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Show FLOOD TAKING HEAVY TOLL. Two Hundred Persons Reported Drowned in Bolivar County, Mississippi, Missis-sippi, by Flood Swept Section. Jackson, Miss. Reports reached here Saturday that 200 persons have been drowned in Bolivar county, Miss., by the flood that swept through that section, when the river dikes broke near Beulah. Bolivar county is covered with water and efforts to verify teh reports are meeting with many obstacles. The reports declare many white persons were swept away by the deluge. Governor Brewer is advised there are 6,000 refugees in camp at Cleveland Cleve-land and that the supply of food will last less than twenty-four hours. |