Show I I I I CENTER OF OP THE FLOOD Many Streams Poured Their Waters Down Upon Manhattan Knit Kan Manhattan Ran Kaiu June 1 INot Not since the tM Galveston flood 1005 na water created such terrible ha havoc hayO oc and wrought such uda de do destruction destruction of lives Jives and aad property as has baa just been experienced n in the Kaw Raw valleY of Kansas KaMa The territory affected stretches from Brookville Kan Ran t to Kan Ran Kansas sas I Cit City a distance S stiles miles long oAt by three to fifteen miles mlles in width Almost t the entire Uno territory is submerged In m wa WR water water ter from one to ten tt n feet f deep It te Is Im Its Impossible Imp possible p to ascertain the number n who have hae ha perish fd or are yet Et t in danger The Thelow low lose o ratte cat tte homes home barns fences f and androy andro roy ro ll will i ion Iun un into the millions Boatmen who have bae reached here re report report port man many persons missing Jr babIy tift lifty persons were wt re drowned in the conn coun try tr around here he Manhattan is 10 in the very very center of the thes flood s fury The Blue river river from the i north n rth and th tM the Kansas river from the west which carries s the waters from the I Republican Solomon Saline and aad Smoky rivers rivets besides large creeks met DIet metat rn at tb th the eastern stern edge ce of the city I Tn T n p les of or water surround Manhat Manhattan Manhattan tan In every direction The high railroad banks alone save dare the city from being completely elY submerged and possibly flooded d with water waterMen waterMen Men Ul women and children have been carried In boats and wagons to the hills bills Those who were unable to secure trans transportation transportation waded through water waist deep Over l 1 30 tI popie po opiE are housed in te t e Kansas KaMa Agricultural gt buildings Four births birth wr were to have oc oe occurred during the tho th night one of the baMe I being discovered in the engine room a 0 0 A t Every Bery business stare ste re te is l titled tilled witH willi water from ORe one to te ten hm fet feet deep All AH ers are being taken good care of by rail railroads railroads railroads roads |