Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — Damage by a Freshet. [ARTICLE]

Damage by a Freshet.

Kansas City, Mo., May s.—Many small streams in the southwest have overrun their banks, a result of the exceptionally heavy rains since Saturday Inst, and in some instances damage has resulted. Several families have been driven from their homes in the Walnut and Verdigris river bottoms on the Knn-sns-Oklahomn border, thousands of acres of grain have been flooded und railroad trucks washed out in some instances.