Show LOSSES BY THE FLOOD I Damage in Kansas City Runs Into Millions I RAILROADS LOSE HEAVILY Entire Terminal System Will Have to Be Rebuilt i J 1 In the Work of Rehabilitation Greatest I I Great-est Precaution Will Be Necessary i to Prevent Epidemic Kansas City Mo June 4Both t the Missouri and Kaw rivers arc receding I reced-ing at a much faster nite today A fall In the Missouri of nearly three feet from the high point of thirtyfive feet recorded fortyeight hours 10 wan S shown by the Government gaugo at 7 a m The gauge nt that hour regis torcd 329 which was a foot and a half below the singe recorded at the same time yesterday By nlichtfall It Is predicted pre-dicted the stage In the Missouri riverS river-S will be close to thirtyone feet There was a corresponding fall In the Kaw Notwithstanding the rapid decline the water about the union depot I which la the highest point In the j flooded district Is still four feet above the first flood While the conditions condi-tions are vastly more hopeful a tremendous I tre-mendous undertaking confronts tho two cities The waters as they recede S I are disclosing a wrecked lImecon red area of five miles square i TERMINAL SYSTEM WRECKED It Is conceded by several engineers who have Investigated the situation I closely that the whole of the terminals terminal-s > stem of the railroads In the bottoms will have to be rebuilt together with bridges that alone ItlJ estimated cannot can-not be replaced at under from 5000000 to 10000000 In the work of rehabilitation rehabili-tation the greatest precaution will betaken be-taken to prevent an epidemic of sickness 1 sick-ness bLcauBO of utter lack of sanitary measures NEW WATER PLANT REQUIRED c Sewers arc washed out and must be I entirely replaced and even the pumping I station although it may be used temporarily H I I tem-porarily must ultimately be removed toy to-y i i higher ground and u complete new plant constructed I At convention hall where several II hundred refugees have been housed since last Sunday the sanitary conditions condi-tions have become such that preparations I I prepara-tions are making for the Immediate removal I re-moval of the homeless What to do with them Is L serious problem Water was turned on In the business district on the Missouri aide today for I I the first time since Monday but the Ii flow was Inadequate The railway system a i sys-tem IB improved greatly today I Ii i RESUMES NORMAL CONDITIONS With the rapidly falling water business busi-ness In retiumlnfr Jts normal condition The waterworks arc pumping black t water from the Kansas river not lit to I I drink and the danger from fire Is over Electric street car lines arc In operation opera-tion The telephone and telegraph connection con-nection will be established between the I r two Kansas Cities tomorrow lines being I i I be-ing stretched across th ruins of the James street bridge Gangs of railroad repairers follow close upon the heels I of the retreating floods and the streets 4 I are being cleared of mud where covered i S and brought to grade where washed I out outAt o At the stock yards 2500 hogs and 300 cattle were drowned A force of men began today to remove the carcasses IN WHOLESALE DISTRICT r t In the wholesale and packinghouse districts of the west bottoms the scene I Is even more dearepslng than yesterday r yester-day Additional buildings have fallen and the lowering of the flood has exposed i ex-posed heaps oL ruins In some places I men with poles are loosening heaps of i wreckage to let it drift away I NO MORE BODIES FOUND Reports that the Burlington bridge I I i approaches are washed away are untrue un-true In the masses of driftwood on I the Clay county side of this bridge not one body has been found by the men I 4 who arc hauling timbers ashore nor i have they peon any bodies At this place many bodies were said to he collected i 4 col-lected and their nonexistence makes it 1 likely that the total list of dead will i not co much above eight the number I now authenticated Most of the mlss I ingr persons have been heard from PACKING PLANT RESUMES The packinghouse plants did not suf i fer severely At Armour the fires were lighted late this afternoon I The railroads began to open cars to day but the greater part of the freight cars are nUll partially covered Small I storekeepers in the district are ruined I I and tho losses on buildings are distributed I distrib-uted among thousands of owners I I DESTITUTE CARED FOR I i Tho 20000 people made destitute in Kansas City Kan by the flood arc I j being well cared for I The relief ser I I vlce is well organized and there has been little sickness Today the refugees i f refu-gees were taken from the bulldlngn around the city and placed In camp I 1 f tents at Sixteenth and Orville streets I I l They will bo under military rule The 1 j l L Armour Packing company today sent I I 55000 to the Kansas City relief fund I APPEALS FOR AID I The Armourdale Flood association I has issued an appeal for aid oC the 16 j I 000 people who are homeless there The j i appeal saya Contributions should be I I sent at once to the Armourdale State Bank of Commerce the Kanfias State bank or the Home StMo hank Kansas City Kansas for the association I I 11 At Argentine 4500 people aru still homeless and an appeal for food and j t clothing was issued today Supplies II should be Dent to the Mayor Dr C E I I Clapper Argentine Kan |