The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-03-03
Second Flood on the Gila and
Colorado Rivers Worse
Than the First.
Many People Believed TO Have Been
Drowned--No Partio-
ulars.
Towns Washed Away and Much
Damage Done--Along the
Mississippi

YUMA, Ariz.. March 2.--The Sc ond
high water on the CHA river, on Thurs
| day, was more disastrous than that OF
Sunday The loss ia Yuma Is $500. 900.
The cemeteries are on high land, and
many people are camping In them. 1t Is
| reported that a Mexican family has been
| drowned One body of IA man has fioated
past town. The river hore Is fourteen
| miles wide Many people are believed
10 be- drowned in the country, but no
particulars have been received.
DENVER, Col, March 2.--The Rocky
Mountain Neos' Yuma, Ariz., special
says: over 250 houses are In ruins
from the iloou, and 400 people are
homeless. Not single business house
remains standing, and IL is feared that
hundreds of lives have been lost In the
ella valley. The river above town is
seven miles wide and below town Ina
many places the water covers the county
In one grand lake, over fifty milec across.
'"The town has provisions sufficient
for eight days more, and the Southern
Pacific hotel is feeding thousand people
a day.
reports from Jakuno, fifteen miles
above here, are 10 the effect that the
food drove the people into the tree tops
and many became exhausted from cold
and hunger, dropped ;nto the water aud
were drowned. Reports from reliable
sources put the loss Of life In the valley
anywhere from thirty up To 100.
"All along the valley for 200 miles
everything Is desolatIon, Houses and
barns, stock and fences, have been car
ried away by the flood, leaving the
country bare as desert. Eighty miles
south OF here, where 8, 600 Cocopah In
dians live, the country IL flooded for
eighty miles square, and as there are no
hills for refuge, II Is reported that over
100 Iof them have been drowned. The
great valley OF the Colorado Is one vast
sea OF water. The loss In this country
foots up over 5000. 900.
Along the Mississippi.
New 0RLEAss, La, March 2.--Con.
cerning the condition of the levees and
the uneasy feeling produced along the
lower Mississlppi by the contiaued rising
water, the following Information has
been received:
A telegram from Captain Lambert, for
many years editor OF tho Natchez Demo
crdt, says "The situation OF river mat
ters along the lower Mississippi is just
now quite critical. While the water In
sight does not appear To be
sufficient 10 cause food OF the height
attained last, yet indications now
are for rains, through a consider
able portion of. the valley. and II they
should occur, II Is probable the floods OF
last year would be equallcd the present
season. The levees are not really in so
good condition as they were at this time
last year, and there is a constant fear OF
their giving way under the pressure at
many points along the line"
X. f. Reynolds commercial agent OF
the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
railroad, said the present condition OF
the Mississippi aud It's tributaries threat
ems a disastrous overflow from Memphis
to New Orleans. The main rlyer, a.
well as its tributaries, is higher than ut
this date last year.