Oxford eagle., 1897-03-25

pet stock that made the farm teen with
life. forest giants whose roots fast en-
bedded In the soil could only be torn
mp 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 il rising from Cairo
to New Orleans.
The levec AZ Mosioc landing. Ark.
gave way Thursday night and the pso-
pie in that vicinity fed for their lives.
The government corps. who had la
bored hard to save the levee. were at
once taken 10 Old Town, several miles
below, with 6.ooo sand bags. tn protect
the ievee there. The men are working
under the most discouraging condi-
ticns. the rain falling in torrents and
undoing their work rs fast as II Is done.
The entire levee between Helena. Ark.
which Is 36 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 30 miles below Caruthersville,
Mo-, where the levee 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.
A negro woman named Eta Nix and
her four children were drowned near
Marion. Ark, where 400 helpless food
victims were rescued Wednesday and
taken To Memphis
The river rose three-tenths Of a foot
at Memphis. and as rain has fallen in
cessantly for 80 hours in west Tennes-
sec and east Arkansas the rise promises
to continue
The relief boats sent out from Mem
phis are doing noble work. Six hum
dred people were rescued yesterday on
the Arkansas side Of the river and
taken 10 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
huddIed together awaiting assistance
all along the Iron Mountain and Kan
sss City. Fort Scott & Gulf tracks
Five hundred people were forced to
fee from the floods in Dyer and Obion
counties, Tennessee. The legislature
Of that state has been appealed to for
help. as there were 3.ooe destitute refu-
gees in Memphis last night, and more
arriving every hour.
A crevasse appeared at Glendale.
Miss. Thursday. q few miles below
Helena. Ark. The whole delta country
will suffer. The water will food the
country and return to the Mississippi
through the Yazoo.
The Arkansas river rose over three
feet yesterday at Fort Smzss and Lit
tie Rock. and Is nearing the high-water
mark. rs the result of three days heavy
rains
The Cumberland river contiues TO
rise at Nashville, Tenn. submerging
the lowlands everywhere in its valley.
Paducah. Ky. is an island. the Ohio
lowering about the 50 mark. All west
Kentucky streams arc raging torrents,
Devastating property far aud wide.
The Tennessee river continues on n
rampage in Alabama. rising two inches
an hour at Florence.
From Helena, Ark. as far as West
over there Is levse which has done
service since the days of lsss. the last
brrak. which occurred March. 1850,
tsuu that dsy Until nsw The gevssu-