Show FLOOD statistics ESTIMATED LOSS IN SOUTHERN STATES in int the states of Ar hania 1114 and Lon tAini illges tire dundei water JI asben ton april 12 A statement rog cardin ardin ill alie nt n agricultural t cultural interest f the bubmer ed districts of the massis s kippi lipil valley south of cairo ill ills I 1 iceie issued by y the bc department apartment dc dep artmen t of ai ri culture it is based ba ed upon a cliart prepared under the direction of tile the chief of the tn cather bur bureau cati alio slinking in 7 I 1 the extent of the hood flood on april ath the total irea area under water on A aar apr ina oth tit was about aniles of if which 7 1100 square miles were in mississippi 1 I is sis sippi 1 too in arl cansas 1750 in in I 1 missouri ilis 1200 in tennessee aud and 4 ia in louisiana the region contain edt in islo as far as can lie ile determined in I 1 view of the somewhat indefinite boundary i lines of the flood a population of of which or ab about half were in mississippi 11 issis sippi in A arkansas I 1 anil ani the remain remainder det almost I 1 equally divided between missouri and tennessee tennesse taking the entire region tin the colored population outnumbered the whites the col colored oreil predo predominate minati 11 in the hooded flooded districts distri ets of 0 mississippi in the ration of 5 to 1 and in arkansas in that of 2 to 1 in missouri and ten the population of the flooded districts I 1 is largely white in the former state in the proportion to 10 to 1 and in the latter in that of 2 to 1 the flooded districts contain it I 1 is estimated about 39 OD farms of which about are arc in tile mississippi nearly in arkanna Ar kansa and a like number about equally divided between missouri and tennessee these farms farm contain a total area of about acres half of which is in mississippi hippi and rather over one fourth in arkansas the proportions in missouri and tennesse bein being about tile same as in the case of the number of farms |