Show GREAT CREAT FLOOD AT KANSAS CITY Financial Loss Will Amount to Millions of Dollars A A NUMBER NUM Elt OF ii LIVES IJ VES LOST stock Block Tan CAli not jId loo eu Huddled Tos r Kaunas unias City Mo May 31 Tho great lt st flOOd In the history of ot Kansas cRy City Kuli luI prevails hero herL today und millions of dollars loss will result A greut body of ot coming from the west vet swelled the Kansas river at ot Kansas City i fly Ity Kan Iun this morning causing a moat irot alarming t rite rIse rushed rushell with force over tho the outlying railroad tracks tro ls and nl the crowded crowl wholesale dis districts Ils distrct of ot th west bottoms and finally Into the thu Union depot d pot potIn In tho valley valey of ut the Kaw aw or Kansas between this city und and City Kan Kun K LL a u report has It that a u num number ber Ler of lives havo ha vo buen lost One On report pays fUS H 14 and II another DO tO hut but In thu tho midst of demoralization of ot o truffle anti and the ordinary of or communication it itIs I iti Is I i Impossible to verily verify thet thew reports At 10 a mile mie of ot big wholesale house c elevators and freight depots were entirely uri NI bl that yesterday e were partially sum uin merged w Wet ver rt brimful nn water begun blun to reach the first floors Within 15 minutes 1 tho the tracks track entering the tho thesler vestern end of o the tho union depot were ero entirely and und at 11 1 i the water wilter hud had risen at such uch a 11 vapid rapid f rate that tat the thousands thou of ot delayed were vero making preparations tons I i to leave lao l for tho high ground up town Union avenue on which the Bossom hou and numerous smaller hotels and stores ore nrc oe located locale la is I a I stream At 1230 the tho water In Union Ulion avenue WItH Wl three feet deep end and people were vero ero being bellI taken out of ot the house houM and adjacent buildings In wagons which will wiil wi soon soo be bo forced to toj j quit qui The he water sater roso r so so 80 fast In the vicinity of ot the depot that many per Were forced to remove to second floors 1001 und preparations were ero mudo hurriedly to I the passengers up uptown uptown town Trains that have been waiting In the tho depot lellot for hours for or on an II opportunity ol to Mart lart west and south couth stand a U foot deep In water vater No trains have left let City for none will leavo today toda and per not nt for or several days Trains frotH from the east cast alto nho are late molly many apparently having toot met let the flood fool now being bell caused by b the tho rise In th the Missouri 1 river east cast pf here hero The losses In the district I will wi aggregate well el Into luto tho the millions mi 10 1 und and the losses losso to the tho various packing pucking i houses nearer the tho river wil be trenton tremendous tremendous dous douA The street t directly In front of the big I Armour packing plant Is under tinder five fire feet of ot water Armour Co have a force torce of ot men working at pumps trying to keep kL p the rising waters out of the build bund inge At the tho superintendents orce It Wan WU stated this morning that the plant vili 11 continue to operate with wih a a till full tul force unless tho the water goes oe high higher cr or crAll erAl All Ali Al of or the hundreds of smaller eon con concerns cerns near mar tho the ordinary banks of the r which depend upon the tho for or power are under water and und they the will wi be forced to suspend until the thelver lver recedes r cedel throwing thousands of I men out of ot employment Thu Tho entire stockyards situated on the tho Plate line I e ate mo submerged Many of ot the pen are aru al five fv feet teet deep In II water vater The basement of ot the livestock ex cx containing 10 railroad and In offices an UR well wel a ni as the big biG barns of ut the mule lule and horse markets markels In that I district are le several feet teet under water vater There hlo Is hi no way my ay of at reaching tho the stock stockyards yards ars by boat oat and from rota a u point one mile mie east Sheep valued at TOO i Q ns as I well wel as a head of or cattle caUl anti and andI I horses horse have been drowned and the loss lOBs nt at this point will viii wi he be very ry heavy All Al night the forces torce of ut the tho stockyards men tuen were sers IN at It work rescuing re live lve stock I hundreds of o head hul being brought up Into Inta I town At plant M persons person 1 I emploYeR and people In tt h the vicinity 1 who ho had halb been en driven from their homes 5 are aro imprisoned They ThOy Thy have hae been heen hell held j there early lost last evening They TIle The Jure lre are safe saI flem harm but hut will wi not be he beij ij moved until those In iii greater danger In ln the ground near Armour Idale lalo and 11 AI gentl have been ben taken to places of ot safety A steady rain has Ballen ulen ohlen here bere h re and auth nHI west all al night tillit anti and ani still continues and all au streams In the strick on n territory are um rising at nt an on alarming grate tl The property loss lo In the tho whole ale rale district of or the west bottoms will 11 Kite II lie tremendous Kansas City May Mi 31 a it I population of ot people Is hi II and Us I Cite Bite marked only by br byI I tho Ilie torn tops of ot buildings and Olt a n number of ot Seven Seen fires Ores believed to hI IP ie chiefly box boic bOi cars burning could be seen leen 1 tho t o bluffs tonight There Is hI some seine lunger that the flames will wi spread to the partially submerged building add addIng Ing n tig greatly greaty to the already heavy hll loss Clu he fires started by the Intrusion of or hI lie Hood 1101 Into a The refugees refuge s from for tor forShe forthe the She hl most mod part purt are ara huddled together In he Immense auditorium of ot the con coil conVention cn cation hall hail although ni hough several hundred lound refuge refue with lh friends In more inure for Cor parts of t the city cl I of ot Argentine Is under rater ater More Alore than 4 c people In this found safety In the higher pert part of t the Uton town 1 All 1 bridges dVer Or the th river ate are at flown own and the only communication with wih Is by b boat boat LOSSES LossIs AT IA wm CF Lawrence lan iCan May Ma 31 The water vater wate here H eve has hus hu fallen a foot Coot Halt Half the houses hou C Of r f the north side are arc Ir washed away aD but buthe the lie he people p olle have hav all nih gone Ione to high bight ground n nj are art safe ate Hundreds of ut homes have brn carried down dowl the river Almost nil all 01 Dt t r tho th Ih 30 people f on n the north side aide Bid ate ale anti and Itne lost all cli their person I property Portions of or this part hiatt of at ofton town ton have hl been swept clean of ot ull ullIn In There Ter has haB been wp much cean lose lOin of live Ile livestock block stock Harry and a man named 1 I Inn died from rein the excitement nt 1111 tho Hood flood titter after they hail had h been beon to places of ot safety and a Union whose name ni me could JI not lot lotI I lee le be learned anti and an his h companion named 1 I I h ws were In a i boat lt that over oser turf i J It lt I Is believed both were lost |