Show CAUSED BY FLOOD Fifteen inches of rain havo fallen In Mississippi so far this monlli Thousands of people In the small waterbound towns of Mississippi are reported on time brink of starvation One of time heaviest rainstorms of the Benson occurred In Now Orleans Sunday Sun-day night and time city was flooded Tho flood situation around Mobile shows a more desperate condition and every hour the Joss is growing greater Around Columbia Miss every railroad rail-road and wagon bridge is reported washed away and first crops arc a to lal loss The situation in towns Isolated by floods In Mississippi Is growing desperate despe-rate JAiodsluffs nro running whorl and no relief IB In Might At Jackson Miss John Horlon a negro his wife und four children were drowned in time backwaters of Pearl river while trying to escape from the flood Ueports from thc Interior of Mississippi Missis-sippi show great devastation Ifarmcrs are abandoning farms as worthless and entering the service of railroads which employ all applicants The Mood district Is roughly bounded by a line drawn from Mobile up tho Tomblgbeo to the center of the Slate of Alabama thence west through Jackson Jack-son Miss lo time Mississippi river Jt was estimated last Saturday thai I S3000000 worth of private property had I already boon destroyed by floods In tho South and It Is now thought probable proba-ble Ibis damage will bo heavily Increased In-creased At Enterprise Miss time water Elands five fool In the houses and stores At Meridian Miss time water Is reported al six feel In lie streets and rising Timber and dwellings I are reported destroyed al ttlllsvlllc Meridian Desolo and throughout the Bayou Plerra district In Mississippi |