Show FLOOD statistics ESTIMATED LOSS IN SOUTHERN STATES in the he states of arkansas Arli nm lifts 11 II bourl and louisiana square au hue lice are under we water ter washington april 12 A statement tat ement regarding the agricultural ral inhere t s 0 f the submersed submerged districts d astric is of 0 the mississippi valley soil south th ot of cairo III has been issued by the department of agriculture ri it is based upon a eba ahart t prepared under the direction of tile tho chief oi the weather bureau st showing the extent of the flood on april ath the total area under water on april ath was about square miles of which square miles were in ibis sis sippi in arkansas 1 1750 I 1 in I 1 missouri 1200 in tennessee an and in louisiana the region contained in 1800 1890 as far as can be determined in I 1 I 1 view of the somewhat indefinite boundary lines of the flood flood a population of 1 of which or about one tolf half were in mississippi in arkansas and the te rema remainder remain indea dei almost equally divided between missouri and tennessee taking the entire region the colored population outnumbered the whites the colored predominating in the flooded districts of mississippi in 1 the ration of 5 to 1 and in arkansas in that of 2 to 1 in missouri and tennessee the population of the flooded districts is largely white in the former state in the proportion to 10 to 1 and in the latter in that of 2 to 1 the flooded districts contain it is estimated about farms of which about are arc in the mississippi nearly in arkanna Ar kansa and alike a like number about equally divided between missouri and tennessee these farms contain a total area of about acres half of which is in mississippi and rather over one fourth in arkansas the proportions in missouri and tennesse being about the same as in the case of the number of farms |