Show THE GREAT FLOODS They Cause Much Damage i Iowa and Kansas Whole Districts Jade Desolate Debris and Dead Bodies Float Alone Some Lives Are Lost by Drowning and Lightning i EMPORIA Kan June 27Word has just been receive in this city of the great i damage caused by the heavy rains of I Thursday in this and adjoining counties i Many farms have been entirely flpoded and die barns implements and entire I ad implement entre I crops washed away On the farm of John I Stotler on Jacobs creek a large orchard I was destroyed The storm also did great damage to buildings At Taylor ranch many fat hogs and 1 lot of poultry were lost The people were compelled t fee for their lives to high land and their prop about this erty was destroyed All farms place are submerged At Sodeno mill just below Emporia the Cottonwood 1 out of its banks and has spread over the country for miles In the flood as it passed might be seen all kinds of wreakage barns parts of all kinds of farm machinery wheat in abundance and here and thero a piece of driftwood or wagon bed or dead animal The flood is now subsiding |