KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Passenger rail traffic along a popular Missouri route
has been suspended and evacuations continue amid flooding along the Missouri
River.
Amtrak said Tuesday it was temporarily halting its Missouri River Runner Service between Kansas City and St. Louis. The company says that because of the flooding, freight traffic has been diverted to tracks Amtrak uses. Buses will transport passengers instead.
In northwest Missouri, two more levees were breached Tuesday and the 220
residents of the town of Craig were ordered to evacuate. Local officials say
water also is lapping at the edge of the tiny town of Fortescue, where residents
used excavators to create a makeshift levee.
The floodwaters have damaged hundreds of homes and been blamed for three
deaths in the Midwest. The flooding has also taken a heavy toll on agriculture,
inundating thousands of acres, threatening stockpiled grain and killing
livestock.
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