Show 1 INUNDATED BY FLOOD I Water From Crevasse Submerges Sub-merges Greenville BUSINESS IS PARALYZED rSINESS People Are Moving About in Skiffs Rescuing Others Waters Cover Many Thousands of Acres of Farm Land and Sweeping Sweep-ing South to Vicksburg Greenville Miss March 29TIm jaclcwator from the La Grange crevasse cre-vasse Is rising slowly and nearly all of the city Is submerged Business Is paralyzed and people in the southern section of the city arc moving about In skiffs The rise in the I last twentyfour t hours has been two Inches The reports sent out from heic that the city Is In t lanjjer of destruction 1 are highly exaggerated exag-gerated The facts do not warrant such tatcmcnts while rumors of a great loss of life are absolutely without foundation founda-tion so far I as known Huller parties with boats have boon at work rescuing people in the path of the Hood and the cfugee aiu brought here It was said this afternoon that the Mayor had Instructed the City Engineers f Engi-neers to cut the protection levee in the northern part of the city as It is beloved be-loved It will be the means of letting the water out through Fish lule The country beyond the lake Is much lower than the city anti If the levee Is cut It will stop the rise in Greenville and carry off much of the water now In the cityThe The shutdown of the electric light plnnt Is a serious Inconvenience to the icojile and lanterns in skirts may bt ticen throughout the town at night The flood situation outside of Greenville Green-ville remains practically unchanged The waters have covered thousands of icres of the line delta farms and arc weeping south to Vlcksburg The loss l will be heavy but It is Impossible to I give anything like a correct estimate of I the damage wrought by the flood |