New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-11
NO RELIEF FROM THE FLOOD
DISTRESSING ACCOUNTS FROM THE
LOWER MISSISSIPPI.
THE DELuGE STILL POURING IN a VAST VOLUME
THROUGH THE CREvAssEs-LOuIs1ANA

LEvEEs INTACT UNDER
TERRIBLE STRAIN.
Memphis. Tenn. April 10.There is no abate-
ment of the flood In the Mississippi Delta The
water continues to pour into the lowlands
through five breaks In the levee. and the smaller
streams tributary to the big river are filled to
overnowing This has been rainy and stormy
day in the flooded district. and extra guards are
being placed on the levees tonight. With the
river stationary at Memphis and Cairo and the
upper Mississippi rising, the duration of the flood
is now question that only the future can de-
termine The great volume Of water which for
weeks has filled the Arkansas bottoms and which
Is now rushing into the Delta continues slowly
passng into the main channel again. and adds
10 the already swift current which now threatens
the Louisiana levees. AT Rosedae a steady rain
IS falling and high wind prevails. Along the
Bogue Phalia one of the richest sections Of the
Delta. the people in distressing circum-
stances. Relief was sent them from Rosedale
to-day
AT Frars Point the river continues to fall
The towns of McIemore and Sherard are three
feet under water.
AT Helena the situation is slowly improving
In North Helena the water has fallen enough 10
allow some smaller dwellings 10 be occupied
while those who now live in second stories are
preparing TO move down again. The river In
that place has fallen two-tenths in twenty-four
hours Inside the city OF Helena the water Is
fast disappearing.
Little Rock Ark, April 10-According TO let
ters received by the local relief committee to-
day every foot Of land in the Indian Bay coun-
Try is now under water, and the situation there
is terrible One letter from Holly Grove Ark
saws that the people there have not re-
cif
becoming rapidly worse as the water is still
rising Live stock and people were carried 10
the highest places. There are 100 head of live
stock and 500 persons in the district and no
r1orsel TO feed to them The letter continues
1--WE beg and plead Of you for humantys sake
70 assist us" The chairman of the local reie1
committee says that rations for 400 people Tor
one week were shipped 10 Holly Grove on April
g but we're delayed IN transit and are expected
10 reach the sufferers to-day.
Greenville Miss April 10-There can be no
exaggeration of the food situation in the Yazoo-
Mississippi delta. River bulletins OF fliua'
evening indicate an indifferent prolongaton OF
the flood in the Mississippi Valley from Cairo
south Throughout all the country tributary 10
the Mississippi there were heavy rainfalls. The
crisis is yet to come. and the vast extent OF hu-
man suffering and destruction Of property cam
moi he conceived Here in the delta alone IL may
be truthfully said that the half has not yet been
told. The river is still at a stand because 81 the
water coming back into IL from the ST FRANCIS
al Helena, and the White ard Arkansas just
above Arkansas City. keep up the rise al the
latter pon in spite of all the breaks in the levees
south Of that place.
The river bulletin just received promises
further rise at Cairo, to begin about Tomorrow
and continue for several days.
The Ohio is again rising from Pittsburg SOUTH
and the Arkansas is again rising
Nature seems determined TO do her worst for
the lower Mississippi this year. and when the END
will be reached. or where the wholesale destruc-
ton will stop, no can foretell
New Orleans. April 1O-Gloom hangs over the
>ississtppi Valley Everywhere the river is ris-
ing AS the mighty stream rolls toward the sea-
It's great weight bears upon the banks NerVed
Inv the appalling thought of the ruin its entrance
through any of the protecting levees would Drlng,
thousands of men are at work Strengthening the
barriers. Any tiny rivulet trickng through the
broad embankments is cause for signal or
alarm Each sign is keeny watched for. rapidly
relief train responds to the call, hurricdly a
lumber bulwark is built, and earth-fled sacks
hacked in behind SO far each summons has
heen promptly answered. and each effort met
with success but the water is growing greater
IN volume and mightier in force. The alarms are
coming with more frequency, ana II is douDtfui
~ the splendid system can prevail against the
long-contnued strain, which has just begun
anew.