Show GREAT LOSSES BY FLOODS much suffering will ensue unless assistance si st Is given COLUMBIA miss april 13 later tater reports enlarge rather than diminish the tile previous estimates of loss losi of life and destruction truc tion of property by bi tho the flood A belt of country irom five to fifteen en miles wide through the count conaty i is 1 one mas of ruined houses afen fences c es and carcasses of stock and it is doubtful if a dozen houses are left standi standing ng in tho district from front one thousand t to t twelve A hundred negroes will be left it in 1 this place when the water subsides without t one cent and with no credit and places that were formerly their homes nothing but mud holes the impoverished condition of the whites prevents them theta from maintaining the colored people very long and great suffering will doubtless follow and it would be but common humanity for congreso Con gresi now in session to assist them A mass meeting of citizens was I 1 held 1 eld this afternoon to devise derise means to assist the poor the mayor was authorized to ask the federal government 0 eram ent to loan a thousand tents to g give them shelter the water is going down slowly |