From the Lawrence Daily World for June 14, 1908: “The Kaw River has fallen sharply from the 23.5-foot crest during the flood period and there is no disquieting news from upstream. Hardest hit among the public facilities was the Union Pacific Railroad with many tracks washed out and many bridges weakened or gone. : J.D. Bowersock has gone before the county commissioners to ask that the commissioners be as lenient as possible in the taxation process for flood-ravaged North Lawrence people. He called for reassessments in the view of damage and loss to lessen the levies that had been set before the Kaw moved in.”