Show w I 1 MRA R 11 I 1 terrible suffering at many litany point the floods ot of the mississippi valley and its tributaries tributa ries continues to grow apace millions of dollars worth of 0 property have bare been desti destroyed oyed and nall lull lions more must be swept away before the waters recede hundreds of 0 lives have been sacrificed and at least three hundred thousand people have been rendered homeless the governors ol of mississippi arkansas alabama tennessee kentucky louisiana missouri kansas the dakotas nebraska and BlInne minnesota sota are receiving funds tor for the unfortunates in distress secretary of war alger has forwarded all the aral available lable tents in the department part ment to the flooded districts but these will be inadequate he has also ordered the expenditure of cash t to 0 relieve the sufferings Buffe rings 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 of at the regular army in greenville alss being swept away one third of greenville miss bliss Is a desert ot of water a scene of desolation impossible to describe the water Is in nearly houses and Is ia kept out of 0 the stores in the heart of the town only by the protection so timely thrown up by the citizens to stop its destructive progress mall mail goes and comes la in skiffs doctors visit their patients in skins skiff a social visits are made in skiffs and skiffs are property equal almost in value to what the mule was a few days ago the water Is deepest in the extreme northern limits where it has reached a depth ot of about seven feet from this point it shows a gradual decline new town miss a very thickly built district peopled almost entirely by negroes Is 1 under water the depth ranging from a few inches to five teet feet the belle air which contains many pretty homes and was beautiful with green lawns and blooming shrubs is a venice and the only means the people have of 0 leaving or returning to their homes Is by boats which are numerous and various the water la is not as high as in 1890 but will soon reach and pass that mark gree greenville itself is a city of refugees of from to souls relief boats from the interior are bringing in nearly every hour loads of destitute flood sufferers suddenly caught by the waters and driven from their homes hundreds and thousands of head of stock are being driven in from every direction the back water from tour four crevices is pouring in tearful fearful floods every hour and the situation Is growing rapidly worse at helena miss bliss the river is still rising at st louis miss it is rising and the arkansas Is threatening to rise in a few days business men are blue but try to keep cheerful the worst has not yet reached the yazoo mississippi delta and the half of its tale of woe has not been told As soon as the different towns and cities already submerged are leached beached by boat parties from greenville and as soon as the remote districts and plantations can be heard from there will be enough to sadden the hearts of those far away who are now eagerly waiting tor for news and hoping against hope reporter gathering news the post dispatch correspondent went by 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 rabbits or domestic fowls floating on driftwood deer on an little islands here and there above the water and the starving creatures do not now fear the ap bronch of man in one instance a ne gress was calmly smoking a pipe on the root ot of a log cabin while a stream ot at water was running through the th doors of 0 her but nearly up to the eaves of 0 the root roof what are you doing there aunty aulty wo we halloed hallood hal loed ise watered in came the response would you like us to take you in we offered no sah ill be out terece ly plaintive howlings bow lings 0 of dogs cackling of 0 poultry and squealing ot of pigs keep the woods alive and graphic scenes beenes and incidents crowd upon the sight at every turn there are dead carcasses floating in the water fragments ot of houses and articles of household furniture of every kind P S A later dispatch says that greenville has been swept away me big break at t flower lake another A other disastrous break in the IMs isis sippi levee occurred sunday morning at 8 at flower lake six els miles below tunica miss the crevasse while not yet ot at 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 mst most fertile farm lands ot of mississippi lying in coo cola homa la flore flare quitman and talla haschle counties in the northern part ot of the state are inundated and the newly planted corn crops will be laid in waste no loss of 0 life is reported the inhabitants of 0 this stricken section having made preparations for or just such a catastrophe as exists there the condition ot of the poorer classes throughout the flooded area is indeed critical thousands of refugees are huddled on levees and spots ot of land waiting tor for relief the towns ot of homedale ho sedale and tunica report that everything possible Is being done for or these poor people but that funds and provisions are fast becoming exhausted in the little city ot of rosedale Kc Rc sedale alone 1200 refugees are being cared for by the citizens 4 41 nil 14 4 nall ill ia L correspondent NEAR greenville halt half a hundred towns stand in six feet of at water and the yellow stream la is creeping up slowly but surely levee at ark gives wy wily advices advises received tell ot at a break lu III the levee two miles south of helena ark tills this Is the levee for or which the people off of southeastern arkansas have made suich a desperate fight the waters from this break flood a great area an and back C up into the streets of helena the relief steamer ora lee has arrived at marianna ark having made an expedition up the st francis river T there here were on in board refugees and head of cattle the steamer went up the st francis river as far as aa cut off and then worked her way down stream rescuing people from perilous pus positions irions the suffering along the st francis river Is appalling the water belthe throughout the entire neighboring country is from six to fifteen feet deep the relief boat had on board the body of mrs ot at raggio city the body was found at raggio and it w wa 1 taken to marianna for burial there being no land at the former forme r place ou oil which to give it interment the st francis la Is rising from three to five inches dally daily at points below vicksburg the river la ia rising it Is the general opinion of old river men here it if the levees below vicksburg hold the great volume of arter in its re aular ular channel it will be little short of a miracle gov mclaurin riu of mississippi continues to make diligent inquiry touching destitute flood sufferers he will perhaps be compelled to state to secretary ot of war alger that the amount of mentioned in mo his telegram will be wholly inadequate to alleviate the want and suffering ron hon J W cutrer of coahoma a member of the yazoo levee district states that he does not expect the waters to abate before may 15 middlesboro lUddle Middle ky is again flooded the water Is four our inches higher than I 1 in sa the flood five weeks ago most ot at the stores in cumberland avenue are flooded sixty five families have been washed out three hundred people are fed by the city boats are plying on the principal streets at Pi neville the cumberland river is rising three feet per hour west Pi lineville pineville is under water the clinch and powell rivers arn are flooding the entire country on the upper the upper mississippi continues to boom the gauge showing eighteen feet above low water mark it has hag been raining constantly for twelve hours dispatches from aitken sauk rapids st cloud and little falls indicate that the tha river is still rising rapidly and that ill all records are likely to be broken at st paul within the next forty eight hours the levee at james street that city broke at 3 sunday after afternoon sending the water all over aver that part of 0 tle the city with a rush the flood encroached into tile the ol of the chicago milwaukee ast paul road the diamond jo passenger station Is in danger ot of floating away and a force of men are busy tying it to the bank several of the manufacturing concerns ou the west side have been obliged to shut down because water put their fires out the relief so societies clette a ot at st paul are busy extending succor to the suffering the number of people who have been forced to leave their homes Is about 1200 the water east of state street has become so deep that several houses have floated from their foundations lugs to the value of about floated down the river sunday floods in Ort ortonville onville blinn has been completely cut off from communication with the outside world A train cannot go 20 miles from this city in any direction lac qui parle lake minnesota river dig big stone lake and lake traverse form one vast sea the lake and river are arc merged into one rising at the rate of halt half an inch an hour A heavy northwest gale Is driving the lee which Is yet a compact and solid mass out ot of big stone lake into the overflowed bottoms of the minnesota river where is Z 1 T afi 1 gill PAR 01 1 J A 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 ot of the depot and the railroad yards rain has been falling steadily for a week making country roads impassable and keeping keepin farmers off their fields every record since that of 1849 has been broken by the mississippi at anoka minn firemans foremans Fi remans grove Is filled with water and the rum river dam is expected to go out millions of 0 teet feet of logs are floating down the river north of anoka millions of acres of 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 ism river overflow the jim river Is creating general k 7 r q Z L w 17 Z 1 N LEAVING THE OLD HOME TO TAKE REFUGE IN THE HILLS HILJA havoc with railroads in the valley east of 0 yankton S D the water Is a toot foot higher and threatens to take out bridges and tracks as the approaches at both ends ot of the bridges are cutting badly three miles and over ot of track ot of the great northern milwaukee and northwestern railroads is now completely disabled thus cutting yankton olt off from the outside world farmers in the bottoms are moving out with boats word was received asking tor for immediate assistance and men and boats are departing tor for the flooded district the water still continues to rise at yankton the lee ice is broken at grand forks ti NT D and trouble Is expected from that source Da basements in third street stores are cleared ot of all goods above grand forks the ice fee la Is still solid between there and fisher a long trestle on the great northern went out sunday it will require a week after the water ha has gone down to repair this line hallway station ri Float lne away A special dispatch from trenton mo says grand river is bull coming up lip and the bottoms are completely under water causing much damage weldon bridge tour four miles north was washed out and considerable timber of the quincy omaha and kansas city railway extension has haa been lost the base ball park Is completely sub sal merged mr winslow manager of 0 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 flood was any higher tomorrow the men would have to vacate leaving the city without any water supply six young men on horse back attempted to cross the bottoms west of 0 the town today and were swept from their animals three got safely to land the other three floated down stream and were rescued from rom the tree tops the floods ravages la in loeft dispatch from sioux city ra la says residents of the floyd river bottoms here are again flying to higher ground at merrill Merrl ll james and hinton points above sioux city the stream is out of its banks and flooding the valley here the bank is higher and a three toot rise will be necessary before the floods of a fortnight ago can ta be repeated the rise still progresses however at the rate ot of two or three inches art an hour burlington ja ia telegram A huge huga landslide fell from the water soaked blutt bluff between burlington and fort madison covering the burlington railroad track ten teet feet deep with clay rocks and trees all traffic was stalled for several hours until a big gang of workers could clear the track there thera have been a dozen bad landslides in this vicinity the put past week on account ot of heavy rains altori ainoa ill telegram two feet more ot of water will stop trains on the bluff line st louis chica chicago go and st paul but it if the weather remains clear it may not go that high hib several e extra crews ot of men were busy today piling in rock to hold the weak places ill ia the embankment where the waves threatened to wash out the track dubuque la ia special the river river registers twelve feet above low water mark a rise ot of halt half a toot foot today water ts Is now within three feet of 0 thil the danger line special telegrams from points in ia south Dal dakota costa iowa and nebraska bring word ot of increased floods in all the rivers rain has fallen almost incessantly for seventy two hours over in an area ot of more than miles in raji us from omaha the tall fall being ully fully four inches for or that diat time this has greatly increased the volume at 0 water in the already swollen streams thousands 0 of acres of 0 farm land are under from four to six feet of run dunnill nill water and many families have move moved d from homes in boats ll 11 I 1 K 1 r reel enar AT A BREAK IN THE LEVEE NEAR MEMPHIS |