Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-03-25
THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD.
Number of Lives Lost Will Prob
ably Never be known.

p1 means the devastation OF pro-
perty and probably loss of life
unequalled in the flood history of
this section. The rise is threat
ened because rain is still falling
Seventeen persons are reported
drowned fifty miles below
Charlottesville, Mo. A stretch of
country oyer one hundred miles
long from a point seventy miles
north of Memphis to point fifty
miles south of the Tennessee
metropolis is submerged in
places to the depth of ten feet.
She fertile vall-Js OF Tennessee
and Arkansas are completely
inundated and many lives have
been lost and stock drowned,
fencing and dwellings swept
away, Inhabitants destitute and
homeless and left to starve or
drown by the remorselessly ris
ing tide. reports from tributary
streams show rains and rapidly
rising rivers, floods from which
will soon be emptied into the
Mississippi, adding to the dam
ger when. hurled against the
already weakened levees. The
levees are patrolled hourly by
armed and desperate men, pros
vided with sand bags to streng-
then weak places or to close
threatened crevices, and rifles to
shoot down any miscreant who
would venture to cut the EN- banks
ment and allow the waters on his
plantation to fnd vent into the
lowlands of his neighbor. The
floods now partake of the nature
of a deluge. AS far as the eye can
see nothing but water meets the
gaze. Six hundred people were
rescued yesterday on the Ark
ansas side of the river and taken
to Memphis, but there are food
districts so situated that relief
boats cont reach the stricken
ones.
On Island No. 80 one hundred
sufferers and considerable live
stock were rescued by the
steamer Itasca Neither man nor
beast had tasted food for over
twenty four hours. Human be
ings and helpless brutes are hnd
died together awaiting assis
tance, all along the Iron Moun~
tain & Kansas City, Fort Scott
& Gulf tracks.
Five hundred people wei e
forced 10 flee from the floods in
Dyer and Onion county, Tenn.
Gavin, Ark, March 16.-For
many miles the country is flooded
and the water is up to the Iron
Mountain tracks. Hundred of secs
ton hands are striving to keep it
back with dirt bags. At every sta
ton the negroes are gathering,
waiting to be taken away. Many
get on the trains and are carried
without pay. The list of fatali-
ties is said to be long and proba-
bly, never will be known. William
Cartwright and William Cox,
working on Judge Hodges farm
at Rosebud Island, lost their lives
Thursday by the upsetting of a
ssIug-out. y Jake Carly was
drowed at Gavin Thursday night
from the same cause. Amanda
Chapman, colored, just arrived
from below, reports the death Of
six persons she could not name.
Chas. Burkley, also, was downed
near Gavin. He could not man
age a "dug out" A mountain
Of household goods is piled up at
every railroad station, while ne
groes beg for help from every
train crew. Houses along the road
are subm erged to roof and cattle
and cattle are standing in the field
with only their heads above wa
ter. Many corpses of hogs and
COWS are washed up by the water,
Crown Prince of Japan Dead.
San Francico, March 1S.-The
steamer Peru, which arrived yes
terday, brings news that Prince
Yoshito Harunomi va, Grown
Prince of Japan, is dead. The
news, however, was not officially
announced in Yokohama or Toxic
it being thought best to keep the
facts secret for State reasons.
Prince Yoshihito was born on
Aug. 81, 1879 and was proclaim
cd the Crown Prince on Nov. 3,
1889. He was the second of his
parents four children, the other
being girls. By the law of Japan,
adopted in 1880, the succession to
the throne is fixed upon the male
descendants. In case of the fail
ure of direct male descendants the
throne devolves upon the neares
prince and his descendants. Thre
daughters remain in the rolal fam
ily, but'unless another is born t,
the Emperor the succession to th
, throne will pass out of the direc
) line
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