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Show STREETS RUNNING FULL WATER Town of Armourdale Abandoned and 12,000 People Arc Waiting For Flood to Subside. The Evicted People Find Shelter fon Themselves and Their Belongings nnd Are Waiting Time When They May Return With Safety. Knnsas City. Tho great Knw-MIs souri flood, which has almost reached its crest, drew hundreds of thousand! of slghtsccrB to the bluffs overlooking tho flooded bottoms on Sunday. Tha wntcr has dono nil the damago that Is In Its powar. Tho railroad yards havo been evacuated; tho packing Iioubcs and business establishments have vacated their lower floors; Armourdale has been entirely nbnndoned by its 12,000 Inhabitants, and water Is running run-ning twclvo feet deep in its streets Thoro Is no excitement anywhere, tho evicted pcoplo having found shlter foi themselves nnd their movable property. prop-erty. Thcro Is nothing to do but tc wnlt for tho tldo to turn. Officials and business men of both Knnsas Cities express a determination to put an end to tho annual floods Tho great difficulty has bcea that, two states having two city governments, tho United States government, three counties nnd numerous Interstate railroads rail-roads are Involved. During tho past year tho United States has declared tho Knw a navigable stream. This gives tho war department nuthorlty ta order tho removal of tho Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific low bridges, which obstruct tho river and cause the overflow of Armourdnlo and tho stockyards stock-yards nt every high wator. Any schemo of raising tho banks of tho Kaw would lnvolvo elevating tho railroad rail-road tracks. Ono mcasuro proposod is to cut a canal across the point of lnnd where, tho Missouri makes its big bend to tho east. This canal would carry tho Missouri overflow from n point above Kansas City to a point levernl miles below. Tho city officials offi-cials of tho two Kansas Cities aro co: operating In steps to control tho rivers. |