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Show Kansas Streams Again on Rampage Heavy Rains Cause Flood and. Much Property Damago Has Resulted. Re-sulted. KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 0. All Kansas streams arc rising, the result of heavy rains In the pant twenty-four hours; and Berlous floods are threatened. threat-ened. From two to four inches of water has fallen during that time. A worse flood than any that has preceded pre-ceded Is threatened at Emporia, where both the Cottonwood and Neovho rivers are close to the high-water mark and rising at tho rate of four Inches an hour. At Snllna the river is rising and thi-ee feet more will cover the eastern part of tho city. Dry creek Is ruging and the cltlzen3 are moving out. Farms in the lowlands aro flooded and farmer are moving their stock- to higher ground. Gypsum City Is flooded. The water Is in the houses and streots, and at other points much damage to buildings has been done by high winds. At Kansas City both the Kaw and tho Missouri rivers are high and rising rapidly. The water overflowed the low places in Armourdale and Riverside. No great damage is expected in the vicinity vi-cinity of Kansas City, however, unless there are further rains. At Leavenworth the damage to property prop-erty will be heavp. Thero the manufacturing manu-facturing district adjacent to Thrce-MIlo Thrce-MIlo creek, ulong Cherokee and Choc- law sireet8, irom Tweutn to tne .Missouri .Mis-souri river, was flooded. Houses and lumber yards, wagon and railroad bridges are washed away and telephone and telegraph wires are damaged. At and near Junction City, the .Smoky Hill and the Republican overflowed over-flowed their banks at several places. There are washouts on all roads at that point and no trains have run in or out of Junction City today. This Is tho fourth flood this year in Kansas. In many places It rained nearly every other day last month, and the record this month, so far, has been maintained. At Topeka the Kansas river 13 20 feet 3 Inches above low-water mark and rising at the rate of three inches an hour. A large portion of North Topeka Is flooded. Wichita reports the Little Arkansas river on the norlh nnd west, the Arkansas Ar-kansas river on tho west and Chlsholm creek, on the east sldo of that city, higher than It was a month ago and still rising, and the flood situation there Is becoming alarming. Early this morning the Arkansas river was 7.1 feet abo-. low-water mark. In the Douglass Svcnuo wholesale district cellars cel-lars aro flooded. The Cox-Johnson-Dlamond Dry Goods company and the Southwestern Drug company report heavy losses. Oats are ruined and Wheat fields are covered with water. Southwest of the city, In the wheat section, the uncut grain is lying flat and little of it can be saved. ' A large portion of North Topeka Is flooded. Every concelvnble vehicle is being used by the North Topeka people peo-ple in transportalng their goods to the south side and Norlh TorJeka Is being deserted as fast as possible. Refuges are being quartered In the State house and other public buildings. Rises arc reported in all the tributaries upstream. |