DISASTROUS FLOODS.
TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS. MANY LIVES LOST. A TOWN ON FIRE. TIJREK TEOFSANiT PERSONS IN DANGER FROM FIRE. By Telegraph—Press Association — Copyright. NEW YORK, May 31. There is unprecedeiiU-d rum in tho Indian territory. Oklahoma, Kansas, .Missouri. Nebraska, ami lowa. Twenty thousand people are homeless. Fourteen deaths have occurred. The railway lines, bridges, i mps, and holts s on the low-lying traeffs
have been destroyed. A quantity ui burning lumber alloat in the river set lire to North Topeka, which is separated from the the mainland by Hoods. Thiuy poisons aio already dead, and another live hundred are beyond rescue. Kansas riser is rising at the rate of three inches an hour. Tho swiftness of the flood prevents rescue. Seven thousand persons escaped yesterday, and three thousand are still in tho upper storeys of the buildings of tho burning town.
TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISH
By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Received 12.57 a.m., Juno 2. London, Juno 1. Two hundred people perished at North Topeka. Heavy rain extinguished the lire. Many victims were Russians and Italians employed in factories. Tlie losses ot the Kansas packing houses are enormous. Three-fourths of tho town of Armourdale were Hooded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 906, 2 June 1903, Page 2
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197DISASTROUS FLOODS. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 906, 2 June 1903, Page 2
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