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Show MISSISSIPPI IS STILL RISING Davenport, Iowa, Feb. 2 The flood stagd was reached in the Mississippi river at Davenport today. It is 15 feet above low water mark and is still rising. The ice gorge five miles below be-low Davenport Is tightening under the below zero temperatures and the lowlands low-lands are flooding. Many residents in tho flats have had to move out and their homes are inundated. The Rook river in Illinois has hacked hack-ed up, flooding the valley for miles. The temperature hero today was 6 below zero. River Men Fear Floods. Little Rook, Ark., Feb. 2. Fear that flood waters In the Arkansas river wearing away the levees may cause the stream to desert Its present channel chan-nel through Arkansas from the convict con-vict farm at Cummins and send its waters down Bayou Bartholamow emptying 'into the MlHBisslppi below. tho Arkansas-Louisiana line, was ex- H pressed today by river men. H At the convict farm the river is eat- ing away the levee less than five M miles from the head of the hayou. tk No information was received here H this morning as to the fate of the S00 H negro convicts marooned at Cum- M Hundreds Are Marooned. H Several hundred persons are ma- rooned near Douglas and work of M bringing them to the town continued. M thr6ughout last night and today. H Three hundred to five hundred fam- IH Hies near Douglas will bo without H food within a few days, according to lH messages that have heen sent to jJ Mayor Taylor of Little Rock, and to IH Senators Clarke and Robinson in H Washington, asking help. M Relief Committee Busy. H At Fort Smith relief committees H havo begun to take care of the refu- IH fees from the lowlands who still are H crowding into the city. About 200 jH houses in and near Argentina are un- M der water. H At Newport, which was covered IH with water, from two to fifteen feet ll deep this morning, homes are stock- ll ed with provisions enough to last a H week. I |