Show FLOOD SITUATION GROWING f WORSE WITH EVERY HOUR HOURt H t t Arkansas Lands Under Water and a Exists A t i P of the Lowland I Bi FUN Fi it P Pta Hits Aft tit Mississippi M T EMPHIS March IM JY iV 1 situation h In the die t portion Is or of the thi 34 va contiguous ou to Memphis ia la extremely critical tonight toni ht ini reports report ef ot of at life lito are re at t I hind it was wal thought at first erat rt that the hI I break hr ak in la tb the levee lev last lut night Blot at t near landing would i hIp IP matt matters by relieving lien the pressure 0 water Vater and ud nd causing u Ii fall at this till instead ot of this tb the break has baa conditions by b flooding Il a v at area are in III Arkansas across the Mississippi 11 from fro Memphis aad a d tonight t I H n as St exists in Fran Pran Frani i and Mississippi river basins but ex ax tending t from one OM basin Maia to the other I distance of many miles mile From this thia tb r f a call rail for help belp has hall gone e up H m persons who have been surround S 4 I t in fl their homes on high parts parta t the he L country but thus far tar It has bas hast t II an Impossibility Im bUtt to send them as asi I S i e ladies JoaL fei 4 V few f f W V floating bodies have bar been at Ht various arloue points by bJ the UK III boat boa but the number has not yet l 1 S n armIng alarming Th st Louis LoW A Ban an Francisco rail lun runA through the St Francis FrancisS S but that company today toda an as lull ll all ait trains its Ita tracks being un uni und d i i Water vater near Mar Marion anon Ark Ait The town I tl of if Marion Marton is almost totally flood J C Jd l and anti citizens are using skiffs U as aa s st their t r only means meana of travel Negroes S ant and white persons peno a tress IreNa the ue adjacent nt are pouring into lato Marion rIon noa very try er hour asking e that tUt a boat bout be bet sent S to rescue their families There is Ii no notHan tHan of reaching Me them except by b a break In la the ue levee near nr Jr I f and this tb may Irmy y be done to toi toS toJ S i J mi row if conditions show bow no improve an R rt Cry Wee Tor AIdS Aid William of Crittenden In which Marion Marlon la Is situated hits has i one to the village in ma a skit skiff and S report tonight to President Prel eat Kil 1 o the St Francis Francia levee board boardS S Hi ti 11 true conditions there It la Is eaU esti 5 II ti fl it t t it tt that hat t several hundred bund persons parsons t surrounded by the water ater in the theS S 1 Arkansas territory and that th amount of livestock lost is heavy baY rall skiffs cannot begin bIu to rescue I h d and it seems eisa that It b I m t sis a steamboat ft of vf 11 sort lIrt to an their aid aidi I Th i h negroes lI at Marion have hav given givenS e et S S is t r right and almost a panic ex cx x S J They T ty fc Me IL t the h ht t I r 1 station and in the cabIns in Inti ti and refuse to work A Ai Atrain i u f train the last It that reached the tl arrived tarl this morning morningS S Il h iMN Mi sacks to be used in la dam dammin min i n the water but labor can canS canin S in I t l li secured M to unload the train Th i h tr tt ks of the Iron Mountain Mount and andt t h u railroads art are still open 1 h n r arenas sm ms to be every Indication 1 lIt n it all ill predictions of the stage tap at this thia thiat t tin will be surpassed as aa the river j n ri Ig steadily tonight Growing Worse Ivry X Hour 1 h wak ak points point In la the levees re rf ji last iatt night other r than at the th i tk are art tIll mill in a critical condition t lilt I iii further f u rt her breaks may ma occur Forces t r 5 of ma ms mea are an ani i g and gg day at atu this these point palate and tao i situation has haa re Ye solved Jt lt It into a race nee bet between the workers and ad the water ater In the tIM ta Is growing worse wore w each cia hour bour and aad the water is ti spreading to sections other th than these which bleh were flooded yesterday The TIM wa water water ter tee pumping nc plant la Is endangered ana aaa anaa aa aaa a few Inches more rise ria in the river riverIa moat Ia cause caUl It to suspend |