The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-14
SivED ON INDIAN MOUNDS.
Hundreds Find Refuge from the Mississippi
FloOds-Mnny Lives Lost.

JACKSON Miss. April 13.-Tho estimate
placed on the loss OF lifc in tho flooded dis
trict Is 25O. almost all OF whom are negroes.
Although nearly all tho streams in the state
are overlooking. the greatest damage is in tho
vicinity OF Columbus which is on tho Tombig-
bcc. small but navigablc river, rising In tho
mountains OF northeast Mississippi. 1t flows
south. skirting the eastern border Of tho State
and emptying into Mobile Day.
More than 5000 families in the counties OF
Lowndes. Monroe and Noxubee arc said to DO
homeless and suffering for nccessaries.
John Allen. Congressman from the district.
has telegaaphed Gov Stone to join the people
OF tho flooded district in asking Congress for
assistance. Gov. Stone Immediately tele-
graphcd for full particulars and rect ivcd an
answer to- night. which he declines TO make
public for the present The loss Of lie Is 80
great that it cannot be accurately stated till
the waters subsdc. The water has covered u
territory in tho vicinity OF Columbus fifteen
miles long. by five miles wide. one OF tho finest
and most lovely and fertile regions In the
South
Fortunately the mound builders left numer-
Gus mounds in that section. to which the
negroes nockod by hundreds when driven
from their homes. Houses. fences. cattle.
horses. and poultry have all been swept away.
plantations. upon which tho corn and other
farm crops had Just begun to grow, is now
dcsolate waste.
In 1S47 occurred the most disastrous food
ever known on tho Tombigbee. The oldest in
hnbitant now says the present food Is ten feet
higher than then. and Indian mounds never
before known TO DO inundated are hidden.
Not house. fence. or COW Is left up and down
the Tombighee for thirty miles" says a pri-
waite telegram received here to-day from Ynzoo
county. On the western sido Of tho State tho
wires bring news tonight Of still
more serious danger that is threatened. Six
hundred feet of trestle on the Yazoo Valley
Branch Of the Illinois Central has been washed
away where it crossed Big Black liver. Heavy
rains have fallen there day. and all streams
are rising steadily. The Yazoo River is out Of
its banks and the people IRE moving back
toward the hills with their cattle and mules
Advices from NicksburG IRE that the Missis-
sippi is booming. and is within nine feet Of the
danger line. rain storm is raging tonight
aud a further rise everywhere is confidently
expected.
The Big Black River between this city and
Nicksburg is a stream that normally Is fifty
yards wide. but it is a roaring torrent nearly
two miles wide. Through trains ran over the
Illinois Central yesterday for the first time in
week. the interruption being caused by four
miles OF water and serious washous on their
line from the overflow Of the Yallohusha and
Bogue rivers near Grenada.
The damage to growing crops and fresh
rloughed lands cannot 10 computed, but
fortunately no loss OF life has been reported
along these streams. Pearl River. the largest
stream In tho State and which flows around
this city. although out OF its banks. has not
been as high as in former years.