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Show Great Floods T'ac Southern States, Along the CI rout Rivers, Sutler from Floods. (J rent Devastations. Stanley at Salt Lake, and 01 Iter News Items News reaches as if floods aloi.jr the Jjreat rivers. Devastation and death in many places. The annexed clippings j from the Salt Lake Hir.it give acc-I acc-I (iiints if sameol the destruction. Yazoo City, Miss., Match 9 Reports Irorn many different pans of tbe country, received to-tlav indicate that Friday and Saturday's heavy rain has proved disastrious to houses, out buildings and bridges. Every stream is over us batiks Nashville, Term., March j The phe-nominal phe-nominal rise of the river continues this morning. The gauge reads 4GJ feet;ie since Fndav niornimr, 25 1 feet. Much damage has been done. Fifteen hundred hun-dred to two thousand people are di.ven away from their homes. Goods in ware houses and cellars suffered much damage. dam-age. The river is a vast ariKfV torrent, spreading over the low lands. Nearly all tne lumber yards are overflowed. At police head quarters mny inquiries for shelter are made. Reports from all points on the river show a rising every- where, and the fullness of the Ohio and Mississippi will prevent the Cumberland from running down as rapily as it otherwise other-wise would. The river continues to rise at a quarter quart-er of an inch an hour, but it is expected it will begin to recede this evening, as reports received from up-river points show the high water is slowly falling. New Orleans, March 9. The Puay tin's liockens, Mississippi special says-We says-We have been isolated since last Sattir day, when the last train pissed north The continued rains since Thursday night have raised the water in Iiig Black river higher than ever known and it is still rising rapi.ilv. The Illinois Central road track is lilted bodily from the bed and deposited in a ditch lor mde below and above here and the embankment swept away. Incalcuable damage bad been d me bv w-tter. A cyclone passed over 1 Ins place tiaturdny niornmg --without doing any damage, dropping over 111 Madison county, where it caused destruction de-struction ol life and property. I'assing from there Attala cotintv, near Newport, several houses were blown down and (our negruc-s killed. Tne Picayune's Quitman, Miss,. special says: The almost unprecedented rainfall rain-fall in this section the past we k lias caused a general freshet and cessation of traliic ou railroads. The town of Enterprise is inundated to a large extent the water lluwing through the velocity of a river, and in tnanv instances coming com-ing into Me stores. Tne Hood has 110-paralell 110-paralell save in the memorably year 171. Nashville, March 10. The river fell slightly tu-day, but is sxpected to rise a foot when the water from the upper river reaches here. The sudmerged lumber yards are all protected by booms and the damage is not very heavy in ihe low-lying low-lying portion of the city. Fully one thousand thous-and houses are vacated on account of the floods, and among the poorer classes there is considerable distress. |