Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-04-14
HIGH WATER VICTIMS.
Enormous Loss of Life by the
Floods in Mississippi.
Hundreds of Plantations Abandoned-Surs
vivors Appeal for Aid-Destructive
Floods In Illinois and
Minnesota.
MANY persisted.

MANY fEhlSHED-
COLUMBUS, Miss. April 10. - News
Just obtained from points below where
the country is fat 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 feet
and continue to fall slowly. Most of
the county bridges have been swept
away. The Mobile q Ohio railroad has
thre work trains, with 200 men, on the
road etween here and Artesia-
All arms along the Tombigbee river
valley ave 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-
heving the sufferers. On one small
mound there were forty people and as
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 adj
vance. There has been no communica-
ton before Monday with the outside
world since last Wednesday.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April I2.--It be-
gan raining again at 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-ofIicials
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 run
ming. II is impossible to run any trains
west of Columbus.
Reports from Walker, Marion and
other counties northwest of there are
to the effect that enormous damage has
been done by the floods. Bridges have
been washed away and mines flooded,
railroads washed out and crops
ruined The farmers have suffered
heavily. Near Pearson's Mills,
Marion county, a farmer named
John Livingston, while crossing
a swollen stream, was drowned.
His wagon and horses were swept away.
Several large iron bridges in Marion
county were washed away. There are
about 600 negroes and some white
refugees in Columbus. They are home
less and are absolutely suffering. The
weather is cold and they are poorly
clad, and many will die.
IN ILLINOIS.
BEARDsTowN, ILL.,, April l2.-Great
damage has been done above and be-
low this city by the high water in the
Illinois river caused by the recent
heavy rains. About $4,000 acres
of farming land is now covered
with water ranging in depth
from l to 10 feet. Several fami-
lies have been driven from their
homes by the flood and are now quar-
tered on the high lands. The damages
TO the growing wheat cannot be esti-
mated as hundreds of acres that prom
Ised large yield will be total loss
and the other lands that were being
prepared for oats, corn and other farm
products will not be cultivated
IN MINNESOTA.
Sr. PAUL Mimi, April 12.-The late
and heavy rains of this spring have
been having disastrous effects in some
parts Of North Dakota. The Red river
at st. Vincent, Mimi, is over the banks
and has began flooding that
town and Emerson. II is
40 feet above low water mark
and still rising. As the ice drive
has not yet gone out greater height is
feared. A rise of only l foot more
will cover the town of Emerson The
indications are that the disastrous flood
Of 1850 will be repeated, and as the
towns are more settled the loss would
be greater. Families in the lower parts
of both Emerson and St Vincent have
already begun to move ont