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Show uu Flooded Districts Are Now Scourged With Disease New Madrid, Mo April 11. Fever has biokcn out among the flood refugees refu-gees In this territory. Two deaths aro reported from Wyatt, whero it was said several smallpox cases have also developed. A camp is being built on high ground near here and 1,000 people who aro now living in second stories, will be moved to It in boats. Officers of the army and Red Cross report 0,500 people homeless on both sides of the rivor between Cairo and Tlptonvlllc. There are also between 0,000 and 7,000 head of livestock In the district in need of food. Of actual suffeiing there has as yet been little, but the dread of disease dis-ease and the despondency caused by enormous property loss are felt every where. |