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Show Mississipi Bursts Its Bounds and Submerges Sub-merges Vast Tract 4- FORTY THOUSAND ARE 4- HOMELESS. 4 4- Washington. April G. After 4 4- a talk with President Taft to- 4- 4- day, Major General Leonard 4- 4- Wood, chief of staff, predicted 4- 4- that more than 40,000 persons 4- would bo made homeless and 4- 4- more than 10,000 would have 4- 4- to be fed as a result of the 4- 4- .Mississippi river flood. 4- J General Wood based his 4-. 4- prediction or reports received 4- j 4 from army officers now in the 4- 4 field. 4- 4 - J Danger Zone Movec Southward. The danger zone in the Mississippi , 1IUUU UiSlllUl IIILOCU SUU11I Will U LUliilJ , '. Lut keenest attention was directed toward tho Reelfoot lake country in Tennesce, which was Inundated last night when tho levco nt Hickman, Ky., was breached Greatest anxiety centeied on tho question of loss of life. Two Children Drowned. In tho flvo hundred square miles of Inundated country In northwest Tennessee, hundreds of persons woro forced to flee before the flood's rush and two children are said to have been drowned In Lake county. Advices received from several points in the afflicted district Indicate that practically prac-tically all the farmers and villagers escaped. Refugees Flee to Louisville. Two thousand Reelfoot refugees are at Tlptonvilo nnd Rldgely. They hae been provided with shelter and the state has been asked to send them food and clothing. Rescue parties have set out In boats to bring In por-sons por-sons who are inarooend on house tops and rafts. The greatest pecuniary loss has been sustained In the drowning of cattle. Many farm houses are under water, i but. the loss from this source will not mount high. There were no crops in the fields and planting had not been begun Flood Crest Moving South. Tho situation fri (he Lower Mississippi Missis-sippi valloy continues sorlous. Tho flood strain was relieved somewhat by the levees break at Hickman, but much of the wntcr now flooding tho Reelfoot country eventually will get back into the river. Desperate Situation at Memphis. Memphis. Tenn... April C "Tho situation sit-uation Ik desperate, but wo are still hopeful. O. N. Klllough, president of the St. Francis levee board." "Extremely sorious, but it the weather romalnS clear wo mtty bo able to prevent crfvasses. Major C S. Smith, U S. A , corps of engineers." This is the Mississippi river flood sltuntfon as reviewed by men directing direct-ing tho fight from the Missouri slato line to the mouth of White river In Arkansas, that stretch or lovec beating beat-ing the brunt of the battle with the wateiuay today. Situation Critical. Except lor tho Reelfoot embankment, embank-ment, which went out lato yesterday, (Continued on Pago Eight.), J li RANK h i un mi (Continued from Pago One ) all main levees aro holding: this morn ing, but each hour tho situation grows more critical. The rivor Is rising faster that the suporficlal earthworks can be constructed. Golden lake, 50 miles north of Memphis, Pecan Point, in the same vicinity of Lam-bethville, Lam-bethville, Mound City. Holly Bush, Ark., and tho Whito river front are regarded as points in immediate peril. At Memphis the stage this morning was 44, D feet, a rise of three-tenths during the preceding 12 hours. Widening of the Breech. Dispatches from Hickman, Ky., tell of the widening of the breech In the Reolfoot levee, five miles west of that city. Early today the gap was about 200 yards wide. 'A. mighty wall of water is sweeping all before It in its race through Fulton county In 1 Kentucky and 1-ako county, Tennessee. Tennes-see. Reolfoot lake, into which the flood is pouring, Is going over Its hanks Into Obion county, and in turn the Ohio river Is taking up the overflow over-flow and carrying it back to the Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. Worse to the South. ' While the break will relieve the situation sit-uation north of Hickmanjto some extent ex-tent it will have no appreciable effect ef-fect to the south. In the flooded section of north Memphis the overflow is gradually spreading. Several pitiable experi- ' enccs have been reported. One woman was found seriously sick in tho second sec-ond story of her home. The water Is gradually nearlng the window of hor aparlnient, but her condition is such that sho will not be removed except as a last resort. v |