Salt Lake Tribune | 1897-04-20 | Page 1 | Help for the Drowning

HELP FOR THE DROWNING URGENT APPEAL FROM THE overflowed relief boat dispatches for skiffs us AS people are drowning and con cam be reached only in that way vicksburg miss april 19 maj J IL 11 willard hoa has just received a dispatch from tho the mauler master of the lh bicari steamer ordered last night to 10 coons coon a landing la asking him to send fill all skiffs obtainable by first steamer as people are drowning and cannot be ba reached except by skirts A dispatch arrived ot at midnight train from ashwood IA sueng the ibo water Is if ruth ing rapidly into tho the swamps 0 of hensas tensas parish which Is inac by steam frn em and this dispatch ill aroused many apprehensions later A dispatch pays bays tho the calamity at coons landing is duo due to a break in the loveo levee thare anti and that another has ban occurred cur d opposite bodnev Rod nv no details de tails hae ahme been m received boats boat cannot be sent beiro bem morning