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Show FEARFUL FLOODS IN SOUTH. It Is Feared Many Lives Will be Lost Before the Water Subsides. Tho flood situation In tho portion of tho Mississippi valley contiguous to Memphis, lonn.. Is cxtromcly crltlcnl, and reports of loss of Ufa nro at hand. It wns thought nt first that the break In tho lovoo nt Holybuah, near Trlco'a landing, would holp matters by relieving reliev-ing tho pressure of wator and cnuslng a fall nt this point. Instead of this tho break has complicated conditions by flooding n vast aroa In Arkansas across tho Mississippi from Memphis, and a verltablo sea exists In tho St. Francis and Mississippi river basins, extending from ono basin to tho other, a distance of many miles. From this territory a call for holp has gono up from persons who havo been surrounded surround-ed In their homes on high parts of tho country, but thus far It has been an Impossibility to sond thorn assistance. assist-ance. A few floating bodies have been found at various points by tho rescuing rescu-ing boats, but tho number has not yet been alarming. Tho St. I.ouls &. Snn Francisco railroad rail-road runs through tho St. Francis country, but that company has annulled an-nulled nil trains, Its tracks being under un-der water near Marlon, Ark. Tho town of Marlon Is almost totally flooded, flood-ed, and citizens nro using skiffs ns their only means of travel. Negroes and whlto porsons from tho adjacent territory nro pouring Into Marlon every hour, nsklng that a boat be sent to rescue tnolr families. Thoro Is no means of reaching them except by mnklng a break In tho levco near Memphis. |