Show CRY FOR BOATS TO SAVE FOLKS MAROONED ON TREES HOUSES Mississippi On Greatest Flood Rampage of oE History ARE HOMELESS lO I-lO lEL ESS Hundred Thousand In Iii Danger From Threat Threat- cued ened Breaks MEMPHIS Tenn April 23 23 By The Tho Associated Press The Thc The swollen Mississippi on Its great great- greatest est st flood rampage rampa e beat today toda against barriers of or the low low- lower lower lower er valley alley as the Impounded waters tore toro their way to the sea More than 50 persons were known to be dead more than 75 were homeless while nearly others were endangered as the torrent assailed the delta defenses Hugo Huge ii uge but l property damage amage through a a. wide area from Illinois and anI Missouri to Ar Ar- Arkansas Arkansas kansas and Mississippi mounted continually Waters Vaters spilled through Arkansas Alkansas river rl defenses and the White river overflow o was en encroaching en- en encroaching encroaching on new towns and com com- communities With the rush of the floods Into the lower valley alley extra precautions were taken ta en from Vicksburg south to strengthen bulwarks bul against lI the assault CLI G G TO HOUSES MOUSES With homes engulfed by the raging I waters thousands of or refu refu- refugees refugees gees were In beleaguered cities and towns or clung clun perilously to I housetops hous tops trees small knolls and levee tops lops Reports to the tho Mis Mis- Mississippi Mississippi river rl commission indicated ed cd that the refugee situation was most acute along alon a ine ane from Boll Bolivar to several se miles mlles below Greenville Miss All possible gov go government equipment and many private private vate ate boats have been sent sent to Greenville and Stops Landing to remove remo refugees to points of con con- concentration From Ir m Y r ii IKe entire flooded area arc of the Mississippi valley alley came the cry for Cor boats Mean Mean- Meanwhile while Willie suffering was said to be In Intense In- In Intense Intense tense among hundreds still ma ma- marooned marooned marooned without provisions or suf suf- sufficient sufficient clothing Greenville Green Miss turned Into a swirling Venice by waters which I broke over o the municipal protection protection protection tion levee le quartered ten thousand refugees refu ees from the th lowland lo in ad ad- addition addition dillon to citizens The situation there with the water supply of or orthe the city gone most of ot the food tood destroyed and hundreds camping on the Mississippi levee le was re reported re- re reported reported ported to be desperate 1101 FLOATING The river commission learned learnell that water was as at least two feet deep in the tho high spots near the levee and about ten ton feet deep in outlying low portions Despite that the river was falling failing at most points In Mississippi as waters emptied out Into the delta deita orders were Issued to levee guards g to re redouble re- re redouble redouble double watchfulness The Tho death toll loll exacted by the tho thoI break in the levee at Stops I Landing will not be known n until the waters have ha subsided An As As- Associated Associated Press Iress correspondent ad ad- advised advised advised from Greenville last night that bodies had hall been seen in the water which was coursing through the city In a swift sw current All the dead noted were negroes Government Go engineers reported that there thero was more crevasse wa wa- water water ter In Greenville than in all its history The engineers estimated that approximately 1000 square miles miles' were under backwater from the Yazoo river before the Stops Landing I. break I poured Its deluge Into the tho basin The Tho waters ex ex- extended extended tended over o more than 2000 square miles last night they de lle- CRY CitY FOIL BOATS 18 x Governor Go of ot l Mississippi I pi 11 loll led the tho cry for Cor boats to succor refugees lie He declared boats boat the greatest need of ot the relief relle forces set net In operation In his state say- say sayIng sayIng sayIng Ing both large and small email boats boals to traverse erse flooded areas were need need- ed ell It Is the plan Illan of ot stale slate authorities authorities authorities ties to remove remo front from Greenville all the refugees and all other persons who desire to leave lea the city elty the governor said saltI Across the swirling tide on the Arkansas side sille two thousand refu refu- refugees refugees refugees gees were reported hugging a levee top above Know Knowlton ton Land Land- Landing LandIng Landing ing where the Mississippi 1 broke through the dykes Thursday The fhe steamer Wabash abash engaged In relief went to investigate lIn Throughout the tho Arkansas low low- lowlands lowlands lowlands lands boats continued the tho work worl of removing refugees Trains were ere beginning to move over some seine stretches and antI tho the first train In several days das from Little Hock to Memphis left the tho Arkansas cap cap- capital capital capital ital last night Government sea sea- seaplanes seaplanes planes pl from Crom the Pensacola Fla base have been sent to aid the res- res gue workers In tho the Little nock Hock area With ith the flood menace to Louis Louls- Louisiana declared to be the tho greatest ever e bordering bord territory In south south- southeast southeast southeast east Arkansas faced new v dangers today oday with breaks on two major levees le on the Arkansas Aransas river de declared de- de declared Imminent Hundreds ds of or ormen men battled 1 at Farrah arrah miles from Brady Drall Ark The Red Hell river near To arkana threatened to burst the tho levees ees In Homestead county county- and armed guards patrolled an embankment at it Levee Le 12 1 miles tunes from Texarkana I |