Show KANSAS CITY FLOODED town is absolutely at mercy of waters with gas and electric lights extin the water works shu shur down jand and the city practically at the mercy odthe of the first fire that chato shall break out with railroad transportation feeble and uncertain kansas city mo me may it the waters naters do not recede the next two or three days be compelled to fight for her very life the first authentic information I 1 from kansas city kan shows that in that district 20 people are homeless A number which cannot be esti mated have been drowned and the property loss has bee beeh n heavy the situation there Is a parallel to the sit nation in kansas city mo me apparently no better and no worse there Is no great probability that there will be further loss of life if the river does not rise very suddenly it chely that the number of fatalities I 1 idi the city will approximate fifty |