Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-03-25

pet stock that made the farm TEEN with
life, forest giants whose roots fast en-
bedded in the soil could only De torn
up by washing away the ground in
which they grew. Still the waters con-
tinue to rise.
The lower Mississippi situation is
hourly growing worse Death and de-
struction are abroad throughout the
valley. The river is rising from Cairo
to New Orleans.
The levee at Modoc landing, Ark,
gave way Thursday night and the peo-
pie in that vicinity fed for their lives.
The government corps, who had la
bored hard to save the levee, were at
once taken to Old Town, several miles
below. with c, 900 sand bags, to protect
the levee there. The men are working
under the most discouraging condi-
tons, the rain falling in torrents and
undoing their work as fast as it is done.
The entire levee between Helena, Ark,
which is SO miles above Modoc landing,
and Relief is reported to be doomed to
destruction. North Helena is sub
merged. although the town proper is
thought to be in no danger.
Seventeen persons were reported
drowned so miles below Charlottesville,
Mo-. where the Ievee is said to have
gone to pieces Near Charlottesville the
levee was maliciously cut and govern
ment engineers were dispatched to re-
pair the break.
j negro woman named Eta Nix and
her four children were drowned near
Marion. Ark. where 100 helpless flood
victims were rescued Wednesday and
taken 70 Memphis.
Tie river rose three-tenths of a foot
at Memphis, and as rain has fallen in
cessantly for So hours in west Tennes-
see and east Arkansas the rise promises
to continue.
The relief boats sent out from Mem
phis are doing noble work. Six hun
dred people were rescued yesterday on
the Arkansas side of the river and
taken to Memphis. but there are food
districts so situated that the relief boats
can not reach the stricken ones.
On Island 50 100 sufferers and con-
siderable live stock were rescued BY
the steamer Itasca- Neither man nor
beast had tasted food for over "a hours.
Human beings and helpless brutes are
huddled together awaiting assistance
all along the Iron Mountain and Kan
sas City, Fort Scott K Gulf tracks
Five hundred people were forced to
flee from the floods in Dyer and Obion
counties. Tennessee. The legislature
of that state has been appealed to for
help. as there were 5000 destitute refu-
gees in Memphis last night. and more
arriving every hour
\ crevasse appeared at Glendale.
Miss. Thursday, a few miles below
Helena. Ark. The whole delta country
will suffer. The water win food the
country and return to the Mississippi
through the YazoO-
The Arkansas river rose over three
feet yesterday at Fort Smith and Lit
tie Rock, and Is nearing the high-water
mark. as the result % three DAYS heavy
rains.
The Cumberland river continues to
rise at Nashville. Tenn. submerging
the lowlands everywhere in its valley.
Paducah, KY, is an island. the Ohio
lowering about the 80 mark All west
Kentucky streams are raging torrents,
devastating property far and wide.
The Tennessee river continues on q
rampage in Alabama, rising two inches
an hour at Florence.
From Helena Ark. as far as West
over there Is a levee which has done
service since the days Of 1882. the last
break. which occurred March, 1856,
from that day until now the govern