Show fLOOD RECORD IS PASSED AT CAIRO Flood Conditions Generally Improved Most Smaller Streams Falling Faling Although the l situation in most of th the flood stricken districts was wag improved im imp im- im proved r toda today hi high b water still sti pre pro In m many places and in several oral ee the r rivers e werA reported to have bae swept over o and broken broke loves No loss 1089 of ot life was war reported toda today At Kan ns City tho the Missouri river reached the dan danger r line lne of 23 feet above low water mark and the water backed up tip the Kansas river cauBin causing it to assume threatening proportions The Kansas river west of Kansas KanS City and It is its tributaries were falling how however and alt although ou h some re of the residents verl 0 of oi the lowlands moved as a a precautionary step no serious overflow was expected In some of the smaller streams of Nebraska railroad brid bridges e were washed shed away aWRY and railroad traffic wa was wa im ira- paired Governor Aldrich ldrich of Nebraska was marooned by high water for twenty twenty- four hours at South Bend and finally finall got back to the capital by making his wa way P over a swaying sain framework of ot rai railroad road ties tes all al that remained of a bril bridge e the substructure of which had been swept t away The Tho Mississippi r river or at St. St St Louis Lu was wa practically stationary but at Cairo and ond father south couth the stage w was assuming assum assum- in lag ing alarming proportions proportion Several byees levees lev by- ees are reported to have broken flood jug ing in inthe the lowlands and forcing the farmers farm fum ers to flee to higher ground Already much damage ama c has been done in the flooded areas |