People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — DROUGHT BROKEN. [ARTICLE]

DROUGHT BROKEN.

Heavy Kains Revive Crops am! Pastures and Do Some Damage. Leavenworth, Kan.. Sept. s.—The five weeks’ drought in this part of Kansas was broken by a heavy downpour between midnight and 3 o'clock Monday morning. Several bridges were washed away, horses and chickens drowned and the two year old child of Sarah Ellis, a colored woman, was swept away. The cellars and subways of Klemp’s furniture factory, Fenn’s plan-ing-mill and Rush & Sprague’s elevator were flooded by the waters of ThreeMile creek, which were turned into Cherokee strip by the darning of a culvert. The total damage done will probably reach 610,000. The Ellis woman was awakened bj r the sudden rush of water in her house, and, seizing her two children, saved herself with the eldest; the other she was forced to drop. Before she could get back it was swept away.