Show ARMOURDALE DESERTED I I Site of ow Marked Only by Tops of Buildings Kansas City May Armourdale with n population of 16000 people Is deserted and Its site marked only by the tops of buildings and 0 number of fires Seven fires believed to be chlelly box cars burning could be seen from the bluffs tonight There Is some danger that tho flames will spread to tho partially submerged sub-merged buildings adding greatly to the already heavy loss Tho fires started by house the Intrusion of tho Hood into a lime houseREFUGEES REFUGEES CARED FOR Tho refugees from Armourdalo for the most part aro huddled together In the Immense Im-mense autdltorlum of tho convention hall although several hundred found refuge with friends In more fortunate parts of tho city Twothirds ot Argentine Is under water More than 4000 people In this suburb found safety In tho higher part of the I town All bridges over the Kaw river aro down and the only communication with Armourdalo la by boat WITHOUT A WATER SUPPLY Kansas City tonight Is I without a water supply tho flood having dlaabblod tho pumping station and the utmost care IH out being taken that no Ores shall break HIGH WATER RECORD The stage of the river at I oclock tonight to-night was 30 feet 7 Inches The previous high record was made In 1S1 when the river rose to M feet 3 i Inches ARGENTINE INUNDATED Twothirds of Argentine a railroad and manufacturing town on tho south bank of the Kansas river six miles from Kan BaN City la Inundated by from ten to twenty feet and probably 3500000 damn dam-n o has been done Fortylive hundred of tho 0500 Inhabitants arc homeless and nearly 3000 are In destitute circumstances Five bridges have been swept away all tho rullroad tracks and factories mlrold trnka are under un-der water and all business Is suspended RAVPA WITTS TC1CC TrTrArv The Santa U Fe railroads loss Is very I heavy Tho railroad huts 10 miles of track In the Argentine yards and several I sev-eral miles of freight car stand submerged sub-merged Somo cars have broken loose from their trucks and floated down tho river The current has left tho old channel chan-nel and has moved south taking all tho buildings In Its path Tho Snnta Fo track is 1 under water all tho way to Hol llday olght miles from Argentine up the Kansas river valley BRIDGES CARRIED AWAY The Turner bridge three miles above Argentine went out this morning Its wreckage lodged against tho County bridge at Argentina which succumbed at O I oclock The Bolt line steel railroad bridge Just below the County bridge fell immediately afterward Then In succession suc-cession the Twentyfourth Street bridge owned Jointly by tho Metropolitan Street Hallway company and the county and tho County bridge at Fifth Direct sro curried cur-ried away Tho railroad bridge was valued val-ued at 75WO and the other four at tC > each malting the bridge loss 5175000 Five hundred frame dwelling houses arc under water Tho river L full of wreckage and big crowds of people lined the river banks today watching the procession of houses care trees and other debris that flowed dOrm Twelve bodies wero counted as they floated past during the day In every case thoy were lying across pieces of wreckage On the roof of a cabin that camo swirling down could be seen the body of a woman and her child STAND IN DEEP WATER The largo acid plant of the Southwest Chemical company Is flooded by twenty feet of water The Santa Fe car shops machine shops round houso station and elevator and the Argentina smelter stand In deep water The 1000 employees of tho Santa Fe are Idle also 500 men from tho acid works and Indeed all tho wage workers of Argentine ARGENTINE ISOLATED Tho loss of tho bridges and the suspension sus-pension of street car travel and tele phono service have almost Isolated Argentine Ar-gentine the wagon road to Kansas City being nearly Impassable for heavy vehicles ve-hicles There would havo been a famine today hut for the discovery of two refrigerators re-frigerators or carloads of meat In tho railway yards and tho generosity of a contractor who sent I wagon load ot bread from Kansas City for free distribution uton MEAT CONFISCATED Tho meat was confiscated and the bread and meat are being terod at the city hal to all applicants Many o the destitute are negroes who have not oven saved sufficient clothing CLUNG TO THEIR HO IE Tho people of the flooded district had ample warning but clung to tholr houses hoping for a Cal of the water until they could escape only In boats or rafts UTTER DESOLATION Tho situation In tho suburb at Armour dale tonight Is one of utter desolation with every prospect that tho llnanclal loss already heavy will be greater within tho next twentyfour hours In this section sec-tion arc situated all tho largo packing houses Armours Swifts Cudahys Schwnrzschllds and Sulzbergcrs PACKERS LOSE HEAVILY The loa to these plants will alone be close to 52000COO The agents of Swift < Co also suffered a loss from water roughly estimated at SXWOQO and tho great plant will be Idle for some time to come In addition to this thero are great numbers num-bers or freight cars standing on tho tracks In all of which the freight Is utterly ut-terly ruined RESIDENCES UNDER WATER All the residences In the district arc under water most of them being but one story affairs and fully 10000 people from this suburb have been compelled to abandon aban-don their homes and tao to the higher ground for safety In few Instances have any of them saved anything ot their property and In most Instances very little the of their clothing FIRES BREAK OUT At 9 oclock tonight seven fires wero burning in as many places In tho railway yards all of them having originated from lime stored In cars tho lime having become be-come heated from contact with the water THIRTY CARS BURN At I oclock the most serious blaze of the day broke out In some lime cars standing opposite the west end of the union depot and directly behind tho roundhouse round-house owned jointly by both roads entering enter-ing the depot Tho lames ran rapidly from car to car and within three hours thirty of them had been destroyed Among them wore several oil tanks which for a time threatened great damage to everything In their vicinity CRIES FOR HELP While this blaze was at HB height frantic fran-tic cries for help came from the vicinity of the lire but the persons who uttered them could hot bo located There Were no boats darkness was rapidly closing closinG down and unless tire author of the erica saved himself an unknown man went to death with hundreds of people close at to hund old and him utterly unable to lend a hand himDEATH DEATH LIST HEAVY There ware rumors that the total number num-ber of deaths In the wholesale district of the city during the latter par o the day would reach aa high as fifty but there la no direct evidence of this and no possible pos-sible way of determining the matter until the waters subside unti BIG WAREHOUSE DESTROYED Directly south of the viaduct stood the warohouHo of the Missouri Limo and Cement company Close to It stood a number of cars loaded with lime and at C oclock they were all ablaze and with them went the warehouse and all It contained con-tained About n dozen freight cars loaded load-ed with lime were destroyed also Tho damage In this lire could not b less than 5100000 Tho other fires were scattered over a distance flvo mUCH long by three miles wide and In every Instance are supposed to be lime cars |