Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — THE BIG FLOODS. [ARTICLE]

THE BIG FLOODS.

- Many Jasper county people have friends and relatives in the sections of Kansafe and Nebraska where the terrible flood disasters of the past week occurred, an extended report of which appears on an inside page of this paper. Uncle Felix French and family, who moved from here a few months ago, reside at Hutchinson, Kan., where, the reports state, the city was a lake of water five miles wide and the foundations of many buildings had been weakened, while others had collapsed entirely. The loss to crops and property in Hutchinson and surrounding valley is said to be $2,000,000.