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Terrible M«U| it Hsay Folnte.
The floods of the Mississippi valley
and its tributaries continues to grow
apace. Millions of dollars worth of
property have been destroyed and mil
lions more must be swept away before
the waters recede. Hundreds of lives
have been sacrificed and at least three
hundred thousand people have been
rendered homeless. The governors of
Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Ten
nessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri,
Kansas, the Dakotas, Nebraska and
Minnesota are receiving funds for the
*mfortunates in distress.
Secretary of War Alger has forward
ed all the available tents in the de
partment to the flooded districts, but
these will be Inadequate. He has also
ordered the expenditure of 950,000 cash
to relieve the sufferings of homeless
citizens and .their families. This is the
first time that the war department has
ever felt called upon to spend cash to
relieve want outside of the regular ar
my.*
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OrMUSUt. Xlssn Being Swept Away.
One-third of Oreenville, Miss., Is a
desert of "water, a scene of desolation
Impossible to describe. The water is
in nearly 200 houses and Is kept out
of the scores in the heart of the town
only by the protection so timely
thrown up by the citizens to stop its
destructive progress. Mgll goes and'*
cornea ItyasMffa, doctors visit their
patlsitath skiffs, social visits are made
In sknsytand skiffs are property equal
almost, Ul vrflue to what the mule was
a tew days ago. The water is deepest
In the extreme northern limits, where
it has reached a depth of about seven
feet. From this point it sho^; % grad
ual'decline.
New ToWn; Miss., a' Very thickly
built,Strict, peopled almost entirely,
by negroes, U under water, the depth
ranging from a few Inches to five feet.
The Bells Air, t'wUch contains many
pretty 'hmties and was beautiful with;
green, lawns and blooming shrubs. Is
a Venice,’and the only means the peo
ple ‘0HRM of leaving- or returning * t&
their Iwtmes is by boats, which are
numerous and various. The watpr is
not as high as in 1890, but will soon
reach and pass that mark. Oreenville
itself Is a city of refugees of from 15,
000 to 20,000 souls. Relief boats from
the Interior are bringing in nearly ev
ery hoqr loads of destitute flood suffer
ers suddenly Caught by the waters and
drlvep brum their homes. Hundreds'
and thousands of head of stock are
being driven in from every direction.
The back water from four crevices la
pouring In fearful floods svery hour,
. and the'Situation Is growing rapidly
worse. xAt Htfena, Miss., the river is
•till rising; at'at, Louis, Miss., it Is
wising, and $e Arkansas is threatening
to rise ima few days. Business men
sue bluC bur try to keep cheerful. The
worst hatfnot yet .reached the Yazoo
{Mississippi Delta, and the half of Its
tale of wpe hpanot been told. As soon
as the different towns and cities al
ready submerged are reached by boat
parties from Oreenville and as soon
as the remote districts and planta
tions can he heard from, there will be
enough tii sadden the. hearts of those
far spay who are now eagerly wait
ing for news and hoping agalnat hope.
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Baporter Gtlkwlii Mam
- The Post-Dispatch correspondent
wont by skiff from here to ell points
possible by water In a radius of fifteen
miles In every direction from this city,
ways a telegram from Greenville, Miss.
It was a common sight to eee rabbits
or domestic fowls floating on drift*
wood, deer on little Islands here and
there above the water, and the starv
ing creatures do not now fear the ap
proach of man. In one Instance a ne
gross was calmly smoking a pipe on
the root of a log oabin, while a stream
of waiter was running through the
doors of her hut nearly up to the eaves
of the roof.
“What are you doing there, aunty?”
we halloed.
"lie watered in,” came the response.
‘ Would you like us to take you lnT*
we offered.
“No, sab; 1*11 be skilled out terect
ly."
Plaintive howllngs of dogs, cack
ling of poultry and squealing of pigs
keep tbe woods alive, and graphic
scenes and incidents crowd upon the
sight at every turn. There are dead
carcasses floating In the water, frag
ments of houses and articles of housed
bold furniture of every kind.
P. S.—A later dispatch says that
Oreenvllle has been swept away.
Big Break at Flower Lake.
Another disastrous break In the Mis
sissippi levee occurred Sunday morn
ing at 8 o’clock at Flower Lake, six
miles below Tunica, Miss. The cre
vasse. while not yet of great width, Is
fully fifteen feet deep and the water
Is pouring through the opening with
fearful velocity. This will probably
be the most destructive break that has
occurred in tbe delta. The most fertile
farm lands of Mississippi, lying In Coa
homa, La Flore,' Quitman and Talla
Half a hundred towns stand In six
feet of water and the yellow stream is
creeping up slowly but surely.
Utn at Balsas, Ark.. Gives Way.
Advices received tell of a break In
the levee two miles south of Helena,
Ark. This is the levee for which the
people of Southeastern Arkansas have
made such a desperate fight. The wa
ters from this break flood a great area
and back up into the streets of Helena.
The relief steamer Ora Lee has ar
rived at Marianna, Ark., having made
an expedition up the St Francis River.
There were on board 160 refugees and
200 head of cattle. The steamer went
up the St Francis River as far as
Cut Off, and then worked her way down
stream, rescuing people from perilous
positions. The suffering along the St.
Francis River is appalling. The wa
ter throughout the ontire neighboring
country is from six to fifteen feet deep.
The relief boat had on board the body
of Mrs. McMain of Raggio City. The
body was found at Raggio and it was
taken to Marianna for burial; there
being no land at the former place on
which to give it interment The St.
Francis is rising from three to -five
inches daily.
At points below Vicksburg the river
to rising. It is the general opinion of
old river men here if the levees below
Vicksburg hold the great volume of
water in its regular channel it will be
little short of a miracle. m
Gov. McLaurln, of Mississippi, con
tinues to make diligent inquiry touch
ing destitute flood sufferers. He will
perhaps be compelled to state to Sec
retary of War Alger that the amount
of 110,000 mentioned in bis telegram
will be wholly Inadequate to alleviate
the want and suffering. Hon. J. W.
Cutrer of Coahoma, a member of the
Yazoo-MIsstsalippl levee district, states
that he does not expect the waters to
abate before May IS.
Middlesboro, Ky., is again flooded.
The water is four Inches higher than in
the flood five weeks ago. Most of the
stores in Cumberland avenue are flood
ed. Sixty-flve families have been
5 -Mu .i-? ;,A STREET SCENE AT ANOKA, MINNESOTA. '
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It is likely to do great damage. Bridges
are gone in many places and boats are
4n demand In the vicinity ot the depot
and the railroad yards. Rain has been >
falling steadily for a week, making,
country roads Impassable and keeping
farmers off their fields.
Every record since that of 1849 has
been broken by the Mississippi at
Anoka, Minn. Fireman’s grove Is
filled with water and the Rum river
dam is expected to go out. Millions of
feet of logs are floating down the river.
North of Anoka millions of acres of
farms are under from two to six feet
of water and there are grave doubts
as to whether or not it can be seeded
this spring. River men tonight say
that there will be a further rise here
of at least six feet.
The Jim River Overflows.
The Jim river is creating general
LEAVING THE OLD HOME TO TAKE REFUGE IN THE HILLS.
hntchie Counties, in the northern pert
of the stnte are inundated, end the
newly; planted corn ^rqpe will be laid
In 'waste, '
No loss of life is reported, the in
habitants sof this stricken section hav
ing made preparations tor just such a
catastrophe as exists there. The con
dition o( the poorer classes throughout
fie flooded area is indeed critical.
housands of refugees are huddled on
levees and spots of land waltlpg tor re
lief. The towns of Rosedale and Tun
ica report that everything, possible is
being done for these poor people, hot
that funds and provisions are last be
coming exhausted. In the little city of
Rosedale alone 1,800 refugees are' being
cared for by the ettisens.
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A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT NEAR GREENVILLE.
washed out. Three hundred people are
ted by the city. Boats are plying on
the principal streets. At PinevlUe the
Cumberland river is rising three feet
per hour. West PinevlUe is under wa
ter. TJ»e Clinch and Powell Rivers arc
flooding the entire country.
On the Vppw Mississippi.
The upper Mississippi continues to
boom, the gauge showing eighteen feet
above low water mark. It has been
raining constantly for twelve hours.
Dispatches from Aitkin, Sauk Rapids,
St. Cloud and Little Falls indicate that
the river is still rising rapidly and that
all records are likely to be broken at
St. Paul within the next forty-eight
hours. The levee at James street, that
city, broke at 3 o’clock Sunday after
noon, sending the water all over that
part of the cRy with a rush. The flood
| encroached into the freighthouse of the
Chicago, Milwaukee ft St. Paul road.
The Diamond Jo passenger station i3
lu danger Of floating away, and a force
of men are busy tying it to the bank.
Several of the manufacturing concerns
on the west side have been, obliged to
shut down because water put their fires
out. TL. relief societies of St. Paul are
busy extending buccot to the suffering.
The number of people who have been
forced to leave their homes is about
1,200. The water east of State street
has become so deep that several houses
have floated from their foundations.
Logs to the value of about 360,000 float
ed down the river Sunday.
Flood* In Minnesota.
Ortonvllle, Minn., has been complete
ly cut off from communication with the
outside world. A train cannot go 20
miles from this city in any direction.
Lac Qui Parle lake, Minnesota river.
Big Stone lake and Lake Tr; .aa
form one vast sea. The lake and riv
er are merged into one, rising at the
rate of half an inch an hour. A heavy
northwest gale is driving the ice,which
is yet a compact and solid mass, out
of Big Stone lake into the overflowed
bottoms of the Minnesota river, where
havoc with railroads in the valley east
of Yankton, S. D. The water is a foot
higher and threatens to take out
bridges and tracks, as the approaches
at both ends of the bridges are cut
ting badly. Three miles and over of
track of the Great Northern, Milwau
kee and Northwestern railroads is now
completely disabled,thus cutting Yank
ton oft from, the outside world. Farm
ers In the bottoms are moving out
with boats. Word was received ask
ing for Immediate assistance, and men
and boats are departing tor the flooded
district The water still continues to
rise at Yankton. The Ice is broken at
Grand Forks, N. D., and trouble is ex
pected fron that source. Basements
in Third street stores are cleared of
all goods. Above Grand Forks the ice
la still solid. Between there and Fish
er a long trestle on the Great Northern
went out Sunday. It'wlll require a
week after the water has gone down
to impair this line.
Railway Station Floating Away.
A special dispatch from Trenton, Mo.,
Bays: Grand river is still coming up
and the bottoms are completely under
water, causing much damage. Wel
don bridge, four miles north, was
washed out, and considerable timber
of the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City
railway extension has been lost. The
base ball park is completely sub
merged. Mr. Winslow, manager of
the water works, has received a tele
phone message from the power station
that the water was running in through
the walls, and that if the flood was any
higher tomorrow the men would have
to vacate, leaving the city without any
water supply. Six young men on horse
back attempted to cross the bottoms
west of the town today and were swept
from their animals. Three got safely
to land; the other three floated down
stream and were rescued from the tree
tops.
i The Floods Barocci In Iowa.
A dispatch from Sioux City, la.,
says: Residents of the Floyd river
bottoms here are again flying to higher
ground. At Merrill, James andkHinton,
points' above Sioux City, the stream is
out of its banks and flooding the val
ley. Here the bank is higher and a
three foot rise will be necessary before
the floods of a fortnight ago can be
repeated. The rise still progresses,
however, at the rate of two or three
inches an hour.
Burlington, la., telegram: A huge
landslide fell from the water soaked
bluff between Burlington and Fort
Madison, covering the Burlington rail
road track ten feet deep with clay,
rocks and trees. All traffic was stalled
for several hours until a big gang of
workers could clear the track. There
have been a dozen bad landslides in
this vicinity the past week on account
of heavy rains.
Alton, 111., telegram: Two feet more
of water will stop trains on the
Bluff Line, St. Louis, Chicago and St.
Paul, but if the weather remains clear
it may not go that high. Several ex
tra crews of men were busy today pil
ing in rock to hold the weak places in
the embankment, where the waves
threatened to wash out the track.
Dubuque, la., special: The river reg
isters twelve feet above low water
mark, a rise of half a foot today. The
water Is now within three feet of the
danger line.
Special telegrams from points In
South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska
bring word of Increased floods in all
the rivers. Rain has fallen almost in
cessantly for seventy-two hours over
an area of more than 100 miles in radi
us from Omaha, the fall being fully
four Inches for that time. This has
greatly increased the volume of water
in the already swollen streams. Thou
sands of acres of farm land are un
der from four to six feet of running
water, and many families have moved
from homes In boats.
Of the 10,000 car-loads off oranges
that wjll be marketed in California
next season fully 6,000 will be navels.
A BREAK IN TUE LEVEE NEAR MEMPHIS.
Spring Humors
Those unsightly eruptions, painful boils, annoy* Jg
Ing pimples and other affections, which appear so ^
generally at this season, make the use of that
grand Spring Medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla, a
necessity. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now. It will
do you wonderful good. It will purify your
blood, glye you an appetite, tone your nerves*
strengthen your stomach, and cure all Spring
humors. Be sure to get only Hood’s.;
Hood's Sarsaparilla
[s sow by all druggists. Price, $1; six for gk
g_I_nan- arc prompt, efficient and
nooa 3 rlllS easy In effect. 25 cents.
A Shining Lxample.
••Mr. Peabody, who was an Ameri
can," said Dean Hole the other day,
••was one of the greatest benefactors
of London. His houses built for and
occupied by the workmen are models
which every great city , would do well
to copy. At a flower and plant ex*
hibition in London which I attended
four or five years ago, I was surprised
and delighted to find that a large num
ber of tl'.e prizes for the best plants
went to paople who were dwellers in
Mr. Peabody’s houses. That shows
what a better atmosphere will do for
the working classes. Pubiic gardens;
and parks and workingmen’s clubs, I
think, are always conducive to tem
perance. But people will never bo
made temporate by constraint. To
secure temperance is impossible by
mere human obligations and vows.
Force of common sense, conscience
and spiritual influence are necessary.**
AN OPEN LETTER
from the Noted Philanthropist mad
Worker Among the Poor, N. J. Smith,
the Pounder of the Omahn Rescue
Home. This Noble flan Is Spending
His Life Among the Unfortunate—Bee*
suing the Fallen and Helping Those
In Dlstrsss.
To the Public:
Having hod considerable dealings with
the Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co., and used
their remedies with remarkable success, I
have no hesitancy in soving that I have
the utmost confidence in the reliability of
the company and the personal integrity of
the doctor, ae well as the merit of
hie great remedies, Dr. Kay’s Renovator
and Dr. Kay’s Lung Balm. In my work
among the unfortunate I find many sick
and suffering who have not the means to
Surchase necessary medicine. Dr. B. J.
lay cheerfully offered to supply whatever
medicine was needed in suen cases free of
charge, and through the kindness of the
generous doctor I have carried relief to
many a poor desponded heart. All per
sons who send money to thin company for
any of their remedies will, I am sure, re
ceive honorable treatment and the goods
will be sent as promptly as ordered.
N. J. Smith.
Free pamphlet will be sent on application
to Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co., Omaha, Neb.
The KnquMica yuitufio^sion.
“Sis, I think you had better shine
my shoes and wash the dishes,” said
a wealthy New Yorker to his sister,
who moves in aristocratic circles.
“What do vou mean by such non
sense?” she asked.
••No nonsense about it. I see you
are flirting with an Italian count.
If you are going to marry him you
ought to be fitting yourself for the
position.”—Texas Siftinsrs.
Educate To nr Bowels With Cascareta.
Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever,
10c. If C. C. C. fall, drut'gists refund money.
Bow Tie Won ner Regard. .
Mrs. De Neat—It seems to me that
for a man who claims to deserve char
ity, you have a very red nose.
Moldy Mike—Yes, mum; the cheap
soaps that us poor people has to use
is very hard on the complexion, mum.
ALFALFA SR Eli FOR 8AI.E.
Send for samples and prices to llershey Ele
vator Co., llershey, Nebraska.
Plenty or Attention.
Little Boy—That watch you give '
me doesn’t keep good time.
Father — Perhaps ■ you forget to
wind it.
Little Boy—Forget to wind it?
Why, I wind it forty times a day.
They Telt tht Ifm*.
Phonographic clocks, which verbally
announce the hours of the day, are
made in Geneva. You can get a clock
that will speak in any of the modern
lamrucacs.
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