Show S The Floods Memphis HThe river here fell t one inch today It now marks 35 feet 10 inches on the gauge and two inches below the highest point j reached this season Twenty thousand ff thous-and rations for the Tennessee suf j f rers arrived this morning to be t distributed on Monday Captain J S M Lee army officer who was appointed ap-pointed by the secretary of war to i ascertain the condition of affairs in i Mississippi returned tonight at 10 oclock from Arkansas City on the r teamer Dean Adams In an interview inter-view with the Western Associated 5 Press reporter Captain Lee said that no idea of the true condition of the country overflowed can be imagined without being seen j S From a point twenty miles below i Memphis where the first break in the levee occurred the entire country 4 1 coun-try is one vast sea of water People I all through this submerged region t 3 are utterly destitute and in a starving starv-ing condition Their stock has been drowned and they are living in gin louses stables and upper stories of cabins Hundreds subsist on hard corn Many have been temporarily S relieved by the distribution of government gov-ernment rations but others could i S not be reached and the suffering is j 5 great The levee along the river front ja is broken in forty different places between tween Memphis and Arkansas City S and at some points the river Lfif ty i 5 V miles wide All published reports have fallen far short of giving any j idea of the damage done or the destitution S titution prevailing His first estimate f S 5 esti-mate made to the secretary of war m S was that 3360000 rations would be required to feed the 18000 needy in j the state of Mississippi will he says 1 fall short as the destitute will probably t prob-ably be double the number first estimated esti-mated Captain Lee will telegraph 4i Secretary Lincoln and await further instructions here S fS ke |