Show ROODIN THE SOUTH xvi Heavy Rains Have Caused Heavy t Damage and Tied Up Railroads1 j > ill Mississippi i < i New Orleans La March 2SThe Wind and rainstorm which has prevailed pre-vailed southern Mississippi for aied oersouther i18815slpI1 ho last foityelght hours hao i demorA Izecl last railway traffic and telegraph ommunlCAtlQil today The tpwn ot ATftKlohurHl Mls3 hua bocAr completely isolated for the past two day On account ac-count of the heavy ralno I Many strcums toun In the country overflowed their banks and all passage from the country has stopped Telegraph lines are try stoppel Telesaphlne9are In all localities prostrated local tcs An embankment on the Illinois Central Cen-tral railroad one mile north of Oxford MIsS trl waswaahcd away today leaving leav-ing seventy feet of iron rails and cross tiCs suspended about fifty feet In the air Another wash6ut occurred just south of the town Lead river at Hattlesburg Miss rose several feet during last night and North no trains have parsed over the eastern or the Gulf or Ship Island today to-day on account of the high water The Northeastern Is washed out In several l places between here and Meridian Al Enterprise the Chlckashay river Is on a rampage and all the lowlands of the river Rd < valley arc covered with water The river at G ocl cle tonIght to-night was aa high as in the flood of two years ago and1 l 15 i rising at the np rate of four Inches an hour The loss to farmers will be heavy Over five Inches I of rain has fallen at VIcksburg in the last fortyeight I hours A fast freight on the Northeastern railway near Meridian Is six feet under un-der water and the crew is in danger del being swept away Efforts to reach the train by boats have been futile owing1 to the swift current Two separate sep-arate relief parties have been sunt out to swim and wade streams but nothIng noth-ing has boon heard from them since lat l night Water at Enterprise is rising at the rate of eighteen Inches an hour There Is no prospect for the resumption of traffic for two or three days The southernflection of Meiidlan has been under three feet of water for twenty four hours and many families have been forced to leave their homes in the lowlands and escape to higher ground One house was hurled into I the stream and carried away but the occupants escaped i A heavy rain wind and electrical l 1 storm passed through Tupelo this afternoon af-ternoon For several minutes during I the height of the storm nothing but flying debris could be seen Plate glass windows ctilmneys and many of tho beautiful trees that lined the street i were blown dowjr SeventyMlve negro I cabins and a negrochurch which had Just been compjejedwerc blown I down |