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Show THOUSANDS HOMELESS; L0SU10,000,000 Thirty thousand persons homeless; 2,000 squaro miles of country inundated, inun-dated, thirty persons drowned and a financial loss of $10,000,000 constitute consti-tute tho.result of a two-weeks flood in tho Mississippi valley, i'hes'e figures were arrived at last night by government engineers nnd officials of state levee boards on-gaged on-gaged In battling the ravaging sweep of tho Mississippi river from points In Illinois to threatened places In Mississippi and Arkansas. Water Is pouring into Arkansas through threo now breaks In tho love lo-ve o south of Memphis. Theso gave way yesterday and sovernl hundred square miles nre subject to flooding. Uallroad traffic Is paralyzed practically. prac-tically. Hundreds of persons still are menaced by the tide of tho river at points In lower Missouri, northwestern north-western Tennessee and Arkansas. They nro marooned In housetops, In trees and on anchored rafts directly In the sweep of the river. Hourly tho dnnger zone works southward. In the upper reaches tho Ohio and Mississippi rivers aro practically prac-tically at a standstill. This means that tho crest of tho flood now. is exerted ex-erted on tho dikes from tho Missouri lino southward. State and Iovco board officials in tho districts south of Memphis havo been laboring all da' to top tho strained lovees. Miss-lEsti.pl Miss-lEsti.pl officials think their embankments embank-ments will hold. Stern Fight at Memphis. Memphis, Teon., April 7. At oight o'clock tonight tho Oolden Lake lo-veo, lo-veo, north of Memphis, was holding strong, though government engineers say it cannot hold much longer. A breach at this point means tho inun- dntlon of thousands or acres of Arkansas Ar-kansas farm lands. Thero hns boen much 'suffering among hundreds of floods refugees during tho last eighteen eight-een hours. Though tho lovoo held, yet In the threatened territory down tho rlvor tho battlo to strengthen levees was ronewed with twofold vigor. A brenk at Golden Lako would mean the Inundation of a section ns large as that flooded Saturday by tho collapso of the St. Clair loop, 700 miles, with tho probability that tho water from the tv,o cievnssuB would join. So far ns reports showed eaili' tonight, thero has been no loss of llfo In Arkansas. At Columbus and Hlckmnn, Ivy., at Tlptonvlllo nnd Itidgcly, Tcnn., at Osceola and Luxora, Ark., nt Mom-phis Mom-phis and n number of other points on tho river refugees continue to arrive tonight. In tho flood district 10.0U0 homeless persons are being cared foi. Reports continue to reach Hickman, Hick-man, Ky., that scores of persons uro marooned on housetops, In trees and on rudo rafts in parts of Lako coun ty, Tennessee. A special train furnished furn-ished by tho Chlcngo Memphis and Quit rnllrond sot out Saturday, from Hlckmnn carrying twenty men and a dozen boats o ' |