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Show FEARFUL FLOODS IN SOUTH. It is Feared Many Lives Will be Lost Before the Water Subsides. 4 The Hood situation in the portion of the Mississippi valley -contiguous to Memphis, lenn., is extremely critical, and reports cf loss of life are at hand. It was thought at first that the break in the levee at Holy-bush, near -Trice's landing, would help matters by relieving reliev-ing the pressure of water and causing a fall at this point. Instead of this the break has complicated conditions fey flooding a vast area in Arkansas across the Mississippi from Memphis, and a veritable sea exists in the St. Francis and Mississippi river basins, extending from one basin to the other, a distance of many miles. : From this territory a call for help' has gone up from persons who have been surrounded surround-ed in their homes on high parts of the country, but thus far. it has been an impossibility to send them assistance. assist-ance. ' A few floating bodies have been found at various points by tie rescu. ing boats, but the number has not yet been alarming. -' The St. Louis & San Francisco railroad rail-road runs through the St.; Francis country, but that company' has annulled an-nulled all -trains,, its tracks being un-.. der water near Marion, Ark. The town of Marion is almost totally flood-edi flood-edi and, .citizens are using skiffs as their; ohly ..means, of travel. Negroes and white persons from the adjacent territory are pouring into Marion every hour, asking that a boat be sent to rescue tneir families. There is no means of reaching them except by making a break in the levee near Memphis. |