men and twenty boats to speed relief actions.
War Department orders Major General J. C. Bates in the Missouri Department to mobilize relief and supply tents from Nenworth Kansas if needed. The action aims to alleviate suffering in flooded districts across the West with departmental support.
The grand jury indicted Harry Wheeler of Aurora for the murder of Mrs. May Schmidt after he allegedly poured coal oil on her clothing and set a light to it. Wheeler is also linked to the death of Tom Johnson whose body was found in the river with blows to the head. Authorities allege Wheeler's jealousy over Mrs. Schmidt and Johnson’s attentions ties him to both deaths. The case has stirred intense public alarm in Lawrenceburg Indiana.
In Yokohama on May 31 the Cabinet refused to heed Diet resolutions from May 29 demanding ministerial accountability over scandals involving educational officials accused of accepting bribes from textbook publishers.
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