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Show CITIZENS FLEE Every Man In One Town Required to Take Turn at Work. NAPLES, Ills. April 15 t3v the I Associated Press) Fighting the flood, I 1 every man In hl turn, the mer o'l N;i'!i- tliis Mioinlntj lost their fight tn Detain tin-ir hoiaos fronj th grssp I of the Illinois river; By noon ii' lay the entire populace of 4 00 fanwlb's wil! be foroii from home to encamp in arm.- tsnts on the Knoll of cronnd nortnwdxd that Indian chlelfl and Gen.-I eral Grant made famous, j Clllll BOUGH.? ST. LOUIS, April 15. iiEtntCtionfl to make provixions for relief of flood sufferers in territory south of St. Louis !i:i( been received ai Jefferson bp, ka from the war department, Col-onel Col-onel i1 ES. "1 stes, cohnmandant of the military pesti said today. Colon- 1 Yates declared that soldiers woutd bt K pt in readiness to lend assistant assist-ant e t" pprjionn in the flooded districts dis-tricts and thai tents and ration would be provided. BREAK BRINGS IjOSS CACRO', ills., April 15. A break occurred oc-curred In the levee at Grand Rower this mornitu? and the swollen Mlssis-glppl Mlssis-glppl spread over live thousand ai res of cultivated land. The water is eleven feet d'-fp in some plaecs and all rosl- dents have fled to high ground. u ' -. 'iii" ' ii loss of more thn $1,-1 OOu.000 in crops 1 feared by farmers! residing in four drainage districts North of Cairo, as a result of flood I waters of the Mississippi river |