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Show in Sees Great Damage Being Wrought in Northern Louisiana; 800 Square AAiles of .Rich Lands Under Water. FEARS THAT' MANY LIVES MAY BE LOST Thousands of Families Rendered Ren-dered Homeless; Impossible to Estimate Amount of Damage to Property. GREENVILLE, Miss., April 13. Tlio Mississippi is taking its tithe in southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana today. Tho flood is pouring through two gaps in the levocs at Panther, La. over fertile fer-tile flat lands in the Louiiann-Arkan- sas delta. Before nightfall it is estimated, esti-mated, a thousand square miles in East Carroll and Madison parishes. Louisiana, Louis-iana, and Chicot and Desha counties, Arkansas, will bo flooded. In tho meantime, the river has paused in its assault on its oast banks and prospects of holding tho dykes on the Mississippi side have .brightcued. At Grocnville and ns far, south as Vicksburg the water is facing. Breaks Serious. Tho breaks last night arc regnrdod as the most serious sinco tho flood began. be-gan. Tho territory which will bo inundated in-undated is populous, villages are numerous nu-merous and Arkansas City and Lake Villago, Ark., and Lako Providence, Tallulah and Delhi, La., and other im-pcrtant im-pcrtant towns arc in its path. wiiilo the damago will be heavy it is not believed tho loss of life will bo largo. "When tho levoea collapsod couriers wore sent from every point reached by tolephono to warn those living liv-ing in remote sections, and special trains went from Vicksburg, Greenville and New Orleans to take aboard refugees. ref-ugees. All the steamboats available in tho Vicksburg and Greenville harbors were dispatched to points along the river to take off those who held to tho levee and small craft began an oxploration of tho territory flooded. Preparations have been made at Vicksburg and Greenvillo to care for tho refugees. Weather conditions were uot favorable favor-able to tho levees. Kain is reported at several points. Natchoz reports all lovecs holding as -far south as Bayou Sara, La. Rescue Party Fails. Tho largest rescue party left aboard tho steamer Alice B. Miller with skiffs and a barge, but advices from tho steamer Palls City later were that the MiLler had been forced to tie up twenty twen-ty miles south of Salem. The Palls Citv. which arrived at Vicksburg today, to-day, passed the So lorn break earl' last night. Thomas Morrisoy, tho owner, snid: "1 wanted to stop and help the flood sufferers but it would havo boen fatal to my passengers to have tried it. The roar of tho crevasses could be heard for miles. The suction gripped my boat, although we were hugging the oast bank of the river. The gap is taking tak-ing tho water with a terrific rush inland. in-land. "The flood already covers a section visible for twenty miles south of the break, as far as Tallabina. La." Much Stock Drowned. NEW ORLEANS, April 1.1. A telephone tele-phone message received from East Carroll Car-roll parish was to the effect that 100 feet of the Mississippi levee there gave way and some of the most modern plantations of northern Louisiana are in danger of being flooded. Hundreds of head of stock were reported re-ported drowned. A number of small towns are in the flooded path. Another An-other telephone message from Lako Providenco said plantations in the neighborhood of the break were under from fivo to seven foot of water. Fear was expressed that there would be loss of lifo in tho back country where thcro is no wiro communication. Tho Alsatia crovar.se and the waters from tho break nt Panther Pork, Ark., will flood practically tho entire Tonsas rivor basin, a large section of east "West Carroll, Morohouse, Madison und Continued on Pape Throe.) FLOOD IS POURIl THROUGH TRE GAPS (Continued From Pago Ono.) Tensas parishes and a part of Richland parish, according to indications at noon. Hundreds oi families are marooned ma-rooned on houso tops awaiting rescue. John M. Parker's plantation, whero Colonel Boosovelt made his headquarters headquar-ters during his southern bear hunt, is under water ranging from Eix to ten feet in depth. Eighteen lives were in peril at Roosevelt. A rcscuo party now is making for there in a river steamer. Tn the last twenty-four hours tho Mississippi has risen rapidly front Natchez south. The riso at Baton Rouge exceeded one foot. Appeals for Dead. VICKSHKKG. Miss., April l:;. Urgent appeals for Mississippi flood sufferers have been roceU'eel here.' From Roosevelt. Roose-velt. J-u.. came a telephone call asking that a bout bo sent to rescue persons marooned In a store there. It was the last nlace of refuge that remained. Telephone messages from Madison Parish. La., confirm reports that the entire en-tire patlsh is flooded. Hundreds of persons per-sons are marooned on house tops and in trees, where they took refuge. Many persons are floating through the parish on rafts. Reports of loss of life havo not been verified by Associated Press correspondents! correspond-ents! immense damage has been wrought. The loss in livestock alone probably will exceed that of tho section in northeast- jem Arkansas flooded by the breaks north of Memphis. A herd of fins Hereford cattle owned hy Leo Shields, postmaster at Koosovolt. was swept away. Scores of flno livestock owned by 13. J, Davis, a well known planter, were drowned. IH Many Drowned, LHXINGTON. Ky.. April 13. Reports of drownings at Leathcrwood, Kloyil county. In the Kentucky river flood, were disproved today by the discovery that tho bodies recovered from the river had been washed out of a negro cemetery. Some were caughl hy log men several miles from tlio cemetery, which ha3 been practically swept away. |