| Show reform school cut off from save by telephone railroad tracks have been out topeka kas sept ac portions ot north topeka are flooded today owing to the breaking 0 tho dyke along soldier creek near tho reform school the reform school is surrounded with avater and there Is no communication savo by telephone in tho boiler rooms aro tea feet ot water the western portion oe shorey a surburg sur burb Is under izreo feet of water several north topeka families have kieen run from their homes by entering yards and farst ino kaw river is rising slowly A telephone message from manhattan says the river there shows an eight foot rise at valley falls the delaware river Is out of its banks and running a mils wide through farms at noon it was within a foot ot the high water mark of the flood two years ago and still rising the santa fo offices here report trouble on the ottawa cutoff cut off by wash cuts and weakened tracks around argentine and holladay between topeka and kansas city the union pacific and rock island trains aro going over the santa fo to kansas city the rock islands holton branch Is abandoned temporarily SOAKING RAINS kansas city sept 16 soaking rains have fallen in western missouri and kansas in the past twenty tour hours arid continued today tho flood coming on top of almost continuous rains during the past ten days al streams are up and more or less damage has been done low lying portions of argentine and Armour dale districts of kansas city kan occupied principally by packing house and railway employed emp loyes have been flooded this has been caused principally by backwater from defective sewers and co serious damage Is likely although the kaw river at this point has risen rapidly and continues to come up it must rise ten feet yet before it becomes really threatening the chicago rock island and pacific pile bridge across the kaw near kansas avenue in Armour dale was carried out today and the kanaan city southern allo bridge was threatened GREENE SELLS OUT COPPER phelps dodge and company buy cananda cananea property phoenix sept ib phelps dodge co have just completed a deal by which they have obtained full control of the greene consolidated copper company at cananda cananea Ca the greatest copper property in mexico and one of the greatest in the world the shannon copper company at morenci and a number ot other good mines in that vicinity as well as a number ot others surrounding their present holdings at globe where they already own the old dominion and united globe mines ind smelter col W C greene will retire from the company the importance of this great deal is ean when it is stated that the greene company has paid three millions in dividends within less than five years and during may last produced pounds ot copper ounces ot silver and ounces of gold tho smelter Is ot 2000 tons capacity and iho concentrator ot 2500 about men are employed the shannon company produced during tho first six months ot the year pounds the phelps dodge people already own large properties at clifton and morenci and this will give them nearly all the larger holdings in the two camps at the douglas smelter the output Is tons a day with a gross value of or at the rate of a a year in round numbers this belongs to the copper queen company already controlled by phelps didgo co abo deport was sent out some time since that dr superintendent at the old dominion was to take charge at cananda cananea Ca in addition to their copper holdings the dodge people on the el paso and southwestern railroad system the el paso ana northwestern railroad and the great coalfields coal fields in lincoln county and at dawson new mexico transferred to them a few months ago with their purchase ot the latter road TRAIN IS WRECKED by a light engine failing to clear the main line ind sept 16 two persons were killed and a score were injured in a collision between eastbound eist bound passenger train no 14 and a light engine on the baltimore ohio railroad one mile ot here early today the light engine which had been standing on a siding waiting for no jle pulled out onto tho main line to a distance which made it impossible for pasting trains to clear it and as the passenger train came by at a high rate ot speed it was side swiped the passenger engine and the three forward cars being completely wrecked A majority ot those injured were cut by flying glass and debris engineer stephen snyder ot garrall ind was killed engine and smoot of chicago junction ohio was pinned beneath the wrecked baggage car A tramp to bo stealing a ride is as yet unaccounted tor and probably was burled beneath the wreckage the injured taken back to cromwell on a special train which was immediately sent to the acene assistance their names have not yet been ascertained TAFT AT YOKOHAMA yokohama beat 15 secretary ot var william H tatt has arrived here and today received visits from distinguished citizens ot boklo a largo number ot local japanese and foreign resl dents there was no boimal reception the visitors calling direct upon mr tatt at his hotel afterwards he was the duct of M a prominent merchant of this city |
