Show WATER W P G AT cc 1 So Far as Known Only y i our ourI ur I ves Were Lost T Topeka peka Kan Ifan June lune 1 At 6 S tonIght tonight to tonight night the water In the Kansas river had bad g gone me down fourteen and was fall tall fallIn fallIng In Ing p at the tile rate of M half halt an Inch K aou an I hour hourI I rom Manhattan anttan up to the river comes the th report that the water there thore tb e is slowly lOwly D filling At the same me condition condlon eon prevails and it is now reasonably certain I that the waters here will wilt steadily at recede rec At this time there t er are thirtyfour dead List of Victims f Henry H nry Jordan colored I fi Ward Wardt 01 W Garrett t n et f G H HG Garrett G a K UDe t tier Mrs rn Kube Louise Loui Storey Infant of Storey Store Mrs oll Jackson widow probably dead John L Adams Adam i Mrs Ida Montgomery on mery d dl l dead family et f 1 n seen seen en b by Rescuer Re euer Smith m Ia meide west We i iside side eide house houe unknown woman and aDd child drowned while crossing tn to Oakland ur sen eo n to fall from trees by watchers at bridge east approach Escape Cut Off OS n Mr 1 Jackson a widow who Uve at and Van Buren Bunn was wa caught 5 in n i her home without means of leaving u wi 1 is th to have bave been drowned H nry Ludington who lives three In lit Oakland u va i last seen hanging to the branches branchesi a i tree ref t in i tl n the t he eastern portion of o North Nort T Topeka Sunday morning morting It is thought thit th he has ha been bt n drOwned J John hn L Adams who lived on c F et t near flea r the woolen W mill mm Is thought have hae perished With his family h he be bad hod i ik W k Jv n on thE roof of his home Kf Rf took the family out early hut but buttin t tin tte tl boat was not large la enough t to accommodate a him When Ahen hen the paty party returned ed t r him h he hid had A vanished Mm Mrs M Ida Montgomery who lived Uv d back f the Citizen bank blink on Kansas avenue avene I reported ported drowned She SIH Sh was in Vu miter liar ner nerr e r T om m 8 Sunday nd morning but tn tM the parties patties were pr usable unable to rescue ue her bel There re to is no noone noone noone one there then now new Saw aw Seven Sev Bodies Andrew Pretzel a met gardener rei q fly I c ea 55 r of Oakland la is among the s i j 1 Ilg u ani hH hIs hi friends think he was as l A man mall named d Smith who manned ODed one ot CL the rescUe v ue boats on the north SIde glde last Ja t ight ij ht reported seeing Meine seven een bodies float floating ing ng in the water wahl on the tb second floor of ot a ahouse ahouse house houS in North orth Topeka hr hE did not Bot I know who had lived in the house hOUN The Th family famil who were caught I en cri the roof of if their house bouse Saturday night t t two bodies bOies float floating r ported that the they saw lug ing by bv this morning I Carl arl Golf Goff jr son of or f the th chief chi f of po poll ll o ay a woman and nd a bab baby fall from froma rt a ebo bou ro O f Oj just ast w west t of the Gabriel lumber yard rd while hUe that structure was waa b turning The urr nt swept them dl into the flame A reporter report 1 for fort tho t hc Astoria A tf t f d Pre Press aw two men plunge fn fr from m rn a houSe AOu jut just ju t south of th the 1 yards ards bout about s the t he same time Sat irda fl The They were swept out nut I Hito tnt the current and disappeared under I the muddy mu d An unknown man was wee I taking a I woman and ani an baby b b across Uk ner rier to U tt akland In a skiff when It cap fi The woman and nd the child were Browned hut hilt lt the th man saved saed l his me life by hanging to the boat I Four Pour Felt Fell From Front Trees I Tat at h Ts ci ei 1 the east approach of the theold old Sardo a av flue niue bridge yesterday I fl C t wh wIt were wert using Held tt ld glasses I 2 reported seeing four lour persons fall fail from I S thO th tr t 9 on the other side and drop into the wat water r rAn I An unknown girl wa was taken from a ahouse ahouse ahouse I house near Kansas Kan as a avenue enu and Gordon Gordi late te Sunday night She was wan chilled and numbed from exposure and died cUed I I after being taken into the enlon pacific hot ho hotel 1 Milton Holt Bolt saw UW r a woman I I swept down the river and drowned Sun Sunday aa day morning Another woman who ho w ws s about to be ho bert rescued rt slipped clipped from t ti b r rt f before the boat could get to her and was Wall drowned The distress of the e sufferers is ham being reT l 1 Those who wh are a still In North Nort i are arp being beims supplied with food and andt they bey t n ire rt re i in I no danger unless It be hi b from rom si Epidemic Feared On no n co tl t I h m t of the tP situa hii H it 11 IW Ie i is tn the nr frt lit t tutt t t there will aill ill be a spread of contagious die fa L c 0 It of o all classes are huddled In uses not est large enough for forace them ace a 01 o all a they th gre are fu td ad by r T water watne W octo Doctors and medical l relief cann reach sufferers to t any great ex ax t n ctt a case eny ef er t ris 11 was reported from the woolen mill mUI in ift inv Topeka where there are many childre v in addition to the adults It is bJ easy to see what may result from this Thor Is also a case or two of 0 o scarlet fever among the refugees rt on the north northside 1 side Hundreds of eases ease of measles are prevalent et among th the children and nd on Oft account a t of ef the exposed of or the Uie patients the disease will result r remi fatally in inmany inmany many cases caseL The possibility p of an epidemic ch is the themo most mo serious thing U ng the city must n contend with physicians of tile the city under the direction n of the city health board hoard are making heroic h efforts to check the tAe threaten throat threat en ne cued In this work they are a being belV beli well wIl b th tIM the health boards ds of ithe state te and aM country An emergency e y board boa of 0 health Ith has baa been n appointed by the mayor agg to LQ cooperate rete with the ct city physician ph n Proy Provisions Scarce I Provisions of r all sorts are becoming scare scarce ID ij Topeka Xo No freight trains have havet entered t Ufe city cotty for lor several days and d as I large quantities of groceries wore were de do oy d in North Jorth h Topeka there r will 1 not t ti i be t h for the people to eat if tt this fe lasts much h longer It er Is tc charged r rI I that r merchants have formed a combination D for the purpose of i lug ing t e prices Vice of provisions but they I o deny ny the truth troth of the charge Jt It is reported tp that a local commission n firm bought t up aU alt U the potatoes in town last Saturday and advanced the price pricell ft J cents a bush I It Will vill be at least a w week ek k before freIght I I trains from Crom the east t can enter TopeKa I and perhaps longer I r but sit fOR n effort will be bei I i made shade to secure a stock of provisions provision 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