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KSOWLES, Xf REAL COMFORT at Home can be taken when the rooms are cov ered with handsome Carpets and Rugs EXCLUSIVE CARPET HOUSE .GJack&Co. 80-S8 THIRD STREET Opposite Chamber of Commerce DISTRIBUTERS 'THE KLOEBER" GREEN RIVER HOT SPRINGS WASHINGTON The Health Resort of ihs West Cor. Third sal Washington 8t. SWEPT fil FLOOD High Tide Reaches Kansas City. LOSSES IN MILLIONS Housetops Mark Site of Armourdale. LIME STARTS FIERCE FIRE Tooekan Rescuers Toil Swirling Waters. in DES MOINES FACES A FAMINE City Is Cut OR From Supplies, nnd Food and Fuel Are Rnnning Short Xo Water for Drink ing: Pnrposes. CONDITION AT KANSAS CITY. Armourdale Is deserted of its 16.000 people; loss to packing' plants and citi zens, $3,000,000. Two-thirds of Argentine under water; 1500 people find refuge elsewhere; loss estimated at $500,000. Kansas City without drinking water, street-cars shut down. Union Depot flooded. Lime sets fire that destroys $100,000 worth of railroad property. LOSSES AT TOrEKA. From 170 to 200 people drowned; 000 people without homes; fl.o6o,000 lots of property destroyed; identified dead, five,; CoatlJjj bodies een, 20; peo ple misting. 200; houses burned, as a result of fire in lumber yards from slaking- lime, probably 200; banks col lapsed, two; wholesale grocery stores flooded, two; big business blocks almost ready to crumble, CO; wholesale com mission houses deserted, six; Hock Isl and trains containing 150 passengers held here by high water; city water works plant useless. KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 21. With, the waters of the Kaw and Missouri Rivers nearly four feet above the disastrous level of 1S81 and their swollen tides spread over 12 square miles of the city and Its suburbs. Kansas City tonight Is endur ing the -worst flood of its history. In the valley of the Knw or Kansas River, between this city and Kansas City, Kan., a report has It that a num ber of lives have been lost. One report says 14 and another 50, but in the midst of demoralization of trafllic and only ordinary means of communication it is impossible to verify these reports. Tho financial loss has been increasing all day and bids fair to continue. Tho heaviest loss is at Armourdale, where the losses to the packing Industry and others is placed at $2,500,000. Argentine, another suburb, has suffered losses estimated at $500,000. Other losses which cannot be estimated will Increase the total very materially. Armourdale. with a population of 16,000 people. Is de serted tijd its site marked only by the tops of buildings and a number of fires. Seven fires, believed to be chlelfiy box cars burning, could be seen from tho bluffs tonight. There Is some danger that the flames will spread to the partially submerged buildings, adding greatly to the already heavy loss. The fires started by the intrusion of flood into a lime ware house Take Refuge In Big; HalL The refugees from Armourdale for the most .part are huddled together in the im mense auditorium of the Convention Hall, although several hundred found havens with friends in more fortunate parts of tho city. Two-thirds of Argentine, a railroad and manufacturing town on the south bank of the Kansas River, six miles from Kan sas City, is inundated from 10 to 20 feet of water, and probably $500,009 damage has been done. Five bridges have been swept away, all the railroad tracks and fac tories aro under water and business Is suspended. Forty-five hundred of tho 6500 Inhabitants are homeless and nearly 3000 are destitute. Kansas City tonight is without a water supply, the flood having disabled the pumping station, and the utmost care Is being taken that no fires shall break cut. Only one street-car line In the city Is running tonight, owing to the disabling of the power plants by the flood. Not a train has gone out of tho city except East today. The stage at 6 o'clock tonight was SO feet, 7 Inches. The previous high record was made in 1SS1 when the river rose to 25 feet three inches. The Union Station, by the rise of the flood today, was rendered practically use less, the water being from three to four feet deep. In the baggage-room baggage" was fastened to tackle and suspended in the air out of reach of the water. Santa Fe a Heavy Loser. The Santa Fe Railroad Company's loss Is very heavy. The railroad has 100 miles of track in the Argentine yard's and sev eral miles of freight cars standing sub merged. Soma cars have broken loose from their trucks and floated down the river. The current has left the old chan nel and has moved south, taking all the buildings In its path. The Santa Fe track is under water all the way to HollT day, eight miles from. Argentine, up the Kansas River Valley. The Turner bridge, six miles above Argentine, went out this morning. Its wreckage lodged against the county bridge at Argentine, which succumbed at noon. Tho Belt Line Street Railway bridge. Just below the county bridge, fell Immediately afterward. Then, In suc cession, the Twenty-fourth-street bridge, owned jointly by the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company and the county, and the county bridge, over Fifth street were carried away. Five hundred frame dwell ings are under water. The river is full of wreckage and crowds of people lined the banks today, watch ing the procession of houses, cars, trees and other debris that floated down. Twelve bodies were counted as they floated past during the day. In nearly every case they were lying across pieces of wreckage. On the roof of a cabin that came swirling down could be seen the bodies of a woman and her child. The large acid plant of the Southwest Chemical Company Is flooded by 20 feet of water. The Santa Fe car shops, ma chine shops, round-house, station and ele vator, and the Argentine smelter stand in deep water. The 1000 emplayes of the Santa Fe are idle, also 500 men from the acid works, and. indeed, all the wage workers of Argentine. Provisions: Xor the Hungry. There would have beeen a famine today but for the discovery of two refrigerator carloads of meat in the railway yards and the generosity of a contractor who sent a wagon-load of bread from Kansas City for free distribution. This meat was confiscated and the bread and meat is being served at the City Hall to all applicants. Many of the destitute are negroes who have not even saved suf ficient clothing. The people In the flooded district had ample warning but clung to their houses, hoping for a fall of the water until they could escape only by boats or rafts. The situation in the suburb of Armour dale tonight is one of utter desolation with every prospect that the financial loss, already heavy, will bo greater within the next 21 hours. In this section are situated all the large packing-houses, Armours, Swifts, Cudahy and Schwartz child & Sulzebergers. The loss In these plants will alone be close to $2,000,000. Tho agents of Swift & Co. also suf fered a loss from water roughly esti mated at $500,000. and the great plant will he Idle for sometime to come. In addi tion to this there are great numbers of freight cars standing on the tracks In all of which the freight Is utterly ruined. All the residences In the dtjfrlct are .un der water, molt CS them fceing but "one story affairs and fully 6000 people from this suburb have been compelled ,-to abandon their homes and take to the Wghf r ground for safety. Lime Starts Destructive Fires. At 9 o'clock tonight seven fires were burning In as many places in the railway yards, all of them having originated from lime stored' in cars, the lime having be como heated from contact wTth water. At 4 o'clock tho most serious blaze of the day broke out in some lime cars standing opposite the west end of the Union Depot and directly behind the roundhouse, owned Jointly by all the roads entering tho depot. The flames ran rapidly from car to car, and within three 'hours 30 of them had been de ctroyed. Among them were several oil tanks, which, for a time, threatened great damage to everything; In tle vi cinity. The, damage in this fire reaches $500,000. HOPE THE WORST IS PASSED. Topeka Citizens Busy All Day Doing Rescne Work. TOPEKA, Kan., May 31. There Is ground for the hope that tho worst has passed. So treacherous has the Kansas River proved Itself today In the rising of Its water, tonight so slowly as to be Im perceptible, the flve-mlle stream Is set tling "back Siito its rightful channel. Up and down the official gauge has fluttered all day. Tonight, however, City Engineer McCable Issued a bulletin giving out the cheering intelligence that the waters had subsided to the extent of exactly V& Inches. It may be a few hours before another drop wiIL.be noticed. With 175 or 200 lives lost, millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed; hun dreds of pistol shots as signals of dis tress, blended with the agonizing crle3 of unwilling Inhabitants In treetops and roofs of houses, and the waters creeping upward and then slowly subsiding and al ternately changing from hope to dlspair, the Capital City has passed the most me morable Sabbath day of its existence. To this uncomfortable condition of affairs was added a cold and dismal rain. The ardor of the rescue work of the heroic rescuers was not abated In the least by the conditions which confronted them. For long, dreary hours, knee-deep In water, and sometimes In water up to their necks, they worked with might and main. Tonight they can proudly point to 30-3 or more rescued ones, who otherwise might have been swept away in the cur rent Life Loss Estimated at 250. Leading men have made a careful ex amination of the flood and all Its con ditions, and as a result of their Investiga tion they give 250 as the probable num ber of lives lost. A more conservative estimate places the number of dead at 175. The high number is as likely to be correct as the lower. The number of dead is merely a matter of estimate. Twenty members of rescuing parties tell of how they saw people drop from houses, only to be swept away by the flood, and others tell of men who, terrified at the approach of the fire, dropped into the water, where they sank and did not re appear. This estimated number of dead does not include the largo number classed as miss ing, who cannot otherwise be accounted for. Neither does" it, include the number who are supposed to have lost their lives in the fire. In the latter class there is ab solutely no means of arriving at even an approximate number of victims. The water is so high, and tho current so (Concluded oa Secoad Page.) UREOFVIGTORY Hermann Confident of His Election. OPINIONS OF CHAIRMEN Harris :Says Stay-at-Homes Will Be Many. MAJORITY OF- AT LEAST 2000 Wvhlte Refuses to Give Figures, but Is Content With Argument That Hermann Is Weaker Thau 1 Famish. Vote of the First District. j 1606. Tongue 19.355 Myers 7,014 Vanderburg 10,292 160S. ' Tongue 21.324 Veatch 19,257 1000. Tongue 21,212 Daly IS, 103 1 1002. Tongue 23,585 "Weatherford 16,213 ........, ...,,.1 In answer to a telegram, Blnger Her mann yesterday sent tho following mes sag to The Oregonlan: "I have only to express the opinion that the Republican ticket will receive- a largo plurality tomorrow." Dr. T. "W. Harris, chairman of the Re publican committee, made the following prediction yesterday regarding today's election in the First Congressional Dis trict: "There Js no doubt of Hermann's elec tion. His majority will probably not be so large as was Mr. Tongue's, but he will have a safe majority. The normal Repub lican majority in" Ihls distrfct Is about 4500. I think there will be a falling off in the voto -of from 20 to 40 per cent. "It is hard to tell what will be the re sult of this falling off, but I estimate that the Democrats and Republicans will share about equajly in the loss, so that the ma jority will be In proportion to the vote. This rule will hold true In every county except possibly Clackamas and Wash ington, where I will not be surprised to hear of some Republican losses.. "In some counties, on the other hand, the majority for Mr. Hermann will be cnoromus. I think tho majority for Mr. Hermann will be between 2000 and 3000." Sam White, chairman of the Democratic committee and the leader o'f the Reames forces, is at the Imperial. Mr. Whit in fuses to make any ante-election predic tions, but states his firm belief that Her mann will be defeated. "Tho First Congressional District," said Mr. White yesterday, "onlv env th Republican candidate for Governor n nin. rallty of about 1200 votes, although it Is normauy Republican by 6000. This shows mat the votes In these counties too closely bound by party lines to sac rifice their own Judgment on the personal merits of the candidates. "There is no question that th.r stronger feeling against Hermann than existed against Furnish, who ran for Governor on the Republican ticket. Reames should, therefore, be expected to more than gain the 1200 vntM uv i-v. Furnish exceeded the vote of his Demo cratic opponent last year. As to majorities, anv t, ,i tempts to give estimates Is only talking u Ior Persnal effect, and while I am in a jrood nosm T .t mate what the vote will be. Tmving been v..uac ioucn with almost even- nro clnct in the district. I Mn JL, any degree of truth how large Mr Reames majority will be, but the people don t want Hermann and they won't have HER3IAA.V BY Reduced VOTE, His Election Predicted, Though Many ut vote. SALEM, Or., May 3L-(3neHnl r TABLE FOR POLITICAL PROPHETS. For ernor. -ountiesof- the tFirst Con ' gresslonal- District. O Co 20 Benton , Clackamas ... Coos Curry , Douglas Jackson Josephine ..... Klamath ..... Lake Lane Lincoln Linn Marion Polk Tillamook .... Washington . Yamhill Totals Pluralities S42 1.721 7S9 1S2 1.SS4J 1.625 769 414 32S 2,172 300i 2.061 2,&5 U21 4121 1,348! 1,306 30419 election of Blnger Hermann, tho Republi can candidate for Cingress to succeed the late Thomas H. Tongue, Is generally con sidered one of 'the certainties of to morrow's events. That the election will be by a greatiy reduced plurality there .can be no doubt, for there are many Re publicans who will either remain away from the polls for the purpose of lessen ing the Hermann vote, or will go to the polls and vote for Reames. the Demo cratic nominee. The fact that this Is a special election and that there Is only one office to fill makes the Interest very slight In the ranks of both polltlcval parties. The district la strongly Republican. In the last general election the leading Re publican candidates carried the district by about 7000 votes. George E. Chamber lain, the Democratic candidate for Gov ernor, who carried the state, fell 1230 'votes behind Furnish, his Republican op ponent, In this district Hermann haa one advantage that Fur nish had not the fact that National po litical Issues are directly Involved in this election. The apparent indorsement which President Roosevelt gave Hermann has also given the Republican candidate a tre mendous advantage without which he would havo been In serious danger. While Reames has been very favorably received by the people and has aroused enthusiasm a.t many of his meetings, he has not been able to start such a landslide as that which defeated the Republican candidate for Governor last June. This view of the situation on the eve of election Is quite generally entertained In Salem. A great many Republicans are saying very little, so that their intentions are not known and the count of ballots may be a surprise one way or another. Marlon County la generally counted for Hermann by 200 plurality. Hermann's plu rality In the district is estimated at from 2000 to 3000. No organized effort will be made to get voters to" the polls, though everywhere the Importance of a full vote has been emphasized by the campaign speakers. ' 4 VISITS WYOMING RANCH President Roosevelt Is the Guest of Senator Warren. CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 31. Although Sunday was supposed to be entirely given over to rest by President Roceevelt, he was on the go the most of the day. This morning at 10:45 the Chief Executive and part- were driven to the Methodist Church, where special services for the President were held, Rev. Mr. Forsythe preaching a beautiful sermon on "Stren uousness." Immediately at the close of the services carriages were taken to the residence of ex-Senator Carey, where luncheon wao served. In the afternoon promptly at 3 o'clock a long- procession of carriages, headed by the President and party, set out for Sena tor Warren's ranch. 14 miles south of th city. Here the routine work on one of Wyoming's big ranches was shown the party." An elegant supper wasserved after which "the start for Cheyenne was made. When the President reached his hotel at 10 o'clock, he was. Jubilant In ?plrlt3 and remarked that he was looking- forward with much pleasure to the frontier exhli bitlon. to be held Monday morning. Previous to starting for the Warren ranch the Eagles Lodge, of this city, pre sented President Roosevelt with a certifi cate of membership In the. order. Secretary Moody, who has been with the Presidential party since It entered Cali fornia, departed this morning for Wash ington. FLAME TO GREAT HEIGHT Gasoline Tank Explodes in Destruc tive Racine Fire. RACINE, WIs.r May 3L Fire this after noon swept the southern manufacturing district of the city, doing about 1300,000 damage. The flro started In the boiler room of the Racine Boat Manufacturing Company, and before the firemen had ar rived a tank of gasoline, which was stored near by for use in the gasoline boat3 built by the company, exploded. A tower of flame 300 feet high shot up Into the air. but as it was Sunday no one was about tho factories and no one was Injured. Bookcase Plant Is Burned. CANTON, O.. May 31. The bookcase and official specialty manufacturing plant of the John Danner Company waa destroyed by fire today. Loss $100,000. THE DEATH ROLL. Cornelius Booth. VICTORIA, B. C, May 3L Cornelius Booth, provincial assessor, died at noon to day, aged 70 years. Mr. Booth wao a pioneer of Cariboo In the early GVs, and was a leader of what was locally known as the Grouse Creek War. He was also a member of the legislature in the 70'a. Hay, Viscount Dapplln. LONDON. Mav 31. The denth fa re nounced of Edmund Alfred Rollo George Hay, Viscount Dupplin, in his 24th year. Street-Car Hits an Automobile. CLEVELAND. Mav 31. An Aiitnmnhllo carrvinc John J. Jack, hl trlf anr viseoc Jenny and, Mary E. Jack, was struck by a street-car nere toaay. Mra. Jack was fatally and the others seriously injured. How they voted at election of June, 1S02. How the opposing chairmen claim they will vote today. Gov - For Sec. Republ'cnl Democ'tlc of State. estimate, estimate. 4 a ?5? : S90 933 2.S63 1,035 315 721 1,203 626 100 2.113 1.066 150 400 150 200 312 143! L299j 1.693 1.977 13i 1,631 901 511 1,356 653 S96 501 50 75 376 491 2,432 -318 479 2,612 542 294 50 X817 300 ' 300! "260' 225 1.733 L7S&I 1,873 Z.?23 3.232 LS40 Is -h 1,001 609 1,611 1,404 1.103 9451 125! 65a! 1.740, 1,508 322 250 150 100 1,122 1,121 ::dr Hal 21,319 23.47 15,998 2:600 200 1.2301 7.474 2,400 EXILE. FDR THEM Turks Will Expel Bul garian Suspects. MEN OF .HIGH STANDING Arrested As Ringleaders of Macedonian Party. REBELS SHOW 6REAT ACTIVITY Conflicts Are Reported From Varies Districts and Large Quantities of Dynamite Bombs Arc Being; Brought la. "Without trial 103 1-adlnsr Bulgarians front all parts of Macedonia are to b sent Into exile without being given ven a form of a trial. These are men of cuTluro and busi ness men of standing In their commu nities, and are under arrest la com pany with a number of others. LONDON. June 1. Dlspitches. from Constantinople to the Times show that the porte claims that the exile ot 100,Al banian chiefs has restored tranquillity, but the "Uskub correspondent of the paper says he expects further ffghtlng In Al bania. The Turkish authorities propose to cxllo without trial 103 leading Bulgarians from the whole of Macedonia. These exiles are mostly schoolmasters and merchants of high standing, and have been selected as the most dangerous of the 300 persons long suspected of being ringleaders who were recently arrested there. There 13 a distinct recrudescence of activity on the part of the rebel bands, and serious conflicts are reported' from various directions. ' Larce - Quantities of dynamite bombs are said to have . been -brought from Bulgaria. DESPERATE THREATS OF REBELS. Plafrne Bacilli Has Been Brought From India to Infect Torlcey. LONDON. June L The Sofia correspond ent of the Dally News says he learns that the revolutionary leaders in Bulgaria have obtained a quantity of Indian plague ba cilli and are determined, unless the pow ers Interfere In their behalf, to Infect Con stantinople, Salonica and even Berlin. Fighting: Insurgents With, Fire. SALONICA. May 31. Turkish troops are besieging an. Insurgent band which occu pies an Island In Lake Amatlva. The be siegers have vainly tried to burn out the insurgents with petroleum. Havana Duty of Coffee Reduced. HAVANA, May 31. President Palma has signed the bill reducing the duty on coffee. CONTEXTS OF TODAY'S PAPER. Foreign. Turks will banish 103 leading Bulgarians with out trial. Page 1. Macedonian rebels threaten to Infect Turkish cities with plague bacilli. Page 1. Official estimates place Van, Turkey, earth quake victims at SCO, with much cattle. Page 1. Joker causes panic In St. Petersburg- hall crowded with people. Page 1. Flood. Loss to wholesalers and stockyards of tho two Kansas Cities will be In the millions. Page L North Topeka refugees are compelled to roost In treetops for weary" hour. Page 2. Des Moines roof-dwellers have been removed from peril; many will die of exposure. Page 2. Des Moines Is face to face with famine of food and fuel. Page 2. General. President Roosevelt visits Senator W'arren'a big "Wyoming ranch. Page 1. Hanaa will probably give way to ex-Governor Crane as Republican chairman. Page 11. Ex-Postmaster- Smith pays Irregularities com plained of by Tulloch were Justified by con ditions. Page 2. Major-General Funston says Alaska Indians should have a guardian agent. Page 4. Ex-Cashier E. L. Martin arrested in Seattla For alleged embezzlement In Manila, page 3. Xegro killed and a number of whites and blacks wounded In fight over crap game. Page 2. Pacific Coast. Co-eds at Whitman play a real game of ball. with some remarkable plays. Page, 4. Picture that waa printed a3- that of public! building at Spokane was faked. Page 10. Best exhibits at Salem State Fair will be used In Lewis and Clark Exposition. Page 4. Millions of dollars will be spent on Irrigation scheme 'in Franklin County, "Washington. Page 4. Sports. Pacific Coast League: Seattle 5, Portland 3; San Francisco 12-3, Oakland 3-1; Sacramen to 0. Los Angeles 1. Page 5. Pacific National League: Portland 4. Tacoma 3; Seattle 0,-Spokane 8; Butte 5, Helena 3; San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 0. Page 5. Schlllers win ten-laninc game with Oregon City. Pace 5. Cause of Multnomah's defeat In track meet. Page 5. Portland, and. Vicinity. City election today to vote on bridge, and- ferry projects. ' Page 12. -Dr. E. P. Hill discusses infant damnation. Page 10. Alblna Board of Trade building 'to be opened. Page 3. German agriculturists begin tour of Oregon today. Page 8. Canadians drive out American contractor from Victoria. Page 12. Revival of building and real estate sales. Page 12. - Hermann confident of election. Pago I. Portland has not enough hotels for livestock convention. Page 10. 102.0