Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-04-16
DROWNED BY SCORES.
Over Hundred Lives Reported Lost In
tho Floods in Mississippi.

the country is fiat and devoid of hills |
indicates that later information may |
show that at least 100 negroes have |
been drowned in this county alone. |
The waters have receded about z feet |
and continue to fall slowly. Most of
the county bridges have been swept
away. The Mobile e. Ohio railroad has
three work trains, with 200 men, on the
road between here and Artesia.
All farms along the Tombigbee river
valley have been abandoned, houses OF
all kinds washed away, all fencing is
gone, cattle and mules by hundred have
been drowned. Every available craft
here has been used day and night re-
lieving the sufferers. On one small
mound there were forty people and az
many more cattle and mules. On another
there were seventy people and cattle
by the hundreds. The white people
have been unable to get negro to do
any kind of work towards rescuing
other negroes without payment in ad-
vance. There has been no communica-
ton before Monday with the outside
world since last Wednesday.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April l2.-It be-
gan raining again ut Columbus, Miss,
late Sunday night, and the danger has
been increased. The country all around
there is out of sight. TIE river Is about
Z miles wide, and the damage to crops,
houses and cattle is at present meal
culable. A message from Superin-
tendent Ryder, of the Georgia Pacific,
who is near Columbus, to his co-officials
here, states that it rained all Sunday
night in Mississippi, and the outlook is
very gloomy. All railroads have suf-
fered severely, and few trains are rum
ming. 1t is impossible to run any trains
west of Columbus.
Conductor Wilmot says he saw two
men drowned in the Yalabusha river
near Greenwood by a boat upsctting
last Saturday He says the entire coun-
try west of Grenada is submerged,
and the damage done is great.
Ed Davis clerk in the South
ern Express Office, ran over to
Columbus as messenger Sat-
urday, the regular messenger having
been cut off by the floods. He says the
damage done by the floods is great. He
heard of nine negroes being drowned.
He also heard of two white men whose
boat upset with them climbing trees
and remaining there for twenty-four
hours until they were rescued. About
s miles from Columbus on the
plantations many families of negroes
are missing. j. w. Bass, trans
fer clerk of the mail service
here, took a man out to Column
bus last week as postal clerk and did
not go back again until Sunday night.
He says the postmaster of Columbus in
formed him that no less than twenty
five people are missing in the flooded
district and are supposed to have been
drowned The Tombigbee river left its
banks and flooded a great section OF
country.
Reports from Walker, Marion and
other counties northwest of there are
to the effect THAI enormous damage has
been done by the floods. Bridges have
been washed away and mines flooded
railroads washed out and crop:
ruined. The farmers have suffered
Marion county, farmer named
John Livingston, while crossing
swollen stream, was drowned
His wagon and horses were swept away
Several large iron bridges in MarioI
county were washed away. There ar,
about 900 negroes and some whit,
refugees in Columbus. They are home
less and are absolutely suffering, Th,
weather is cold and they are poorl,
clad, and many will die.
BEARDsTowN, ILL.,, April 12.-Grea
damage has been done above and be
low this city by the high water in th
Illinois river caused by the recent
heavy rains. About $4,000 acre
of farming land is now covere,
with water ranging in dept
lies have been driven from thei
homes by the flood and are now quar-
, tered on the high lands. The damage
to the growing wheat cannot be est
mated as hundreds of acres that prom
lsed large yield will be total los
, and the other lands that were bein
, prepared for oats, corn and other farr
products will not be cultivated. 1t
i stated by those in a position
know that the overflow is cause
largely by the La Grange lock an
dam about II miles below here
T which have caused the bottom c
the river to fill up with sediment froi
| the muddy water until the water
, forced from the banks of the river owe
: low lands adjoining. The scntimeI
: here is decidedly in favor of removin
I the dams and using the large appropr
3 ations TO level the banks and drcde
: the bottom of the river instead of i'll
ing it mp.
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, April la.-The Iat
t and heavy rains of this spring ha,
!. been having disastrous effects in son
parts OF North Dakota The Red riv,
ut ST. Vincent, Mimi, is over the baul
and has began flooding th
town and Emerson. 1t
: 40 feet above low water mai
and still rising. AS the ice dri'
!, has not yet gone out a greater height
y feared. rise of only | foot MOI
will cover the town of Emerson. TT