Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-06 | Page 5 | 2000 Homeless as River Rises

2000 HOMELESS AS RIVER RISES KANSAS CITY June 6 OR Near Ri-Near- Near Nearly ly Iy 2000 flood victims of oC North Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence Kan and nearby Kaw valley valley val val- ley Icy farm lands were homeless to today today today to- to day and other hundreds had bad been driven out In eastern Missouri where the rising Missouri river spread over an estimated square miles of oC farming country Most rost of oC North Lawrence was Under under under un un- der water and thousands of oC acres aeres of ot valuable corn wheat and potato land were inundated with wilh considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able crop loss as the result of ot the breaking of ot a Kaw river dike north I I of oC Lawrence Residents had ample warning and moved most of ot their belongings to safety Only 30 families applied for forRed forRed forRed Red Cross aid in Lawrence scat seat of the University of ot Kansas which escaped the flood Damage in North Lawrence was expected to tobe tobo tobo bo be confined to flooded basements and lower floors The flood crest passed Lawrence labout about 40 miles upstream from Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas Cit City this morning and poured into the rich potato-growing potato country country country coun coun- try between the two cities There was extensive flooding of rich low low- lands Dikes were being strengthened in inthe inthe inthe the greater Kansas City area but government engineers expressed no fear of an overflow In the lying low-lying industrial and residential sections Dynamite was used to break up driftwood piling up against several bridges here