Show KANSAS CITY IN DARKNESS I A AI AND PARTIALLY SUBMERGED J Twenty Thousand People P ople Homeless Hom les on West Side of the River los of Life About Fifty t Conditions Somewhat Better Batter at Top Topeka ka With t a Scaling Down o own noa of the Casualties to TW Twenty nty 0 J J TT 17 ANSAS CITY Mo fo June Jane L With KANSAS l 1 S PIS ga and ani electric eIe rIc lights extinguish extinguished I ed the th water works orb wo shut down clown I and the city practically at t the mercy 1 ot t the first fire that shall break out I with Kith railroad transportation feeble and an uncertain Kansas City my if It the tile I waters do Io not recede recd within the next two or three days be compelled to light apt 1 for tor her very ery life And tonight the SIt Skis ki kiare are lire dark and lowering the rain is fatt tn fatting ing heavily h more stormy weather is 1 weeping sleeping up UI from the west wet and the insatiable river rier ie Is holding bolding its own It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is practically stationary tonight but bitt b t v what hat the flood has haJI it keeps keep and there to ja tono no 30 certain promise of when it will re reede I I c ede de The stage tonight is 39 against t 3 35 feet this morning meriting monal Chief Conno Connor of J S the weather bureau says Y that while the I outlook was wu tor for continued rains it would necessitate a very v ry heavy bea vy fan fall if tt th present nt high water wat is to continue I nd lid tIts this U will wilt come or notis not Is something he can not tell Twenty Thousand Homeless Hom T TT Th The authentic information from fromin f tty City ln was waa re lv l tonight i in th that Mt district ONS people are homeless homel f r number which cannot be estimated e have a ye been beez drowned drown d and tb the property loss Io has tas ht been havy The situation there Is Isa isa a parallel to the situation h here re apparent apprent 1 I no letter better aid ad no worse There is no great t probability bIt that there will be fur I Ith I ther th r lost of life lIf if the river doss does do not rise rt eHy Hy it is ill i likely that th the num b 1 r of fatalities in the city win wilt approximate I Ima mate ma i wn in iii In the wholesale district people at dusk duek tonight were waving wh wA ta te I 1 cloths to attract The kH ia I of or some Mme of or these Is II p lIable They have l 1 b f n h Id prisoners for two days threat n fl d with death by drowning at one time tI tIby I by In tire nu enu tor the moot moo t part without l Every effort is being made and allEtti thy thov all will be saved tomorrow r unies J I the water rises e more and this seems Im ha Improbable probable j I The financial ft lal da damsa mace te Is abort as RIt g great t tn n w as all it Is ta likely to become unless the e thew w ater rises rte much than at pres present pr prent I ent n j I City in Darkness D 1 Tonight T night the city is in absolute darkness I I There Thre is not the Id gi r of or a gas as Jet or oc orth octh th t h of o an n in toe build buildings I Ings which have their own electric light fight plants excepted Steam for these e is If sup 1 from water hauled from the river 1 w er for the three street car r lines that I Ia have a f resumed operations Is I furnished by byh w ter I r pip d from a small stream on one f the h valleys In all aU u h the lb buildings t go goit in the thet it t v elevators have been discontinued un ln unit n nIts it I Its s provision has baa been made for fr InK Ing water ater The newspapers n have nave been n i t lI to discontinue dt the us use u of o their ir I t and nd because of or lack ot of power are type in the old Ud Wa vay In he hotels hot all aU of o which wl are arec I c w d d to their utmost Mie tej t elaborate f care eare is taken to o present I th tji e waste of ot water ter I |