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Show ELOODS IN THE SOUTH CAUSING DISASTER. Water Submerges Several Towns All Bridges Reported "Washed Away. The rains continue throughout the flood districts of the sonth and danger to lives and property is becoming mors grave. It is estimated that 83,000,000 worth of private property has already been destroyed, and it is now thought probable this damage will be heavily increased. Mail and telegraphic communication com-munication -has been destroyed between be-tween the smaller towns in Mississippi and Alabajna, south of Jackson, the northern limit of the floods. Ma 11 3' farm houses have been swept away, the occupants barely escaping with their lives, and the drowning of a family of seven negroes is reported from Jackson, Miss. The flood district is roughly bounded by a line drawn from Mobile, up the Tombigbee to the center of the state of Alabama, thence west through Jackson, Jack-son, Miss., to the Mississippi river. Around Columbia, Miss., every railroad rail-road and wagon bridge is reported washed away, and first crops are a total loss. At Enterprise, Miss., the water stands five feet iu the houses and stores. At Meridian, Miss., the water is reported as six feet in the streets and rising, Timber and buildings build-ings are reported destroyed at Ellis-ville, Ellis-ville, Meridian, Desoto and throughout the Bayou Pierra district in Mississippi, and numerous small points in Alabama report great damage. |
