Shawnee County Death Records
1903 Kansas River Flood Casualties
Edward Grafstrom
James Phillips
Mrs. Kirrie Buford
Henry Jordan
Miss Minnie L. Puryear
J. W. Houser
Mrs. Nellie Watson
Henry Ward
Mrs. Minnie King
Raymond Garret
Theodore Edwards
Miss Louise Seahaven.
Forest Kutz
Murle Story
Girl, unidentified
Benjamin McDonald
John L. Adams
Mrs. Nancy Shonkweiler
Mrs. Alice Bishop
James H. Stout
Mrs. Jessie Stout
Josephine Stout
Agnes Stout
Lena Stout
Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Stout
Simon Taylor
Mrs. Jerry Mayweather
Mrs. Sallie Halyard
Mrs. Mary Kennedy
Edward Grafstrom was a mechanical engineer of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway. He was drowned on Tuesday evening, June 2nd, by
the sinking of a small gasoline launch which he had built for the purpose of
rescuing those in distress.
Forest Kutz was a school teacher who was found
in a tree, so weakened by cold and exposure that when the rescuers reached
him he fell into the boat with such force that it was capsized, and he was
unable to regain it.
Henry Jordan lost his life by the sinking of a boat in
which he was endeavoring to rescue a man from a telegraph pole.
J. W.
Houser fell from the Santa Fe railroad bridge and was drowned.
Henry
Ward, an old soldier living near Oakland, fell into the river from a tree and
was drowned.
Raymond Garrett, the five-year-old son of Fireman G. H.
Garrett, lost his life by the overturning of a boat.
Miss Louise Seahaven,
an employee of the Western Woolen Mills, was drowned near the Forbes
elevator, together with Murle Story, the 12-year-old daughter of George M.
Story.
Mrs. Alice Bishop died in Christ's Hospital, after being rescued from
her home.
Mrs. Nancy Shonkweiler, James H. Stout and his wife, Mrs.
Jessie Stout, and their four children were drowned on Sunday by the collapse of a house in which they had taken refuge.
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