Show Z ked uta 1 5 M 11 r NO M 11 T ki A AM I 1 LA 1 I 1 7 ala 1 g 1 terrible at many joints the floods ot of the mississippi valley and its tributaries tributa ries continues to grow apace millions of do dollars ars worth of 0 property hate hare been destroyed and millions more must be swept away before the waters recede hundreds of 0 lives have been sacrificed and at least three hundred thousand people have bee been n rendered homeless the governors of mississippi arkansas alabama tennessee kentucky louisiana missouri kansas the dakotas Dal cotas neb nebraska laska and minnesota are receiving funds tor for the unfortunates in distress secretary of war alger has forwarded all the tha available tents in the department part ment to the flooded districts but these will be inadequate he has also ordered the expenditure of cash to relieve the sufferings of homeless citizens and their families this is the first time that the war department has ever felt called upon to spend cash to relieve want outside ot of the regular army arary Gre emille jillso lill so being swept away one third of greenville miss Is a desert ot of water a scene of desolation impossible to describe the water is ia in nearly houses and is kept out of the stores la ia the heart of the town only by the protection so timely thrown up by the citizens to stop its destructive progress mail goes and comes in skiffs doctors visit their patients in skiffs social visits are made in skiffs and skiffs are property equal almost almast in value to what the mule was a few days ago the water is deepest inthe extreme northern limits where it has reached a depth of about seven leet feet from this point it shows a gradual decline new town miss a very thickly built district peopled almost entirely by negroes Is 13 under water the depth ranging from a few inches to five feet the belle air which con contains tallis many pretty homes and was beat beautiful tifful with green lawns and blooming shrubs is a venice and the only means the people have of leaving or returning to their homes is by loats boats which are numerous and various the water is not as high az as in asso but will soon reach and pass that mark greenville itself is a city ot of refugees of from 15 to souls relief boats from the interior are bringing in ill nearly every hour loads of destitute flood sufferers suddenly caught by the waters and driven from their homes hundreds eds and thousands of head of stock are being driven in from every direction the back water waler from four crevices is pouring in tearful fearful floods every hour and the situation is growing rapidly worse at helena miss t the e river riv C r is I 1 S still rising at st louis aliss it is rising and the arkansas is threatening to arse in ia a few days business men are blu blue but try to keep cheerful the worst has haa not et reached t the he yazoo mississippi delta and the halt half ot of its tale of woe has not been told As soon as the different towns and cities already submerged are i reached cached by boat parties from greenville and as soon as 15 the remote districts and plantations can be heard from there will be enough to sadden the hearts ot of those tar far away who are now eagerly waiting for news and hoping against hope reporter lRe porter gathering news the post dispatch correspondent went by skill skiff from here to all points possible by water in a radius of fifteen miles in every direction from this city says a telegram from greenville miss it was a common sight to see sec rabbits or domestic fowls floating on driftwood deer on little islands here ada there above tile the water and the starving creatures do not now tear fear the approach of man in one instance a ne lie gress cress was calmly smoking a pipe on tile the root roof of a log cabin while a stream ot of waters water was running through the doors of her hut hilt nearly up to the eaves of the roof what at are you doing there aunty aulty we hallord halloed hallo hal loed cd ise N watered in came the response would you like us to take you in we offered ofT ered no sah ill be out ly IY plaintive howlings bow lings of dogs cackling of poultry and squealing ot of pigs keep tile the woods alive and graphic scenes and incidents crowd upon the sight at every turn there are dead carcasses floating in the water fragments of houses and articles of household furniture of every kind P S A later dispatch says that greenville has been swept away big break nt at newer flower lake another disastrous break in the IMs ms sis sippi levee occurred sunday morning at 8 at lower flower P lake six miles below tunica miss the crevasse while not yet of great width is fully fifteen feet deep and the water is pouring through the opening with fearful velocity this will probably be the most destructive break that has occurred in tho the delta the most fertile farm lands of mississippi lying in coahoma la floro flore quitman and talla halt a hundred towns stand 1 in st alx feet fee t of water and the yellow stream Is creeping up lip ai but surely level ivro at airlena ark aric gives way advice Ad vices received tell of a break in ia the loice two miles south ot of Il helena oldna ark this is tile the levee for which tire the people ot or southeastern arkansas have mado made such it a desal desperate rate light fight ala waters from this break howl flood a great re at area and back up lip into the streets ot of helena the relief steamer ora lee lc has arrived nt at marianna ark having made an expedition up the st francis river ticie TI cie were on oil board refugees and head of cattle the steamer went up tip tile st francis river as tar far as cut off and then worked her way down stream rescuing people from perilous positions the suffering along the st francis river is appalling the w water a throughout the entire neighboring country Is from six to fifteen feet deep the relief boat had on board the body of mrs alc main of raggio city the body was found it at raggio and I 1 it t was i taken to marlanna marianna tor for burial there being no land at the former place on which to give it interment the st francis Is ia rising from three to five inches daily at points below vicksburg the river ia rising it is the general opinion of old river men here it the levees below vicksburg hold the great volume of w water ter in its channel it will be little short of a miracle gov cov mclaurin nn of mississippi continues to make diligent inquiry touching destitute flood sufferers he will perhaps be compelled to state to secretary of war alger that the amount of mentioned in his te telegram legran will be wholly inadequate to alleviate allevi ato the want and suffering hon aion J W cutrer 0 of coahoma a member of the yazoo M mississippi iss I 1 leveo levee district states that he does not expect the waters to abate before may 15 middlesboro Middle ky is again flooded the water is tour four inches higher than in tile the flood five weeks ago most of the stores in cumberland avenue are flooded sixty five families have been il ILI IN I 1 gf I 1 T lilt N f 4 11 I 1 T W 2110 al T ruf rig t al 7 A ST STREET SCENE AT ANOKA MINNESOTA it is likely to do great damage bridges are gone in many places and boats are in demand in the vicinity 0 of the depot and the railroad yards rata rain has been falling failing steadily tor for a week marin making country roads impassable and keeping farmers oft off their fields every record since that ot of 1849 has been broken by the mississippi it at anoka minn firemans foremans Fi remans grove is filled with water and the rum river dam Is expected to go out millions of feet ot of logs are floating down the river north ot of anoka millions of 0 acres of 0 farms are under from two to six feet of water and there are grave doubts as to whether or not it can be seeded this spring river men tonight say that there will be a further rise here of at least six feet tho the jim river overflows nowa the jim river la is creating general INN 2 ig V Z rai A L va 11 1 L I 1 4 I 1 ax FIX lia 1 1 ma V V A 4 N ali I 1 r V V 1 1 9 IS 14 tz 9 III Z LEAVING THE OLD HOME TO TAKE REFUGE IN THE HILLS hatchie counties in the northern part oe oc the state lie aie inundated and the newly planted corn crops will bs be laid in waste no loss of life is reported tile the inhabitants of this stricken section having made preparations tor for just such a catastrophe as exists there rahe I 1 he condition of the poorer pooler classes throughout the flooded area is indeed critical thousands of refugees are huddled on oil levees and spots of 0 land waiting for relief relict the towns of rosedale and tunica report that everything possible is being done for these poor people but that funds and provisions arc aie fast becoming exhausted in the little elty eity of cdale alone 1200 refugees are being cared tor for by the citizens i I 1 N A I 1 I 1 PA U 1 1 f 4 U 41 24 mt HT T A NEWSPAPER correspondent NEAR greenville washed out three hundred people are fed by the city boats are plying on the principal streets at Pi neville tho the cumberland river Is rising three feet per hour west plum il le is under water the clinch and powell rivers are hooding flooding tho the entire country on tile tho upper the upper tipper mississippi continues to boom the giu g gauge iu c showing eig eighteen lateen feet above low water mark it has been raining constantly tor for twelve hours dispatches from aitkin sauk rapids st cloud and little ralls falls indicate that the tha river is still rising lising rapidly and that all records ars are likely to be broken at st paul within the next forty eight hours the levee at james street that acty broke at 3 sunday afternoon sending the water all over that pal pait t of the city with a rush the flood encroached into the or of the chicago milwaukee st paul road the diamond jo passenger station 13 in d danger anger of floating away and a force or oc men are busy tying it to the bank several of 0 the manufacturing concerns on tile the west side have been obliged to shut down because water put their fires out the relief relict societies of st paul are busy extending succor to the suffering the number of people who have been forced to leive leave le ive their homes Is about 1200 the water east cast of state stale street has become so deep that several houses have floated from their foundations lugs logs to the value or of about fl floated oat du doin n the river sunday rl raiq Iq in minnesota Ort ortonville Orton onville villo 2 mirin minn has been completely cut oft off from communication with the outside world A train cannot go 20 miles from this city in ili any direct direction iori lac qui parle lake minnesota river big stone lalie lake and lake traverse form one vast sea the lake and river are merged into one rising at the rate of halt an inch an hour A heavy northwest gale la is driving the ice which is yet a compact and solid mass out of 0 big stone lake into tho the overflowed bottoms of 0 the minnesota river where tf hamoc with railroads in the valley east of 0 yankton ton S D the water is a foot higher and threatens to 10 take out bridges and tracks as the tha approaches at both ends of the bridges are cutting badly three thice miles and over of track of 0 the great northern milwaukee and northwestern railroads is now completely disabled thus cutting yankton off from the outside world farmers in the bottoms are moving out with boats won woid was received asking for immediate assistance and men and boats are departing for the hooded flooded district the water still continues to rise at yankton the ice is broken at grand forks N D 15 and trouble Is expected from that source basements in it third street stoics arc cleared of 0 all goods above grand forks the ice iq still solid between there and fish ish er a long trestle on the great nort northern bern went out sunday it will require i re a week after the water has gone down to repair this line railway station Float lne tag aay A special dispatch from Tren trenton tonNo mo says grand river is still comin coming g u up and the bottoms are completely Y under water causing much damage weldon bridge tour four miles north aa washed out and considerable timber t of 0 the quincy omaha and kansas city railway extension has been lost the th base ball park is completely submerged mr winslow manager ot of the water works has received a telephone message from the power station that the water was running in through the walls and that it if the hood flood was any higher tomorrow the men would hate han to vacate leaving the city without any water supply six young men on horseback attempted to cross the bottoms west of the town today and were swept from their animals three got safely gately to land the other three floated down stream and were rescued from the tree tops the floods ravages in ia iowa dispatch from sioux city la says residents floyd river bottoms here are again flying to higher ground at Al Merrl errill ll james and milton hanton points above sioux city the stream Is out of its banks and flooding cheval th eval ley here the bank is higher and a three toot foot rise will be necessary before the floods of 0 a fortnight ago can be repeat eil the rise still progresses sies however at the rate of two or three 0 inches an hour burlington la ia telegram A hup hu landslide fell from the wafer soaked bluff between burlington and fort madison covering the burlington railroad track ten feet deep with clay I 1 rocks and trees all traffic was stalled for several hours until a big gang of workers could clear th the e track there have been a dozen bad landslides in this vicinity the past week neck on account ot of heavy rates alcoa ill III telegram two feet more of water will stop on oil the th bluff line st louis chicago and st 31 paul but it if the weather remains clear c car it may not go that high several extra crews of men were busy today piling in rock to hold the weak blaces la ia the embankment where the mayes threatened to wash ash out the track dubuque la ia special the river registers twelve feet above low water mark a rise of half a toot foot today the water is now within three feet of tit tile danger line special telegrams from points in south dal dakota ota iowa and nebraska 13 bring word of 0 increased hoods floods in all the rivers rain has fallen almost incessantly for benenty two hours olef in an area of more than IN miles in from omaha the loo fall all being fully four inches for that time this laa has greatly increased the volume ot or water late in the already swollen streams thousands of acres of farm arm land baad are unter under from four to six feet of running water and many families have moved from homos homes in boats of the carloads car loads of 0 armga that will ill be marketed in california Cali fort dext season fully will la be navels T RA cit WAN agn TOO 6 ai x NW 1 J A IN TILE NEAR MEMPHIS |