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Show I11S DISASTER HTOLLOWS rhan Hundred Miles of Rich g Land in the t Lake, Tennes-strict Tennes-strict Now Bot-Inland Bot-Inland Sea. CROWD UVER TOWNS eople Probably id in the Wild : Water; No Rein Re-in Sight for jd-Doomed Sec-: Sec-: Country. l News Service. April 5. There Is no re-ighl re-ighl tonight for the flood-sections flood-sections of the lower Mis-vallcy. Mis-vallcy. .Ml Indications arc water will go higher and nt damage will be but a Is to follow. These indl-icd indl-icd on reports of phe-tt phe-tt points above the conllu-Isalsslppl conllu-Isalsslppl and Ohio rivers uipeau predictions. ; ent levee a short distance i, Ky.. on the Mississippi, famous fertile Roelfoot save way shortly ' before Over a hundred square idld farming lands were r the sea that rolled. In .ve. lere the Minneapolis:. team fn association Is trainlne. er water. Between seven nd people outside the lomi metered homeless.' Farm iwtipt away like eo many loss of livestock will be. II is loading a rescue party d district tonight. Ilun-S3ns Ilun-S3ns of animals are flout-ood flout-ood and the current of the raging through the' hunting elfo.ot lake and the scene lie night-rider crimes and le Drowned; 5bs of life arc current, but pihI days boforo news can from Isolated places now i temporary lake of swirl -s and wreckage. It is the of refugees In Pndnoah nle have been drowned. highest point within Junction of the Mississippi the Ohio and Tennessee ded wlih people who have y the floods from the low H. ,he thr'!e riveis. Thousands are ' ft' iR ln tents pitched on high places 3 ;,; r"i Mississippi, in many sections !'.: olles are scarce and hundreds J l 'K0", ff("nen and children are living ;J "H?1" rali9Ps- Supplies are being hur- Jo yW" Paduab and other places, hut' ' m3Jrlty of cases the relief expe-' 'W Sre vhm.'ked by Hooded lowlands 'Wl rcar,) lh"ir ,Jostlliatl0"- m m 0ut 0ff- JBt C cntlrelv "'""rounded bv water M ML1"5 tla"sportallon oil all railroads W' Broff- A trip around the levees ft?" h better Idea of the vast area; ' '"undated Ihan can br drawn h'J :tV(rhal or printed description. R'j! ""latlon tonight, however. Is on- 1$' Ej5' levcH about tho city are iijjj 'Rf a(e ftnl sound. Plenty of men '! ifKVeral arft on hand Prepared to Bjy( 'B; rPalrs npcessary on a moment's ft"' 'Bs 1lle c,,v 'R ''onsidored secure fc -.fc ,401' The 'breaking of the govern- 1$ 'lro'lL Hlckman Is wpcc,Dd t0 W. M"51 tonlBht at Cairo reads f.VJ ravK , lh llv:1' will probably remain VaK- ?c for several days. XSjlfck drainage district surround-RtgSKJ surround-RtgSKJ ,ft "nocr from ten to twenty uifjHu'tl T'lft 'sccn,i 's onc ut eX fKI,,11 are wrecked, building? are v'K . and ln nia"y case's turned com-B'j"B-Jr0,'r at,d are resting upon their Ran ltta r"yf downward in the water. Iv IE' water In many places com-Pw'tn com-Pw'tn t-1';Kraph wIreK and fjsl ti? v itllc k'fJ'n emPankment that jM Rscit Kc "PPronr.h refugces-'from KM-Ktlon iaVo Ratht,r("' together what ' flfm ' Br th ttttct 1,,ey managed lo rvo " ViBVttt flDOd dl'"Vc them fro,,1l thQv Viim. m y cfternoon and are m'ak. I - m'Jm tJf81 of lhc,r rninfortune, tlmnk- '''iBno7e8caped wlth thclr 1,ve8-1 1,ve8-1 ; mL'ccn ordered 100 tents sent l0m&m on Page Nine.) LEVEE BREAKS ID DISASTER FOLLOWS (Continued From Pago Ono.) to Mayor George Parsons for use of future fu-ture city homeless tonight. Tho Illinois Central railroad announcod tonight that, commencing tomorrow, they would run one train south out of Cairo each day. ... ,, The situation at Memphis is gradually growing worse. The waler in North Memphis Mem-phis is reported a foot higher than this morning and spreading. ,,,.... , The river stage was U. G feet this afternoon af-ternoon and the water was lapping the top of even the sand bags at places. Experts! believe that another twelve houra will nc too much. Tho line weather has aided In the fight as a rain would have putthe lovees out of business last night. Several Sev-eral breaks at once is the prediction of tho river men The current along the levees is verv strong. The lovees were built for forty-five feet at the utmost. It is now apparent that this stage will be far exceeded. ex-ceeded. All records have been broken and there Is now Utile on which to banc estimates. Crisis Comes Tonight, That the crisis in tho flood so far as the levee svftcm Is concerned will come tonight when tho swollon river begins to reach forU-Tlvc feet. Is. the opinion of the englnee.i-8 today. Only thin line of sand-bngs sand-bngs hold back the water for miles and miles and there Is a limit to tho possibilities possibili-ties of this kind of defense. Thore Is no acute distress In Memphis yet and citizens citi-zens arc taking the trouble cheerfully The Icvens protecting the upper 1 azoo section and the White river lovees aro nlso remaining Intact, according to re-I re-I ports received by Major Clark L. Smith, chief government engineer. O N. KlUough, president of the St. Francis levoe district, has given up hopes of the St. Francis levco withstanding the oncoming flood. " M Kangaroo Point, fifty miles below Memphis, water began flowing over tho levees tonight and every available man for miles around was sent to the scene. Flvi hundred men were nlso rushed to Modoc, a point twenty-five miles below Friars Point. Miss., where wafer was flowing over the lcvcc. Hundreds of men are being concentrated concentrat-ed at Carruthersvllle. Mo., where similar conditions exist. Governor Donagh of Arkansas today sent the adjutant general of the state to the flooded districts to take charge, of the iroops. which aro working on tho levees lev-ees and rescuing families from the lowlands. low-lands. Arkansas levees nre at tho breaking break-ing point and a few Inches rlso will precipitate pre-cipitate torrents of water Into the low- ,llTlfe Mississippi at St. Louis rose one-tenth one-tenth of a foot todav. Mayor Krclsmann permitted the us of the city harbor boat Ernslus Wells In carrying food and sup-piles sup-piles to the flood stricken districts. Towns Under Water. Th entire town of Wjatt Mo,. Is under un-der three feet of water. At Knst Prairie. Mo. tho water Is on three sides of the town and threatening to overflow tho Ullage. Ul-lage. At New .Madrid. Mo., flood conditions are woivc. There arc no prospects of relief and tho flood damage Is increasing every hour. The river continues rising nnd food is becoming scarce. The government gauge at Now Madrid rcach-d '1.7 at I o'clock this evening, making . noa,rJ.v three Inches rise, during tho pasL twenty-four hours. The grentesl rise todav was registered at Louisiana. Mo., where the Mississippi rose one foot four Inches In twenty-four hours. Louisiana is above the mouth of the Missouri nnd Illinois rivers, showing that a flood Is coming down the upper Mississippi river. Other rises were as follows: lOvansvllle. Ind.. slight rise; Warsaw, HI., two-tenths of an inch: Qnincy. HI, seven-tenths of an Inch: Vicksburg, Miss., seven-tenths of an Inch; Chester. III., three-tenths of an lui'h; Burlington. Ia., two Inches, Pearl. II).. one Inch. Most of these points arc above the present pres-ent crest of the flood and mean that a still greater rush of water Is bearing down on the stricken sections. The Mississippi Is eight miles wide ;it Quincy, III., and has reached the highest point since 1005. At Evansvlllc. Ind.. tho Ohio river will reach the forty-four-foot stage by Sunday. Sun-day. Farmers living in the bottoniH between be-tween here and Paducah. Ky.. report great loss of stock. Thousands of acres of growing wheat will bo ruined along the lower Ohio and Wabash rivers. White river farmers say they aro looking for the worst Hood since the great flood of JS75. |