Flood Devastation at North Topeka
ELDER C. McREYNOLDS, president of the Kansas Conference, adds the following to what has been said in our columns regarding the ruin wrought by the flood at North Topeka:— I was not in Topeka during the flood, and did not see any of it, or any of the effects until to-day. It is useless to attempt a description of the terrors of the scene. To say that North Topeka is ruined is not half of it. It will never be known how many persons were drowned; probably the number is over one hundred. But O, the desolation! To-day hundreds have been looking over the ruins, digging furniture, clothing, etc., out of the mud. Pianos, organs, and all kinds of the finest furniture are piled up in the streets, or lying in heaps with the ruins of houses, and the bodies of horses, cows, pigs, etc., and occasionally a human body. Draw the picture as dark as it can be drawn, and the situation is not described. Our people here in Topeka all escaped with their lives, but they lost almost everything else.