Kansas City Flood Strikes Many Die In Topeka Rescue
Kansas City endures severe flood with power and water outages. Topeka reports up to twenty deaths, extensive property loss near North Topeka, river Kaw near standstill, refugees in second stories, and federal aid offered by President Roosevelt. Rescue crews operate boats and rafts. rail service limited to Santa Fe line via Emporia.
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Theodore Roosevelt
North Topeka
Kaw
Santa Fe
Emporia
Ottawa
Missouri Pacific
Flood Devastates Kaw River District From Brooksville to Kansas City
Manhattan Kansas June 3 floods sweep Kaw river valley from Brooksville to Kansas City a 200 mile by three to fifteen mile flood zone with depths from one to fifty feet. Dozens drown and thousands lose homes barns and crops while 1500 flee to higher ground at the Agricultural College building. Telephones and wires down and city in darkness as railroads aid passenger safety. Fourteen bodies recovered near Emporia and Cornell Grove with continued devastation reported across the Neosho valley and surrounding farms.
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Emporia
Neosho
Cornell Grove
Hutchinson Lake Destroys Property In Kansas Flood
Hutchinson Kansas swells into a lake five miles square with two feet of water on Main Street. Two thousand people are homeless across fifty blocks as railroads flood and boats rescue women and children. Property loss in the Hutchinson area and valley is estimated at $2,000,000 with hundreds of buildings weakened. No deaths reported. The Mississippi flood danger also rises near St. Louis as rain and upstream flows threaten the river.
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Democratic landslide in Cook County judiciary race
In Cook County voters elected 14 Democrats to 4 Republicans in a wet weather election for judges. Democrats won circuit court seats with names like Murray F. Tuley Dunne Adams Baker and Mack, while Republicans took a few seats including Theodore Brentano for the Superior Court. Despite a 10,000 majority for Democrats some GOP favorites, Tuthill Gibbons and Smith, outpolled their ticket.
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Topeka Flood Havoc Flees Through North Side
Terrible loss of life in Topeka follows a night of rising Kansas river flood. Rescue crews using steam launches saved hundreds while fires destroyed North Topeka. Authorities estimate 175 to 250 dead, 8,000 homeless, and millions in property damage as flood waters recede slowly.
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Twenty seven drowned in Kansas City flood disaster
A Kansas City report describes a devastating flood from the Kaw and Missouri rivers washing out bridges and flooding Armourdale and Argentine. Fourteen lives are lost, thousands homeless, and losses run into hundreds of thousands as rail lines, tracks, and bridges fail across Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Iowa. Footage shows bodies in river wreckage, with ongoing rain and forecasts of worse flooding than 1851.
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Epidemic pneumonia feared as Des Moines flood recedes
Des Moines Indiana residents live in schoolhouses as relief work advances. Physicians warn hundreds may contract pneumonia from flood exposure. Today 100 sick under physician care. Fatalities yet unverified. confirmation awaits river rechanneling and home searches.
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Des Moines
Trains Abandoned After Des Moines River Flood
June 2 reported flood in Des Moines river carried away the Tracy bridge. Water level half a foot higher than last year. Iowa Central north and Rock Island east lines abandoned at Oskaloosa and nearby towns amid disruption to rail service.
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Oskalooga
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Rock Island East
Lower Ottumwa Flood Drives Families From Homes
Des Moines River flood near Ottumwa Iowa inundates the city’s lower portions with less than two feet to the high mark. Heavy rain continues after night of downpours, submerging hundreds of acres of valley farmland and forcing scores from their homes.
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Deluge at Lincoln and Beatrice Leaves Towns Flooded
Lincoln Nebraska May 30 floods from Salt Creek and Blue River threaten towns. Six inches from last year’s high water, thirty families shelter with friends as courthouse space is used. Water inundates streets, power plant and waterworks halted, railroad yards flooded, trains halted, bridges at risk, no loss of life reported.
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Rain Still Falling Hurts Eastern Nebraska Missouri Valley
Heavy rain drenched eastern Nebraska and southern Iowa through the night and today with no relief in sight. The Missouri River towns report the worst floods as the water floods rail beds forcing delays and cancellations along the Council Bluffs Missouri Valley corridor.
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Bryan Declines Interview on Democratic Chairmanship
Lincoln Nebraska May 30 Mr Bryan declines an interview on accepting the Democratic national chairmanship. A close friend says after a talk with Bryan he refuses to consider the post.
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Nation Honors Soldiers With Day Observances And Speech
Washington observed Memorial Day with ceremonies across the capital. Gen. Smith urged rising to new responsibilities, stressing mutual forbearance in race issues and the need for national unity and broader, liberal spirit.
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Memorial Day Observances Draw 100000 in Chicago
Under a raw wind and gloomy sky Chicago marked Memorial Day with a lakefront naval demonstration featuring over 1000 veteran sailors. Ceremonies at cemeteries drew about 100000 men women and children while a street parade of veterans and civic groups marched through the afternoon.
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Sherman Statue Unveiled in New York on Decoration Day
New York unveiled August St Gauden's equestrian statue of General William T Sherman in Plaza Circle at Central Park Fifty-ninth Street entrance. The ceremony followed a soldiers parade before Governor Odell and Secretary of War Root, with memorial ceremonies in cemeteries and at Grant's Tomb.
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Anarchists Arrested Over Plot Against King Victor Emmanuel
A Marseille dispatch reports three anarchists arrested at Mentone on suspicion of plotting to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel during his planned visit to Paris. Also, Mrs. George Alfred Townsend, wife of the noted correspondent, died in Washington.
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Derailment injures many on Southern Pacific train No 22
A Southern Pacific passenger train derailed about a mile south of Rincon near Santa Barbara on June 2 at 8 PM. Forty people were injured, some seriously, with many sustaining broken bones and cuts. Passengers include Mire J A Smith from Creston and Nelson Johnson of Fort Madison among others. cause unknown, rails likely spread as the engine passed.
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Riot at Ball Game Ends in Lynching Attempt
Pittsburg June 2 riot at High Bridge baseball game left one black man dead, two fatally shot, another beaten and thrown over a hill, and three white youths severely shot. A mob dragged a wounded man toward a tree for lynching before officers arrived. no arrests reported.
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Dynamite Plot Reported Against Battle Creek Sanitarium
Rumors spread of a planned dynamite attack on Adventists' sanitarium at Battle Creek during Sunday's dedicatory exercises attended by Governor Bliss's staff and about 25 000 visitors. Officials deny the plot as a search finds saturated cotton and two sticks of dynamite inside the building.
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Prince Robert duel in Adrian over insult to Toledo woman
A duel occurred near Adrian Michigan yesterday between an Adrian man using the pen name Prince Robert and F. C. Willa of New York over an insult to a Toledo woman engaged to Prince Robert. Ellis was wounded on the first assault, and the opponents retreated to New York.
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Famine in China reports surge of deaths in Kwangsi
Consul General in Hong Kong via Victoria reports a appalling famine in Kwangsi, with hundreds dying. Widespread alarm and foreign threats noted as the crisis compounds. Plague described as recurring in Yokohama context.
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