Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-13
8I0RE OF THE DEAD
late Estimates Place the Vic
Tins Of the Floods at 100
1T is APPALLING Loss or LIFE
Plantations Along the ronhsghee River
A5saeonet----hsgh Water
II Other Suztes.

show that at least 100 negroes have
been drowned IN thu county alone.
The waters have reeeded about feet
and sontlaus 20 fs-i slowly. Most Of
the county bridges have been swept
away. The Mobile & Ohio railroad has
three worn tFains with zoe men. On the
road between here and Areesia
Driven ssus Their neGss
Al farms along the Tombigbee river
valley have been abandoned, houses of
al kind. washed away. al fencing is
gone. cattle and mules BY hundred have
been drowned Every available craft
here has been ussa day and night re-
hsving the sufferers. On one small
mound there wers forty people and a.
many more cAtsls and mulcs- On another
there were seventy people snd cattle
BY ske handrsds- The white people
have been unable - get . negro to do
any kind of work towards reseuipg
ether negroes without payment In adj
vance There has been no communiea-
sioa before Monday with the outside
world since last Wednesday.
The River sevsa Aflss Wide.
BInnIssHAx, Ala. April ls.-It be-
gan raining again as Columbus Mia,
late Sunday night, and the danger has
been increased The country all around
there 10 out of sight TIE river II about
miles vida. and the damage to erops,
boases and cattle is at present meal
fulAsls. A message from Supcrin-
,sndens Ryder. of the Georgia Pacific,
who " near Columbus, to his co-ofacials
tcre. states that IL raincd all Sunday
light in Mississippi. and the outlook is
lery gloomy. All railroads have suf
Fred severely. and few trains are run
bng. IL il impossible 70 run any trains
test Of Columbus
Stories Of the DsluSe.
Conductor Wilmot says he saw two
eel drowned in the Yalabusha river
Year Greenwood by . boat upsetting
hst Saturday. He says the entire coun-
RI west Of Grenada Is submerged,
nd she damage done u great
"a Davis. clerk In the South
IN Express oHics. ran over to
;oiumbus - messenger Sat
brdAy. the regular messenger having
Ven sut OF By the floods. He says the
amsss doas by the floods is great He
lard Of nine negroes being drowned
10 also heard of two white men whose
,oat upset with them climbing trees
nd remaiafns there for twenty-four
,ours until they were rescued. About
miles from Columbus on the
plantations many families of negroes
,rs niasins. J. w. Bass, trans
l. - - -
lore, took = man out to Colum-
rus last week ~ postal clerk and did
lot 60 back again until Sunday night.
1e says the postrn sster Of Columbus in
srmed him that NO less than twenty
I've people are missing in the flooded
tstrict an are supposed to have been
jrowned. The Tombigbee river left its
banks and flooded . great section of
country. He says many people who
gould have been drowned were rescued.
hundreds of head pf cattle were lost
Damage % the Illinois.
Reports from Walker, Marion and
eher counties northwest of there are
o the eject that enormous damage has
,esn done By the hooda Bridges have
)een washed away and mines flooded,
nilroads washed out and crops
uined. The farmers have suffered
losviiy. Near Pearson's Mills.
John Livingston, while crossing
swollen stream, was drowned
Els wagon and horses were swept away.
ieveral largo iron bridges in Marion
lsanty were washed away. There are
about 800 negroes and some white
Refugees in Columbus. They are home
less aud are absolutely suffering. The
weather is cold and they are poorly
clad, and many viii die.
Daeaxe In other Counties.
BrAr5sTows. H., April t2.-Great
5smage has been done above and be-
low this city by the high water in the
Illinsis river caused by the recent
heavy rains. About $4,000 scres
Of farming land Is now covered
with water ranging In depth
from I - 10 feet. Several fami-
les have been driven from their
homes by the food and are now quar-
tered on the high lands The damages
70 ths growing wheat cannot be esti-
mated ~ hundreds Of acres that prom
sed large yield will be total loss
md the other lands that were being
prepared for oats. corn aud other farm
troducts will not be cultivated. II Is
stated By those in . position to
snow that the overflow Il caused
srrely hy the La Grange lock and
Ian about IL miles below here,
Which have caused TIE bottom OF
be river 70 ell up with sediment from
he muddy water until We water Ii
breed from the banks Of the river ever
pv lands adjoining. The sentiment
is~~ Il decidedly In favor of removing
Ne dam. and using the large apprepri
ytsens 20 level tas banks and dredss
n. bottom OF We river Issoead Of ell
ngis mp
rAe RES nsvs- r1ssAs.
sr. Pam. MINI. April fs--The lsts
md heavy rains Of shis spring have
Seeu havisg disastrous effects IN som.
,arts Of North pakssa- The Red rive
" -. vinesnE. MINI. 10 over the hank
md has began Seeding aha
iowu and kmsrssa. 10
% feet sbc~s low water mari
md stsli rising. A. the Zee driv'
,ss act yet zone cut greater hight i
ksr~S. A rise OF ssly I foot more
WI cover thu town Of Emerson. Ths
rsicsticns sr- thst the disastrous aeo'
II isse will Ne repeated. and - th'
h,vns ar- Nor. settled the lcss weul'
Se greater. Tsniiies in the lower part
" both rsnrrson and ~ vineest nav
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