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Show WILL CUT BIG LEVEE Rising of Flood Waters Wa-ters at Cairo Makes the Situation Critical; Women and Children Leaving the City I Cairo, III. April 1 The levee hnr. been ordered cut at Shawncetown, to save life and property Cairo. Ill . April 1 Flood renditions rendi-tions lu-re today nlong the Ohio levfefl appeared incredible to the oldest'dtl zrns. They have battled with floo.' waters for years, but the present situation, sit-uation, they assert, looks the moot desperate The water is rising at the rate of Bbout one foot a day and now stands two fen 'igiu inches from the top of the concrete vull built at tho levee. While this situation Is not encouraging encourag-ing reports to the weather bureau here of tributaries were enough to cnusr alarm u is generally bettered that the high stage will not be rt;uii od today and probnblj not before Wednesday or Thursday Women and fhildien are leaving on every train T1k weather continued beautiful today, being regarded as a blessing by the hundreds working to save the town The water rcse In places to a depth of six inhPS and threatened to spread over ihp rai'road tracks on the levee At a meeting between officials of Alexander county the r i t v of Cairo and Colonel Daniel J Morlarlty of the Seventh reglmpnt, Illinois National ?uard. It was agreed to place (hp pn tirp situation In charge of Colonel Morlarlty and all negroes and others who refuse to work will be arrested The weakest point? of th'-" lpvee6 were fought, that special attention might be gin them. Cairo. HI April 1 The flood waters wa-ters continued to rise Bteadlly throughout through-out last night and at 7 o'clock today stood between and 52 4 Tho nop vilation wrs early astir and the farf that the water had substantially pans ed the B2 foot mark caused considerable consider-able anxiety All expected that the da would prove the crucial one in the fate of ' the city. Much troub'r- was experienced through tb? nigh; in the drainage district, along the Big Four lexer-Three lexer-Three times slideR occurred and only valiant work on the part of those1 I watching It saved the dav Do7.en3 of I cm loads of sandbags were pieced I about the weak spots and serious trouble trou-ble was averted Water aeoped through under the concrete wall and stood In tho main I street of Cairo today, but tho levee i has shown no signs of weakening " big force of men worked all night placing sandbags and other holdbacks along the city front t'olonel Daniel Morlarlty, in charge of troops, planned to attend a meet-i meet-i ing of citizens this morning to devls I means of proceeding It Is expected I the mayor and sheriff here will give j him compl?te control of the situation and in this way all who are Idle may I be put to work, If npcessary by force Word was received from Major General Gen-eral Wood at Cincinnati by tho gen eral relief committee that the situa tion would be handled the same aS j last year During the early hours to I day another detachment of the Sev j enth from Chicago arrived under Col. i Blnsby and ?u naval reserves under I Commander McMunn The sheriff has requested Governor Dunne to appeal to the war depart meDt to move three large boats from the Mississippi around in front of Cal ro to be used In emergency Refugees continued to leave the city all night and crowds are still waiting at depots to get out. Demand for Workingmen The flood Is rising much more rap idly than yesterday and the demand for more workingmen became urgent The surface in the Ohio now stands about one foot higher than the highest street level, which le the main thor ouf;hfare of the town and immediately immediate-ly on the leveo. in case of a bre;- h the flood waters would not rise to I more than one or two feet in the build I lngs on that street, but all of the town back of It becomes gradually I lower and most of the houses would I be completely submerged lu case of a break Already the siluatlon Is desperate large subway which was the only passageway from Cairo into the drain 1 at-e district has been blocked to SSVe the City The place was boarded it and dozens of carloads of sandbags ; placed to hold It secure Most of the houses and places of business in the drainage district ha' i been abandoned already and it Is the prediction that the section is doomed ! It Is held that this break cannot re BUlt In Cairo proper being flooded State troops were acnt out in squads uf five today, each squad accompani- by a policeman, to visit to the rendezvous rendez-vous of men who are either unwill ing or have refused to work Rev. M H Dove of the IfethOdiSl church, who has had charge of rehei work in lormer years. Is again at t he head of the relief work committee. Me will have about twenty assistants and a temporal": hospital which has been arranged on a large wharf boat in the river About one-half of the population has bit the i Ity already The fu?l lives were chiefly women and ehlt I dren and it is beiieved that should an avalanche of watpr sweep over tin city now it would result In little lost of life, the number of river steamers being considered sufficient. BREAK IN LEVEE EXPECTEO Springfield. Ill , April 1 According r, word from Cairo a break in the drainage district near there Is momen tafliy expected The Big Four track Form a part of this levee and B larcr force of workmen under the direction of skilled engineers in the employ of j the railroad company has been at I work night and day In an effort to save the levee This mpmlng a request w-as mad of the secretary of war for the use of 1 three or four quarterboats, which SK now iving at QrayrlUs. in which h hnii'e the l.ROii st.-ilr troops now on lut'. -it Cairo It is pointed out thai inol onlv wculd the soldiers be better bouses in these quarterboats than on 1 the water soaked land, but that they could be ouartered closer to the levees and be in a position to rpnder better service In the event a break threatens. threat-ens. Adjutant General Dickson early to-I to-I y received a message from SandUB ky. Alexander county, statins that the I town was fining with refugees and asking for state assistance |