Des Moines Flood Forcing Mass Displacement Across City
Des Moines reports four feet of inundation in the business district and widespread evacuation as levees break. Thirty-five thousand in East Des Moines, five thousand in South, four thousand in North cut off from the main city. streets flooded, shelters scarce, and relief severely lagging. Box cars serve as shelter while trains shut down and power plants struggle to stay online as hundreds face exposure near freezing. Major dams, icehouses, and machinery sit underwater, with extensive damage to transit and utilities across the region.
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Des Moines
Cester Street
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Wabash
Burlington
Rock Island
Fort Dodge
Raccoon
Des Aialnes
Ottummws
North Topeka Island Residents Beset by Floods
North Topeka Kansas lies isolated as water covers streets up to second story windows with homes surrounded by rising flood. Lacy drug store Hanky Bros grocers and several vendors washed out. Thomas planing mill burnt from a live wire. gas water and electric services cut. In Beatrice Nebraska flood waters rise over Court street with roofs showing in places. people evacuate. Santa Fe trains delayed as flood wires fail across Kansas.
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Topeka
Kau
Wune
North Topeke
Yuree
Lacy Drug Store
Hanky Bros
W& Deyers
VRE J Thomas
Kansas Avenue
Beatrice
Neb
Court Street
Chicago
Genereefhces
Kansas
Newton
Emporia
President Roosevelt welcomed by cheering crowd in Salt Lake City
President Roosevelt arrives in Salt Lake City on a special Oregon Short Line train at 8:30 a.m. greeted by Governor Wells Mayor Thompson and Secretary Wilson. About 80 000 spectators line Temple Street and the business district as mounted police and 50 riders escort the president through a parade of civic and fraternal groups. Two thousand schoolchildren wave a flag as the president speaks from a platform, smiling and bowing to the crowd.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
President Roosevelt
Oregon Short Line
Wells
Thomipson
J. W. Bubb
Wilson
Beath Temple Street
Lune
Plains
Brigham Young
Roosevelt
Tragic Skiff Disaster Kills Sixteen Near Pecan Point
A night river accident near Pecan Point, Mississippi River, claims sixteen Black cotton plantation workers from Chites plantation after two skiffs overturn in waves. Only boy Will Sell survives, while a long list of victims, including the Roundtree and Moore families, is reported with several bodies recovered.
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Memphis
Tenn
Pecan Point
Chites
Wessel
H. C. Roundtree
Rebecca Roundtree
Maggie Roundtree
Geneva Roundtree
Black, Roundtree
Elia Roundtree
Alberta Roundtree
Infant Roundtree
Lewis George
Neil Camm
Curtis Gordy
Joseph Moore
Lillian Moore
Moore
Andrew Roundtree
Chippewa Reservation Timber Sale Regulations Set
Secretary Hitchcock approved regulations governing the sale and logging of timber on Chippewa reservations in Minnesota under the Morris act. About 224 million feet of timber on 105000 acres will be offered with sale set for December 5 at the Case Lake land office. Minimum prices are 4 dollars per 1000 feet for Norway pine and 5 dollars for white pine. The process aims to shorten contract acceptance and allow a full winter logging season.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Minnesota
Case Lake
Norway
Missouri Rises Floods Reach Kansas City Area
The Missouri and Kaw rivers rise amid heavy rains. Gauge hits 35 feet, with 26 feet at 1881 peak, and two more feet expected. About 2,500 people displaced within five miles of Kaw mouth, 2,000 in Armourdale. 500 homeless in Argentine north, many houses flooded or abandoned. Water reaches packinghouses, basements, and stockyard pens.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kaw
Armourdale
Argentine
Kaw Tiver
Live Stock Exchange
Haslem
Heavy gold dust purchases in Dawson banks spark Yukon yield surge
A Dawson dispatch reports record bank gold dust purchases on Thursday and Friday, with safekeeping deposits swelling totals. If trends continue, Yukon gold output this season may exceed last year by one to three million dollars, amid a broader moral wave of coast city concerns and a drift of gamblers and other undesirables.
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Vancouver
Dawson
Yukon
Charges Against Premier Rock Britain Columbia Assembly
In Victoria British Columbia May 30 the legislature faces a funding crisis as the opposition defeats the premier s motion to advance supply bills leaving the province possibly without funds for months An investigation is ordered into charges listed by a Vancouver newspaper alleging the premier s firm won a contract by posting a low tender after he had access to other bids while chief commissioner of lands and works
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Deediock
British Columbia
Victoria
B. C
Smith Curtis
Rossland
Vancouver
Pultisg
dDids
Four Drownings Amid Morris County Floods
In Morris County a flood at night caused four drownings in Council Grove Kansas from June 1. Edward S. Clements died trying to save his daughter. Ralph Phillips perished with a young girl named Woods while rescuing her. The flood burned the M P Smith lumber yard and razed the Farmer's and Drov ers' Bank, with over 100 houses submerged and twenty floated away.
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Morris County
Council Grove
Kan
Edward S. Clements
Ralph Phillips
Woods
M. P. Smith
Farmer's and Drovers
Indicator
Robbins Drug
For Sale and Wanted Ads from a Early 1900s Paper
A jumble of help wanted and goods for sale notices. Items include a girl for general housework with good wages, furniture and a building to sell on Main street, wood for sale, eggs and farm goods, and travel colonist excursion promos. Also medicine ad and safety advice.
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A. Moric
Postmaster General Orders Salary Reductions in Small Post Offices
Postmaster General Payne approves instructions cutting assistant postmasters’ salaries to 30 percent of the postmasters at fifteen small offices including Clarinda Iowa and Stevens Point. Officials under unrecognized designations are removed to align with the law. Northern Pacific withdraws lands from market for mineral examination in Highland range and other parts of Northwestern Minnesota. Oneputt foundered with 225 tons.
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Wmamy
Washington
Thorigh
Payne
Clarinda
Stevens
Postal Service
Duluth
Northern Pacific Railroad
Northwastern
Minnesota
Heavy Rain Rules Omaha and Surrounding Areas
Heavy rain continues with no let up as flood reports grow, worst damage along the Missouri river towns. The Iowa side between Council Bluffs and Missouri Valley lies under water, softening railroad beds and delaying trains with several cancellations nationwide.
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Omaha
Missouri River
Lowa
Council Bluffs
Missouri Valley
Flooded Lowlands Close To Last Year High Water Mark
Salt Creek in Lincoln Nebraska overran the lowlands on June 1. From 1:30 to 7:20 a.m. the creek rose five inches and nears the last year’s high water mark by six inches. About thirty families sought refuge with friends and more shelter is arranged at the county courthouse.
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Lincoln, Neb
Salt Creek
Lincoln
Street Car Collision Injures and Kills In Omaha
A street car collision in Omaha left one person fatally injured and another hurt. The mishap occurred when a switch mishap sent a car into the main line, causing a crash with the second street car. Police and emergency crews responded to the scene.
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H. G. Shadbolt
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