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Explanation of Illustrations. 



PLATE I. The flood at its height, looking east from Bluemont, 

 north of Manhattan, across the valley of the Big Blue, and down the 

 valley of the Kansas. The pumping station of the. city water- works, 

 the Blue Valley branch of the Union Pacific railroad, and the chan- 

 nel of the Blue river, with a strip of timber on the east bank, are 

 shown in the foreground, while beyond is a broad expanse of water 

 as far as the eye can see. The channel of the Kansas river lies in the 

 background to the right, the hills to the left, across the valley of the 

 Big Blue, are about six miles distant. 



PLATE II. A quarter-section of land on the farm of Fred Moehl- 

 man, in Moehlman bottom, south of Manhattan. A crop of corn 

 on this field was destroyed by the flood, and on July 15, when this 

 picture was taken, the field was too wet to cultivate, and some of it 

 was still under water. 



PLATE III. An alfalfa field on the farm of Ohas. Rosencutter, in 

 Moehlman bottom. This field was covered with a deposit of mud 

 from three to twelve inches in depth, and the alfalfa was totally de- 

 stroyed. The ground was too wet to plow on July 15, and no crop 

 was grown on the field last season. 



PLATE IV. A washed area on the farm of John Dempsey, one 

 and one-half miles east of Manhattan, showing soil removed and the 

 field badly cut up by the water. This particular washout covered 

 about four and one-half acres in the middle of a cultivated field. 



PLATE V. A nearer view of a portion of the above washed area, 

 which gives a better idea of the washout. The pit shown was more 

 that ten feet deep. 



PLATE VI. On the farms of James Allingham, Wm. Allingham, and 

 Mrs. Martha Finley, in Allingham bend, south of Manhattan, some 

 sixty acres were destroyed by the washing. Plate VI shows one of 

 these washouts, which was about 100 yards wide, 400 yards long, and 

 20 feet deep at its greatest depth. 



PLATE VII. This is a view of the new channel of the Kansas river 

 which was cut across Allingham bend, south of Manhattan, during 

 the flood. The new channel crosses the farms of the parties men- 

 tioned above, also the farm of Mrs. Emma H. Bowen. This channel 

 is 40 to 130 rods wide and over a mile in length. The body of water 

 to the right is the old bed of the river. 



