Show WARNINGS FULFILLED Would Have Been Better Had They Been Heeded St Louis March 20he warning sent out by the government signal service yesterday yes-terday that the Mississippi river and all its tributaries would continue to rise has been fulfilled to the letter Communication Com-munication with the flooded section has been difficult but dispatches received from widely separated points show that all have suffered alIke I Is estimated that a section of coun try with an area equal to that of the I state of Missouri is now under water and I that the worst is not over Advices from I Cairo Paducah Memphis and Helena show that the region beginning north of New Madrid Mo west to and including the valleys of the St Francis the White and the Arkansas rivers In Arkansas east in Kentucky and Tennessee of the valleys of the Tennessee and Cache the Obion and the Yazoo rivers and south I to the Red river are under water The intervening ranges of hills and high ground are the only places of refuire The dispatches received here tell but one story lives lost stock drowned and a country desolated At Cairo Ill today the river reached 509 feet and is rising slowly which Is but one foot short of the high record of 1SS3 All the country south of there to Memphis is submerged A relief steamer from the flats below Birds Point brought In four families I is reported thrt a flatboat containing a number of people was sunk at Island No 10 Bright sunshine this afternoon revived afernoon the hopes of the people about Cairo At Nashville Tenn the situation is bad and very threatening I is estimated that without more rain th > rKf > will inn tinue until Tuesday when the maximum high water mark at Nashville n feet made In 1SS2 will be exceeded The basements base-ments of business houses on Front street and the lower end of Broad street are full of water and thousands of dollars worth of goods are irreparably damaged Much of this damage could have been prevented by timely removals if the warnings of the weather bureau had been heeded In the residence portion of the Nashville Nash-ville lowlands many people continued to occupy the Ir houses until this morning I and they are now moving out in boats No deaths by drowning are reported All the cotton fields in the valley of Forked Deer river In Tennessee are under un-der water The Memphis Relief association associa-tion has five boats at work These boats go to points that are some 20 miles from stream navigation In ordinary stages of water The unanimous opinion of St Louis river men is that conditions must become worse before there can be permanent perma-nent relief They say that numerous breaks in the lower levees are really realI blessings as they are natural outlets for the delude that is certain to come from the melting snows of the north Damage Is Enormous Sioux City Ia March 20 Reports of damage by floods are coming in tonight from towns all over the territory about Sioux City The Big and Little Sioux Vermillion Jim Rock and Elkhorn rivers are = few among the more important im-portant streams which are giving trouble Bridges are nearly all gone towns on their banks are inundated and thousands of acres of farm lands are under water No lives are reported lost but drrnace to buildings grin and live stock 4are wi a be standstill enormous Railroad traffic is about at |